The Woman Who Served Her Victims To Guests

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]So, I want you to picture something. And I'm not going to lie, it's probably going to be very hard for you to picture, but you've just bought some homemade soap from the little lady down the street. She's a kind of woman that everyone trusts. She's always smiling.

[00:00:12]She's always welcoming. The type who always insists that you take a little extra with you after your visit. So, you get home, you unpackage this soap, and everything about it feels comforting. It smells rich. It smells warm. It smells like nostalgia. Like the kind of thing you could imagine your gram making. It's soft. It's wellmade. It feels expensive in that homemade This took time type of way. So you enjoy using this lathering yourself up in the shower until one day you hear something. Something so grotesque, so completely out of nowhere that you wish you could scrub your body with bleach. Because that thing that you've been using, that thing you've been using to clean yourself was never what you thought it was. It wasn't just homemade and it wasn't harmless. What you've been handling, what you've been cleaning yourself with, what's been lying in your home this entire time was made from human remains. And the woman behind it all, she wasn't just some sweet old lady. She was Leonarda Chanuli. Hi everyone. Welcome back to my channel or welcome to my channel if you are new here. I hope you're all doing so so so well. Welcome back to another true crime and makeup episode. Just in case you are new here, hi. My name is Anna. I am your Scottish true crime girly. I sit down twice a week every single week on a wedding date and Sunday and we discuss a new interesting true crime case that you've requested, I found, or my dad has sent to me. If true crime is your jam, I would highly suggest that you subscribe, you get the notification bell on because, well, I just told you I'm here for you twice a week, every single week, and it's free. If you are a regular here, if you are an OG, you already know the damn drill. Get down in the likes, get down in the comments, make sure you are still subscribed, make sure that bell is still on. And if you could, please, pretty please hype this video, it would mean the world to me. It does wonders for the channel. It helps boost me out to the YouTube algorithm. Helps the YouTube gods know that people actually enjoy my content. So, if you could do that, I would just love it. I'm literally just a girl with a camera in a dream looking to pursue said dream. So, if you want to donate a hype to me today, now is the time. Any details you need regarding me, myself, and I, they can all be found listed down below in the description alongside my social media handles, my Instagram, my Tik Tok in case you want to follow me there. But without any further rambling and any further ado, let's get in to the bone chilling, horrifying case of Leonardo Chantuli.

[00:02:57]So, you will be happy to know I am trying to position myself in front of this candle. This one right here. Um, as you have known for a while now, it doesn't have a flame. Okay, I have changed the batteries. Turns out the candle's just gubbed. Right. So, we need a new one. I've got one in the way.

[00:03:17]Ignore I I will try and put my head in front of it. But if it moves cuz I move about, we'll probably just have to ignore it. Okay, I'm really really sorry. But I have very good news about this case. It is something that you've been asking for for ages. The person who is the topic of today, she was born in 1894.

[00:03:37]And do you know what that makes this case?

[00:03:40]>> A homicidal history.

[00:03:42]>> That's right. homicidal history. You've been wanting one for a little while. You know, they're very few and far between these days. So, I thought, why not do this one? And it is a highly requested case. Leonarda Chanuli. We hope that's her name. We pray it's her name. I have the phonetic spell and it says that is how you say her name. But, you know, Scottish tongue, foreign words, and beautiful languages, they don't really translate to the Scottish tongue. But, I'm going with that. Leonardo Chanteli.

[00:04:12]I also have a sound in my head off Tik Tok. Ow, that kind of hurt when I hit myself. That one. It's like I think I'm going to die in this house.

[00:04:22]But it's either that or if you've watched the movie Apex on Netflix, there's like a song and the only bit that I've took from it is like you're a nasty nasty boy. I don't even know if that's a words. I don't even know if that's a tune. Anyho, so Leonarda Chanteli, she was born on April the 18th of 1894 in Montella. This is a quiet little town south of Italy. And believe me, I don't think this place asked to be associated with what comes next. And I do have to admit that Leonardo Chantuli, she did enter the world with a very bleak start. And I don't mean like poetic like, "Oh, I've had such a hard life. Look at me now. I mean, it was bleak. She had said that her mother didn't actually want her as a child.

