The Anatomy Of Crime

The second victim was Francesca Soavi. Leonarda had promised her a job at the girls’ school in Piacenza. On the morning of 5 September 1940, she went to say goodbye to her friend before setting off. The script was the same: Leonarda convinced the woman to write two postcards, telling her she should send them from Correggio to inform her acquaintances that she was leaving, but without saying where she was going. Leonarda then attacked the woman and made the second “sacrifice”. The third and final victim was Virginia Cacioppo, a former opera singer, then 53, reduced to living with her memories of the past, in poverty. Leonarda offered her a job in Florence as the secretary to a mysterious theatre impresario, begging her not to tell a soul. Virginia was enthusiastic about the proposal, and kept the secret. On 30 September 1940 she went to Leonarda’s house, where: “She ended up in the pot, like the other two (…); her flesh was fat and white, when it had melted I added a bottle of col

Born in Montella di Avellino in 1893 and marked by an unhappy childhood, in 1914 Leonarda Cianciulli married Raffaele Pansardi, a clerk in the registry office, and went to live in Lariano in Alta Irpinia. In 1930 an earthquake destroyed their home, and the couple moved to Correggio, in the province of Reggio Emilia. Leonarda had seventeen pregnancies: three were miscarriages, while ten of the children died at a tender age. The four surviving children were to be protected at any price, for Leonarda had not forgotten the words of a gypsy fortune-teller who many years earlier had predicted a terrible fate for her: “You will marry and have children, but all your children will die.” Later she had had her palm read by another gypsy, who told her: “In your right hand I see prison, in your left a criminal asylum.” In 1939, when she heard that her eldest and favourite son Giuseppe was to join the army, as Italy’s entry into the war became increasingly imminent, Leonarda decided what she had

Theory #3 The third theory is from LAPD detective Greg Kading, who believes that Sean Combs, a.k.a. P. Diddy, C.E.O. of the east coast record label Bad Boy Records orchestrated Tupac’s death. P. Diddy Detective Kading got a Crips gang member named Keith Davis to confess on tape that Combs paid him $1 million to carry out the murder of Tupac and Suge Knight. Keith Davis confessed that Orlando Anderson, who was Devis’ nephew was the one who pulled the trigger, and Davis also admits to being in the car when he recounts the night Tupac was shot. “Orlando rolled down the window and popped him. If they would have drove on my side, I would have popped them.” Keith Davis claims the motive behind Combs’ hit was due to fear that Suge Knight would strike first and that Tupac was only included in the hit because P. Diddy was pissed off about Tupac’s song Hit ‘Em Up. Furthermore, before Tupac was killed, he was shot multiple times on November 30 th  1994 at Quad Recording Studios in New Yor

There are a few theories on how Tupac Shakur's homicide occurred: Theory #1 The first theory is from former LA Times journalist Chuck Philips, who believes that Orlando Anderson, the Crips gang, and none other than Biggie Smalls all are responsible for the murder. Chuck Philips Chuck Philips and the LA Times investigated the murder over the course of a year and came up with the following conclusions based on anonymous sources.  Conclusion one , members of the Southside Crips were involved in the shooting as retaliation for Tupac’s beating of Orlando Anderson.  Conclusion two , Anderson was the shooter.  Conclusion three , Biggie Smalls paid $1 million for the murder of Tupac and supplied the gun. Biggie had a potential motive for wanting Tupac dead. Biggie’s year-long feud with Tupac was well known and at the forefront of the east coast, west coast rap rivalry including a reported verbal altercation and diss tracks. In one track titled Hit ‘Em Up, Tupac claimed he had s

On September 7th 1996 at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tupac Shakur attended a Mike Tyson boxing match. After the match, Tupac left with Suge Knight, who at the time was C.E.O. of the west coast record label Death Row Records, the label that Tupac was signed to. However, on their way out, Tupac and his bodyguards got into a fight with Orlando Anderson in the lobby of the MGM Casino. Anderson was a member of the Compton-based Southside Crips gang. After the brawl, Suge Knight and Tupac left in Knight’s car with Tupac’s entourage following in cars just behind them. While stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of Flamingo and Koval, a white Cadillac pulled up on the passenger side of Knight’s car and shot out of the window, hitting Tupac four times and grazing Knight in the head with a bullet fragment. In 2014, 18 years after the shooting, Chris Carroll, a now retired Las Vegas Police Department sergeant came forward to say he was first at the scene. According to

