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Lady Killers: Ellen Etheridge

Lady Killers: Ellen Etheridge

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

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Lady Killers: Mary Jane “Bricktop” Jackson

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

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Lady Killers: Bertha Gifford

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

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Lady Killers: Delphine LaLaurie

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

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Lady Killers: Linda Burfield Hazzard

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

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Lady Killers: Lyda Southard

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

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Lady Killers: Belle Gunness

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

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