This is What a Misandrist Looks Like

For a long article on this case see: The Cross-Dressing Husband-Killing Syndicate Maven

FULL TEXT: Budapest, Saturday. – Since her divorce in 1907, Victoria Rieger became a man-hater. She adopted male guise, worked as a farm laborer and perpetually smoked a pipe. The masquerade was not suspected until she was arrested for murdering two farmers, at the behest of their faithless wives.

Rieger in each case lassooed her victim, hoisted him to a beam in the barn and left him to die. Then she collected the reward of two bottles of wine and 5/ [5 shillings].

She was to-day sentenced to death, and the wives to long terms of imprisonment.

[“Manhater Murders Husbands.” syndicated, The Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania), Jan. 16, 1933, p. 1]

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