Episode 186 - Leonarda Cianciulli: The Soap-Maker of Correggio - Part 1
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🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Leonarda Cianciulli was consumed by fear thanks to a curse her mother had placed on her. She had learned all she could about black magic from the Romani travellers who passed through her little Italian town, but still the deadly effects of the hex persisted - at least in Leonarda's mind.
As she grew desperate, and immersed herself further into the occult, Leonarda realised it was all about the 'law of equivalent exchange'; to save a life, she'd have to take a life...
In part 1 of this 2 part series we explore the roots of Leonarda Cianciulli's life, and what shaped her into Italy's first female serial killer.
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| 0:00.0 | Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti and welcome to a very clean episode of Redhanded. We've got some murders for you. |
| 0:16.1 | We've got some acts swinging for you. But most of all, we've got quite a lot of soap this episode. |
| 0:21.1 | I mean, so much. Maybe we could get a soap deal now. Maybe we could start our own brand of soap. |
| 0:26.8 | Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's wait until these episodes are over and then see. |
| 0:30.9 | This episode is all about protective soap. In a dark magicie kind of way, isn't it? |
| 0:36.0 | Yes, exactly. I would advise that towards the end of the episode, you don't eat anything because it does get pretty graphic. |
| 0:42.7 | So get all your munching out the way now. Unless you're a pervert, in which case just order a pizza now. |
| 0:48.7 | And it'll be here just in time for the bit. |
| 0:50.5 | We're not going to stop you. We're not going to judge, but we are going to warn you. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm judging. I'm definitely a... |
| 0:55.9 | This week we've got a female serial killer, the spookiest bitch of all, |
| 0:59.9 | Leonardo Chinchuli, and she was nicknamed the soap maker of Corregio. |
| 1:05.2 | And this is so spooky, so fucked up, so full of fortune telling and act swinging murder |
| 1:11.3 | that we have made it into two whole parts so you can get every drop of information out there on this case. |
| 1:16.5 | Because I think this one is quite well known, but the details of it are not. |
| 1:21.0 | And that is what these two parts will be all about for you. |
| 1:24.9 | Absolutely. We did like a recent post on social being like, what episode did you guys want to see us cover in a really in depth two part? |
| 1:32.3 | And this one got so many requests, like I was really surprised. |
| 1:37.5 | So we're doing it. And a lot of the other shows that are out there, documentaries, etc. on this case, |
| 1:42.1 | they don't really get into the nitty gritty soapy weeds of it. |
| 1:47.3 | So that's what we're going to do. So get ready. |
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