The Monster of Florence Part1

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

From 1968 to 1985, a series of lovers' lane attacks happened in Italy, leaving several dead young couples. The killer in this case has commonly been referred to as Italy's Zodiac killer, but frighteningly, this killer had far more confirmed victims than Zodiac.

Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the Monster of Florence. Like with Zodiac, the killer was never caught, but there are some very strong suspects, and as you'll hear, there's a mystery within a mystery, as these crimes are somehow linked to a case in which the killer was caught and went to prison.

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.9	Listener discretion is advised. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 3.4 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.
0:43.0	And this is Mike Morford. Mr. Morford, how you doing today, buddy? I'm doing pretty good. How you
0:48.3	doing? I'm doing great. Having a good week. I have eaten my fair share of candy since, and this happens almost every year,
0:59.2	right? We never know how many kids we're going to have. So my wife and I, when we go to the grocery,
1:06.0	we end up buying way more than what we should because, you know know you don't want to run out of candy right
1:12.4	you don't want to be that person who has little kids coming to the door and you either can't
1:19.0	answer the door or you have to answer it and say oh by the way we're out of candy so we always
1:24.9	end up buying a bunch and you know it it never goes to waste, but we sit around eating it. That's the bad part. Well, that's the bonus. And it's probably a good thing that you have it because, you know, we don't give out candy because we live in a road where there's no trick or treaters. So we don't have any any here and I've got to scrown some off the kids and
1:45.5	they're not big on giving up their reases, which is the only thing I'll eat if I eat anything.
1:50.5	So it's a little bit tough for me. Yeah, kids don't like to give up their candy at all.
1:56.2	Let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had Laura Western, Alex Hovis, and Lisa Anderson. So that's some
2:04.3	great new support. We really appreciate it. Yeah. Thank you so much for that support. It really
2:08.5	helps us out. For anyone else that would like to help support the show, head over to patreon.com
2:13.3	slash criminology to get started. And we just wanted to give everyone a reminder. CrimeCon is going to be
2:19.6	a real big event this year. We're talking Las Vegas big. And it's going to be here before you know it.
2:26.3	Yeah, CrimeCon is happening May 29 through the 31st, 2006. It's taking place at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
2:33.8	And this is the second time.
2:34.9	It's been held in Vegas.
2:36.7	The first time was absolutely a blast.
2:39.7	If you've been to CrimeCon Vegas, you know how much fun it was.
2:43.1	And if you've never been there, this is the one that you want to go to.
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