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词条 Gianfranco Stevanin
释义

  1. Capture

  2. Investigations

  3. Confessions

  4. Trial

  5. Timeline of crimes and imprisonment

  6. See also

  7. References

  8. Bibliography

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| alias = "The Monster of Terrazzo"
"The Landru of the Bassa"
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|10|02}}
| birth_place = Montagnana, Italy
| death_date =
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| cause =
| conviction = Murder
| sentence = Life imprisonment
| victims = 6
| beginyear = 1993
| endyear = 1994
| country = Italy
| states = Veneto
| apprehended = November 16, 1994
| imprisoned = Sulmona Prison
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Gianfranco Stevanin (born October 2, 1960 in Montagnana), known as the "Monster of Terrazzo", is an Italian criminal and serial killer, convicted of murdering six women between 1993 and 1994. His case had great prominence in the national media and raised a debate on the question of incapability of criminals understanding the consequences of their acts.

Capture

On November 16, 1994, in Vicenza, Stevanin picked up a prostitute named Gabriele Musger in his Volvo 240, offering her money to have sex and take pictures of her. After several hours of extreme sexual games, the prostitute tried to escape through the window of a bathroom and later refused to take other pictures, resulting in being threatened with a knife by Stevanin. To save her life, she offered Gianfranco all her savings (about 25 million lires) if he let her go,[1] and the maniac accepted; however, the money was at Musger's house and then the two got into his car to go get it. At toll booth at Vicenza, Stevanin stopped to pay the toll, and at that moment the prostitute managed to get out of the car, go to a police car and report her client for sexual violence.[2] The police arrested him for sexual assault, extortion, and possession of a toy gun without the regular red cap. Following this event, he was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months imprisonment.[3]

Investigations

During searches of his house, investigators found prohibited pornographic material (including over 7000 photographs personally taken by Stevanin and his partners), anatomy books, boxes containing pubic hair and a file containing information on all his partners.[1] Although the police consider Stevanin the only one in the group who violated and attempted extortion, investigators began to suspect more serious crimes after finding objects belonging to a woman named Biljana Pavlovic, whom has been missing since August 1994, and Claudia Pulejo.[1] The two girls were also mentioned in Stevanin's files. The man justified himself by saying that he had short relationships with them and that the clothes were just a token of love that the girls had left him.

On July 3, 1995, a farmer from Terrazzo found a sack containing the remains of a corpse in a plot near Stevanin's house. Gianfranco became a murder suspect, and the magistrate sent some bulldozers to look for other bodies.

On November 12, 1995, the body of another woman was found; this time the body was also found in a sack,[4] but on this occasion the discovery took place in a land owned by Stevanin, with the DNA test unequivocally showing that the body was that of Biljana Pavlovic. On December 1, 1995, a third body was found, that of Claudia Pulejo.[5]

Stevanin was questioned by the investigators but his attitude was controversial: at times he seemed to remember something, and then denied it immediately, claiming that he had an empty memory.[6] Other murders attributed to him include the murder of Austrian prostitute Roswita Adlassnig, who had been missing for a few months and present both in Stevanin's photos and his files, and another murder of an unidentified woman with whom he evidently engaged in a sexual act with while she was dead.

In September 24, 1996 (after the partial confession of Stevanin), another unidentified body was found in the Adige. After a DNA test, the body was recognized as that of Blazenca Smolijo.

Confessions

On July 19, 1996, Stevanin decided to confess and claimed to have dismembered the bodies of four women,[5] but that their murders weren't premeditated, as they had died during extreme sexual relations,[7] or, in the case of Pulejo, due a heroin overdose.[5] Regarding the unidentified corpse, he stated that she was a student whose name and face he did not remember, saying he had met her only three or four times. Stevanin later claimed that he acted without knowing what he was doing, as if his actions were just dreams.

Trial

After several sessions of psychiatric examinations, Stevanin was declared processable and able to understand the consequences of his actions, with the experts saying that he was mentally capable, intelligent (with an IQ of 114) and a skilled computist.[8] The defense experts tried to challenge the psychiatric report, stating that all the disturbances of Gianfranco Stevanin are due to a previous motorcycle accident that almost cost him his life.

Stevanin showed at the sessions with a shaved head, to show well the evident scar that according to the defense is at the base of everything. The first sentence by the Court of Assizes of Verona, on January 29, 1998, condemned Gianfranco Stevanin to life imprisonment, of which 3 years in total daytime isolation.

In January 1999, Stevanin sold his house and all the land he owned to partially compensate the families of the victims.[5] On July 7, the Appellate Court of Venice absolved the accused of murder charges because he was incapable of understanding his actions and resentenced him to 10.5 years for concealment and mutilation of a corpse.[9][10]

The first section of the Court of Cassation of Rome then canceled the sentence by "illogical motivation", referring to a new section of appeal reviewing of the case. In December 2000, while he was locked up in a mental asylum, Stevanin was seriously injured in the neck with a razor bite inflicted by another non-European prisoner.[5]

The final sentence was announced on March 23, 2001: the Appellate Court of Venice declared that Gianfranco Stevanin was capable of understanding his crimes, which is why his sentence was automatically confirmed to life imprisonment. The Court of Cassation confirmed the sentence, rejecting the defense's demands.[11]

He is still{{As of when?|date=January 2019}} imprisoned in the Sulmona prison in Abruzzo, where he saved the life of a cellmate who tried to commit suicide twice.[12]

On September 1, 2010, he told the press that he did not remember anything about his murders and also affirmed his desire to become a Franciscan lay brother because of his mother's death, thus emulating another case that occurred seventy years ago, when Alessandro Serenelli, murderer of Maria Goretti, also became a Franciscan while in prison.[13]

Timeline of crimes and imprisonment

  • concealment of a corpse
  • sexual violence against Maria Luisa Mezzari
  • sexual violence and kidnapping of Gabriele Musger
  • murder of Biljana Pavlovic
  • murder of Claudia Pulejo
  • murder of Blazenca Smolijo
  • murder of an unknown girl
  • murder of an unknown girl, raped post-mortem by Stevanin
  • 3 years of daytime isolation
  • 150 million lires for each family of the recognize victims

Another murder attributed to Stevanin is that of Roswita Adlassing, seen for the last time in his company, but her body was never found. She would be her sixth victim. The murder was committed in May 1993.

See also

  • Monster of Florence
  • Donato Bilancia
  • Luigi Chiatti
  • Ferdinand Gamper

References

1. ^Traces of two disappears in the house of horrors Repubblica.it
2. ^'Used' As a Slave, Saved by Money Repubblica.it.
3. ^Stevanin wounded in the throat in the criminal asylum. The farmer in the 'casolare degli horrors', accused of having slaughtered six women, was attacked by an immigrant inmate
4. ^A Plastic Bag Found The Trace That Leads To Assassin Repubblica.it.
5. ^  Archive of lastampa.it.
6. ^Signor Giudice, Parlero Repubblica.it.
7. ^'I Am Death After a Sex Game' Repubblica.it.
8. ^The Monster of Terrazzo. "Stevanin able to understand and want"
9. ^Stevanin acquitted: goes to the asylum
10. ^The killer Stevanin sentenced to 10 years Repubblica.it.
11. ^Rainews24
12. ^Stevanin foiled attemped suicide Repubblica.it.
13. ^The serial killer of prostitutes wants to become a lay brother

Bibliography

  • Carlo Lucarelli and Massimo Picozzi: La Nera, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2006, p. 264-269
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