FULL TEXT: Mrs. Frona McMahon, only 34 years old, has begun her sentence of three years for killing her husband, Dave McMahon, in Haywood county last August. She has had six matrimonial experience, three of her husbands dying under suspicious circumstances, three of her husbands dying under suspicious circumstances, and three abandoned her.
[Untitled, The State Journal (Raleigh, N. C.), Feb. 25, 1916, p. 6]
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FULL TEXT: Durham, N. C., March 3. – Mrs. Frona McMahon of Haywood county went once too often to the altar. As a result of the death of her sixth spouse she started a three-year term in the state penitentiary for manslaughter, pleading guilty after a jury failed to agree in a fifty-three-hour session.
Mrs. McMahon is 34. she was first married when 16. the first died suddenly, the second eloped, the third died suddenly, the fourth and fifth eloped and the sixth, Dave McMahon, she shot.
[“Admits Killing Husband – Woman Goes to Prison After Disposing of Her Sixt Spouse,” Fitchburg Daily Sentinel (Ma.), Mar. 3, 1916, p. 8]
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For links to other cases of woman who murdered 2 or more husbands (or paramours), see Black Widow Serial Killers.
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