Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian woman who believed that human sacrifice would save her son from dying while abroad at World War 2. She murdered 3 women promising them employment and prospects to lure them into her web. The most interesting part the Ciaciulli case was the methodology which was used to prep the women and dispose of their bodies. Ciaciulli meticulously cut the bodies, used the decomposed flesh to make soap, drained them of their blood, and dried the blood into a powder to make tea-cakes for her family and neighbors. This harrowing process would be continued -for all 3 of her victims until 1946 when she was finally arrested, tried, and sentenced to 33 years in prison (three of those in a Criminal Asylum). Ciaciulli lived a …show more content…
Moreover, she a very social appropriate person who kept a stable partner and talked to her victims personally. Her victims were lured in due to her charm, tricking them into vulnerable positions, and getting them to set their familiy members at ease was one of her specialties. Lastly, the disposal of the bodies was the give away of Cianciulli’s organized crime profile. She knew that if she disposed of the bodies by melting them and turning them into soap and tea cakes she would never get caught due to the lack of evidence present to incriminate …show more content…
Cianciulli would lure all three of her victims into her house by promising them great things that she “saw in their future”. When the victims arrived to her house for payment, she would invite them in and drug their wine in order to discapasitate them. Afterwards, she would cut the bodies into 9 pieces using a hatchet, dissolve their bodies in pots, and drain them of their blood. The melted flesh and fat would be used to make soap while the scrap meltings were disposed of in a septic tank near Cianciulli’s residence. The blood which was drained was let out to coagulate then dried in the oven to make a powder which she would use to add to her tea cakes. By cannibalizing the bodies and turning them into soap, which she gave to her neighbors, there was never any true evidence
This research is about Michael Swango who was a serial killer and a doctor by profession and killed his patients and co-workers by giving them poison and arsenic. He was convicted for this crime several times and served some time in prison as well. Many nurses and co-workers launched complaints against him that he was poisoning them and the patients and was imprisoned for five years when he was found possessing arsenic. Later he forged documents to get jobs and also killed a lot of people during this time, after this he was first charged with defrauding the government and imprisoned for three and a
...saw the image as artistic, subsequent events compel us to try and see the image of the Polish girl with Nazis as journalism. In this endeavor, we must uncover as much as possible about the surrounding context. As much as we can, we need to know this girl's particular story. Without a name, date, place, or relevant data, this girl would fall even further backwards into the chapters of unrecorded history.
The Hillside Strangler was the name given to two killers who strangled and killed their victims, dumping their bodies in the hills of Los Angeles. These killings took place during October 1977 and February 1978 involving ten young women ranging from ages 12 to 28. With over one hundred law enforcement task force members working tirelessly to solve this case, the fear with in the community was still undeniable. It wasn’t long before the clues would come in one by one, to help detectives solve this heinous crime. Once two sets of DNA was revele on the crime scenes, police realized they had not just one but two killers. These two killers were cousins Kenneth Alessio Bianchi and Angelo Anthony Buono.
Anna and Gracie Sharpe were killed in a calculated double murder, committed by John Sharpe on the 23rd and 27th of March, 2004 [AAP, 2005]. After reportedly arguing with his pregnant wife Anna, Sharpe fired two spears into her head, instantly killing her while she was asleep. He then contemplated killing his 19 month old daughter, Gracie, for 30 minutes before shooting her in the head with the same spear gun he had used to murder Anna. Gracie survived this initial attack, however, as she reportedly ‘screamed’ in pain [Healey, 2004]. Thus, in order to silence her distress, Sharpe retrieved the two spears from Anna’s head and then fired them into Gracie’s head as well, before dismembering her body with a chainsaw and dumping it into a landfill [Hadfield, 2014]. He later returned to exhume Anna’s body where he mutilated her corpse, scattering her limbs at the same place where Sharpe had left Gracie. While these murders were explicitly “singular” in brutality it was Sharpe’s attempt to conceal the crime by playing the victim, which requires closer, criminological attention [Hadfield, 2014].
On the night of March, 1964 Kitty Genovese was brutally stabbed to death. There are at least three factors that make Kitty Genovese’s murder unforgettable. First, it was a random act without reason. Second, the brutality of the crime, which consisted of three separate attacks where she endured several stab wounds in a period of half an hour. And finally, the fact that Kitty’s cries for help were heard by 38 people but none of them chose to call the
Victim 3 (Florence Genevieve Polillo) body was dismembered and head never found. Body found 2 to four days after death.
In October 16, 1936, one of the most notorious heinous serial killers was born. This killer brutally murdered over fifty-two helpless victims and ruined lives with no remorse. This horrible murderer was Andrei Chikatilo. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Chikatilo and determine, to our best knowledge, why and what pushed him to commit these acts. An examination of his early life, the history of Chikatilo himself, his murder victims, and a general theory and famous criminologist that could possibly explain this behavior will be analyzed. It will be broken apart into four different segments: History of Andrei Chikatilo, Murder Spree, The Final Discovery, The Theory of These Actions, and Concluding Evidence. Andrei Chikatilo, born on October
It would be appreciated if you could review Pauline Montalto, a lady who you operated on last year. Pauline has a history of non-atopic asthma, although the one doubt concerning this is that she is currently living in a house with mould exposure and a previous RAST assay has demonstrated slight sensitisation to mould.
