Content warning: this episode contains graphic descriptions of violence, dismemberment and the disposal of bodies.

Correggio, northern Italy, 1939. Faustina Setti climbs three flights of stairs to say goodbye to a friend. She has sold her belongings and told nobody where she is going, because the friend has found her a husband in a distant city. She never arrives.

Over the next year, two more women follow her up those stairs: a teacher chasing a new job, and a retired opera singer hoping for a second act. All three vanish. The woman behind it is Leonarda Cianciulli, a small, well-liked shopkeeper and fortune teller, famous across Italy as the Soap Maker of Correggio.

By her own account, she killed them to buy her eldest son’s life. She said human sacrifice would keep him safe from the war, and that she dissolved the bodies in caustic soda, made soap from one of them and baked the blood of the others into tea cakes for her visitors.

Show Notes and Sources: https://euronoir.blogspot.com/2026/10/euro-noir-podcast-show-notes-sweetest.html

In Paris in 1933, an eighteen-year-old girl fed her parents a lethal dose of sleeping powder, told them it was medicine from their doctor, and went dancing. Her father died. Her mother survived by spitting half of it out. What followed was a manhunt, a trial that gripped a nation, and an accusation so shocking the newspapers of the day refused to print the word for it. The surrealists rushed a book of poems to her defence. Three heads of state would eventually pardon her. Nobody has ever proven whether she was telling the truth.

This is the case of Violette Nozière: a story about class, family, and who gets believed.

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Copenhagen, Whitsun 1990. While thousands celebrate at the city's annual carnival, eighteen-year-old Stine Geisler cycles home through streets she's known her whole life, and never arrives. The next evening, her body is found in a basement eighty metres from her front door: bound, gagged, and marked in ways investigators still can't fully explain.

Thirty-five officers. Nearly 4,000 interviews. A city gripped by fear as a cluster of unsolved murders unfolds around her in the same few months. And yet, over three decades on, no one has ever been charged.

In this episode of Euro Noir, we trace Stine's life and final night, the strange details left at the crime scene, the parade of suspects who've circled the case for a generation, and the convicted killer whose name keeps resurfacing: the Amager Man. We weigh the evidence, flag the speculation as speculation, and ask why one of Denmark's most haunting cold cases has never been laid to rest.

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On a Friday night in November 1992, three schoolgirls from a small town outside Valencia hitchhiked to a nightclub — and vanished. Seventy-five days later, two beekeepers found what was left of them in a ravine near the Tous dam.

Euro Noir tells the story of the Alcàsser Girls: a brutal crime, a fugitive who may have drowned off the Irish coast — or simply walked away, a trial that never fully closed, and the television broadcast that changed Spanish media forever.

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