On a Friday night in November 1992, three schoolgirls from a small town outside Valencia hitchhiked to a nightclub — and vanished. Seventy-five days later, two beekeepers found what was left of them in a ravine near the Tous dam.

Euro Noir tells the story of the Alcàsser Girls: a brutal crime, a fugitive who may have drowned off the Irish coast — or simply walked away, a trial that never fully closed, and the television broadcast that changed Spanish media forever.

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The Boys Who Signed Their Murders: The Ludwig Killings of Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan

In a packed Italian disco on a carnival night in 1984, two young men in fancy dress try to set fire to four hundred people. It isn't their first attempt. For almost seven years, a wave of stabbings, hammer attacks and arson fires has torn through the Veneto, each one followed by a chilling typed note signed with a single name: Ludwig.

This week, Euro Noir travels to Verona to uncover the story of Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan, two clever, privileged, university-educated friends who convinced themselves they had the right to "cleanse" the world, and very nearly got away with it. We trace the killings from a burning car in 1977 through to their capture, their trial, an extraordinary prison escape to Crete, and the pair's quiet release decades later. And we ask the question Italian prosecutors are still asking today, more than forty years on: were Abel and Furlan really working alone?

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