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In just six months he managed to kill 17 people. This is stated in the criminal record of Donato Bilancia, who died at the age of 69 in the Due Palazzi prison in Padua after contracting the coronavirus. Libra was born in Potenza and, before moving with his family to Genoa in 1956, lived in Asti and then in Capaccio, in the province of Salerno.
“This was the reason that caused some incredible violence to erupt in me, because I have always lived quietly for forty-seven years, then something happened at any moment, it is not that you wake up in the morning and say: ‘okay, today I’m looking for a weapon and I’m going to kill here and there. ‘ Thus, Libra informed the magistrate that he questioned him a few days after his arrest, referring to a phrase, heard in a gambling den, which indicated that they wanted to ‘deceive’ him. A few months later, Giorgio Centanaro, the first victim, was suffocated in his apartment in the Molassana area.
Donato Bilancia was arrested on May 6, 1998 by the carabinieri outside the San Martino Hospital in Genoa, without resisting. The circle tightened around him after a transsexual managed to escape the killer and described both Libra and his car, a black Mercedes, to investigators. The same one with which the multiple murderer had collected fines for non-payment of the highway toll (Libra used to queue in the car in front of him not to pay).
Libra was sentenced to 13 life sentences for the 17 murders and 16 years in prison for the attempted murder of Lorena Castro. He was later transferred from Marassi prison to Chiavari and from there to Padua.
«An atypical, complex serial killer, with an always different type of victim: ladies on the train, prostitutes in the car he executed near his parents’ house, creditors. The motives were money, anger, revenge. He had a criminal plan in his head that even he didn’t really know intimately. And then that hatred towards the sister-in-law, which later led the murderer’s brother to commit suicide with his nephew, a trauma that marked his existence. There it was, the so-called breaking point. This is the profile of the killer, drawn inAdnkronos of criminologist Donato Lavorino, who also wrote the book ‘In the mind of the serial killer’ about the Ligurian monster.
Libra is portrayed by Lavorino as “the most prolific assassin in Italy” and the number of shots that erupted “was directly proportional to the resistance implemented by the victims. Those who resisted cooled him down with several blows, when he had to execute someone who did not object, he fired a single shot, in the neck or in the temple.
The serial killer of prostitutes was then, incredibly, “afraid of blood”, says the criminologist, he never wanted to get dirty. Most of all, he was terrified to look the victims in the eye. He didn’t have the courage to do it, that’s why he covered them up.
And then that number 32. “He often chose victims based on that number. It was the number that, as a player, he always pointed to the San Remo casino. One day he killed a Genoa watchman who had the number 32 on his car.
Criminologist Lavorino explains that many murders could probably have been prevented. “They could have caught him many months ago, the investigations were fragmented and they didn’t realize that the serial killer was just one. He left a lot of traces at crime scenes, he had a very partial escape plan. A semi-organized serial killer ”, he concludes.
