One of Italy's most famous serial killers, Donato Bilancia, who confessed to 17 murders, died of Covid-19 in prison, news agencies said on Thursday (December 17th).
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He was serving a total of thirteen life sentences for a series of murders committed between October 1997 and April 1998, mostly in Liguria, in northern Italy.
Among his victims are four prostitutes, night watchmen, a gas station attendant and several women who were apparently killed for no reason in train toilets.
Bilancia was unable to explain his crimes to psychiatrists but said he suffered from severe migraines before each killing action.
He had been convicted of 13 murders by a court in Genoa in April 2000. First imprisoned in Genoa, he was then transferred to Padua where he died at the age of 69.