[00:05:11]Apparently, her mother was forced into a marriage and then out pops Leonardo 9 months later, which she was rather unhappy about. And whether this is fully true or whether it's been slightly dramatized, it does kind of set the tone for the beginning of Leonardo Chanteli's life. Leonardo would try and take her life on two occasions before even entering her adulthood. So that in itself just tells you that there was something deeply troubled within Leonardo long before anything criminal had even entered the chat. And it's heartbreaking to think of someone so young having those thoughts and believing that they don't want to be here anymore. So much so that they try and take their life. Leonardo, she is able to push on. She tries her best to move past this depression that she's facing. And in 1917, she would meet and marry a man by the name of Raphaeli Pensarde. He was working as a clerk. And the two of them seemed to hit it off right away. So Leonardo is thinking, "Oh my goodness, life is looking up. Life actually might be worth living. I've got Raphael.

[00:06:16]We're getting married. It's all great."

[00:06:19]But then Leonardo's mom, you know, the one who apparently didn't want her, she enters the chat and she says to Leonardo that she disproves of Raphael so much that if Leonardo goes ahead and marries him, she's going to curse her for the rest of her life. Leonardo will be cursed by her own mother. But Leonardo would marry Raphael and therefore her mother did apparently curse her. So everything was going to go wrong in her life according to Leonarda. But I have to say, blaming your future decisions on a potential maternal curse, that's a bold coping mechanism. Probably one of the boldest I've ever heard. And it's very convenient as well because it just seems whatever happens next, which we're going to get into. Leonard is like, "Oh my goodness, it's the curse.

[00:07:11]The curse just influenced my decisions.

[00:07:14]I cannot be held accountable because I was cursed by my mother.

[00:07:18]Please. But to be fair to Leonardo, I might believe in the maternal curse as well if I had the series of tragic events that Leonardo faces. Now, in this marriage to Raphael, she would get pregnant 17 times. 17 times. And out of those pregnancies, three of these would end in miscarriages. and then another 10 of her children died very early into their life, all at separate points. So, it's this constant domino effect of tragedy. And yeah, I probably would believe at that point as well that I had been cursed by my mom. But it's worth saying that just because she suffered through these tragedies that no parent should ever suffer through, it does not excuse what she later went on to become.

[00:08:04]I will say though, after losing so many children, after the three miscarriages, it just seemed that Leonarda, she was so possessive and obsessive over the children who were still in her life, the other four. And I get being a protective parent, especially when you have lost m well, I was going to say multiple, but 10 freaking children. I think we would all be very, very protective. But her obsession just went that little bit further. And we can't even call it like toxic mom energy. It is something so far beyond that. So fully blown I will do absolutely anything to stop you from dying mentality. And that anything part to keep them alive. That is the beginning of the spiral. And honestly outside of the family home Leonarda wasn't really building a respectable life for herself. In 1927, she would get herself imprisoned for fraud because she was mocking about with accounts within the workplace financial institutions. So, hauled off to prison she went. And this already tells you that she has zero issue lying, manipulating, and bending reality in a way that really suits herself. So, while she has had a tragic hard life, it's not like we're dealing with some naive woman who has only suffered a tragic life. She is also someone who has committed fraud, who has proven that she is capable of crime, but we would never be prepared for the kind of crimes that Leonardo would go on to commit. So eventually Leonardo, she gets out of prison and her and her family, they decide that they're going to move away. Now it might be to try and outrun the bad luck. It might be to try and outrun the consequences of her own actions. And then boom, 1930 hits. The Arpina earthquake completely wiping out and destroying every single aspect of the Chanteli home. And at this point, if you were Leonardo, there might be two different things going on in your head. Number one being life is so freaking unpredictable and very very unfair. Or in Leonardo's case, she was really leaning into the whole I'm definitely cursed aspect. So, at this point in her life, Leonard is thinking, who can I turn to? Who can I get support from? And instead of doing self-reflection, going to therapy, maybe going to counseling together as a family, she decides to turn to fortune tellers. And let me tell you, for Leonardo's state of mind, this is just going to make everything so much worse.

