HUSBAND-KILLING
SYNDICATES: The vast majority of victims of these conspiracies were
husbands, yet some were wives or other family members, including
children.
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Among
the cases listed below you will find news reports with such headlines
as “Husband Poisoning by Wholesale” (1882), “Ten Husband Poisoners”
(1890), “A New Business; Husband Poisoning on the Scale of a Commercial
Enterprise” (1891), “Killing Off Husbands” (1895), “Epidemic of
Poisoning in Hungary; Eighteen Men Killed” (1901), “Women Formed Club to
Murder Husbands” (1903), “Woman Kills 300 At Wives’ Behest” (1909),
“Exterminating Husbands” (1911), “Wanted to Be Widows So They Hanged
Their Husbands” (1933), “Used Fly Paper to Kill Husbands” (1935), “How
Wives Gained Power by Mass Murder of Husbands” (1937).
Leaders: Hyeronyma Spara, Gratiosa, La Toffania; Spara, Gratiosa & 12 other hanged in 1659
Method: liquid poison called "Tifana water"
Victims: over 700
Leader: Giovanna Bonanno; executed Jul. 30, 1789
Method:
poison, a misture of spring water, white wine and arsenic, intended to
kill lice, purchased from apothecary then resold; 3 stages of dosage
Victims: 6 confirmed (4 men, 2 women), many more suspected
1868: FRANCE - Marseilles
Victims: 6 confirmed (4 men, 2 women), many more suspected
60 women hanged for poisoning husbands with arsenic
1868: FRANCE - Marseilles
Leader: Monsieur Joye, herbalist
Method : arsenic
Victims : 3 husbands whose wives purchased poison from Joye
Leaders: Thekla Popov, active more than two years (1880-1882), Anna Minity, Sophia Ivanovitch;
over 100 women implicated; court cases continued into at least 1889
Method: bottles of "red liquid poison" priced at 50-100 florins
Victims: over 100
over 100 women implicated; court cases continued into at least 1889
Method: bottles of "red liquid poison" priced at 50-100 florins
Victims: over 100
1882: HUNGARY - Szerdaltely, Melencsze, Grossbecskerek (Gross Bedshereh) (or Stein-am-Anger")
Leader:
Kathi Lyukas (or "Kate Nagy"), murder two of her own husbands; Lyukas confessed to 6
other murders (20 other deaths suspected to be caused by her); Lyukas
was hanged Nov. 30, 1882
Method: arsenic baked into little cakes
Method: arsenic baked into little cakes
Victims: convicted of 26 murders
Leader: Makrena Stankovic; deaths occurred in 1880, 1883, 1884, 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1888
Accomplice: Milika Plavsic, aided 2 husband-killers
Method:
Poisoned with arsenic derived from fly-paper cooked into christening
cakes served on christening day to the father; elsewhere reported as
poisonous spiders in dumplings
Victims: more than 10
1891: HUNGARY - Szentlamas (Szent Tamas), in Neusatz
Leader: Esther Sarac (“witch or herbalist”); 10 women
arrested
Method: arsenic
extracted from flypaper
Victims: 60
estimated, over a period of 10 years
1891: HUNGARY - Szentlamas (Szent Tamas), in Neusatz
Leaders: Frau Kernaez, Frau Kurjakow, Frau Rivnicski
Method: arsenic
Victims: 10
Method: arsenic
Victims: 10
Leader: Maria Hevesy; was paid 100 florins for arranging murder
Method: Ex-con hired to carry out murders
Victims: multiple married men
Method: Ex-con hired to carry out murders
Victims: multiple married men
Leader: Mari Azalai Jager
Accomplices: "a band of poisoners" 3 men & 2 women (including Gulyas Kis-Samuel, male)
Accomplices: "a band of poisoners" 3 men & 2 women (including Gulyas Kis-Samuel, male)
Method: Three poisons, belladonna, arsenic and chloride of mercury
Jul.
24, 1897, Budapest: Trial of 12 women & 2 men; 4 sentenced to
death; 1 to life in prison (man who killed his mother); 1 to 6 years in
prison
Victims: estimated at over 100
Leaders: George Korin, apothecary, ringleader, and Dr. Johann Mayer, village physician
Method: arsenic
Method: arsenic
Victims: 14
Leader: Petar the Magician
Method: poisoned brandy
Victims: 18 men
Leader: Coroner Hanusch, formed a "club" of wives who wished their husbands dead.
