FULL TEXT: Mobile, Jan. 1. – Mrs. Mary T. Godau is in one
cell, her son. Willie Green, in another, and her daughter. Theresa Virginia
Wasserleben, is in still another at the county jail, charged with murder, the
victim being Fred Wasserleben, husband of the latter, and for some time a
member of the Mobile police department. The body in police uniform was found in
a pond uniform was found in a pond some distance from the house in Mohawk
avenue, where it had been hauled and thrown after the crime was committed on
Saturday night during a heavy rainfall. Inspection of the home after the crime
disclosed blood marks in the floor of the room the man had occupied and signs
of a struggle. In the bath room was found freshly washed clothes with
bloodstains, and beneath the house in a fresh made hole, bloody effects in
which the body had been wrapped before removal. Arrest of the three name
followed.
This morning Mrs. Godau confessed to killing her son-in-law,
claiming he tried to assault her in his room, and after she beat him off, he
fired at, but missed her. he then threw his pistol on the bed, and failing on
it, told her he didn’t care if she killed him. Seizing the weapon she fired a
bullet into his forehead. When the body fell on the floor she sent two other
bullet into his body. She then claimed, after her children had gone to bed, to
have tied a rope around the man’s neck, dragged the boy down stairs, placed it
in a wagon, carted it to the pond, and threw it in.
Returning, she tried to wash away the tell-tale blood
stains. Nine years ago Mrs. Godau’s husband was killed on a rainy night in his
home at Cottage Hill, and his body was found in a lot nearby. His life was
insured. A previous husband, Charles Stein, was mysteriously killed, as was a
son-in-law, all at the homes of Mrs. Godau. Wasserleben has $75,000 insurance.
It looks like a second Gunness farm tragedy.
[“Woman Conducts Murder Farm – Two Husbands and Two
Sons-in-Law Are Mysteriously Slain. – All Were Insured,” Trenton True American
(N.J.), Jan. 2, 1912, p. 2]
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For links to other cases of woman who murdered 2 or more husbands (or paramours), see Black Widow Serial Killers.
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