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Throughout history, there have been fictional stories of women who kill with purpose.

Women who believe their actions are not crimes, but necessary evils.

Medea, the tragic sorceress of Greek mythology, sacrificed her own children in a bid for vengeance. Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd's accomplice,

turned murder into business, baking victims into pies with chilling practicality. And then there was

Leonardo Chanchuli. But her story was much stranger than fiction.

Leonardo was a friendly face, a trusted confidant,

a woman who welcomed others into her home with the promise of a fresh start.

But her kindness was a trap.

Her hospitality, a disguise for something far more sinister.

She was no ordinary killer.

She did not kill for pleasure or revenge.

She killed out of fear.

Fear of a curse.

Fear of loss. fear that fate itself was conspiring against her.

That fear led her to commit heinous acts, turning innocent lives into ingredients for her own twisted mission.

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