The Monster of Florence Part2

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 52 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 for this second and last episode on 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 3.5 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.
0:43.6	And this is Mike Morford.
0:45.5	Mr. Morford, how you doing today, Mike?
0:47.6	I'm doing pretty good. I got a fresh cup of coffee here ready to roll and ready to get back into the second part of this monster case.
0:57.0	Well, coffee's always good.
0:58.5	And I usually have a cup of coffee on hand, at least up until lunchtime, sometimes through
1:06.0	lunchtime.
1:06.9	I love coffee, man.
1:09.0	Yeah, I'm with you.
1:10.0	I've got to have three cups a day, one in the morning, one after lunch, and one after dinner. Well, let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had Valerie Butcher, Dale Whitten, and Courtney shares. So a lot of great new support. We really appreciate that. Yeah, thank you so much to everybody that supports the show.
1:27.7	It really helps us out. For anyone else that wants to, head over to patreon.com slash
1:32.0	criminology to get started. So in the last episode, in part one of the monster of Florence,
1:38.7	we discussed a series of brutal attacks on couples parked on lover's lane areas in the Italian countryside
1:46.0	between 1974 and 1981 and how they were linked via striking similarity in MO as well as
1:55.2	ballistics proving that the same gun was used in all the attacks that gun being being a 22-caliber beretta with a faulty firing
2:03.9	pin. We concluded the episode with the explosive findings that the gun used in all the unsolved
2:10.8	monster of Florence attacks was the same gun used in a solved double murder from 1968,
2:21.0	the murders of Barbara Lochi and Antonio Lo Bianco at the hands of Barbara's husband, Stefano Meleck.
2:26.2	Stefano was convicted of those two murders and sent to prison in 1970 to serve a 14-year
2:32.9	prison sentence, meaning he was behind bars when the monster of
2:37.2	Florence killings were happening. That led us to the question. How was the gun used by
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