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In this chilling documentary, we uncover the most gruesome female serial killers in history. From manipulation to cold-blooded murder, these women shocked the world with their dark, calculated crimes.
From Aileen Wuornos to Rose West, explore the disturbing psychology behind their killings, their horrifying methods, and how they were finally caught.
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00:00Hello, everybody, and welcome back to my YouTube channel, or welcome to my YouTube channel.
00:05I'm CallMeChris, you can call me Chris, and I just wanted to say happy holidays, oh, Merry Christmas, whatever floats your boat.
00:12I'm very happy you're here. You bring me an immense, immense amount of joy, and I also love the shirt that you're wearing, or should I say sweater.
00:21I know you're wearing a sweater.
00:23Without further ado, today, we are talking about crime, conspiracy, serial killers, cults, and murder.
00:31Today, we are talking about serial killers murder, and a little bit of conspiracy as well, a little crime, a little bit of everything today, honestly.
00:40And it's going to be about something I haven't yet talked about, I don't think, and that is female serial killers.
00:47And we're going to be talking about three today, because the phenomenon, phenomenon, phenomenon, phenomenon, holy shit.
00:56Because the phenomenon of serial killers has long been a subject of intrigue, often blanketed in myths that lean heavily towards male perpetrators.
01:05However, women serial killers challenge these narratives, revealing a complex blend of motives, methods, and societal influences that often go overlooked.
01:15And this video delves into the psychological, sociological, and historical dimensions of female serial killers.
01:22So, without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go Mach 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield,
01:28because we're women drivers into this female serial killers together.
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03:26Without further ado, let's get into our first serial killer, Jane Toppin, aka Jolly Jane.
03:33So the story of Jane Toppin, born Honora Kelly on March 31st, 1854, begins in tragedy.
03:41Born to impoverished immigrants in Boston, Honora's life unraveled very early.
03:47Her mother, Bridget Kelly, succumbed to tuberculosis, leaving her and her siblings in the care of her unstable father.
03:54Her father, Peter Kelly, known as Kelly the Crack, which is quite the nickname.
04:01I feel like you gotta do a lot to get that nickname.
04:03But he was a tailor by trade, and a chronic alcoholic.
04:07And Peter's behavior veered into legend after claims that he had attempted to sew his own eyelids shut.
04:14And whether this incident occurred or not, it symbolizes the absolute chaos of the Kelly household.
04:20So if we're talking nature versus nurture for Jane, it's not looking good for the nurture side of things.
04:26Or the nature, really. Both parents weren't all sound of mind, so.
04:30But in 1863, six-year-old Honora and her sister, Delia Josephine, were surrendered to the Boston Female Asylum,
04:39an institution for destitute girls.
04:41And the asylum's records describe the Kelly girls as having been rescued from a truly miserable home.
04:47And while Delia later drifted into a life of alcoholism and lady-of-the-night-ism, if you know what I mean,
04:53Honora's trajectory would take a far, far darker turn.
04:58In 1864, Honora would be indentured to Anne C. Toppin, a stern widow from Lowell, Massachusetts.
05:05And though never formally adopted, she took the Toppin surname and became known as Jane Toppin.
05:11And life with Mrs. Toppin was far from nurturing.
05:13Jane was berated for her Irish heritage and forced to suppress her accent and subjected to harsh discipline because of it.
05:21And her foster sister, Elizabeth Toppin, became a symbol of everything Jane lacked.
05:26Privilege, beauty, and status.
05:28And this envy would later fester into murderous intent.
05:32And by her late teens, Jane had cultivated two distinct personas.
05:36To the outside world, she was very charming and vivacious, earning the nickname Jolly Jane for her very cheerful demeanor.
05:43But beneath the surface, she was manipulative and very deceitful.
05:47And at 18 years old, Jane received $50 upon completing her indenture, but chose to remain in the Toppin household, working as a servant for another decade.
05:58And her simmering resentment towards Elizabeth, her stepsister basically, deepened as Jane's life stagnated.
06:05But in 1885, Jane finally broke away to enroll in nursing school at Cambridge Hospital.
06:11And her natural charisma that she had through school and everything endeared her to patients and doctors alike.
06:17Yet her fellow nurses were less enchanted.
06:20Jane's manipulative tendencies would start to emerge in the form of gossip, lies, and petty theft.
06:27Actions that alienated her colleagues.
06:29And it was during this time that Jane's fascination with life and death began to surface.
06:35So basically, what I'm getting from Jane is that she is kind of just a narcissistic, doesn't really care about anybody else, doesn't really have empathy.
06:45I think we're leaning towards, like, just a narcissist.
06:47And probably some sort of sociopath as well, because we're gonna see very quickly here that she does not give a friggin' rat's ass about people's lives.
06:56Because at Cambridge Hospital, Jane began experimenting on her patients, many of whom were elderly or terminally ill.
07:04Using her access to morphine and atropine, she manipulated their dosages to observe their effects on the nervous system.
07:11So she was basically just experimenting on these people that were going to die soon, which isn't justified at all.
07:19But she just, that was the only way she could, like, hide what she was doing, because they were gonna die soon anyway.
07:25So nobody really cared, especially given the time.
07:27And these mixes of medication basically led to induced sleep from the morphine, which is also called placid sleep.
07:34While atropine caused agitation and hallucinations.
07:37So these people would literally be just hallucinating and thinking they're going crazy while also sleeping,
07:44but nobody would really be able to tell.
07:46Except for Jane.
07:47And Jane took a very macabre pleasure in alternating between these states.
07:52Toying with her victim's consciousness.
07:54So they would literally wake up, think they're in a whole different realm, fall back asleep, wake back up.
07:59So she was torturing them, but only she knew.
08:01So she took a very strange, almost sensual pleasure from this.
08:07And her first known victim at Cambridge was Amelia Finney.
08:11And she was a surgical patient.
08:13Jane would give Amelia a bitter-tasting medicine that induced unconsciousness.
08:17And as Amelia drifted in and out of awareness,
08:20she later recalled Jane climbing into bed with her and kissing her face.
08:25So she not only poisoned her patients, she also essayed them while they were unconscious.
08:33Amelia would survive, but dismiss the incident as a bizarre dream.
08:38Until Jane's crime came to light later in the years.
08:41I can't even believe that.
08:42Just thinking that you dreamt that and seeing her like in the paper,
08:46like years and years later, you'd be like...
08:47But Jane's experiments at this time did not go unnoticed.
08:51And colleagues began to suspect her of reckless administration of opiates.
08:55And she would be dismissed from Cambridge Hospital
08:57and dismissed from Massachusetts General Hospital by 1890.
