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  • Essay / Serial Killer: Leonarda Cianciulli - 1095

    All over the world there are famous people known for the way they kill people. These people may be known as mass murderers or serial killers. A mass murderer is when someone kills too many people. A serial killer is someone who kills more than three people one at a time over a short period of time. One of the famous serial killers that caught my attention was Leonarda Cianciulli. Leonarda Cianciulli was known by two different names. She was known as the Italian Serial Killer and also as the Correggio Soap Maker. She was born on November 14, 1893 in Montella. Leonarda was a little girl and had a very difficult childhood. At a very young age, Leonarda attempted suicide twice by hanging herself. Her childhood was also difficult because her mother, Emilia Marano, hated her. Emilia was raped by Mariano Cianciulli and her parents forced her to marry him. Leonarda was born from rape and that is why her mother did not have a good relationship with her daughter. Once she was older, Leonarda remarried a civil registrar named Raffaele Pansardi in 1914. She married Raffaele even though her parents did not approve. because they wanted her to marry someone else. From there, Leonarda believed that her mother was cursing her. Leonarda had seventeen pregnancies during her marriage to Raffaele and also suffered three miscarriages. When her children were born, ten of them died and only four survived. Leonarda and her husband moved to Lariano but had a tragic accident. In 1930, an earthquake struck and destroyed their house and all their belongings and they had nothing left. So the couple moved to another town known as Corregio. Once there, Leonarda opened a small business as a local fortune teller and as a ma...... middle of paper......a person to achieve and had doubts about her son . Leonarda argued that she committed the three murders herself and that her son had nothing to do with it. While searching the house, police also found the book Leonarda kept in which she recorded all the murders. Once at trial, Leonarda Cianciulli was found guilty of all three murders. She was sentenced to thirty years in prison and three years of criminal asylum. After spending thirty years in prison, she was sent directly to the criminal asylum. Once in the criminal asylum, Leonarda suffered a stroke and died on October 15, 1970. It was later discovered that her eldest son, Giuseppe, had actually helped her in all three murders. The artifacts, including the ax she used, and the pots in which the victims were boiled are currently on display at the Criminological Museum in Rome.