Mario Spezi

Mario Spezi (July 30, 1945 – September 9, 2016) was an Italian journalist, author, illustrator, and caricaturist.

[2] He was a co-author in the book The Monster of Florence A True Story (2008) with American author Douglas Preston.

Spezi spent much of his career as a crime reporter for the La Nazione[3] newspaper in Florence, where he reported on the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Monster of Florence.

Spezi also wrote the film Il Mostro Di Firenze (1986), based on his novel.

Following his death, Mediaset, an Italian mass media company, described Spezi as journalist who was "able to tell a story and analyze the facts by digging deeper in places where other journalists were afraid to look.