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Responsible for the murders. >> they spin these outrageous theories, satanic sex, body parts used in bizarre rituals, and then they start looking for the evidence to support the theories. >> giuttari claimed it was spezi and preston who were spinning a fairy tale. >> translator: if he writes a novel and then says it's the truth, it's not right. it's presumptuous. he isn't telling the truth. >> the war of the writers was about to escalate. remember, acting on a tip, spezi and preston had gone to an old villa searching for evidence against carlo. they found nothing, but soon afterward, preston's...

>> for murder. >> and just when you think this case couldn't get any stranger, another twist. an ex-con came to spezi and in return for a few euros gave him a white-hot tip. the source claimed that carlo had taken him to one of his hideaways on the grounds of this centuries-old villa, and what he had seen inside might crack the monster case once and for all. >> he told me that he saw in his house the gun and in a little armoire six metallic boxes. >> the gun, and in an armoire, six boxes matching the number of women who had been mutilated by the monster. tantalizing, and if true, proof that ca...

>> so you are not the monster of florence? >> you asked him outright? >> i asked him directly. i asked him, mario, i'm sorry. i can't let you do this scoop. >> i can't let you do this scoop. >> then he said something very vulgar in italian. >> the gist of it being what? >> the gist of it, i like my women living when i have sex with them. >> then the writers got up to leave. >> he said, ah, spezi, i forgot something. >> i never joke. >> and i never kid around. >> what did you take that to mean? >> well, it was a threat. in italian it's even more of a threat than it is in english. >> as you left...

Man they suspected of being the monster. >> translator: evidently, mr. preston did not do the least bit of fact checking. in 1983 when the two young germans were killed, this person was in prison for another crime unrelated to the monster crimes. >> if giutarri was so sure that carlo was not the monster, we asked if he would set up a meeting for us and that night at giutarri's office, it happened. after conferring with him for nearly an hour, carlo agreed to speak to us, but not on camera. standing face-to-face, at times uncomfortably close, carlo answered our questions with a smile that barel...

So here we are, more than 20 years after the end of a killing spree that left 14 young people dead. the murder weapon has never been found. there's no definitive proof of a sardinian connection, let alone of a satanic cult. the guy who tipped spezi about the villa and iron boxes was a con man out to make a few bucks and the endless investigation has now turned into a monster itself eating more of its own. the judge who interrogated doug preston is under investigation for abuse of his office. so is inspector giuttari who told us carlo was in jail when he really wasn't. giutarri is also serving ...