09:02But undeterred, she transitioned to private nursing,
09:06where her charm amassed her growing lethality.
09:09And Jane Toppin's career as a private nurse
09:11basically gave her unparalleled access to vulnerable victims,
09:15many of whom were elderly or terminally ill or convulsing.
09:19She would basically just capitalize off her patient's trust
09:22and the lack of medical oversight at the time,
09:25using her position to administer fatal doses of morphine and atropine,
09:29often masked in everyday substances like hunyadi mineral water or food.
09:35And her choice of poisons reflected both availability
09:38and her grim fascination with controlling life and death.
09:42Morphine derived from opium is a very powerful sedative
09:45that suppresses the central nervous system.
09:47And atropine, on the other hand, is an alkaloid
09:50derived from plants like deadly nightshades
09:53and has stimulant effects on the nervous system.
09:55And the combination of the two just created a very potent
09:58and unpredictable interplay of symptoms
10:00that Jane found both intriguing and lethal.
10:03So like the patients were literally like,
10:04oh,
10:05so let's talk about some of her victims.
10:09First of all,
10:10the Dunhams.
10:11Yes,
10:12that's plural.
10:13Specifically,
10:13Israel Dunham and Lovely Dunham.
10:16And these would be Jane's first confirmed murders.
10:19And they were actually her landlords.
10:22She went just right to the closest people to her at the time.
10:25And nobody batted an eye.
10:26And it would be Israel and Lovely who were a couple.
10:30So in 1895,
10:31she poisoned Israel,
10:33claiming his frailty made him a nuisance.
10:36And two years later,
10:37she killed Lovely,
10:38Israel's wife,
10:39citing similar frustrations.
10:41And after their deaths,
10:43Jane,
10:43this bitch,
10:45would move into their home,
10:47taking what she deemed was owed to her.
10:50And Israel and Lovely would both die of morphine overdoses,
10:54specifically,
10:55where they both basically died peacefully in their sleep
10:58and it suppressed their breathing
10:59until their bodies could no longer sustain life.
11:02But Jane's motives were macabre
11:04and sexually,
11:06you know,
11:06uh,
11:07motivated.
11:08But she clearly wanted to gain other things from her victims,
11:13aka a whole freaking house,
11:15which is insane.
11:16And this brings us to her next victim,
11:18which was Elizabeth Brigham.
11:20And this was perhaps one of her most personal murders
11:23because this was her foster sister.
11:25And Jane would invite Elizabeth to join her
11:28on a Cape Cod vacation
11:30where she slowly poisoned her
11:32with strychnine or strychnine.
11:35And Jane would later confess
11:36that Elizabeth was the one of the first persons she killed
11:39purely out of hatred
11:41because the jealousy
11:42and the bitterness that had festered for decades
11:45just culminated in Elizabeth's agonizing death.
11:48And strychnine,
11:49I'm probably saying that wrong,
11:51I'm sorry,
11:51but it's basically a potent neurotoxin
11:54which causes severe and agonizing muscle spasms
11:57and convulsions.
11:59And victims often die from asphyxiation
12:01due to the inability of the diaphragm to contract.
12:04So she was just slowly dosing her.
12:06So she was,
12:07this death specifically was very, very drawn out.
12:10And the next set of murders would be the Davis family.
12:14So in 1901,
12:16Jane would take on her most audacious endeavor,
12:19the systemic destruction of the Davis family
12:22of Cadamette, Massachusetts.
12:24And she was originally hired to care for the elderly,
12:27which was Alden Davis,
12:29after the death of his wife,
12:30Maddie Davis,
12:31whom Jane had already murdered.
12:33And Jane had moved into their home at this point.
12:36So clearly she has a f***ing motive.
12:38She's moving in on this family.
12:39And over the next six weeks,
12:42she would kill Maddie Davis,
12:44who was 62,
12:46by poisoning them with morphine
12:48and atropine in July.
12:49And then she would poison Genevieve Gordon,
12:52who was 33.
12:54And Jane would claim that Genevieve died
12:56by sluerslide,
12:57overcome with grief over her mother's death,
13:00who she just killed previously.
13:02And then she would kill Alden Davis,
13:04who was 64.
13:06And he would succumb to Jane's concoctions
13:08on August 8th.
13:10And last, she would kill Minnie Gibbs,
13:12who was only 40,
13:13poisoned shortly after her father's death.
13:16And Jane later admitted to manipulating
13:18the family's trust,
13:19so they would never suspect her.
13:21And she would even attend the funerals
13:23while feigning grief,
13:25while reveling also in her complete control.
13:28But Jane's greatest achievement
13:29of killing an entire family
13:31made other people very suspicious,
13:35thankfully.
13:35And this suspicious pattern of deaths
13:38within the Davis family
13:40led to Captain Gibbs,
13:42Minnie's father-in-law,
13:43to request toxology tests.
13:45And traces of morphine and atropine
13:47were found,
13:48prompting an investigation.
13:50Finally!
13:50And Jane would be placed under surveillance
13:52and arrested on October 29th, 1901.
13:55And in custody,
13:56Jane would confess to 31 murders,
14:00though authorities suspected
14:01the true number exceeded in the hundreds.
14:03And her motivations ranged from practical
14:06to removing nuisances
14:07or securing jobs
14:09to being deeply personal,
14:11such as her hatred towards Elizabeth.
14:14So basically,
14:14just whenever she was inconvenienced,
14:16if you f***ing accidentally tripped her
14:19or bumped into her off
14:20on the side of the road,
14:21she'd just be like,
14:21hey, can I come over?
14:23I'm just gonna make you a little drink,
14:24a little drink of Hunyadi water
14:26or whatever the hell it is.
14:28And Jane would also admit
14:29to derive sexual pleasure
14:31from watching her victims die.
14:34A revelation that horrified
14:36even seasoned investigators.
14:38And something that is also very uncommon
14:40in female serial killers specifically.
14:43There's only like a few accounts
14:46of this actually being the case.
14:48So Jane's trial would begin in June 1902.
14:51And despite her protests of sanity,
14:54she argued that she knew
14:55her actions were wrong
14:56and thus was not insane.
14:58And a jury declared her
15:00not guilty by reason of insanity.
15:02So she basically just got off.
15:04Even though she said like,
15:05I'm not insane.
15:06I knew exactly what I was doing
15:07and I liked what I was doing
15:08and they still ruled her insane.
15:10And she would be committed
15:11to taunt an insane hospital for life.
15:14And for the next 36 years,
15:16Jane would live in the asylum
15:17where her mental state
15:18deteriorated completely.
15:20She became very paranoid,
15:22refusing food for fear of being poisoned.
