This
selection includes only those female serial killers who murdered at
least two husbands (including common-law husbands), or who murdered one
husband and unsuccessfully attempted to kill a second. Women who were
serial killers but among whose victims was only a single husband – a
category which includes a large number of cases – are not included. The
widows are presented chronologically under the date of arrest.
A
number of the following cases have not appeared in lists of serial
killers. Among these newly uncovered cases several are connected to
European husband-killing syndicates, a number of which are themselves
forgotten by historians of crime – until now.
Those
Black Widows on the following list who murdered four or more husbands
(17 cases known so far) will also be found collected together in a short
list called The Champion Black Widow Serial Killers
SEE: “Exciting careers in widowhood,” by Robert St. Estephe, A Voice for Men, Sep. 10, 2012
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As of May 21, 2013, this list has reached the
164 mark. It is expected to keep growing as old cases continue to be
rediscovered.
Peter Vronsky’s 1997 list of 140 female serial killers
includes 23 Black Widows: Barfield, Becker, Beets, Besnard, Buenoano, Cotton,
Dazley, Doss, Fazekas, Gottfried, Gunness, Kinne, Klimek, Lyles, Martin, de
Melker, Moore, Olah, Renczi, Sherman, Trueblood (Southard), Velten, Vermilya.
SEE: “Exciting careers in widowhood,” by Robert St. Estephe, A Voice for Men, Sep. 10, 2012
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42 BC (5 husbands)
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Mahaut de Bourgogne – France
1196 (4 husbands)
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940 (about 36
husbands)
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Mahaut de Bourgogne – France
1196 (4 husbands)
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Gesche Margarethe Gottfried - Germany
1827 (2 husbands & 13 others)
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1827 (2 husbands & 13 others)
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1840 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1843 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1846 (2 husbands)
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1850 (2 husbands & 4 others)
1860 (2 husbands & 7 others)
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1869 (4 husbands)
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1873 (3 husbands & 12-17 others)
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1874 (2 husbands)
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1875 (2 husbands
& 1 other)
1878 (3 husbands)
1881 (2 husbands)
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1882 (2 husbands & 26 others)
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1883 (2 husbands
& others)
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1884 (3 husbands & 1 other)
1886 (4 husbands)
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1886 (2 husbands (1 survived) & 1 other)
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1888 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1888 (2 husbands)
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1891 (4 husbands)
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1893 (3 husbands (possibly) & 5 others)
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1894 (2 husbands & 4 others)
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1894 (2 husbands)
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1899 (2 husbands)
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1899 (2 husbands)
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1899 (4 husbands)
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1899 (2 husbands)
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Late-19th century (2 husbands & 4 others)
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1903 (2 husbands)
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1903 (5 husbands (1 survived))
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1904 (3 Husbands)
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1905 (4 “lovers”)
1908 (2 husbands & dozens of fiancés)
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1911 (2 (or 3) husbands)
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Louise Vermilya – USA
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Louise Vermilya – USA
1911 (2 husbands
& 7 others)
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1912 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1912 (2 husbands & 3 others)
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1912 (4 husbands & 5 others)
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1912 (2 husbands)
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1914 (2 husbands
& 1 paramour)
1917 (2 husbands & 2 others)
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1921 (3 husbands, 1
survived)
1921 (4 husbands)
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1922 (2 husbands & 1 other)
1923 (4 husbands & 9 others & 6 survivors)
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1923 – (6 husbands)
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1924 (2 husbands (1 survived) & 4 others)
1924 (3 husbands)
1924 (2 husbands & 1 possible survivor husband)
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1928 (3 husbands & 1 other)
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Mme. Tamara – Greece
1928 (3 husbands, or more)
