Ralph Lyonel Brydges

Ralph Lyonel Brydges (1856 – 18 April 1946) was an English Protestant pastor and paedophile who was accused of being "The Monster of Rome" (Italian: il mostro di Roma), a suspected serial killer of young girls who was active in Rome from 1924 to 1927. Another man, photographer Gino Girolimoni, was wrongfully accused but later exonerated of the crimes, which the inspector later accused Brydges of committing. Brydges was never tried for the crimes, amidst pressure from the British government, and later left Italy, supposedly committing other killings in other countries before his death in 1946.

Biography Early life Bridges was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1856. During the 1910s, he had been repeatedly accused of molesting children while serving in New York City but was never convicted.