

The skeletal remains were discovered in 2009, and as the Albuquerque Journal tells us, the police swiftly put together a 40-strong task force to investigate the case. The West Mesa Serial Killer is an unapprehended and unknown individual who murdered 11 young women, one of whom was pregnant, and buried them in clumsy graves in West Mesa, Albuquerque. and, seeing as he still hasn't been caught, might still be. As such, some people who are extremely familiar with the case, such as crime journalist Mario Spezi, believed in 2006 that the true Monster of Florence (or perhaps monsters) was still out there. His conviction was promptly overturned, but soon afterward, the police discovered a witness who claimed that Pacciani and a number of accomplices had in fact been killing people at the behest of a devil-worshiping doctor and other "masterminds." Pacciani died before his second trial, and though two of his apparent accomplices were eventually convicted, the evidence against them was shoddy at best. In 1994, the investigators finally believed they had their man, in the form of a drunken, violent farm worker called Pietro Pacciani.

The husband of the first victim was actually convicted for the murder and received a 14-year prison sentence, though the killings soon resumed. Let's take a look at some of the most dangerous serial killers who are still out and about in 2020.Īs the Atlantic tells us, the hunt for the Monster was a long one, and tens of thousands of men were viewed as potential suspects. Still, we definitely do know about some of them. Obviously, we have no way to know for sure which of these undiscovered serial killers are most terrifying, because, well, they haven't been caught yet. Author and former police detective Michael Arntfield thinks that the number could be as high as 4,000. alone had something like 2,100 unidentified serial killers running around. Meanwhile, Thomas Hargrove of the Murder Accountability Project thinks that as of 2019, the U.S. It's even harder to believe that there are actually plenty of people like that out there: According to the Atlantic, the FBI believes that under one percent of all unsolved murders are the work of serial killers. It's borderline unbelievable that anyone would choose to kill people over and over again. In a world that tends to frown on murdering your fellow man, serial killers are often considered the worst of the worst.
