600 KILLS?!? Most Prolific Female Serial Killer - The Untold story of Guilia Tofana

In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing Guilia Tofana, perhaps the more prolific female serial killer of all time and the Deadly Makeup she sold to battered women! I hope you enjoy this episode! ~ Christina
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Women's lives in the 17th century
2:26 - Guilia's life
5:24 - Aqua Tofana ingredients - Lead
8:21 - Arsenic - Aqua Tofana Ingredients
9:26 - Belladonna - Aqua Tofana Ingredients
10:43 - How the poison worked
13:37 - Guilia's business - How her poison went undetected
14:38 - The history of women poisoning men
16:06 - Guilia's business - Additional ways they made it work
18:28 - Guilia's Downfall - How she was caught
22:12 - Mozart - Did Aqua Tofana kill him?
23:37 - Was Guilia a HERO or a Villian? + OUTRO

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SOURCES:
https://historycollection.com/historys-most-prolific-and-deadly-female-poisoner-helped-women-get-rid-of-their-husbands/3/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/giulia-tofana
https://www.ranker.com/list/life-of-giulia-tofana/genevieve-carlton
https://www.ancientpages.com/2018/02/22/gulia-tofana-poisoned-600-men-beautiful-sicilian-woman-deadly-mission/
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/giulia-tofana-0014131
https://itsblossom.com/blog/2019/10/04/giulia-tofana-poisoned-makeup/
https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-darker-side-of-life/episode/side-note-5-aqua-tofana-66760204
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulia_Tofana
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/giulia-tofana-the-italian-serial-poisoner-who-became-a-legend
https://allthatsinteresting.com/giulia-tofana
https://medium.com/@editors_91459/meet-the-woman-who-poisoned-makeup-to-help-over-600-women-murder-their-husbands-cfb03929c36d
https://aspectsofhistory.com/giulia-tofana-power-poison/
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/giulia-tofana-0014131
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dCex8L-XBU
https://www.novelsuspects.com/articles/meet-the-woman-who-killed-over-600-men-giulia-tofana/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/serial-killer-hailed-heroine-helping-27648378
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/giulia-tofana-the-17th-century-serial-husband-killer/id1493942937?i=1000558967277
https://www.tbsnews.net/glitz/splash/when-makeup-can-kill-sinister-tale-giulia-tofana-319327
https://www.ncdv.org.uk/giulia-tofana-serial-killer-or-heroine/
https://historyhustle.com/giulia-tofana/
https://thecrimewire.com/multifarious/The-Most-Notorious-Woman-Killer-in-History
Where people really poisoned by lead makeup: https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/analysis-dying-for-makeup-lead-cosmetics-poisoned-18th-century-european-socialites-in-search-of-whiter-skin/
Additional resources:
Florence. The State Archive of Florence contains several volumes of correspondence from Tuscan agents based at various courts in Italy. Vincenzo de’Medici’s despatches touching on the 1640s poisoning scare in Naples can be found among this series.
Palermo. The two manuscripts discovered by Salvatore Salomene-Marino (which I have not consulted in the original) were both found lodged in the Biblioteca Comunale, Palermo. He states that the two volumes of Alessi’s Notizie piacevoli e curiose ossia aneddoti… are at MSS. Qq.H.43 &44. The Biblioteca Storica e Letteraria di Sicilia gives the reference MSS. Qq.C.9 for Baldassaro Zamparrone’s Compendio.
Rome. Alessandro Ademollo’s researches included explorations in the legal records of what is now the Archive di Stato di Roma. Unfortunately he did not reference his discoveries. I would suggest that the Spara process is most likely to be located in the process records for the 17th century in the series Tribunale criminale del Governatore or Tribunale criminale del Senatore.

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