April 14, 1894 - Leonarda Cianciulli
Her crimes occupy a singular place in criminal history less for their scale than for their method — the deliberate, domestic transformation of victims into household products. Operating in a small northern Italian town in the final years before wartime disrupted everything, she killed three women in quick succession, motivated in part by a belief that human sacrifice would protect her son from the dangers of military service. The matter-of-fact industrial quality of what she did afterward is what has kept her name in circulation for decades.
From Wikipedia
Leonarda Cianciulli (14 April 1894 – 15 October 1970) was an Italian serial killer. Better known as the Soap-Maker of Correggio (Italian: la Saponificatrice di Correggio), she murdered three women in the town of Correggio, Reggio Emilia, in 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap (using caustic soda) and teacakes.
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