Donato Bilancia

Donato Bilancia (born July 10, 1951 in Potenza ), also known as The Monster of Liguria , is an Italian serial killer .

childhood

Donato Bilancia was born in Potenza (southern Italy) in 1951. When he was five years old, he and his family moved to northern Italy - first to Piedmont , then to Genoa in the Liguria region .

Murders

Bilancia was addicted to gambling and lived alone. He committed his first murder in October 1997 on friend Giorgio Centenaro, to whom he lost £ 185,000 in a rigged card game. He then shot a second friend, Maurizio Parenti, and his wife in their house.

According to her own statements, having got a taste for murder, Bilancia murdered another 14 people in the following eleven months: two jewelers, three night watchmen, two money changers, four prostitutes, two young women on train journeys and a gas station attendant.

arrest

After Donato Bilancia was arrested on May 6, 1998 in Genoa, he admitted to having shot about 17 people since October 1997. He did not comment on the motive. The television program "Domenica In" caused a scandal in Italy, broadcasting an hour-long interview with Bilancia at the best time on Sunday afternoon. Bilancia said on the program: "I left the house and decided to kill as I could have decided to go to a restaurant".

Donato Bilancia has been sentenced to life imprisonment for 17 murder cases and 14 years for attempted murder in one case.

literature

• Yapp, Nick: True Crime Parragon Books, ISBN 978-1-4054-9795-4
• Peter & Julia Murakami: Lexicon of Serial Killers . 10th edition. Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-548-35935-9 , p. 39-40 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gambler's betrayal led to rampage of murder. In: questia.com. May 22, 1998, accessed March 12, 2013 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rory Carroll: No motive found as Italy's worst serial killer gets life. In: The Guardian . April 14, 2000, accessed March 12, 2013 .