During the first year after her 1912 marriage to a millionaire farmer, 47-year-old Ellen Etheridge poisoned four of his eight children. She attempted
Lady Killers: Ellen Etheridge
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Lady Killers: Mary Jane “Bricktop” Jackson
The photograph above depicts the notorious Storyville redlight district on New Orleans' Basin Street. Except for the saloon in the foreground, the res
Lady Killers: Bertha Gifford
At the turn of the 20th Century, Bertha Gifford was known as an angel of mercy in Catawissa, Missouri. Not until 1928 did authorities discover the nur
Lady Killers: Delphine LaLaurie
The volatile wife of a wealthy physician, Delphine LaLaurie tortured and killed slaves who displeased her. An 1834 fire at her New Orleans mansion rev
Lady Killers: Linda Burfield Hazzard
The first doctor in the U.S. to earn a medical degree as a “fasting specialist,” Linda Burfield Hazzard was so committed to proving her theories a
Lady Killers: Lyda Southard
A serial “black widow,” Lyda Southard married seven men in five states over the course of eight years. Between 1915 and 1920, four of her husbands
Lady Killers: Belle Gunness
Lizzie Borden may have been the most infamous of America’s female killers, but she certainly wasn’t the only woman to dispose of inconvenient fami