Enriqueta Martí was a Catalan child murderer, kidnapper and procuress of children. 

Her last victims, two young girls named Angelita and Teresita Guitart Congost, were rescued alive from the killer’s flat, horrifying police with a tale of murder. Angelita was witness to how Enriqueta killed a kidnapped five-year-old boy called “Pepito” on the kitchen table of the flat. Her flat was in the 29, 1st floor of Ponent Street (today Carrer de Joaquin) in El Raval.

But she had more flats in Barcelona, about three where she hid the remains of her victims or she stored them alive to be later used in her potions. In a Ponent Street flat the police found several human remains, jars with greasy and coagulated blood, bones, an ancient book of potions, and a notebook written by Enriqueta in Catalan with recipes and potions.

In the other flats skulls, and many types of bones were found, legs, hands, hair, ribs. As ultimately pieced together by authorities, Enriqueta’s local crimes claimed at least twelve victims. But it is thought there were more victims because she kidnapped, prostituted, and killed children over a twenty year time period. After murdering the children, she would boil their bodies down for use as prime ingredients (blood, fat, ground bone) in her expensive “love potions,” or potions to treat tuberculosis, syphilis, and other diseases.

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