Crime History

She Confessed Turning Parts of the Human Body Into Soap

The Leonarda Cianciulli story

Leonarda Cianciulli’s victims Faustina, Francesca, and Virginia her preferred murder weapons in the Italian Criminology Museum. — Wikimedia

From a childhood curse by her mother to a future interpretation of doom by a fortune teller and a Romani, Leonarda found herself with no other choice than to save her surviving children. Her mother’s instincts kicked in when she lost 13 of her 17 children.