Italian serial killer
Leonarda Cianciulli Born - 18 April 1894 Montella, Avellino, Kingdom of Italy Died - 15 October 1970 (aged 76) Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy Nationality - Italian Other names - Soap-Maker of Corregio (Italian: la Saponificatrice di Correggio) Known for - Serial killer, cannibal Leonarda Cianciulli (18 April 1894 – 15 October 1970) was an Italian serial killer. Better known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio" (Italian: la Saponificatrice di Correggio),[1] she murdered three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap and cookies. Early life Cianciulli was born in Montella. While still a young girl, she attempted suicide twice. In 1917 she married a registry office clerk, Raffaele Pansardi. Her parents did not approve of the marriage, as they had planned to marry her to another man. She claimed that on this occasion her mother cursed t
