32. Leonarda Cianciulli

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Leonarda Cianciulli, known as “The Soap-Maker of Correggio,” had a volatile childhood and lived in fear that the predictions of a fortune-teller who told her that every single one of her children would die, would actually come true. When her oldest son, Guiseppe, was drafted into the Italian Army ahead of the country’s entrance into World War II, Leonarda decided that, in order to protect her son from harm, she needed to offer up a human sacrifice, hoping that God would accept the death of someone else in place of her son. She would murder three women over a year-long period by telling these women that she had found a new prospect for them in a different city, either a potential husband or a new job. Leonarda used the fat she rendered from the bodies as she boiled them down to make soap and dried the blood of her victims, which she then added to her tea cake recipes. Both the soaps and the tea cakes were sold to customers in her shop. After her capture, she confessed to all three murders after her son was arrested for them and didn’t want to see him take the blame for her crimes.
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