[00:10:37]You might be wondering, why would she turn to fortune tellers in particular?

[00:10:42]Well, years and years earlier, Leonardo had actually gone to a fortune teller who had told her that most of her children would die young.

[00:10:54]And I mean, it could just be a sign of the times. It was back in a time when sometimes children and mothers wouldn't survive child birth. But Leonardo's thinking, "Oh my goodness, no. That fortune teller knew exactly what was going to happen to me. She knew that my children weren't going to make it. and she fully ran with that belief. And honestly, I kind of get it. I think I would also be that way inclined. I would probably also be in that mindset. But to be honest, I'm very much someone who's out of sight, out of mind. I like to run away from my problems for the most part.

[00:11:26]So instead of going back to a fortune teller to hear any more doom and gloom.

[00:11:30]I might look at a different option. But for Leonardo, she was so convinced that this fortune teller had it right, she wanted to go back to her. So she goes back for seconds, right? And this palm reader looks at her pal. She's like, "Okay, so on the left side, I can see a prison in your future, Leonardo.

[00:11:52]But then on the right side, I'm actually seeing an insane asylum." H So that's your two options in life. Um yeah, good luck. And I was sort of hoping that at this point someone might have stepped into Leonardo, told her to take a beat, take a second, take a break, have a KitKat, chill out. No one did. So Leonardo takes this whole thing, the fortune teller, the past tragedies, the predicted tragedies, and she wraps it all up into this warp belief that something terrible is going to happen to her entire family. and more specifically something awful is going to happen to the remainder of her children. So Leonardo and her family, they eventually settle in Cesio. And honestly, outsiders looking in at that point, it seems like things are getting better. Leonardo herself seems more happy, more stable.

[00:12:47]But let's not get too excited too early because inside Leonardo's mind, nothing was stable. No, even her eyesight.

[00:12:55]Literally at this point, nothing is safe. And Leonardo is already starting to think of the way to protect the very things that she has left. And she believes that the only way to do this is to take control in a very disturbing unhinged way. So by 1939, Europe is on the brink of absolute chaos. What is that on my lip? I have no idea what that was. But yeah, it's on the brink of absolute chaos. World War II is kicking off and people are preparing for rationing, air raids, you know, the literal collapse of the world as we know it. But Leonardo, she is having a very specific meltdown. And that is the fact that her son Jeppe, her favorite, the golden child, the golden boy, the one who she has basically wrapped up in emotional bubble wrap over the years. He tells her that he's planning to join the royal Italian army. Remember what the fortune teller said, like all your children's going to die basically. And now he's telling her he's joining the army. Alarm bells are ringing for Leonardo. She believes that Jeppe joining the army, this is catastrophic.

[00:14:06]She believes that this for him is a death sentence. And I'm sure for any normal person who had those concerns, you would try and talk a person out of join in. You know, tell them life's better not in the war. Like, stay here with me, blah, blah, blah. Maybe even light a candle, say a prayer or two. But Leonardo, she decides that there's one thing in particular that might save her son. And it doesn't matter what that is, she is definitely going to do it. and she believes that it's human sacrifice because I mean obviously that's that's the next step isn't it? Light a candle, say a prayer, have bit anxiety, cry a wee bit and then sacrifice a human.