15:25Oh, sucks to be a little paranoid
15:27about that, doesn't it?
15:28Yet she remained very unapologetic
15:30and occasionally boasting
15:31of her crimes to visitors.
15:33And on August 17th, 1938,
15:36Jane Toppen died of old age at 84,
15:39taking the full extent of her crimes
15:41to the grave.
15:41And Jane Toppen's story
15:43was one of the most chilling examples
15:45of betrayal in caregiving.
15:47Trusted by her victims,
15:48she exploited their vulnerability
15:50to satisfy her own twisted desires.
15:53A figure of Victorian American
15:55dark underbelly,
15:57Jolly Jane,
15:58stands as a stark reminder
15:59of how appearances can deceive
16:01and how power in the wrong hands
16:04can destroy.
16:05But yeah, Jane,
16:06Jane is,
16:07it's scary.
16:08It's very scary
16:08with the whole caregiving thing.
16:10It's also very,
16:11or more common with female serial killers
16:13to be in that caregiving role.
16:15As we will see,
16:16as I will continue to do more
16:18female serial killers as well,
16:20but it is,
16:21it's very scary.
16:22Like, I'm already scared of hospitals, man.
16:24Now I gotta worry about
16:24getting f***ing tug-a-ward
16:26by morphine and atropine?
16:28F***!
16:29Anyway, let's talk about
16:29the next serial killer,
16:30which is Belle Gunness,
16:32a.k.a.
16:33The Butcher of Laporte.
16:35Belle Gunness was born
16:37Brynhild Paulsdatter Storseth
16:39on November 11th in 1859
16:42in Selbu, Norway.
16:44Hence, the really long,
16:46interesting name.
16:47And she would be the youngest child
16:48of eight in a poor tenant farming family.
16:51And her parents,
16:52Paul and Barrett Storseth,
16:54worked tirelessly
16:55to sustain their large family.
16:57Hey, here's a, here's a,
16:58here's an option.
17:00Don't have that many kids.
17:01I guess contraception wasn't really,
17:03wasn't really much of an option either.
17:05I'm trailing off.
17:06Sorry.
17:06Brynhild's childhood,
17:08though arduous,
17:09showed little sign of the horrors
17:11that she would inflict
17:13on unsuspecting victims
17:14later in her life.
17:16And at 17,
17:16a traumatic event
17:17may have marked
17:18the beginning of her transformation.
17:20Brynhild, then pregnant,
17:22was assaulted by her father
17:24of her unborn child.
17:26And the resulting miscarriage
17:28was devastating.
17:29And a month later,
17:29the man died
17:30under mysterious circumstances,
17:32marking what many believe
17:34to be her first act of murder.
17:36But again,
17:37this is all alleged.
17:38It is not concrete.
17:40We don't have that
17:40in, like,
17:41criminal reports.
17:43But there are a lot of claims
17:44of this specific thing,
17:45so I feel like
17:46it's worth stating.
17:47And in 1881,
17:49Brynhild emigrated
17:50to Chicago,
17:51where she joined her sister,
17:53Nellie Larson.
17:54And upon arrival,
17:55she anglicized her name
17:56to Belle Peterson
17:57and began working
17:58as a domestic servant
17:59before taking a job
18:00at a butcher shop.
18:01Yeah, you're seeing
18:02where this is going?
18:03It's not good.
18:04It's not good.
18:05And standing six feet tall
18:07and 200 pounds
18:09and incredibly strong,
18:11it set her apart
18:12from the crowd
18:13to say the least.
18:14And she was industrious,
18:16but those close to her
18:17noted a very cold,
18:20calculating edge
18:21to her personality.
18:22And in 1884,
18:23Belle would marry
18:24Mads Sorensen,
18:25Norwegian immigrant.
18:26And the couple opened
18:27a candy store.
18:29Oh, fun!
18:30And the business struggled,
18:31and a year later,
18:32it mysteriously burned down.
18:34Oh, I smell
18:36insurance claim.
18:37And the insurance payout
18:38allowed them
18:39to purchase a home,
18:41which also burned down
18:42under suspicious circumstances.
18:46Mmm, insurance claim.
18:48You could see at this time,
18:49insurance claims
18:50weren't really looked
18:51into that much.
18:51So like,
18:52oh, it burned down,
18:53here's all the money.
18:53Here's all the money back.
18:55That's weird.
18:55That's weird.
18:56All the houses
18:56have burned down
18:57in this town.
18:57It's very strange.
18:58And around this time,
18:59the couple began
19:00to foster children.
19:01And two of these children
19:02were named Caroline
19:03and Axel.
19:05And they would both die
19:06within two years
19:08of one another,
19:09reportedly from
19:10acute colitis.
19:12And symptoms of colitis
19:13were severe abdominal pain,
19:15vomiting,
19:15and diarrhea,
19:17mirroring those of,
19:18wait for it,
19:19poisoning.
19:21Taking a,
19:22taking a little,
19:23a little note
19:24from Jane's book.
19:25And both children were,
19:27wait for it,
19:28smell it,
19:29insured.
19:30Yep.
19:31And Bell collected
19:31a sizable payout
19:33for each of their deaths.
19:35What the f***ing bitch.
19:37I,
19:37it's just so gross.
19:39Like it,
19:40it makes me so mad.
19:41But on July 30th,
19:431900,
19:44Mad Sorensen
19:44would die
19:45under unusual circumstances
19:47as well.
19:48And Bell claimed
19:49he had complained
19:50of a headache
19:51and she gave him
19:52quinin for relief.
19:53Quinin?
19:54I'm not sure
19:55how to pronounce that either.
19:55And by day's end,
19:56he was dead.
19:58And his death
19:58coincided
19:59with the one day
20:00overlap
20:01of two life insurance
20:03policy
20:04netting Bell
20:05$8,000
20:07equivalent
20:08to $250,000
20:11today.
20:12And nobody's
20:13saying anything.
20:14Everyone's dying
20:15around Bell
20:16and everybody's
20:17just like,
20:17hmm,
20:20shame.
20:20And though
20:21the family doctor
20:22did suspect
20:23poisoning,
20:24no autopsy
20:25was conducted.
20:26And with her
20:26newfound wealth,
20:28Bell relocated
20:29to a farm
20:29in La Porte,
20:30Indiana,
20:31where her killing
20:32spree would
20:32escalate
20:33dramatically.
20:34So in 1902,
20:36Bell married
20:36Peter Gunness,
20:38a widower
20:38with two young
20:39daughters.
20:40And just a week
20:41after the wedding,
20:42Peter's infant daughter
20:43died while
20:44in Bell's care.
