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For example, perhaps the story of Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli — who killed three women in her Italian village, then turned them into soap to give to other people in the neighborhood — is one you and all your friends grew up knowing all too well.
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If you're from Australia, it may be that your "famous" local unsolved true crime story is about someone like Phoebe Handsjuk, whose body was found after she'd apparently fallen several stories, feet first, down a high-rise building's garbage chute.
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It was way more important to show people how she felt through it all, because those are things that that were not publicized." Knox isn't the only one affected by her circumstances. She and her husband, Christopher Robinson, welcomed daughter Eureka in 2021 and son Echo in 2023. In Knox's first words to Eureka, she apologized for being her mom. Knox says at 3, Eureka began asking questions. 'But of course, she comes to the table with a 3-year-old's mindset, which is used to hearing stories in the form of a fairytale,' Knox says. 'And when my daughter approaches me with that kind of mindset, it's a gift for me because it allows me to take this traumatic thing that I am experiencing with such weight and to now reframe it in terms that make sense to her. So if anything, her youth and naīvete and innocence has allowed me to reclaim that part of myself that I thought was gone and lost.' The series also provides a surprise for Knox. 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