science | January 16, 2026

List Of Most Dreaded Serial Killers In Italian History

Birthdate: April 18, 1894

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Montella, Italy

Died: October 15, 1970

Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer who murdered three women and turned their bodies into soaps and tea cakes. She is also known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio." Between 1939 and 1940, she killed three of her neighbors--all of them middle-aged women--as part of human sacrifices. She was eventually found guilty of her crimes and sentenced to prison.