Murder Made in Italy Homicide, Media and Contemporary Italian Culture by Ellen Nerenberg

Murder Made in Italy Homicide, Media and Contemporary Italian Culture by Ellen Nerenberg  intrigued me a lot and I can tell you this: if you want to explore sad italian homicides, very peculiar, important, in some cases still unresolved go for this book because it will be a fascinating trip in the heart of italian crime without to miss anything. The book will create an atmosphere of interconnection between cinema, books, TV programs, with the let's call it "Life of Crime" that you will find fascinating.
It is a simply spectacular and stunning book! this one.

I love true crime when it is very well treated and I can tell you that I couldn't wait for anything more serious than this book where I found also more than what I was waiting for. It was like to being home, because I lived all these crimes reading and watching TV programs mentioned by the author and at the same time receiving a lucid reportage of what it was in the various phases of these cases. I was surprised by the knowledge and profundity of the research of the various cases.

I confess I was also intrigued by this book because I wanted to see how we are read by Americans but I haven't found any big surprise, and there are not judges but a shockingly beauty reconstruction of the various murders.

Ms. Ellen Nerenberg starts to analyzes using  Roberto Benigni and his movie The Monster, the case of the so-called Monster of Florence. These homicides of this serial killer started in 1975 and ended up in 1984. Horrible homicides in the beautiful and romantic countrysides of Florence of couples in general spending some intimate moments together.
Now: press, medias not yet mature enough for understanding very well what was going, says the author and a the same time these homicides not immediately connected together. (Mentioned also Bilancia another serial killer.)
It will happen just later.
At the end of the story Pietro Pacciani a peasant will pay with his friends for these murders.
Other hypothesis taken in consideration: the Satanist one with Narducci a doctor from Perugia dead in 1985 in mysterious circumstances, once the corpse exhumed.

The second case the horrible murder at Novi Ligure of Susy Cassini and Gianluca De Nardo killed by Erika, the eldest daughter of mrs Cassini and her beloved friend Omar.
It was a shocking homicide because the two have been stabbed more than 90 times and the scenario of the murder horrible. At first the still very young couple said that some foreign people did it.
Later the terrible discovery that the problem was inside the house.
Paolo Crepet one of the most important italian psychiatrists often participated at Porta a Porta a TV show conducted by Bruno Vespa reporting the problematic of these children and teen-agers and trying to understand why this horror possible. Society was changing it was 2001 when this murder in the little, tranquil and productive Novi Ligure took place. 

The third homicide taken in consideration the one of Cogne beautiful sunny locality in the Alps where lived mrs Franzoni with her husband and their beautiful children. One morning Samuele, the littlest one found agonizing in the bedroom. Later the mother will be accused by the homicide.

Treated very quickly Meredith Kercher's homicide.

What it was more than sure is that these homicides later influenced a lot of medium: TV, cinema, books.
We will see the various movies generated by these horrible experience thanks to a profound analys created by Dario Argento and his movies and many more. Every case in fact influenced massively cinema, TV.

Highly suggested for sure, if you are curious to discover some italian big crimes of these last 20 years.

I thank so much Indiana  University Press for this stunning book!


Anna Maria Polidori