Excerpt: “Unless, perhaps, there are miraculous feats of detective work and legal developments—which, however, as we shall see, are by no means utopian—he remains and will remain one of the most mysterious figures in Milan’s criminal history. The left-handed killer. A serial killer—the man who, in the 1960s and especially the 1970s, murdered six or perhaps eight women. Given the prevalence of prostitutes among those poor victims, this places their alleged tormentor in the category of “missionary” serial killers, who feel invested with the mission of cleansing the world of—in their distorted view of life—those who are sinners, lost souls, and sources of societal contamination. Prostitutes, to be precise, as well as vagrants, homeless people, and drug addicts. […]”
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