[00:14:46]Logical but it was at that point that I kind of sat back and was like h where does one pull that thought process from? I mean, Italy at the time was overwhelmingly Catholic, and human sacrifice was probably something that would send you straight to hell. But I suppose at this point, Leonardo, she's already built her entire belief system around curses, fate, fortune tellers, and this looming sense that the things and people that she loves will ultimately be stolen from her at some point. And instead of questioning her mindset, instead of maybe, you know, run by a friend, Leonardo, she just fully leans into this belief and she decides, well, if someone's going to be taken, it's not going to be my son. It's going to be someone else. She genuinely seemed to believe that if she offered someone else up on a a golden platter to the Grim Reaper that she could somehow bargain with fate, tip the scales, rewrite whatever twisted prophecy she thought she was living under. And I think what's quite terrifying about this as well, it's her level of delusion.

[00:15:51]Because in Leonardo's mind, what she was doing here, it wasn't evil. It wasn't bad at all. In fact, what she was doing was completely necessary. In her mind, this was her being a good mother. And once she had convinced herself of that, there was no turning back. There was no other thoughts. There was no moral line to cross. These people weren't going to be seen as victims to her. they were going to be her solution. And this is where the case sort of tails off from any sense of, "Oh, that's such a shame.

[00:16:22]What a tragic life. Oh, must be so depressing to be her into the territory of what the fuck are you doing?" So, Leonardo's first victim would be a woman by the name of Fostina Seti. Now, Fostina at the time, she was looking for a bit of companionship, maybe a boyfriend, maybe even a husband, maybe just a fresh start. And guess who tells Fina that she can help with that?

[00:16:50]Leonardo. Leonardo comes to Fostina one day and she's like, "Oh my god, Fina, you're never going to believe it. I found your perfect match. I have found your soulmate. all you need to be prepared to do is travel a little like to another dimension once I'm done with you. And I mean already the travel aspect is a bit of a red flag. And I just want to give like a word of advice to anyone out there. If you know someone who has very recently got out of prison for committing fraud and now they're offering to organize your love life and all you need to do is travel, maybe don't pack a bag just yet. But the thing is Fina completely trusted Leonardo. I mean, Leonardo at this point in Casio, she's actually built herself up quite a nice reputation. People know her to be helpful, to be welcoming, to be kind, slightly quirky, but ultimately a harmless woman. Now, Leonardo, she tells Fina, you know, you want to be organized. You don't want to leave any loose ends. And of course, your family will want to know that you're okay. So before you go, let's draft up some letters that you can send to your family just to let them know that you're fine.

[00:17:59]You're just starting a new chapter.

[00:18:01]You're looking for something new. And it doesn't immediately scream danger to Fistina. It actually sounds like, oh, you know, that's pretty organized.

[00:18:08]That's a really good plan, Leonardo. Let me just get out my feather pen. But in reality, Leonardo isn't helping her tie up loose ends. She is scripting this woman's disappearance. Then at this point, Leonard is like, "Oh, you know what? I'm so happy for you, Fina, but I'm really going to miss you. So, let's do a toast. Let's do a farewell drink, shall we?" So, she pours Fina this glass of red wine. Looks great. Looks lovely.

[00:18:36]But little does Fina know, it's laced.

[00:18:40]Yeah. Laced with sleeping pills. Enough to knock out a freaking horse. And as soon as falls unconscious, Leonardo strikes right away. She grabs an axe and she brutally starts attacking her. And of course, this attack was so brutal that Fina wouldn't survive. And the whole act, this whole attack, the lacing of the wine, it was very brutal, but it was also very controlled, which is somehow a bit worse because then that tells you that Leonardo, she knew exactly what she was doing from the start. And I know you're probably thinking, "Oh no, that is dreadful.

[00:19:15]Who's the next victim?"

[00:19:17]Pump the brakes cuz I ain't finished here. Because Leonardo, she goes one step further or 20 steps further. She decides that she's going to go full domestic goddess of horror. She would dismember Fina, cutting her body up into nine separate pieces. Any of the blood from her body was then captured in a basin and sat in the sink. And I am not even kidding. When she later explains exactly what she did to Fina, you would think she was reading a recipe from a cookbook. She said the following. I threw the pieces into a pot, added 7 kilos of costic soda, which I had bought to make soap. I stirred the whole mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick dark mush that I then poured into several buckets and emptied into a nearby septic tank. I'm 7 kilos. 7 kilos. This wasn't a woman who was improvising. She had been bulk buying for her project. There was no panic in this disposal. It was pre-planned. She knew exactly what she was going to do.