20:46And the following
20:46December,
20:47Peter himself
20:48succumbed
20:48to what Bell
20:49described as
20:50a freak accident.
20:52And the freak
20:52accident was
20:53that a sausage
20:55grinder
20:55fell from a
20:57high shelf
20:58onto his head.
21:00As it does,
21:01as you do.
21:02I mean,
21:02there are freak
21:02accidents here and there.
21:03But despite
21:04the suspicious nature
21:05of the death,
21:06Bell was not charged
21:07and she collected
21:08$3,000
21:10in life insurance.
21:11But neighbors
21:12began to whisper
21:13at this time
21:14and a local
21:15coroner suggested
21:16foul play
21:17describing Peter's
21:18death as
21:19beyond unlikely.
21:21Thank you,
21:22coroner.
21:22But Bell remained
21:23untouchable.
21:24And shortly afterward,
21:25her foster daughter,
21:26Jenny Olsen,
21:28who had confided
21:29to classmates
21:30about Bell's crimes,
21:32vanished completely.
21:33She just vanished.
21:34She just
21:34Thanosed
21:36out of the air.
21:36And Bell claimed
21:37that Jenny had gone
21:38to a finishing school
21:39in California.
21:40But her body
21:41would later be found
21:42buried on the property.
21:44And by 1905,
21:45Bell had perfected
21:46her deadly scheme.
21:47She placed
21:48matrimonial advertisements
21:50in Chicago newspapers
21:51seeking men of means
21:53who were interested
21:54in sharing her life
21:56and farm life.
21:57And her ads
21:57would describe her
21:58as a hard-working widow
21:59seeking a kind
22:01and wealthy partner
22:02who's like
22:03okay with dying
22:04the day after our wedding
22:06and after signing
22:06the life insurance policy.
22:07And men responded
22:08eagerly,
22:09traveling to La Porte
22:10with large sums of cash,
22:12often their whole life savings.
22:14And Bell's weapon
22:14of choice
22:15was strychnine,
22:16a potent neurotoxin,
22:18which actually
22:18Jane used once
22:19before as well.
22:20And its effects
22:21on the body
22:22were brutal
22:22and highly visible.
22:24Strychnine would block
22:25the glycine receptors
22:26in the spinal cord,
22:28leading to extreme
22:28muscle contractions
22:30and spasms.
22:31So the victims
22:31would experience
22:32violent convulsions,
22:34locked jaw,
22:34and respiratory distress,
22:36often dying
22:36from asphyxiation,
22:38like I said before.
22:38And why she used it
22:40was because strychnine
22:41was just a readily
22:41available pesticide
22:43at the time.
22:44And its symptoms
22:44could mimic
22:45natural conditions
22:46like tinnitus
22:47or seizures.
22:48And Bell would also use
22:50to mix it up
22:51a little arsenic,
22:52which is also
22:52a common poison.
22:53So let's get into
22:54her matrimonial
22:55ad responder
22:57deaths,
22:59I guess.
22:59And the first one
23:00is Henry Gerholt.
23:02And Henry was a farmhand
23:03from Wisconsin.
23:05And he had answered
23:05one of Bell's
23:06matrimonial advertisements.
23:07And he was described
23:08as a quiet
23:09and unassuming man.
23:11And Henry saw
23:11the promise
23:12of a prosperous farm
23:13and hardworking wife
23:15as a fulfillment
23:15of his dreams.
23:17And after a series
23:18of letters,
23:19Bell persuaded him
23:20to travel to La Porte
23:21with all his life savings,
23:23which she framed
23:24as an investment
23:24in their future together.
23:26And upon arrival,
23:27Henry was greeted
23:28with warmth
23:29and hospitality.
23:30So Bell would offer him
23:31a very hearty,
23:32delicious meal,
23:33during which she likely
23:35slipped strychnine
23:36into his food
23:37or drink.
23:38She just wasted
23:39no time.
23:40And accounts suggested
23:41that Bell usually liked
23:42to poison her victims first,
23:44rendering them incapacitated
23:46and very vulnerable.
23:47And once Henry would succumb
23:49to the effects
23:49of the poison,
23:50she would drag
23:51his unconscious
23:52and lifeless body
23:53into her basement.
23:56And there,
23:57she would dismember him
23:59with great precision
24:02because she was
24:03a master at butchering
24:05alongside one of her
24:06previous husbands,
24:08Peter Gunness.
24:09And Henry's remains
24:10would be later discovered
24:11in a shallow grave
24:12near Bell's hog pen,
24:14one of her favorite
24:15sites of disposal.
24:16And the grave would
24:17contain fragments
24:18of his dismembered body,
24:20evidence of Bell's cold
24:21and calculated approach
24:22to eliminating
24:23any trace of her victims.
24:25And the next hopeless,
24:26romantic death
24:27would be John Moe.
24:29John Moe,
24:29a farmer from Minnesota,
24:30was another unfortunate soul
24:32who fell prey
24:33to Bell Gunness's
24:35deadly scheme.
24:36Drawn in by her letters,
24:37which painted her
24:38as a loving widow
24:39seeking companionship,
24:41John withdrew
24:41a significant portion
24:43of his savings
24:44before setting off
24:45to Laporte.
24:46And I should say that
24:47her letters
24:48were so convincing.
24:50She was extremely manipulative.
24:53Like, I don't want to
24:54seem like these men
24:56are all just like
24:57really dumb.
24:58She was just very good
24:59at what she did.
25:00And it's extremely unfortunate.
25:02And Bell would welcome John,
25:03very warming
25:04and charming with him,
25:06with her hospitality
25:07and promises of life
25:08together on the farm.
25:09She just painted
25:10this perfect picture
25:11of them living
25:11their perfect life together.
25:13However, her demeanor
25:14would change
25:14once John handed over
25:16his money,
25:17as she does.
25:18And Bell, again,
25:19would prepare a meal
25:20and lace it
25:21with poison immediately.
25:22And as John would
25:23grow drowsy
25:24and incapacitated,
25:25she would deliver
25:26a fatal blow.
25:27Likely with a blunt instrument,
25:29ensuring there was
25:30no chance of survival.
25:31And a carpenter
25:31who actually worked
25:32on Bell's home
25:33later testified
25:34that John's trunk
25:35remained untouched
25:37in the parlor
25:38alongside several other
25:39unclaimed belongings
25:40from her victims.
25:41So she literally just
25:42had them walk in
25:44and then she killed them
25:45like almost immediately.
25:46And John's body,
25:47like the ones before him,
25:48was taken into the basement,
25:50taken apart,
25:51and also buried
25:52in shallow graves
25:53scattered across her property.
