In the quiet town of Correggio, Italy, during the late 1930s, Leonarda Cianciulli looked like a normal shopkeeper and mother. Everyone in her neighborhood liked her, and she ran a small shop where people would stop by to visit. But behind this normal life, she was planning something horrible that would shock the whole country. Cianciulli had a really hard life from the beginning. Born in 1894, she grew up in a home where her parents treated her badly.
As per Wikipedia, she tried to kill herself twice when she was young. She married a man named Raffaele Pansardi in 1917, but her mother did not want her to marry him and reportedly put a curse on their marriage. The couple went through many bad times, and their home was destroyed in an earthquake in 1930. But the worst thing that happened was losing so many children. She got pregnant seventeen times, but three babies died before they were born and ten more died when they were young. Only four of her children lived.
