Three skeletons, mostly female, were unearthed from an archeological site in 1985 in the southwest town of Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, France.Today, researchers suspect that these women could have been part of a ritualistic killing in conjunction with the solstice due to the location of the burial pit, which study authors say resembled a silo. According to CNN, an investigation of the remains reveals a style of torture often associated with the Italian Mafias,  called “incaprettamento,” where a person’s ankles and throat are tied resulting in strangulation and death. Two of the three women were also believed to be bound together and buried alive, while the latter was buried in the same grave but distinctly separate.