1.), Wuornos was executed by the State of Florida on October 9, 2002. Wuornos became involved in antisocial activity and crime early in her life (Arrigo & Griffin, 2004). There were many risk factors in Wuornos’ life which may have contributed to her offending. Judge Uriel Blount, who nevertheless sentenced Wuornos to death for the murder of Richard Mallory, found as mitigating factors: “that Wuornos suffered antisocial and borderline personality disorders; her natural father and grandfather had committed suicide; her grandmother’s alcoholism; her mother’s abandonment of her as an infant.” (“The Case of Aileen Wuornos - The Facts”, n.d.). Wuornos was found guilty of the murder of Richard Mallory, and was persuaded in arguably dubious circumstances (Aileen: Life and death of a serial killer, 2004) to not defend five other murder charges, although she claimed self-defence on numerous
Josef Mengele was the oldest of three sons born to Karl and Walburga Mengele in the village of Gunzburg. Karl was a local industrialist who owned a plant that manufactured farming equipment. He was known as a stern but fair employer and a hard worker. It was his wife Walburga, however, whom his employees feared the most. A big woman with a terrible temper, she was often known to walk the floor of her husband's factory and publicly tell off employees for being lazy and poor workmanship. Warnings were hurriedly passed down the production line whenever Walburga was seen walking towards the factory, and workers purposely avoided her to get away from her wicked temper. Walburga ruled her home with an equal amount of firmness, demanding respect and obedience from her three sons, Josef, Alois, and Karl, Jr. A devoted Catholic, Walburga saw to it that her boys practiced the faith of the Church. She acted the same way in her relationship with her husband, Karl. One afternoon, Karl arrived home in a new automobile he had purchased in order to celebrate the success of his factory. However, instead of a good job from his wife, Karl was greeted with anger for wasting money on something as silly as a car without first talking with her. This was a moment in Josef's childhood that made him realize how his mother wanted total control over the family. Josef's memory of the relationship of his parents left an impression on his life. He describes in his memoirs that his father is a cold man who is distant and preoccupied with his work at the factory. Walburga is described as someone not capable of loving. She did though raise up Josef as a disciplined, respectful son but her cold-hearted methods may have added to her son's abilit...
This man had said to Frank’s son, Charlie, “Help me get rid of the body before I fix you too.” The man had blackmailed Charlie into being an accessory of the crime, despite the fact that his father was the victim. Circumstantial evidence was first found by a neighbour named Anna; tieing Sabella into the murder. The wife had said earlier, “Did Nitti ever tell you she wanted to get rid of her husband to marry Crudelli.” This was evidence that Sabella had full intentions of killing her husband to marry another man. Despite this, Sabella claimed that she was unaware of her husband's death; adding a charge of adultery to her sentence considering she cheated on her husband before knowing he was dead. After the court deemed her as part of this crime, they sentenced her to death by hanging. Later they revoked her charge of hanging and acquitted her from the trial she was on. A while later they decided to set another trial; however, no new evidence had turned up, meaning the trial could not take place. The old evidence was also all circumstantial evidence, which is not valid without some form of physical
Beverly Allitt – known as the “Angel of death”, a nurse who killed four babies in her care. George Chapman, poisoned and killed three women. John Childs, convicted of 6 killings. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley – “Moors Muderers”, murdered five children. Anthony Hardy, suspected four murders. D...
“I have killed one man to save 100,000” (“Charlotte Corday”). This famous remark was Charlotte Corday’s justification for assassinating radical journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub on July 13, 1793. Exploring Corday’s time period and upbringing as well as the life of her victim, Marat, allows for an understanding of what made her the infamous assassin she is remembered as today. Though her actions were seemingly cruel and merciless, she, like many others of the chaotic times that so deeply characterized the French Revolution, acted upon noble intentions to purify her nation.
The atrocities of the Belgian Congo and the Holocaust are two of the main events in history that have been responsible for the mass murdering of millions of people. Although these events significantly changed the course of humanity, and the story behind each one is very different, there are significant factors that make them alike as well as different. Many would agree that comparing two atrocities that affected the lives of so many people and gave a 180-degree turn to each of their countries would be something very difficult to achieve. However, by comparing the behavior of both the perpetrators and the victims of both cases, we might be able to further understand the lack of morality and the inspiration that led to these awful events. The perpetrators in both atrocities tended to have a similar pattern of behavior when it came to the way they saw their victims.
The turn of the century brought the World Wide Web into the homes across the world, and along with all of the amazing features it has, it has also created a place for people to bring their sick fantasy’s to life. Armin Meiwes of Essen, West Germany, created an online chat room called the Cannibal Café. Meiwes was searching for a male aged 18-30 that would allow Meiwes to kill and eat him. Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes answered the advertisement Meiwes had proposed and met with him. Brandes came to the house where Meiwes would kill him in a room made to be his slaughter room. Meiwes is reported to have never forced anything and only acted with permission from Brandes. Once Brandes was dead, Meiwes hung him on a meat hook, and ate the body over the next 10 months, freezing parts in the freezer next to pizza boxes. In December of 2002 a college student noticed Meiwes’ advertisement and reported it to authorities. Meiwes would be convicted of manslaughter, and then tried for Murder in 2006; he is currently serving a life sentence.