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Alice Cheatwood, “Allotment Annie” War Bride Hoaxer – Pennsylvania, 1945
FULL TEXT: Philadelphia. Morris Segal, 34, a discharged Army veteran whose blonde wife Alice hailed him into court on a bigamy charge, turned the tables on her so fast that the furniture is still...
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Martha Elizabeth Downey, “Allotment Annie” War Bride Fraudster – California,...
FULL TEXT: “I have four husbands and I want to give myself up,” a 22-year-old brunette said to Det. Lt. William C. Shurley early yesterday at Seventh and San Pedro Sts. The woman, Martha Elizabeth...
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Bette Lee Richards Bowman, “Allotment” Annie War Bride Fraudster –...
FULL TEXT: A three way matrimonial parlay with a Marine, a Coast Guardsman, and Navy sailor resulted yesterday in charges of fraud against Betty Lee Richards, 2.Although she had three husbands, she...
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Mary Lou Llewelyn, “Allotment Annie” War Bride Fraudster – Pennsylvania, 1946
FULL TEXT: A 21-year-old girl arrested in Philadelphia for receiving servicemen’s allotment checks from two soldiers at the same time, is a former resident of this city, The Tribune has learned.She is...
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Pearl LeCourt, Youthful Poisoner – Massachusetts, 1891
FULL TEXT: Miss Pearl Le Court was, yesterday, at the Chelsea Police Court. remanded to jail without bail, charged with attempted murder at Revere, on Feb. 11.At the brief hearing she pleaded not...
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NOTE: Antoinette Sierri’s crimes were committed in the same region as another serial killer nurse, Rose Theyre. Both were prosecuted in the came court in...
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Doris Warner Knox, “Allotment Annie” War Bride Fraudster – Ohio, 1947
FULL TEXT: A 25-year-old former Dayton woman who “didn’t realize I had to divorce one husband before I married another” was given a year's probation in U. S. District Court Monday. Doris Warner Knox,...
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Hazel Dulcie Bodsworth, Serial Killer – Australia, 1965
BOOK ON THE CASEHazel Baron & Janet Fife-Yeomans, My Mother, a Serial Killer, HarperCollins / Australia Pty Ltd.March 19, 2018A gripping and shocking story of a serial killer mother, and the brave...
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Yuko Takahashi, Double Black Widow – Japan, 2007
FULL TEXT: Fukuoka — The Fukuoka District Court sentenced a former bar owner to life imprisonment Thursday as sought by prosecutors for killing her husband in 1994 and then her next spouse in 2000....
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Adelaide Reece, Serial Baby-Killer Child Care Provider – England, 1883
FULL TEXT: The prisoner Charles Reece, who is charged jointly with his wife, Adelaide Reece, with the willful murder of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, of New-street, Gloucester, surrendered...
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“Grandma Reed,” Suspected Serial Killer – New York, 2014
An unusual – and enlightening – article by Vice writer John Reed (not to be confused with the novelist of the same name), tells of his suspicions that his grandmother, aged 94 in 2014, might have been...
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Eugenia “Sweetlove” Moore, Black Widow Serial Killer – Ohio, 1987
FULL TEXT: Cleveland – A 67-year-old woman nicknamed “Sweetlove” who had already served time for killing two of her husbands has admitted to using a 5 ½-pound steel bar to beat to death her male...
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Queen Piea Waar, Cannibal Double Black Widow – Hermit Islands, 1896
FULL TEXT: The following is taken from a New York paper: – Any man who wants to be king of a cannibal island, and to rule over 2,000 dusky subjects, has only to go out to the St. John’s group of...
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Agripina Gomez, 15-Year-Old Would-Be Murderess – 1917, California
FULL TEXT: BECAUSE of doubt as to whether or not Agripina Gomez, 15 years old, who yesterday put carbolic acid in the coffee of her employer, is subnormal, Police Sergeant Leo Marden of the juvenile...
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Lois Thacker, Double Black Widow – Indiana, 1984
FULL TEXT: Paoli, Ind. – Authorities charged a woman during the weekend in the ambush killing of her second husband and reopened an investigation of her first husband’s death.Orange County Prosecutor...
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Betty Rowland, Executed Husband-Killer, Suspected of Two Other...
Betty Rowland was prosecuted for the murder of her husband, William Rowland (50). At her trial is was disclosed that she had been long been suspected of murdering two previous husbands by...
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Marie Knauer, Suspected Black Widow Serial Killer – California, 1903
FULL TEXT: San Francisco, Oct. 7. —The suit contesting the $60,000 estate left by Ferdinand Knauer, to his wife Marie, has developed some startling charges. The story of Mrs. Knauer's life as told in...
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Janet Smith, Suspected Black Widow Serial Killer – Florida & Arkansas, 2003
Janet Smith, a breeder of Chihuahua dogs, died at the age of 71 in 2013. By the time she was criminally charged in 2003 she had seven husbands and two fiancés. She was suspected of murdering one...
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Manuela Gonzalez Cano, Black Widow Serial Killer – France, 2008
Manuela Gonzalez Cano, nicknamed, "the black widow of Isère," was charged in 2014 with murdering her husband Daniel Cano in 2008. On September 28, 2008, a fire broke out in the middle of the night...
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Greenland Double Black Widow – 1990s
This is a place-holder post, awaiting completion. The woman described is, presumably, Inuit.***Gretel Ehrlich, This Cold Heaven, Pantheon, 2001 – Publisher’s promotional copy: Ehrlich also relates...
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