French sisters Léa and Christine Papin worked as live-in servants for the Lancelin family in France in 1926. They were quiet and reserved. They did their work efficiently and lived with the family for almost seven years. Then, one night in February 1933, they snapped and brutally murdered their employers. Mr. Lancelin, who had been waiting for his wife at a friend’s house, came home to find her and their adult daughter dead on the floor in a pool of blood. Their eyes had been gouged out and faces smashed in. The Papin sisters were locked in their room and after getting a locksmith to open the door, the police found them lying on the bed together with a bloody hammer nearby. The Papin sisters immediately confessed to the crimes. While in prison, Christine became very distressed from being away from her sister and eventually suffered a mental breakdown. She tried to gouge out her own eyes and died in an asylum in 1937. Léa was eventually released from prison in 1943 and managed to get a job at a French hotel under a new identity. She died in 1982