"Too many prejudices in the investigations into the Monster of Florence"

So what?

"It was an alliance with Florence. They were trying to interrogate Vinci and move on."

And she defended him, a few months after his previous acquittal. Then Vinci disappeared.

"When I was handling the divorce from my second wife, in '93-'94, she came to the studio to say hello and thank me. She was with a Spanish girlfriend named Marisol. She told me, 'I don't want to go back to Villacidro, I want to disappear. This label has ruined my life.'"

Etiquette and alleged sexual habits.

We've all read the famous Torrisi report on the Sardinian trail [Nunziato Torrisi was the commander of the Carabinieri operations unit in Florence, ed.]. I read it like a novel. It described Salvatore Vinci as a person who was uninhibited in certain sexual aspects. These suspicions played a role."

Support for the Sardinian track?

"Like the description of the two women. Barbarina Locci (the monster's first victim in '68 and Vinci's lover, ed.) and Barbarina Steri: almost a morbid curiosity about Sardinian families in Tuscany. Stories of lovers, the vocabulary used in the relationship..."

That is to say?

«A truculent description, let's say not 'typical' from a lexical point of view».

Salvatore Mannias, who plays Salvatore Vinci in the Netflix series, told Unione Sarda that “the real monster is the patriarchy.”

I agree. Yes, we must look for the monster within ourselves. The figure of the two poor women, the two Barbarinas: the series makes us understand how they were prisoners of that situation. And yet the acts portrayed them as master manipulators. But they didn't manipulate anything. They were slaves to a culture and a family clan.

Have you heard from Salvatore Vinci since? He would be 90 today.

«Never again since that office visit.»

Of the investigation, of the headlines, of that curiosity, what remains?

Many worked to uncover what really happened. But they didn't delve deeply, and there was a lot of mythologizing. These investigations were full of prejudice and ideologically driven. Therefore, they overlooked what was needed to move forward seriously and conclusively.