Gianfranco Stevanin

Gianfranco Stevanin (born 2 October 1960), 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 the incapability of criminals to understand the consequences of their acts.

Capture

On 16 November 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, Musger 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 Stevanin all her savings (about 25 million lire) if he let her go, and he accepted; however, the money was at Musger's house, and then the two got into his car to go to get it. At a toll booth in 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. The police arrested him for sexual assault, extortion, and possession of a toy gun without the required red cap. Following this event, he was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months imprisonment.