Relatives of three victims have formally asked prosecutors in the Tuscan city to look afresh at potential leads.
Prosecutors had portrayed Pacciani as a violent and sex-obsessed man who committed the murders with several friends with whom he used to frequent brothels. That ruling was then overturned by Italy’s highest appeals court but Pacciani died in 1998 from a heart attack at the age of 73 before he could be retried. Mauriot, murdered in her tent, was one of four women whose breasts or pubic areas were mutilated.