25:54And the next victim
25:55would be Andrew Helgelin.
25:57And Andrew would be
25:58a Norwegian farmer
25:59from South Dakota.
26:01And he holds the distinction
26:02of being Bell's
26:03last known victim.
26:04And Bell and Andrew
26:05exchanged a series of letters
26:07over several months,
26:08during which Bell
26:09skillfully manipulated
26:10his emotions,
26:11convincing him
26:12that they were destined
26:13to be together.
26:14And in one letter,
26:15she urged him to
26:16come prepared
26:17to stay forever.
26:18A chilling foreshadowing
26:19of his fate.
26:20And in January 1908,
26:22Andrew liquidated
26:23his assets,
26:24bringing over $3,000,
26:26a small fortune
26:27at the time,
26:28to Laporte.
26:29And his stay,
26:29like the others,
26:30at Bell's farm
26:31would be very brief.
26:32And after ensuring
26:33Andrew had cashed
26:35his checks
26:35and handed over the money,
26:37Bell likely used
26:38her signature combination
26:39of poison
26:40and blunt instrument
26:41to end his life.
26:42And Andrew's body
26:43would be later found
26:44wrapped in a burlap
26:46and buried
26:46on Bell's property.
26:48And unlike the other victims,
26:49his disappearance
26:50prompted suspicion.
26:51His brother,
26:52Isle,
26:53uncovered the letters
26:53between Bell and Andrew
26:55and traveled to Laporte
26:56and determined to find out
26:58what the hell
26:59happened to his brother.
27:00And Al's persistent
27:01would ultimately expose
27:03Bell's horrifying deeds.
27:04But I think we should
27:05go back in time,
27:07one year,
27:08in 1907,
27:09because it's relevant.
27:10Because Ray Lamphere,
27:11a former farmhand
27:13of Bell's
27:14in Laporte, Indiana,
27:15on her property,
27:16played a pivotal role
27:17in the previous crimes
27:19and the crimes to come.
27:21So again,
27:21hired by Gunness
27:22in 1907,
27:23Lamphere was quickly
27:25drawn into her orbit,
27:27becoming her lover
27:28despite being far
27:29from a suitable suitor
27:30in her eyes
27:31because the guy was poor.
27:33He had no money.
27:34All he had was love.
27:35But that wasn't enough
27:36for Gunness.
27:37And she would soon
27:38move him into her place,
27:40living on the second floor,
27:41kind of where the farmhands stay.
27:43And his devotion
27:44would just turn into jealousy
27:45as he watched other men,
27:47wealthy potential suitors,
27:48lured by Gunn's matrimonial ads,
27:51arrive at the farm
27:52only to mysteriously vanish.
27:54And Lamphere's descent
27:55into anger
27:56and instability worsened
27:57as he was replaced
27:59as a farmhand
28:00by Joe Maxson
28:01and forcibly evicted
28:03from his quarters.
28:04And over the next three months,
28:06Lamphere became
28:07an endless source of grief
28:08for Bell Gunness,
28:10or so she says.
28:11She wrote multiple letters
28:13to the local sheriff,
28:14Albert Smutzer,
28:15complaining that Lamphere
28:16was playing the part
28:17of a creepy ex-lover
28:19and was prowling on her property
28:21and peeking through her windows.
28:23And in March,
28:23Bell would try to get
28:24Lamphere declared insane,
28:26which failed.
28:27And she then had him arrested
28:29and fined for trespassing.
28:30And days after that,
28:31he was arrested again
28:32and acquitted.
28:33Though by this time,
28:34nearly every Laporte city official
28:36was aware that Lamphere
28:38seemingly had it out
28:39for this poor widow.
28:41And Gunness continued
28:41to voice her suspicions
28:43of Lamphere.
28:44Even on April 27th,
28:46she visited her attorney,
28:48Melvin E. Lolitter,
28:49and asked to have
28:50her will drawn up.
28:52Mmm, suspicious?
28:54And she seemed
28:54extremely anxious.
28:57Very good actress,
28:58in my opinion.
28:59And she would tell
29:00the lawyer
29:01what she had been telling
29:02everyone in town.
29:04Ray Lamphere
29:04was causing her
29:05more and more trouble.
29:07And she was afraid
29:08he was going to do
29:09something dangerous.
29:11Quote, unquote,
29:12I want to prepare
29:13for an eventuality.
29:15She reportedly told
29:16her lawyer,
29:16quote, unquote,
29:17I'm afraid that fool
29:19Lamphere is going
29:20to kill me
29:21and burn my house.
29:23And the lawyer
29:23signed the will.
29:25And after the meeting,
29:26Bell Guinness
29:27went shopping
29:28and came home
29:29with cakes,
29:30a toy train,
29:31and two gallons
29:33of kerosene.
29:34Kerosene's very flammable,
29:36people.
29:36Very flammable.
29:37And according to Schechter,
29:40she treated her family
29:41that evening
29:42to a very large meal
29:43of meat and potatoes
29:44and spent the night
29:46sitting on the floor
29:47playing with her children
29:48and their new toy train.
29:50Which brings us
29:51to the next morning.
29:53On April 28th, 1908,
29:56Bell's farmhouse
29:57erupted in flames
29:59under suspicious circumstances.
30:02Hmm.
30:03Who just bought kerosene
30:04the day before
30:05and said that somebody else
30:06was going to light
30:07to her house on fire.
30:08Weird.
30:10And built up this persona
30:11that Lamphere
30:12is an evil asshole
30:14that was going to kill her.
30:15Hmm.
30:16Neighbors rushed to the scene
30:18but found the building
30:19consumed by fire.
30:20And Jo Maxton,
30:21her new farmhand,
30:22had been in the house
30:23and tried to save them
30:24but the house
30:25was already engulfed
30:26with flames
30:26so he was left
30:28on leaving the house
30:29and just hoping
30:30that they had also
30:31gotten out of the house.
30:32But it seemed
30:33they hadn't.
30:34Because among
30:35the charred remains,
30:36authorities discovered
30:37the bodies of Bell's
30:38three children.
30:39Myrtle,
30:40Lucy,
30:40and Phillip.
30:41And a headless woman
30:43presumed to be
30:45Bell herself.
30:47Hmm.
30:48However,
30:49discrepancies
30:49in the woman's corpse
30:51raised immediate questions.
30:52The body
30:53was significantly shorter
30:54and weighed far less
30:56than Bell's known
30:57six-foot structure
30:58and 200 pounds.
31:00And the missing head
31:01made positive identification
31:03absolutely impossible.
31:05Fueling the speculation
31:05that Bell had staged
31:06her death
31:07to escape capture.
31:08Which makes
31:09the most sense
31:11to me.
