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Carrie Vandergrift, Suspected Serial Killer – New Jersey, 1890
NOTE: Carrie Vandergrift was convicted of poisoning a son whose illness raised suspicions and resulted in intervention which apparently saved his life. Circumstantial evidence pointed to the previous...
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Hazel Howe Spicer, Suspected Serial Killer Mom – Colorado, 1933
FULL TEXT: Kiowa, Colo., Jan. 22 – Mrs. Hazel Howe Spicer, 48-year-old farm wife, Sunday night confessed to Deputy District Attorney J. Nelson Truitt that she killed her 13-month-old daughter, Doris,...
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Anna Hlatky Murdered Two Sets of Twins – Pennsylvania, 1928
FULL TEXT: A signed confession admitting to smothering baby twins, whose skeletons were dug out recently in a chicken pen in the rear of the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Blatky, of McMahon street,...
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Diane Odell, Serial Baby-Killing Mom – New York, 2003
FULL TEXT: Monticello, N.Y. - Dianne Odell never planned to leave behind her three dead babies, whose discovery in an Arizona storage shed led to her murder conviction last month, nearly two decades...
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Bessey Binmore, Serial Baby-Killer – England, 1875
FULL TEXT: Mr. Charley asked the Home secretary whether his attention had been directed to the evidence adduced at the trial of a baby farmer, named Bessy Binmore, sentenced by Mr. Justice Lush at the...
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“Big Mary” : Suspected Serial Black Widow – Tennessee, 1857
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): An Irishwoman, known as “Big Mary” has been arrested in Mobile, Alabama [sic: error], suspected of having murdered four husbands – the last on the 18th ult. She has been...
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Mrs. Frey, Suspected Double Black Widow – Pennsylvania, 1847
FULL TEXT: We learn from the Cumberland Mountaineer that a foul murder was committed by a woman upon the person of her husband, some few days ago. The woman is the same identical Mrs. Frey, who was...
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Anna Neumann von Wasserleonburg – Legendary Serial Black Widow – Austria,...
NOTE: Anna Neumanin, alternatively.***FULL TEXT: Noetsch, Austria – Memoirs of a lady bluebeard lie deep about the castle of the Duke of Windsor chose for his honeymoon home.Neighboring peasants call...
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The “White Witch,” Rose Palmer, Legendary Serial Black Widow - Jamaica, Late...
The name of Annie Palmer may have become confused with Rosa Palmer, the original mistress of Rose Hall who did have four husbands but was said to be unwaveringly virtuous.***FULL TEXT: Montego Bay –...
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Bertha Courtmanche, Mass-Murderess of Babies – Canada, 1918
FULL TEXT: Montreal, Sept. 19. - The disastrous fire of the Grey Nunnery on February 14 last, in which 65 victims were burned to death, was purposely caused by a female orderly of the Institution,...
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Augusta Nack, Serial Baby-Killer – New York, 1897
The Nack case involved a sensational murder mystery – featuring a headless body – followed by a sensational trial. Augusta Nack was convicted as accomplice in murder of William Guldensuppe. But there...
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Lavinia Fisher, Legendary Serial Killer – South Carolina, 1820
A legend, which has no documentary support, has it that Lavinia Fisher is The US’s first female serial killer.***WIKIPEDIA: Lavinia Fisher (1793 – February 18, 1820) is reported by some legends to have...
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Jane Shusko, 15-Year-Old Mass-Murderess – New York, 1959
FULL TEXT: Elmira, N. Y., July 12 – An attractive 15-year-old high school girl told police today that she deliberately set a fire which killed her brother and six sisters last night.Police said...
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Diana “Toots” Allen, 13-Year-Old “Urge”-Killer Tom Boy – Illinois, 1949
CHRONOLOGYApr. 30, 1949 – murder of Charles.May 5, 1949 – Diana interviewed by Deputy Sheriff.May 6, 1949 – Diana charged.Sep. 28, 1949 – trial begins.Sep. 29, 1949 – ruled insane at time of killing....
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Sandra Knowlton, 14-Year-Old Murderess – Maine, 1958
FULL TEXT: Lewiston, Maine – A sullen, teen-age girl pleaded innocent Tuesday to killing a Lewiston policeman. Held for a grand jury, the dungaree-clad girl later was ordered committed to a mental...
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Diane Daye Humphries, 16-Year-Old Murderess – Texas, 1958
FULL TEXT: Houston, Tex. – The routine of everyday living closed in on Diana Daye Humphries yesterday and to escape the boredom she ambushed and killed her 14 year old brother, Robert D. Humphries,...
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Jane Dakin, 17-Year-Old Murderess – Wisconsin, 1958
CHRONOLOGYDec. 1, 1958 – Jane Dakin murders parents.Jun. 15, 1959 – JD declared sane by one expert.Jun. 17, 1959 – verdict: insane, Dr. Francis J. Millen; Mauston circuit court. Judge Bruce...
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Mary Wolf, 17-Year-Old Murderess – New York, 1940
FULL TEXT: Niagara Falls (N.Y.), Set. 5 – Hushed and frightened, her own life now at stake, a comely high school girl today found herself the center of inexorable legal processes as the thrill slayer...
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Evelyn Ruth Hanson, 7-Year-Old Murderess – Canada, 1917
FULL TEXT: After causing death of her four-year-old brother by cruel treatment during fits of morbid jealousy. Evelyn Ruth Hanson, aged seven, daughter of Oswald Hanson, a farmer living eight miles...
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Dorothy Perkins, 17-Year-Old Murderess – New York, 1925
FULL TEXT: ~ Defendant Surprised at Severity of Verdict. ~Although Judge Mclntyre, before whom Dorothy Perkins was tried, intimated that a verdict of murder in the first degree would hardly be to his...
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