Cesare Serviatti

Cesare Serviatti (24 November 1880 – 13 October 1933), known as The Landru of the Tiber (Il Landru del Tevere, in Italian), was an Italian serial killer who killed at least three women he contacted through lonely hearts ads between 1928 and 1932. Convicted for these crimes, he was sentenced to death and subsequently executed.

Biography Cesare Serviatti was born on 24 November 1880, in Subiaco, the only child of peasant parents who died when he was young. As a result, Serviatti was raised by another family in the countryside, where he was alleged to have killed animals for personal enjoyment and claimed that he wanted to become an executioner when he grew up. Despite his lack of education and violent tendencies, he was temporarily employed as a nurse at a polyclinic in Rome, from where he was eventually expelled for mistreating patients. After maintaining a relationship with her for some time, he then strangled her during sex and stole all valuables that his late lover had on herself. After that, Serviatti dismembered Tiraboschi's body into tiny pieces which he dumped into the building's cesspit. Serviatti then pleaded for a pardon from King Victor Emmanuel III, who ignored his requests. As such, on 13 October 1933, Cesare Serviatti was brought out of prison and executed by firing squad in Sarzana.