As a young woman Enriqueta Marti moved from her hometown of Sant Feliu de Llobregat to Barcelona where she worked as a maid servant and nanny,but soon she turned into prostitution.In 1895 she married a painter called Joan Pujalo,but the marriage failed.In spite marriage, she continued to visit locales of prostitution and people of doubtful virtue.Enriqueta was leading a double life.During the day she dressed in rags and begged at houses of charity,convents and parishes in the destitute parts of town where she selected children who looked the most abandoned.Taking the children by the hand,she made them pass as her children.later,she prostituted and murdered them.By night she dressed in luxurious clothes,hats,and wigs,and attended the El Liceu,the Casino de La Arrabassada and other sophisticated places.In this places she offered her services as procurer of children.She was prostituting children but she she was also practicing as a witch doctor.The ingredients she used as her remedies were made from the remains of the children that she was killing,who ranged from infants up to children of 9 years,from these children she used everything that she could use;blood,fat,hair,and bones(that normally she turned into powder).For this reason, she did not have any problems to dump her victims.Enriqueta offered salves,ointments,filters,and potions,especially to treat tuberculosis,which was highly feared at the time and all kinds of diseases that did not have a cure in traditional medicine.Wealthy people were paying large sums of money for these remedies.She had stolen a baby from her sister-in-law whom,whom she had assisted in child birth,making her believe that the child had died at birth in order to keep her.
ENRIQUETA MARTI
ENRIQUETA MARTI'S VICTIMS
ANGELITA RESCUED (WHOM ENRIQUETA HAD
STOLEN FROM HER SISTER-IN-LAW)
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