[00:20:19]She had planned this out like she was planning a Sunday roast. And if you think for a second that this is somehow going to stop there, that Leonardo is now finished. You would be completely wrong. Because Leonardo had decided this wasn't just about getting rid of a body.

[00:20:35]It was about transforming it into something useful. You know, historical recycling, let's say, because apparently nothing says maternal devotion like turning your murder victim into a useful household product. And then she says this, "As for the blood in the basin, I waited until it had coululated, dried it in the oven, ground it, and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk, and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine.

[00:21:04]Kneading all the ingredients together, I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Jeppi and I also ate them.

[00:21:15]Okay, so Fina has now been turned into a teacake, which I know it sounds ridiculous to say it like that, but what the actual hell? This woman, I swear to you, Scottish word of the day, is a do lolly bat. literally insane. Like I I'm sorry, but for me it's the whole I popped it in the oven, I ground it down, I mixed it with chocolate and sugar like she's on the freaking Great British Bake Off. And the fact that she served it to unsuspecting neighbors makes my skin crawl. And I'm sorry, but could you imagine being one of these women who just wants to go over to a friend's house, gossip about Maryannne's new orthopedic pumps, have some tea, have some biscuits, and unbeknownst to you, you've participated in one of the most disturbing potlucks that you could ever ever imagine. And Leonardo, she's just sitting there shooting the like it's a normal day while she is feeding people Fina Fina teacakes. And I know what you're thinking. Okay, Anna. Now, it can't possibly get worse. There is no other level that we could go to for this.

[00:22:25]Babes, please, if you know me, you know I'm always going to bring you the crazy ass details, and this case is full of them. So, not only did she brutally murder, dismember, and feed Fina to people, she even stole the woman's life savings, 30,000 le. And that was under the guys that she was giving her a dream man. A payment taken for arranging this imaginary husband. And you know what's even worse is the fact that Leonardo had thought this out so well that people bought it. No one was immediately alarmed. People believed that the letters that they were receiving were from Fina herself and that she really was just off on this new happy chapter.

[00:23:10]And that just seemed to further affirm to Leonardo that what she was doing was exactly what she should be doing. Like this was her destiny. This was her life's goal. So you would think maybe one human sacrifice was enough, but no.

[00:23:26]Of course not. Leonardo, she is committed to the cause. She is going to sacrifice as many people as she needs to to ensure that Jeppe, the golden child, doesn't die in the army. So Leonardo, she decides that she's she's going to run it back. We've got the same script, same confidence, and same absolute lack of fear. So September the 5th, 1940, Leonardo has her sight set on her second victim. And this victim was Francesca Suave, a woman who yet again was in search of a better life. And Leonardo, do you believe it? She has the perfect opportunity. Exactly what Francesca is looking for. So this time, Leonardo would tell this woman, Francesca, that she has the perfect teaching job for her. Because why stick to matchmaking when you can diversify your scams, you know? So she tells Francesca that she has secured this teaching position for her. It's all locked in. It's all lined up. Everything is all sorted. There is nothing for Francesca to worry about.

[00:24:29]And can I just say if Leonardo had actually put this much time and effort into building a career of her own, she might have actually done well for herself because clearly the woman has motivation. But unfortunately she was one sandwich short of a picnic. So that didn't happen. Now, the only thing is this teaching job would also require Francesca to travel. Coincidental. Mhm.

[00:24:53]So, yet again, Leonardo tells Francesca, you know, you might just want to let your family and friends know what's going on. Maybe write some letters. Tell them that you've got this new exciting job. You're starting a new chapter.

