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==='''Discovery and trial'''=== <p style="text-align: justify;">Cacioppo's sister-in-law grew suspicious at her sudden disappearance, and had last seen her entering Cianciulli's house. She reported her fears to the superintendent of police in Reggio Emilia, who opened an investigation and soon arrested Cianciulli. Cianciulli immediately confessed to the murders, providing detailed accounts of what she had done.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Cianciulli was tried for murder in Reggio Emilia in 1946. She remained unrepentant, going so far as to correct the official account while on the stand:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At her trial in Reggio Emilia last week Poetess Leonarda gripped the witness-stand rail with oddly delicate hands and calmly set the prosecutor right on certain details. Her deep-set dark eyes gleamed with a wild inner pride as she concluded: "I gave the copper ladle, which I used to skim the fat off the kettles, to my country, which was so badly in need of metal during the last days of the war...."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">She was found guilty of her crimes and sentenced to thirty years in prison and three years in a criminal asylum.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Cianciulli died of cerebral apoplexy in the women's criminal asylum in Pozzuoli on October 15, 1970. A number of artifacts from the case, including the pot in which the victims were boiled, are on display at the Criminological Museum in Rome.</p> http://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/cianciulli-leonarda.htm [[Category:Cannibals]] [[Category:Serial Killer]] [[Category:Modern Villains]] [[Category:Tragic]] [[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]] [[Category:Delusional]] [[Category:Imprisoned]] [[Category:Deceased]] [[Category:Female]] [[Category:European Villains]] [[Category:Italy]] [[Category:Elderly]] [[Category:Mutilators]] [[Category:Corrupt Officials]] [[Category:Misogynists]]
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