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(35,454 posts)Giuliano Mignini ...And before people make assumptions about her, they need to know him.
He is known for his involvement as the prosecutor in the investigation of the death of Dr. Francesco Narducci, who was discovered drowned in 1985, which Mignini alleged was connected to the Monster of Florence case, resulting in the unsuccessful prosecution of a number of individuals.
In early 2002, Mignini had Narducci's body exhumed and examined. Mignini believed that the body was not decomposed enough to be Narducci's. A medical examination determined that the body was in fact Narducci's. Mignini then theorised that the body had been swapped twice.[10] Mignini alleged that Narducci had been involved in a secret society and killed to keep quiet and that his father, Ugo Narducci, a member of a masonic lodge, had masterminded the cover up.[14][15] Mignini's theory involved a complicated conspiracy of 20 people, including government officials and law enforcement officers. Mignini indicted 20 people and charged them with the concealment of Narducci's murder. The charges were eventually dismissed.[16] Narducci's family and colleagues believe that his death was a suicide.[14]
In April 2006 Mignini had Italian journalist Mario Spezi arrested for complicity in the homicides of the Monster of Florence case and interfering with an investigation. Spezi was held for 23 days, 5 without a lawyer.[17]
On 22 March 2013 the Third Circuit Court of Cassation (Supreme Court of Italy) ruled that the main case related to criminal conduct "did not exist", and that Francesco Narducci died by suicide.[18] In sustaining the lower court acquittals, the Court of Cassation also sent back for re-trial some of the parallel slander charges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliano_Mignini
Mignini always included witch fear in his murder theory, and only reluctantly relinquished it. As late as October 2008, a year after the murder, he told a court that the murder was premeditated and was in addition a rite celebrated on the occasion of the night of Halloween. A sexual and sacrificial rite [that] in the intention of the organizers
should have occurred 24 hours earlier on Halloween itself but on account of a dinner at the house of horrors, organized by Meredith and Amandas Italian flatmates, it was postponed for one day.
http://nypost.com/2011/10/02/how-occult-obsessed-prosecutor-turned-knox-trial-into-a-witch-hunt/