[00:25:06]Sounding familiar? Yeah. And the thing is, it works. Again, Francesca has no reason to believe that Leonardo is going to do anything bad to her. She has no reason to believe that she's writing a note for her own disappearance. So, Francesca, she goes over to Leonardo's house, and again, it's it's just the same thing unfolding as it did with Vstina. They chat about the teaching job that never freaking existed. Leonardo fills her in, tells her what to expect, and then Leonardo says, "You know, Franny, I'm really going to miss you.

[00:25:39]Why don't we have one last farewell drink? You know, just for old time's sake. And Francesca agrees because why wouldn't she? So again, she's handed this glass of red wine laced with sleeping pills. And as soon as Francesca falls unconscious, Leonardo takes the same ax, attacks her, and kills her. And she doesn't stop there. She goes to the next step, the one that she did with Fostina. She repeats the entire process, the dismemberment, the costic soda, dissolving the body like she's following a deranged household guide. And yes, of course, she enters the bit of the story that honestly feels so unbelievable, but was definitely true. She would turn Francesca into teacakes and give them to people. And with this routine, there's nothing about it that shocks Leonardo herself. I mean, she's built up the perfect recipe. It tastes good.

[00:26:33]Obviously, people are eating them. And now she's playing the role of the friendly neighborhood woman who brings teac cakes to people who chats away acting like there is not a single thing wrong when everything is wrong. And just like she did before any money that Francesca had, Leonardo now has it because you know why just murder when you can also gain financially. It's like she is getting to tick off multiple objectives at once. The first one being you know save Jeppe. The world revolves around Jeppe and then make a profit and apparently host the worst afternoon tease imaginable. Apologies, I had to do my liner off camera because as we know I cannot do it on camera. Anyway, back to the case. So, Leonardo, do you think she's going to take a day off anytime? A day off to reflect, digest what she's done, maybe take a day to move away from the horror side hustle that she is building. No, of course not. Leonardo would instead go on to find her third victim. And at this point, this woman is operating like she is untouchable.

[00:27:40]Untouchable. And at this point enters Virginia Kachopo. And this is where it gets really unsettling because see Virginia, she wasn't just anyone. She wasn't just a woman off the streets, a woman around the corner. She was a trained soprano singer and quite a big one. Quite well known within the area.

[00:27:58]She had performed at Lascala, which is huge. It's not just your little run-of-the-mill town hall. That's prestige, okay? That is talent. And yet somehow she still crosses paths with little Leonardo the teacake maker. So Virginia, when she crosses paths with Leonardo, Leonardo yet again has the perfect opportunity.

[00:28:20]I mean, isn't it just crazy that this woman has the perfect opportunity for everyone that she meets? Now this time it is a job singing on stage in Florence that's been arranged with an impresario which is someone who basically runs these big entertainment events or careers. So it sounds promising. It sounds like something Virginia would be right into. So Leonardo at this point apparently she's just rearranged herself into I don't know like a singing manager, a career manager, something in the entertainment business. So, she's a matchmaker, a music manager, and a teacake connoisseur. I mean, she is multi-talented. It just happens to be in the worst ways possible. So, the script, it goes as it usually does. Virginia, she is told that she should write letters just to make sure she ties up all loose ends, that no one's wondering where she was, tell them all about this big opportunity that she is getting. All making sure that no one would suspect a thing the minute Virginia's gone. It's September the 30th of 1940. Virginia goes to Leonarda's house and you know how it goes from there. She drinks the wine. The wine is spiked. She falls unconscious. Leonardo attacks her brutally with an axe. No deviation from the plan. No hesitation. Just that same chilling routine that she is so freaking comfortable with. But this is where things change a little bit because Leonardo, you know, she's mastered the tea cakes, right? she's ready to put that recipe in a book and publish it.

[00:29:47]And apparently dissolving the bodies and putting them into teacakes, that just wasn't doing it for her anymore. She wanted to add a bit of artistry to what she does, a bit of flare. And she would describe it saying the following. She ended up in the pot like the other two.

