Luigi Chiatti

Luigi Chiatti (born 27 February 1968 in Narni) is an Italian murderer, named "The Monster of Foligno" by the media.

Biography

Born Antonio Rossi to mother Marisa Rossi, a young maid who, unable to provide for her son, abandoned him shortly after his birth. He spent his first years in an orphanage near Narni until his sixth birthday when he was adopted by the physician Ermanno Chiatti and his consort Giacoma Ponti, a resident of Foligno. When his adoption became official on 13 June 1975, his name was changed to Luigi Chiatti.

Events

On the afternoon of 4 October 1992, one Sunday, little Simone Allegretti (4 years old) disappeared in the countryside between Foligno and Bevagna; his lifeless body was found two days later along an escarpment, not far from where he had disappeared. Shortly before the corpse was found, in a telephone booth in front of the railway station, in the centre of Foligno, a note was found that claimed the murder and provided precise details on where the body was and what the clothing was. The note also asserted the murderer's willingness to strike again.

The police headquarters of Perugia activated a toll-free number and a note was issued to the killer. On 13 October a man called the toll-free number several times identifying himself as the "Monster of Foligno". Thanks to these phone calls, its users were traced, leading to the identification of Stefano Spilotros, a young Lombard real estate agent. In the face of inconsistencies and testimonies of Spilotros' friends and relatives, who said that on Sunday he was with them in Rodano, near Milan, a further autopsy was arranged on the victim's body, which excluded his guilt, revealing him to be a mythomaniac.