Cover -- Murder Made in Italy -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Making a Killing -- PART ONE. SERIAL KILLING -- 1 The "Monster" of Florence: Serial Murders and Investigation -- 2 Monstrous Murder: Serial Killers and Detectives in Contemporary Italian Fiction -- 3 "Penile" Procedure: Law and Order in Dario Argento's Cinema -- PART TWO. MATRICIDE AND FRATRICIDE: ERIKA, OMAR, AND VIOLENT YOUTH IN ITALY -- 4 Sono stati loro: Erika, Omar, and the Double Homicide of Susy Cassini and Gianluca De Nardo in Novi Ligure -- 5 The Raw and the Cooked: Transnational Media and Violence in Italy's Cannibal Pulp Fiction of the 1990s -- PART THREE. FILICIDE: THE BAD/MAD MOTHER OF COGNE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN -- 6 The Yellow and the Black: Cogne -- or, Crime of the Century -- 7 Spectacular Grief and Public Mourning -- 8 Unspeakable Crimes: Children as Witnesses, Victims, and Perpetrators -- Epilogue: Kiss Me Deadly -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.