[00:30:01]Her flesh was fat and white. When it had melted, I added a bottle of cologne. And after a long time on the boil, I was able to make the most acceptable creamy soap. I'm sorry. Most acceptable. Who the hell is reviewing this? Who asked for a product description? I'm not looking for five stars. The casual way that this woman talks about it, it's like she's found a thing for her skinincare routine. The thing that cleared up her acne and cleared up her dark circles and redness and whatever else. I mean, honestly, if I heard that it cleared up redness, I would probably buy it for my rosacea. But still. But she doesn't just make soap out of Virginia. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Of course, she turns her into teacakes, and she has the audacity to say that Virginia made the sweetest teacakes as if it's a compliment that anyone is pining for. But she gifts the bars of soap to neighbors to pass her buys, you know, smell the soap. And they're all like, "Smells amazing. Washing in the shower with Virginia." And again, much like previous victims, Leonardo decides that she's going to take any money Virginia has on her because consistency is key, right? Same method, same outcome, and same complete lack of any immediate consequences. Like this woman is genuinely getting lucky and how much she is getting away with. However, as is the case with most of these murderers, they never get away with anything for too long because it's a bit suspicious that three women have completely disappeared and they've all wrote the same kind of letters, they've all been with the same person when they were last seen. And it just seemed as though after those initial letters were sent, no further contact was made in the case of all three of these women. And they all seem to be heading off in the direction of these apparent opportunities that only Leonardo seemed to know about. And whether Leonardo realizes it or not, at this point, the cracks are starting to show. The ground is smashing up beneath her. Because as confident as she has become and as comfortable as she is in her sick little routine, Leonardo is about to find out that she's not as invisible as she believes to be. And this is where everything finally starts to unravel. So, after all of this, three victims, the soap, the teacakes, after running what Leonardo believed was this flawless little operation, she finally slips up. And it's not because she finally grows a conscience. I mean, that's just not going to happen, is it?

[00:32:35]But it's because this time where third victim, she picked the wrong freaking woman in the wrong freaking family. You see, Virginia Kachopo, she had a sister-in-law. And this was a sister-in-law that she was very close with. And this sister was immediately suspicious. Those letters that were sent, suspicious, not buying it. The sudden, "Oh, I'm off. Don't worry about me." energy. Very suspicious. And crucially, she had actually seen Virginia go into Leonardo's house the very night she disappeared. And instead of just shrugging it off like everyone seemed to be doing at this point, the neighbors, the freaking police, she decides to go to the police and tell them exactly what she knew. And this is when the police finally start paying attention. Now, Virginia's sister-in-law, she had actually done enough convincing to the police in that visit that they decide, you know what?

[00:33:30]Let's go check out this Leonardo's house. Could be nothing, could be something. It's likely nothing, but we'll go check anyway. And when they go there, holy shit balls. Because this woman, she wasn't given subtle criminal mastermind. It was more how the hell did this not get discovered sooner? Because what they find in that home isn't exactly subtle. I mean, when they walk in, there is belongings that belong to the missing women just sitting out.

[00:33:58]Sitting out for the world to see.

[00:34:00]There's multiple axes. There's knives.

[00:34:03]And in casually sitting there, a massive cauldron. a cauldron. And I I'm not like I'm not making that up. It wasn't just a large steel pot. It was a cauldron. Like a witch's cauldron. Have I say cauldron enough? But it's just like people seen this cauldron. Like people go in out her house and no one thought, "Oh, it's a bit weird that she has like industrial witch equipment just sitting in her living room." So Leonardo does what she does best and that is deny, deny, deny.

[00:34:34]She's putting on this sweet, harmless act and saying that, you know, all of this must be a mistake. I would never ever do anything to hurt anyone. She's ready to spin a whole other story if she has to. But then the police, they do something smarter. They turn their suspicion to Jeppe.

[00:34:52]Not the golden child, not the golden son, not Leonardo's favorite. And when they do that, suddenly Leonardo folds like a cheap suit. She sings like Johnny Cash because she can't have her golden child go to prison. She's Oh, you said murder.