In 2012, the LA County Coroner’s Office changes the cause of death from  “accidental drowning”  to  “drowning and other undetermined factors”  The new reports casts more questions on the nature of the bruises and abrasions on Wood’s body, positing that they likely had to have been on her body before she fell into the water. Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, the chief medical examiner said in the report “the location of the bruises and the multiplicity of the bruises, lack of head trauma, or facial bruising support bruising having occurred prior to entry in the water. Since there are unanswered questions and limited additional evidence available for evaluation, it is opined by this medical examiner that the manner of death should be left as  undetermined.  As of 2013, the LA County Sheriff Department’s spokesman, Steve Whitmore, has described the case as “open and ongoing. Nothing definitive has closed it.” However, he had also previously stated that Wagner is not a suspect. Natal

Theory #2 The second theory follows the possibility of a foul play involving Robert Wagner. It is definitely worth noting, before moving any further, that Davern is an unreliable witness for several reasons including the fact that it took him years before coming forward with what he says is the truth and he also seemed to release bits of information to the tabloids in the years following the incident in a relatively unsavoury way. That being said, many factors of his story ring more consistent with testimony of other witnesses and other evidence. In fact, Walken’s description of what happened when they returned to the boat is also closer to Davern’s than Wagner’s. Walken claims an argument broke out between Wood and Wagner over Natalie’s time spent away from family, to which Walken defended Wood at first, but then stepped outside rather than get further involved. When he returned, the two had made amends. Davern also describes events this way, but instead of Wood and Wagner maki

Theory #1 The first theory follows the possibility of Natalie accidentally fell into the water and drowned; just as simple as that. The conclusion drawn by the chief medical examiner in the LA County Coroner’s Office, Thomas Noguchi, was that Wood had fallen into the water while trying to board The Valiant. Noguchi hypothesized that her down jacket had likely become heavy and soaked, but she never thought to remove it due to her inebriated state. Fingernail scratches found on the side of the Valiant show that she tried to climb back on the dinghy. Eventually, she likely finally drowned due to hypothermia and exhaustion. Ultimately, it’s likely she clung to its side as it drifted away from the yacht. However, Wood’s sister, Lana Wood, protested against this theory saying “My sister was not a swimmer and did not know how to swim, and she would never go to another boat or to shore dressed in a nightgown and socks.” About the nightgown and the socks we also have to bring attention

The next morning on Saturday, November 28, they returned to the boat, where Wood apparently decided to stay for the reminder of the weekend based upon Walken’s expressed desire to stay. Walken and Wood went ashore that afternoon to begin drinking at Doug’s Harbor Reef where they were later joined by Wagner and Davern. The party’s waitress recalls that at dinner, the consumed two bottles of wine, two bottles of champagne and one of the men was also drinking daiquiris. She remembers that Wood did not eat much of her dinner and that she did not seem to be in a good mood at all; the waitress also recalls that when Natalie left the restaurant she appeared to be stumbling. In one moment, Wood was said to have thrown a glass down onto the floor, though Walken later explained the incident saying it was his fault because he threw his glass on the floor after making a toast and Wood had just followed suit. According to the testimony given by Davern, Walken and Wood seemed very flirty throughou

On November 29, 1981, at about 7:30 a.m. Natalie Wood’s body was found floating face down in the Pacific Ocean around 200 yards off Catalina’s Islands Blue Cavern Point. She was wearing only a flannel nightgown, blue wool socks and a red down jacket. Before getting into the details of the scene, let’s establish what led up to that point. Natalie Wood was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood until her sudden death. Eerily, from her early childhood, Wood’s mother was said to have filled her with a fear of dark water, as a fortune teller had once prophesized that she would die of drowning. In a chilling incident from when Wood was 10 years old and filming “The Green Promise”, a bridge rigged to collapse throwing her into the water, despite her mother assured her that it would be safe. Natalie broke her wrist and left the incident even more terrified of water than when she began. As a child she had such a phobia of water that it is said she was afraid to wash her hair, and had recurri