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Mme. Tamara – Greece
1928 (3 husbands, or more)
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1929 (3 husbands)
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1929 (2 husbands & dozens of others)
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Agnes Bittner – Czechoslovakia
1930 (2 husbands & 5 lovers)
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Maria Varga – Hungary
1930 (2 husbands & 5 others)
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1930 (2 husbands & 1 other)
***Agnes Bittner – Czechoslovakia
1930 (2 husbands & 5 lovers)
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1930 (2 husbands & 5 others)
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1931 (5 husbands & 14 others)
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1932 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1932 (2 husbands)
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1936 (2 husbands, 9 others & 5 survivors)
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1938 (2 husbands (1 survived))
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1939 (3 husbands)
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1939 (3 husbands)
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1939 (2 husbands (1 survived) & 1 other)
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1943 (3 husbands
& 2 others)
1948 (2 husbands)
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1949 (2 husbands & 11 others)
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1949 (2 husbands & 3 others)
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1950 (2 husbands)
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1952 (3 husbands
& 9 others)
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1952 (2 husbands)
1954 (4 husbands & 7 others)
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Mary Elizabeth Wilson - England
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1956 (2 husbands & 4 others)
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1957 (2 husbands)
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1957 (3 husbands & 1 other)
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Anjette Lyles - USA
1958 (2 husbands & 2 others)
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1958 (2 husbands & 2 others)
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1962 (3 husbands)
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1962 (2 husbands)
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1967 (2 husbands
& 7 children)
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Frances Beasley
Truesdale – USA
1992 (2 husbands)
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1975 (2 husbands, 1
survived)
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Caroline Snoddy – USA
1975 (2 husbands)
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1976 (2 husbands)
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1978 (2 husbands & 4 others)
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1979 (2 husbands)
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1980 (2 husbands
& 1 other)
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Pauline Rogers - USA
1982 (2 husbands, 1 survived)
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Shirley Elizabeth Allen - USA
1982 (3 husbands; 1 survived)
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1982 (2 husbands, 1 survived)
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1983 (2 husbands & 3 others)
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1983 (4 husbands (1 survived) & 1 other)
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1985 (3 husbands & 200 others)
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1985 (5 husbands)
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1987 (2 husbands)
Hazel Allison - USA
1988 (2 husbands)
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Sharon Lynn Nelson (Harrelson)
– USA
1988 (2 husbands)
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1988 (2 husbands)
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1988? (2 husbands)
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1989 (“multiple husbands” & others)
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Sylvia Ipock White – USA
1992 (2 husbands
& 1 other)
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Jill Coit – USA
1993 (2 husbands)
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Terri Gilbert – USA
1996 (2 husbands)
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Della Sutorius – USA
1996 (1 husbands; 1 surv.; others threatened)
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Cynthia Phillips –
USA
1998 (2 husbands
& 1 boyfriend)
2001 (3 husbands)
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Dena Thompson –
England
2001 (2 husbands; 1
survived)
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2002 (2 husbands)
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Raynella Dossett Leath – USA
2003 (2 husbands)
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Sonia Rios – USA
2006 (2 husbands)
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2007 (2 husbands, 1 other (survived))
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Lydia L. – Germany
2007 (1 husband & 3 boyfriends)
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2007 (2 Husbands & 1 other)
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2008 (husband,
boyfriend)
