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Podcast: Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Episode: ITALY'S MOST BIZARRE SERIAL KILLER: The Soap Maker of Corregio #WDRadio WEEK OF SEP 07, 2025
Description: In 1940s Italy, a desperate mother believed that turning three women into soap and tea cakes would save her son from dying in World War II.HOUR ONE: "It was a terrible sight… I have seen horrible sights, but never anything like this.” Those were the words of the local undertaker after seeing the results of a triple murder laying before him in 1932 Pennsylvania. (The Axe Murders of Lykens) *** A gypsy once told Leonarda that all of her children would die before her. A different fortuneteller told her that she faced either a future in prison or in a crim...