Word: picchioni
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...months later Carolina's father, Ernesto Picchioni, was known to all Italy as the "Monster of Nerola." With her mother, two sisters and a brother, Carolina lived with him in a dank stone cottage in a lonely gorge in the hills east of Rome. Father Picchioni was an itinerant olive-picker, chicken thief, and loud-mouthed braggart who was first a Fascist, later a Communist. Always roaring at his wife and children, he once made them dig a long family grave in the backyard so that "it will be ready when I want...
...husband carrying out a big bundle-a sheet with a human foot hanging out." Three years later another bicyclist stopped, and did not live the night. This time Carolina's terrified mother summoned her courage and notified the police. At the trial Picchioni brazenly confessed to two more murders, and a dozen others were attributed to him. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Carolina's mother took up washing and Carolina and her sisters were sent to Rome's House of Calasanziane Sisters for orphans and convicts' children...
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