The families of five victims are asking for the findings to be analyzed using new scientific techniques to identify a possible serial killer active between 1985 and 1995.
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We are investigating a series of unsolved murders that occurred in the Modena area between 1985 and 1995, in which the victims were women, often in fragile conditions. In the past, a suspect had been investigated unsuccessfully.
The cold case
The reopening of the case was one of the requests presented by the lawyer Barbara Iannuccelli for the family of Anna Maria Palermo, who died on January 26, 1994. In the meantime, relatives of 4 other victims have sent a lawyer.
It is not the first time that the case on the hypothetical serial killer active in the province of Modena has been reopened. In the past a person was investigated, but it was not possible to obtain sufficient information to proceed.
The crimes began in August 1985 when the body of Giovanna Marchetti was found in Baggiovara, killed by stone blows; in September 1987 Donatella Guerra was murdered with an awl, found in the Sant'Anna lakes; two months later Marina Balboni was found in a ditch in Gargallo after she had been strangled; Claudia Santachiara also died of strangulation in Campogalliano in May 1989; in March 1990 it was the turn of Fabiana Zuccarini, found in a ditch in Staggia; Anna Abbruzzese died of strangulation again in February 1992, also in a ditch, in San Prospero; Anna Maria Palermo was murdered at the age of 20 in a canal, in Corlo di Formigine, with several stab wounds. Finally, Monica Abate, found strangled in her home in the center on 3 January 1995. They were prostitutes or girls with drug addiction problems. After the request presented for Palermo, the families of Balboni, Marchetti, Guerra and Santachiara also joined: the request is to analyze the finds with new scientific techniques. For example, Santachiara appears to have had some hair in his hand, which it was not possible to examine at the time.
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