Thursday, August 18, 2011

Mrs. Deaton, Kentucky Step-Mother from Hell - 1879


FULL TEXT: The wife of Martin Deaten, living near Manchester, Ky., murdered her step-daughter, aged 10, in a horrible manner, one day last week, and then carried her body to a field near by and reported that the girl had been trampled to death by a horse, a story which the character of her injuries belied.

[Untitled, The Athens Messenger (Oh.), Mar. 13, 1879, p. 1]

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For more examples, see Step-Mothers from Hell.

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