[00:35:10]Ah, I thought you said gerder. I Yeah, I wasn't involved in that. But the murder.

[00:35:15]That was all me. Yeah, that cauldron right there cooked him up. But it was just the second Jeppe was threatened, she was like, "Nah, hands up. It was all me." Which I guess makes sense because I mean, she was willing to murder for him apparently. Not only that though, she goes right out her way to make sure the police know that she operated alone, that Jeppe had absolutely no knowledge of this whatsoever. According to the record, she had even demonstrated how she dismembered the bodies. And she apparently managed to do this within 12 minutes at a local morg. I don't know like what cadaavver they're just handing her. Like if that's someone's poor family member and they're like, "Right, Leonardo, hop at it. Show us how you do it." Boo. 12 minutes. 12 minutes to hack up a body. But the reason she apparently did this was to prove that Jeppe had absolutely no involvement. This is something she could do herself. She didn't need anyone else. That detail in itself is horrifying, but I can't help but think it's weirdly on brand for her.

[00:36:15]Like, yeah, that makes sense. Now, after a very short trial, she would be sentenced to 33 years in prison, which is a minuscule sentence for what she was doing. And do you know where she was sentenced to? A criminal asylum.

[00:36:32]Yeah, I know what you're thinking. Anna, that fortune teller at the start, the pal criminal asylum. Could it be she was right? Or did she just know that Leonardo was assigned short at a picnic and that was probably going to happen one day? But Leonardo, when she is shipped off to prison, she would become this model inmate. Shock. She was apparently quiet. She was well behaved.

[00:36:54]She kept to herself. She spent time crocheting and baking. Let's just hope she wasn't baking tea cakes. All right.

[00:37:00]I don't know who thought it was a good idea to give her, you know, access to baking soda and eggs and butter and milk again. But someone did. But despite her being able to bake and have access to the ingredients, people didn't really want to eat her stuff. And I feel like that was for the greater good. She would remain in this asylum until she passed away on October the 15th of 1970. She had died from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 79. So a longer life than most of her victims. So when she passes away, her body would be returned to any living family. But her infamous pot, her collection of axes and knives, these are preserved and displayed at a criminology museum in Rome. Which means to this very day, people can walk in, look at the tools that she used, the pot that she cooked in, and try to wrap their heads around the fact that any of this could possibly be real. And if that's not enough, somehow her story made it into a play. In like 1979, it was turned into a play and then late 80s, I think it ended up on Broadway. So from like a small town in Italy to be memorialized on Broadway. It's kind of insane. But listen, if it wasn't directed by Ryan Murphy, it might actually be all right.

[00:38:14]Just find it quite baffling that something like murder, teacakes, and human soap can be inspirational to people. But did you see that?

[00:38:29]I just kicked my own ass. My dressing gown belt. Oops. But that is it for the case of Leonardo Chanteli. This one was an absolute wild ride. researching this one, I just kept going, "Huh? What?

[00:38:42]Huh?" With every new bit I discovered, I was even more flabbergasted. Now, of course, these historical crimes, they can sometimes feel very distant from us because they are something that happened so long ago. But we do need to remember that this is a real case with real victims. And I am sending love and prayer to those victims. I hope that they are resting peacefully now. And I'm honestly glad that none of them seemed to be aware of what was happening to them. But ultimately, it should have been these victims living a way up into their 70s and beyond rather than Leonardo Chanteli. But my loves, that is it for another true crime and makeup episode. Thank you so much for sitting down with me today. Thank you for requesting this case if it was one that you have requested. It has been requested a lot, a lot, so I decided why not cover it. Let me know in the comments down below what other cases you would like to see from me. As you know, I go through them all. I put them all in a big list and we do gradually work our way through them. Before you go, please don't forget to leave a like, comment, subscribe, hype the video. If you can, it would mean the absolute world to me.

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