The members of this group committed notorious ritual murders over six years, which shocked Italy upon their discovery.

The slayings were called “one of the most shocking crimes in post-war Italy” by the BBC.

The first incident was a January 1998 double homicide that occurred in the woods near Somma Lombardo, northwest of Milan.

Chiara Marino, shop assistant, aged 19, and her boyfriend Fabio Tollis, a 16 year old student and heavy-metal musician, were sacrificially stabbed and beaten in a drug-fueled occult rite involving sex and heavy metal music.

The couple, who had spent a normal Saturday night drinking beer and listening heavy metal music at Midnight Pub, which was the center of the city's metal scene, never returned home.

Both Tollis and Marino were stabbed to death by their friends Andrea Volpe, Nicola Sapone and Mario Maccione.

The conclusion initially drawn by the authorities at the time was that they had run away together for a love affair as their friend suggested, but this explanation was not accepted by Fabio's father, Michele Tollis, who began his own investigation.

The third murder was committed in January 2004. Mariangela Pezzotta, 27-year-old shop assistant, further girlfriend of group member Andrea Volpe was first shot and later buried when was still alive in a greenhouse into the nearby of Golasecca not far from Somma Lombardo.

Andrea Volpe was arrested shortly after with his young fiancée, a 18-year-old student named Elisabetta Ballarin.

Both Volpe and Ballarin were upset because of alcohol and drug addiction. Volpe confessed he invited Mariangela Pezzotta for dinner but had already decided to kill her because she knew too many details about the sect and Tollis and Marino's murder.