31:12The head's...
31:12Why's the head gone?
31:13Ooh, decapitate...
31:14Like, it just doesn't make...
31:15Like, it's just the perfect cover-up.
31:16And then her building this
31:17lampier...
31:19Maybe you've done it
31:19and then...
31:20It's just all...
31:21It's all stupid.
31:22Anyway, I'll continue.
31:22And as investigators combed
31:24through the ruins,
31:25Bell's former farmhand,
31:26given that she's
31:27quote-unquote dead,
31:29Joe Maxton
31:30came forward
31:31with a chilling testimony.
31:32He revealed that
31:33Bell had asked him
31:34to spread kerosene
31:36around the house
31:36shortly before the fire
31:38and hinted at plans
31:40to take care of everything.
31:43And him,
31:43not knowing what this means,
31:45did what he was asked
31:46because that's what he did.
31:47And this confession,
31:48combined with the discovery
31:49of the buried bodies
31:50on the property,
31:51painted a very damning picture.
31:52And in total,
31:53authorities would uncover
31:55the remains of 11 bodies,
31:57all decapitated,
31:58dismembered,
31:59and buried in shallow graves
32:00that she also had Joe Maxton
32:02dig out,
32:04not knowing,
32:04him not knowing,
32:05what he was digging for.
32:06And the most haunting discovery
32:08was the burlap-wrapped body
32:09of Andrew Helgeling,
32:11whose disappearance
32:12had triggered the investigation
32:13with his brother
32:14basically starting this whole thing
32:16based off the letters he saw
32:17that he wrote back and forth
32:19with Bell.
32:19And after the fire,
32:20number one suspect
32:21was Lamphere
32:23because Bell had been like
32:24basically painting
32:26this whole picture
32:27that he was just an evil guy
32:28that was out to kill her
32:29when, let's be real,
32:31he's obviously a cover-up,
32:33but it was a different time.
32:34I'll give him that.
32:35But the jury still believed
32:36there was convincing evidence
32:37that Lamphere
32:38had started the fire.
32:39And his only saving grace
32:40came when a chemist
32:42found traces of strychnine
32:43in the bodies
32:44of the burnt children,
32:46evidence that Gunness' kids
32:47had not died from arson,
32:49but from the same poison
32:50preferred by their mother,
32:52though the testifying doctor
32:53refused to declare strychnine
32:54was the cause of death,
32:56unfortunately.
32:56But it's just,
32:57it's all just so obvious, man.
32:59It's just so obvious
33:01that she killed her kids,
33:03burnt the house down,
33:03and also just killed
33:04a random woman
33:05and decapitated her
33:06that kind of looked like her
33:07and just fled.
33:08But that evidence
33:09helped acquit Lamphere
33:10of any charges of murder,
33:12but it failed to protect him
33:13from the charges of arson,
33:15a crime that carried
33:16up to a 21-year sentence.
33:18And after just one year
33:19in prison,
33:20Lamphere died of tuberculosis.
33:21But before his death,
33:23he confessed to his pastor
33:24saying he had witnessed
33:26the murder of Andrew Helgelin
33:28and had demanded
33:29hush money from Gunness.
33:31And she fired him instead.
33:33So like, there's the motive
33:35for Gunness to just
33:36do everything
33:38that she obviously did.
33:39And when Lamphere
33:40returned to the house
33:41to take back
33:42his personal belongings,
33:43that's when Gunness
33:44charged him
33:45with those trespassing charges
33:46and began defaming him
33:48in public.
33:49So she was just trying
33:49to cover her own ass.
33:50And today,
33:51many believe that Gunness
33:52was probably responsible
33:53for the fire
33:54with her old farmhand
33:55turned against her
33:55and Al Helgelin
33:57breathing down her neck.
33:58Gunness knew
33:59her ruse was up.
34:00So she destroyed everything
34:02with a fire.
34:03Everything makes sense.
34:05But that's just
34:06one of the many theories.
34:07But Belle's ability
34:08to systemically murder
34:09and dispose of her victims
34:11with such efficiency
34:13just horrified the nation.
34:14And the case became
34:15a media sensation
34:16with thousands flocking
34:18to La Porte
34:18to witness the gruesome
34:20excavation of the murder farm.
34:22But the mystery of her death
34:23continues to fascinate everyone.
34:25Some believe Belle perished
34:27in the fire.
34:28Who?
34:29Who?
34:29While others contend
34:30she escaped,
34:31living under a new identity.
34:33Me.
34:34Me and you,
34:35because I know you're smart.
34:35Sightings of her
34:36were actually reported
34:37for decades after this,
34:39but none were substantiated.
34:41And in 2008,
34:42DNA testing
34:42on the headless corpse
34:44failed to confirm
34:45its identity
34:46due to sample degradation,
34:48leaving her ultimate fate
34:49unresolved.
34:50But her tale remains
34:51a stark warning
34:53of how appearances
34:54can deceive
34:54and a reminder
34:55of the darkness
34:56that can lurk behind
34:57even the most
34:58idyllic facades.
35:00What a bitch.
35:03But that brings us
35:04to our final
35:06serial killer,
35:07which is
35:08Leonardo Cianciulli.
35:10Sorry if I'm saying that wrong.
35:11I looked it up
35:11and that's how they said it, so.
35:12Also known as
35:13the soap maker of Correggio.
35:15Sounds nice, doesn't it?
35:17It's not!
35:18This one's really, really bad.
35:19So Leonardo Cianciulli
35:21was born on April 14, 1984
35:24in Montella, Avellino, Italy
35:26into an environment
35:27of hardship and despair.
35:29Her birth was marred
35:30by animosity.
35:31Her mother was
35:31allegedly forced
35:33into an unwanted marriage
35:34after being graped
35:36and arbored resentment
35:37toward Leonardo,
35:38blaming her
35:39for her misfortunes.
35:40And this toxic dynamic
35:42just haunted Leonardo
35:43throughout her youth.
35:44And from an early age,
35:45Leonardo exhibited signs
35:46of psychological distress.
35:48She allegedly
35:49attempted slur-slide
35:50twice as a young girl,
35:52leaving her
35:53with a grim outlook
35:54on life.
35:55And when she married
35:55Raphael Pensardi
35:56in 1914
35:57against her mother's wishes,
36:00Leonardo claimed
36:00her mother
36:01cursed their union,
36:02a notion she carried
36:03with her for the rest
36:04of her life.
36:05And the couple
36:05really struggled
36:06to find stability.
36:07After a brief imprisonment
36:08for fraud in 1927,
36:10Leonardo and Raphael
36:12moved frequently,
36:13seeking refuge
36:14from misfortune.