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Betty Neumar - USA
2008 (5 husbands)
2008 (5 husbands)
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2009 (2 husbands)
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2009 (7 men, "personals")
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Goidsargi Estibaliz
'Esti' Carranza – Austria
2011 (1 husband &
1 “boyfriend”)
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2011 (2 husbands)
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2012 (2 husbands
(suspected))
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Catherine Symanowski – USA
2012 (1 husband & 1 surv. boyfriend, shot 6 times)
2012 (1 husband & 1 surv. boyfriend, shot 6 times)
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2012 (2 husbands
& 2 who survived)
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Esneda Ruiz Cataño – Colombia
2013 (3 husbands)
2013 (3 husbands)
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2013 (2 husbands)
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►►BLACK WIDOW SERIAL KILLERS
CATEGORIZED
►Weapons, Poisons & Methods
Antifreeze – Shirley Allen, Stacy Castor, Julia Lynn Turner
Axe – Belle Gunness, Lizzie Halliday
Beat to death – Linda Lou Charbonneau, Ulisa Chavers
Carbon Monoxide – Cynthia Phillips, Kanae Kijima
Drown – Kanae Kijima, EmilseYulima Emilsen Rojas Castaño
Fireplace poker – Ann Gates
Gunshot (handgun
unless otherwise noted) – "Broncho Lou" (Mrs. Yankers), Minnie Cummings, Jane Taylor Quinn, Mary T. Godau,
Euphemia Mondich, Alma McClaney (Theede), Margie Zeglen, Nannie Doss, Betty Lou
Beets, Sharon Kinne, Betty Lou Beets, Carrie Allen, Ann Gates, Hazel Allison
(shotgun), Cynthia Phillips, Barbara Stager, Sandra Bridewell, Geraldine
Parrish, Sylvia Ipock White, Jill Coit, Terri Gilbert, Cynthia Phillips,
Josephine Gray, Raynella Leath, Sonia Rios, Betty Newmar, Miriam Helmick,
Goidsargi Estibaliz 'Esti' Carranza, Amy Herrera, Catherine Symanowski (rifle,
handgun), Colleen Ann Harris, Della Sutorius
Knife – Sienna Engelbredht, Mary Lou Martin, Esneda Ruiz Cataño, Mme. Tamara
Poison (arsenic unless otherwise noted) – Gesche Margarethe
Gottfried (arsenic), Hannah Hanson Kinney, Sarah Dazley, Mrs. Van
Valkenbugh, Madame Segard, Mary McKnight (strychnine), Elizabeth P. McCraney,
“Gardiner, Maine Black Widow,” Lydia Sherman, Catherine Batchelor, Mary Ann
Cotton, Brigitte Burckel, Sallie Hardman (Gibbs), Mrs. Gossau, Kathi Lyukas,
Mrs. Christian, Angenette B. S. Haight, “Varanda, Hungary Black Widow,
“Silesian Black Widow,” Louisa Collins, Martha Johnson, Mrs. John Dorsey, Caroline
Sorgenfrie (Paris green), Kate Painter, Ann Miniver Davis, Olive Sternaman,
Mrs. Camfield (aconite and acotine), Lulu Johnson, Marie Nicodem, Lisa Triku,
Jerinia, Zsimcsa, Sultana Pongyan Juchi Jamela, Caroline Pryzgodda, Malvina
Roeste, (rose bay leaves), “Knez Four-Time Black Widow,” Louise Vermilya,
Louisa Lindloff, Frieda Trost, Amy Archer-Gilligan, Annie Monahan, Anna
Tomaskiewicz, Frau Buchmann, Madame Pitiot, Lydia Trueblood Southard, Clara
Carl, “Cleveland Black Widow,” Tillie Klimek, Annie Hauptrief, Annora
Yeoman, Vera Renczi, Laura Christy, Elsie Bible Malinsky, Nora Edwards, Julia
Fazekas, Suzi Olah, Maria Aszendi, Agnes Bittner (?), Maria Varga, Margaret
Summers, Daisy de Melker (strychnine), Marie Becker, Florence Peters, Rose
Carina, Victoria Lefebvre, Anna Louise Sullivan, Helen Moeller, Marguerite
D’Andurian, Josefa Idler, Marie Besnard, Marie
Jeanbracq (digitalis), Bessie Lee Cunningham,
Roberta Elder, Yvonne Fletcher, Rhonda Belle Martin, Anjette Donovan Lyles,
Bessie Folse Toups, Mrs. Elmer Stone Conyers, Velma Barfield, Ada Wittenmyer, LaVerne O’Bryan (horse tonic), Shirley
Allen, Pauline Rogers, Maria Velten, Judias Buenoano, Blanche Taylor Moore, Raynella Leath
(morphine), Kanae Kijima (medicines), Melissa Friedrich (Weeks) (drugs)
Suffocate – Lydia L.
Torture to Death –“Brazilian Black Widow”
►Miscellaneous
“Accidental” Death – Sharon Kinne, Sharon Lynn Nelson
(Harrelson), Natthakan Anaman (drugged, auto wreck), Raynella Leath (morphine,
supposedly trampled by cattle), EmilseYulima Emilsen Rojas Castaño
Advertising (lonely hearts) – Belle Gunness, Marie Krueger,
Nannie Doss, Ada Wittenmyer, Lydia L., Kanae
Kijima, EmilseYulima Emilsen Rojas Castaño?
Dismemberment – Marie Vere Goold, Ulisa Chavers, Goidsargi
Estibaliz 'Esti' Carranza (with chainsaw)
Escape from Prison or Fugitive – Lydia Trueblood Southard,
Sandra Bridewell, Sharon Kinne, Goidsargi Estibaliz 'Esti' Carranza
Execution of
perpetrator – Gesche Margarethe Gottfried (arsenic), Sarah Dazley, Mrs. Van
Valkenbugh, Madame Segard, Rhonda Belle Martin, Velma Barfield, Judias
Buenoano, Betty Lou Beets
Fake Suicide –Raynella Leath, Miriam Helmick, Kanae Kijima, Amy Herrera
Incineration – Madame Tamara
Married in prison – “Brazilian Black Widow”
Occult – Louisa Lindloff, Frieda Trost, Madame Tamara,
Anjette Donovan Lyles, Josephine Gray,
Geraldine Parrish,
Proxy – Mrs. Gossau (leap-frog), Euphemia Mondich
(leap-frog), Sharon Nelson (Harrelson), Geraldine Parrish, Gray (leap-frog),
Esneda Ruiz Cataño, Cynthia Phillips, Geraldine Parrish, Sylvia Ipock White,
Jill Coit, Cynthia Phillips (attempts), Linda Lou Charbonneau, Josephine Gray,
Sonia Rios,
Suicide of perpetrator – Louise Vermilyea, Marie Torosian,
Annie Hauptrief, Julia Fazekas, Suzi Olah, Julia Lynn Turner, Josefa Idler, Ada Wittenmyer, Catherine Symanowski
Trophy cadaver
accumulation – Vera Renczi
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