Helpless, the couple took what they could gather and moved to their final destination. Leonarda had seventeen pregnancies during her marriage — she lost three of the children due to miscarriage; ten more died in their youth. This would explain her being protective of the four surviving children. Out of the four remaining children Leonarda was more oriented towards her son Giuseppe, whom she considered her favorite child.
Leonarda has always been a superstitious woman and also believed in spells and magic, she visited a fortune teller before her marriage, where she had received a warning, who said that she would marry and have children but all of the children would die before her.
The fear of losing all of her children took a drastic change when Italian men were drafted to prepare for World War II in Leonarda Cianciulli also worked as a fortune teller herself and found her sacrifices in middle-aged women who were hopeless and vulnerable. Leonarda told her of a suitable match in Pola but convinced her not to tell anybody about the news. Leonarda convinced Setti to write letters and postcards to the family and friends, only to be mailed when she reached Pola.
On the day of departure, Faustina Setti came to visit Leonarda, where Leonarda offered her a drugged wine and then killed her with an ax, and dragged the body into a closet. Leonarda cut the body into nine parts, gathering the blood into a basin. In order to make disposal much faster and easier. As for the blood in the basin, I waited until it had coagulated, dried it in the oven, ground it and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk, and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine, kneading all the ingredients together.
I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Giuseppe and I also ate them. Leonarda trapped her second victim, Soavi by convincing her that she has found her a job at a school for girls in Piacenza. Like Setti, Soavi was convinced to be sent a letter to friends. Similar to the first killing Leonarda killed the girl after giving her a drugged wine and killing with an ax. In her memoir, Leonarda included that she particularly enjoyed consuming her third victim.
I gave bars to neighbors and acquaintances. The cakes, too, were better: that woman was really sweet. With the disappearance of three women, questions began to arise in the town. When the sister in law asked around, she was told that Virginia was last spotted entering the house of Leonarda Cianciulli.
Authorities were involved, an investigation took place and in no time police arrested Leonardo Cianciulli. At each crime scene, they left a leaflet, decorated with a Nazi eagle, explaining why they needed to punish their victims. Leonarda Cianciulli murdered three women in Correggio in and She killed her victims with an axe, reportedly as human sacrifices so her son would be protected while fighting in WWII. She then used their bodies to make soap.
She also reportedly mixed the blood with various baking ingredients and used it to make tea cakes, which she ate herself and served to guests. When police questioned her about the disappearance of her neighbors, Cianciulli confessed. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison. In , Donato Bilancia was given 13 life sentences for murdering 17 people in Genoa in the late '90s. His first victim was a friend who brought him to a rigged card game. Bilancia also shot and killed the man that ran the game along with his wife.
This is how he developed his "taste for killing," which led to a relatively random string of murders. Bilancia was known for never making any attempt to hide his victims' bodies. After collecting DNA from Bilancia's cigarette butts and a coffee cup, police linked him to various crime scenes and placed him under arrest. He confessed after eight days and received 13 life sentences plus an additional 20 years in prison. Known as the youngest serial killer in Italian history, Giorgio Vizzardelli killed five people in Sarzana beginning when he was only 14 between the years of and His first murders occurred at a college, where he killed the college guardian and director.
He then returned home and acted as if nothing happened. In the following years, he killed three more people in seemingly random shootings and stabbings. After his arrest, Vizzadelli eventually confessed to the crimes. He was sentenced to life in prison, but eventually released on probation. He later committed suicide by slitting his wrists. Roberto Succo committed several murders in France and Italy in the s, including both of his parents by strangling his father and stabbing his mother.
He was sentenced to 10 years in a psychiatric prison in , but he escaped halfway through his sentence. He killed five more people before he was caught in Mestre in After a psychiatric examination, Succo was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and found unfit to stand trial.
He committed suicide in his jail cell later that year. Luigi Chiatti claims to have killed two people, but one of the murders remains unverified. In , he murdered the year-old Lorenzo Paolucci and was taken into custody. There, he confessed he was the murderer known as the "Monster of Foligno," who had killed a four-year-old girl in He is currently serving 30 years in high security prison. In , the town of Merano was terrorized by a seemingly random string of six murders that took place over the course of three weeks.
All the victims were shot at close range and, eventually, police concluded neo-Nazi Ferdinand Gamper was the culprit.
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