36:15And the 1930
36:16Urpinia earthquake,
36:17which destroyed
36:18their home in Lacedonia,
36:20was the final push
36:21that led them to settle
36:22in Correggio,
36:23Reggio, Amelia.
36:24And there,
36:25Leonardo opened
36:26a modest shop,
36:27becoming known
36:28as a kind
36:29and very friendly neighbor.
36:30However,
36:30beneath the facade
36:31of a doting mother
36:33and local confidant,
36:34darker fears
36:35consumed her.
36:36Leonardo would endure
36:3717 pregnancies,
36:40but the majority
36:40ended in tragedy.
36:42Three were miscarriages
36:43and 10 of her children
36:45died young.
36:46Only four would survive
36:47until adulthood.
36:48And her obsessive
36:49protectiveness
36:50towards her children
36:52was just fueled
36:52by fortune tellers,
36:54grim prophecies,
36:55that she would marry
36:56and bear children,
36:57but that all her offspring
36:58would die.
36:59So she basically put
37:00all of her thought
37:01and hope
37:02into these fortune tellers,
37:04which was very common
37:05at the time,
37:05especially in Italy.
37:07And another Romani
37:07palm reader
37:08at the time
37:09had told her,
37:10in your right hand,
37:11I see prison.
37:12In your left,
37:13a criminal asylum.
37:15And these predictions,
37:16combined with her losses,
37:18led Leonardo to believe
37:19that supernatural forces
37:20governed her fate.
37:22And by 1939,
37:24with World War II looming,
37:26Leonardo's eldest son,
37:27Giuseppe announced
37:28his intention
37:29to join the Italian
37:30royal army.
37:31And he was
37:32her favorite child.
37:33And she became consumed
37:34by the idea
37:35that his safety required
37:36an extraordinary act
37:38of sacrifice.
37:39You see where I'm going
37:40with this?
37:41It's not good.
37:43And her love,
37:43already twisted
37:44by grief and superstition,
37:46just drove her
37:47to a horrifying conclusion
37:49and that was
37:50to protect Giuseppe.
37:51She must offer
37:52human lives.
37:53What?
37:56So Leonardo's victims
37:58would be three
37:58middle-aged women
38:00from her community
38:01in Correggio.
38:02And each sought
38:03her assistance
38:03to escape the monotony
38:04of their lives.
38:05And Leonardo used
38:07her reputation
38:07as a helpful neighbor
38:08to lure them
38:09into her trap.
38:11So Faustini,
38:12Setti,
38:12a lonely 73-year-old spinster,
38:15often confided in Leonardo
38:16about her desire
38:17for companionship.
38:18And in 1939,
38:20Leonardo convinced Faustini
38:21that she had found
38:22her a suitor.
38:23A wealthy man
38:24living in Pola,
38:25which is modern-day Croatia.
38:27And she instructed Faustina
38:28to keep the arrangements secret
38:30and even helped her write
38:31farewell letters
38:33and postcards
38:33to her family.
38:34And they were to be mailed
38:35upon her arrival
38:37in Pola.
38:38She was just covering
38:39all of her bases
38:40where she could.
38:40And Faustina also sold
38:42all of her belongings
38:42and withdrew her savings,
38:44which was about
38:4530,000 lire,
38:46trusting Leonardo
38:47to arrange her marriage
38:48to her suitor in Pola.
38:50And on the day
38:50of her supposed departure,
38:52Faustina would visit
38:54Leonardo to thank her.
38:55And Leonardo would offer her
38:56a glass of wine
38:57laced with a sedative
38:59and waited until Faustina
39:00fell unconscious.
39:01And then,
39:02with cold precision,
39:03she would strike Faustina
39:05with an axe,
39:06killing her instantly.
39:07And Leonardo dragged
39:08the lifeless body
39:10into a closet
39:11where she dismembered it
39:12into nine parts.
39:14She would meticulously
39:15collect the blood
39:16into a basin
39:17to use for her
39:19macabre recipes.
39:22And the disposal process
39:24reflected an unsettling blend
39:26of practicality
39:27and ritual.
39:28Using caustic soda,
39:30a corrosive chemical,
39:31she would boil the body parts
39:33into a very viscous mush.
39:36I'm sorry.
39:37And this mixture
39:38would be poured into buckets
39:40and discarded
39:40into a septic tank.
39:42And Leonardo
39:43dried the blood
39:45in an oven
39:45and incorporated it
39:47into tea cakes.
39:49And in her memoir later,
39:51called
39:52An Embittered Soul's Confession,
39:54Leonardo described
39:55the gruesome disposal process
39:58as such.
39:59I threw the pieces
40:00into a pot,
40:01added seven kilos
40:03of caustic soda,
40:04and stirred the mixture
40:05until the pieces
40:06dissolved
40:07into a thick,
40:08dark mush.
40:09I poured this
40:10into several buckets
40:11and emptied them
40:12into a nearby septic tank.
40:14The blood,
40:14after coagulating,
40:16I dried in the oven,
40:17ground into powder,
40:18and mixed with flour,
40:19sugar, chocolate,
40:21milk, and margarine
40:21to make crunchy tea cakes.
40:26And these cakes
40:28were served
40:29to her unsuspecting neighbors
40:31and even consumed
40:32by her son,
40:34Giuseppe.
40:37This is so gross.
40:39And that brings us
40:40to her next victim,
40:41which was
40:42Francesca Soavi.
40:43A 55-year-old widow
40:45sought Leonardo's help
40:46to find stable employment.
40:48And Leonardo
40:48exploited Francesca's aspirations,
40:51claiming to have secured
40:51her a teaching position
40:53at a prestigious school
40:54in Piacenza.
40:55How does,
40:56how does,
40:57why does everybody
40:57think that this,
40:58this old lady
41:00or middle-aged,
41:01whatever,
41:01this lady
41:02has all the inns
41:04and has like
41:04all the inns
41:05at all these different places.
41:07It's just to make any sense.
41:08Anyway,
41:09Francesca followed
41:10Leonardo's instructions,
41:11writing postcards,
41:12detailing her plans,
41:13which were to be mailed
41:14from Piacenza.
41:16So again,
41:17she's just covering
41:17all of her tracks,
41:18making sure that
41:19there's a paper trail,
41:20that she was actually
41:21going to leave,
41:22and making sure
41:22that she doesn't actually
41:23look like she's involved.
41:24And on September 5th,
41:251940,
41:26Francesca visited Leonardo
41:27to finalize her preparations.
41:29And Leonardo,
41:30adhering to her ritual,
41:31offered drugged wine
41:33before killing her
41:34with an axe.