Method: poison supplied by the coroner, who would certify victim died of heart disease
Victims: at least 6 husbands
1905: HUNGARY – Czongrad (Csongrad)
Method: poison supplied by the coroner, who would certify victim died of heart disease
Victims: at least 6 husbands
1905: HUNGARY – Czongrad (Csongrad)
Leaders: Female poison-maker and a group of women (names currently unavailable)
Method: poison
Victims: husbands and wives, including a couple who each bought poison to murder one another
Method: poison
Victims: husbands and wives, including a couple who each bought poison to murder one another
Leader: Balapa
(reputed witch)
Customers: Women who wished to kill husbands or infants
Method: poison
Victims: 6 men;
20 infants
Leader: Martha Petromany, Frau Hazyok
Merthod: arsenic, sold for $4.50 per portion
Victims: 25 bodies exhumed; Catherine Biber murdered 3; an unnamed widow murdered 4 husbands consecutively
Victims: 25 bodies exhumed; Catherine Biber murdered 3; an unnamed widow murdered 4 husbands consecutively
Leader: Madame Popova; claimed all victims were husbands who had abused their wives
Method: poison in food or drink placed there directly by Madame Popova
Victims: 300 (all husbands)
Victims: 300 (all husbands)
Leader: Maria Gerzan, professional nurse
Accomplice: Levai, murdered husband
Method: poison, claimed to be for killing vegetable parasites
Method: poison, claimed to be for killing vegetable parasites
Victims: all were married men
Leader: Frau Kapruczan, murdered her first 4 husbands, 5th alive at time of arrest; 5 other women arrested
Victims: 9 men (including leader's 4 husbands)
The “Lucretia Club,” a charitable organization was dedicated to sharing information about husband-murdering techniques
Leaders: 6 women (names presently unavailable)
Method: poison
Method: poison
Victims: 2 confirmed, 4 others investigated
Leaders: Júlia Fazekas (murdered 2 of her own husbands), Balint Chordas, (“Czordas”), and Susi Oláh (murdered 2 of her own husbands)
Method: arsenic extracted from fly-paper, rat poison containing arsenic, toadstools.
Victims: estimates vary from 30 to 100.
1935: HUNGARY – Debreczen
Leader: Anuja de Poshonja (Anna Pistova)
Method: "vegetable poisoning"
Method: "vegetable poisoning"
Victims: 13, all husbands (in one account); 50 year career probably involved scores more
Leaders: Júlia Fazekas (murdered 2 of her own husbands), Balint Chordas, (“Czordas”), and Susi Oláh (murdered 2 of her own husbands)
Method: arsenic extracted from fly-paper, rat poison containing arsenic, toadstools.
Victims: estimates vary from 30 to 100.
Other female serial killers: Maria Varga, murdered 6 members of her family in
addition to two husbands; Maria Aszendi, Juliana Foeldvary, Maria Kardos, Julianne Lipka, Mrs.Louis Oser, Frau Palinka, Esther Szabo.
1930: HUNGARY – Fajsz
1930: HUNGARY – Fajsz
Leader: Name not discovered as yet
Arrests: 5 women arrested, 1 committed suicide
Method: Poison
Victims: 6 husbands
1931: CZECHOSLOVAKIA – Levice
Leader: Mme. Stanke; poisoned 3: husband, Julie Talinik, Mr. Talinik,
Arrested: Repisky (farmer), poisoned father in 1928; Victoria Szenesi, arrested
Method: poison
Victims: 6 known, others suspected to be discovered upon investigation
Leader: Viktoria Foedi Rieger, nicknamed “Smoking Peter.” She was a cross-dresser who passed as a man
Method: hanging arranged to simulate suicide
Victims: 22 suspected
1935: HUNGARY – Debreczen
Leader: Julianne Nagy
Method: arsenic extracted from boiled fly-paper
Victims: at least 11
Active: 1932-1938; “Arsenic Incorporated”
Sentencing: 2 executed; 12 life terms; 7 lesser sentences
Leaders: Morris (Evil Eye) Bolber, Paul Petrillo, Herman Petrillo, Horace D. Perlman.
Victims: over 100
“The Black Widow Gang”
Leader: José Adrián Henao Giraldo
Leader: José Adrián Henao Giraldo
Members: Luz Elena Carvajal Cataño, Suleyma Giraldo de
Zapata, Emilse Yulima Emilsen Rojas Castaño, Oliveryen Hincapie López.
Method: includes drowning:
Victims: 3 confirmed, 5 under investigation
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