Report: Italian Satanic Heavy Metal Murder Probe Widens After Two More Deaths

June 23, 2004

Peter Popham of The New Zealand Herald reports: Italian authorities plan to exhume at least two more bodies in the investigation into Satanic rites, heavy metal and human sacrifice that has kept the nation agog for three weeks (Story#1, Story#2).

At least three murders are already pinned on the heavy metal musicians from the BEASTS OF SATAN band and their plumber friend, all now in custody, whom police believe to be leaders of a Satanic sect known by the same name.

The young men, all in their 20s, are accused of stabbing and shooting their victims, then burying them still alive in a lonely wood.

But combing through records of other recent deaths in the district of Legnano, on the outskirts of Milan, particularly those that happened when the moon was full or new, police have alighted on two baffling suicides: two young men, at least one of them close to the alleged Satanists, both of whom worked at the Legnano cemetery and both of whom killed themselves in the past six months. Read more.

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