41:35And Francesca's dismemberment
41:36and disposal
41:37would follow the same method
41:38as Faustina's.
41:39And Leonardo would take
41:403,000 lyre from Francesca,
41:43justifying the murder
41:44as necessary sacrifice
41:46for Giuseppe's safety.
41:47And Francesca's disappearance,
41:49like Faustina's,
41:50went unnoticed at first,
41:52allowing Leonardo
41:53to continue her spree unchecked.
41:55And Leonardo's final victim
41:56would be
41:57Virginia Cacioppo.
41:58Sorry if I'm saying
41:59these names wrong.
42:00I think I'm saying them right,
42:01but I might be saying them wrong,
42:02so I apologize.
42:03And Virginia was
42:04a 53-year-old widow
42:05and a former soprano
42:07who had once performed
42:08at La Scala.
42:09And reduced to living
42:10in poverty,
42:11Virginia trusted Leonardo
42:13when she promised her
42:14a lucrative job
42:15as a secretary
42:16to a prominent
42:17impessario in Florence.
42:19Again,
42:20how does she have
42:21all these ends?
42:21She's literally
42:22just a housewife.
42:23What is happening?
42:24And Virginia's elegance
42:25and stature
42:26made her a very
42:27distinctive victim.
42:28And on September 30th,
42:301940,
42:31she arrived at
42:32Leonardo's home,
42:33hopeful for a fresh start.
42:35And Leonardo would
42:35repeat her gruesome routine,
42:37offering drugged wine
42:38and then killing
42:40Virginia with an axe.
42:41However,
42:42Virginia's body
42:43held special significance
42:44for Leonardo.
42:46Leonardo would
42:47boil her remains
42:48using melted fat
42:50to create soap.
42:53Her flesh was fat
42:54and white.
42:55When it had melted,
42:56I added a bottle
42:57of cologne.
42:58After a long time
42:59on the boil,
43:00I made some most
43:01acceptable creamy soap.
43:03I gave bars to neighbors
43:04and acquaintances.
43:05The cakes, too,
43:06were better.
43:07That woman
43:08was really sweet.
43:11She made soap
43:12and tea cakes
43:13out of her.
43:14She made soap
43:15and tea cakes
43:16out of her.
43:18And she gave it
43:18to her neighbors.
43:19Can you imagine
43:20being one of those
43:20neighbors and finding
43:21out after?
43:21Virginia's murder
43:22would yield
43:2350,000 liar,
43:25jewelry,
43:26and public bonds
43:27cementing Leonardo's
43:28belief that her actions
43:29were justified
43:30once again.
43:31But Virginia's
43:32sudden disappearance
43:32in September 1940
43:34led her sister-in-law
43:35to become very suspicious.
43:37And witnesses
43:37had seen Virginia
43:38entering Leonardo's home
43:39but never leaving,
43:41prompting the sister-in-law
43:42to report the matter
43:43to the police.
43:44Thankfully.
43:45And authorities
43:45would launch an investigation
43:47and search Leonardo's home.
43:49And during the search,
43:50the discovery of bloodstains,
43:52human remains,
43:53and the tools
43:54for dismembering
43:55her victims
43:55were found.
43:56And these gruesome findings
43:57confirmed Leonardo's
43:59connection to the
44:00disappearances
44:00of Virginia,
44:02Francesca,
44:02and Faustina.
44:03And Leonardo confessed
44:04in chilling detail,
44:06providing investigators
44:07with precise descriptions
44:08of her methods.
44:09This bitch did not
44:10hold back.
44:11And she showed
44:12no remorse
44:13and even correcting
44:14the authorities
44:15on minor details
44:16and justifying her actions
44:17as sacrifices
44:18to protect her son Giuseppe.
44:20She was truly,
44:21like,
44:22in her mind
44:23thinking that this was
44:24going to keep Giuseppe alive.
44:26So,
44:26I mean,
44:27it's insanity
44:28at that point.
44:29And Leonardo's trial
44:30in 1946
44:31captivated Italy completely.
44:33On the stand,
44:34she remained defiant,
44:36even boastful
44:36about her actions,
44:38and at the point
44:38she interrupted proceedings
44:40to clarify,
44:41Wait, wait,
44:41I gave the copper ladle
44:43which I used
44:44to skim the fat
44:45off the kettles
44:46to my country
44:47during the war.
44:48Italy needed metal.
44:52Thanks!
44:54What?
44:54The court would find her
44:55guilty of three counts
44:57of murder,
44:57thankfully,
44:58and she was sentenced
44:58to 30 years in prison
45:00and three years
45:01in a criminal asylum,
45:03fulfilling the prophecy
45:03foretold
45:04by the Romani palm reader
45:06decades earlier,
45:08which is pretty interesting.
45:09But Leonardo's actions
45:10just reflected
45:11deep-seated
45:12psychological issues,
45:14likely influenced
45:15by trauma
45:16and superstition.
45:17And her obsessive belief
45:18in protecting Giuseppe
45:19suggests delusional thinking
45:21tied to maternal fixation.
45:23And her meticulous methods
45:25and lack of remorse
45:26indicates traits
45:27of psychopathy,
45:28including lack of empathy
45:29and manipulative tendencies.
45:32And Leonardo would die
45:33on October 15, 1970
45:35at the age of 76
45:37of cerebral hemorrhage
45:38in a woman's asylum
45:40in Pazuli.
45:41And that is it
45:42for my three female serial killers
45:46of the day.
45:48Horrifying.
45:49It's interesting
45:49how all of these women
45:50used poisoning,
45:52poisoning to a certain degree.
45:53They always say
45:53poisoning is a woman's tool
45:55for murder.
45:57And it kind of makes sense.
45:59I mean,
45:59like physically,
46:00we are much weaker than men
46:02for the most part.
46:03There's some strong,
46:04you know,
46:05females out there
46:06hopefully not killing anybody.
46:08But the psychology of it
46:10is just very interesting
46:11and the motives
46:11are very interesting as well.
46:13But yeah,
46:14if you guys want me
46:15to cover any other
46:16crime, conspiracy,
46:18cults, murders,
46:19serial killers,
46:19let me know down below.
46:21Eileen Wuornos
46:21is on my list,
46:23so don't worry about that.
46:24But any other ones,
46:24let me know down below.
46:25If you like the video,
46:26please like the video.
46:27And also,
46:27I hope you're having
46:28a happy holiday season.
46:29Take care of yourself.
46:30Be safe, please.
46:31Also, don't hitchhike.
46:33Side note.
46:33And I love you.
46:36And I will see you
46:36beautiful face
46:37in the next video.
46:38Alright, bye.
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