According to criminal charges filed in June 21, 2013, Diane Staudte (51), of Springfield, Missouri confessed to poisoning three family members with anti-freeze. Yet Mrs. Staudte had good reasons for her homicidal house-cleaning campaign.
The serial poisoner told detectives that she chose to
terminate the life of her husband Mark because she “hated him.” Her son Shawn
deserved to die because he was “worse
than a pest.” Daughter Sarah, who survived the attempt on her life, barely, was
deemed not fit to live because she “would not get a job and had student loans
that had to be paid.”
At first, this killer mom attempted to cover up daughter
Rachel’s role as an accessory. Yet ultimately Rachel (22), was revealed to have
planned and executed the crimes in tandem with her malicious mother.
Antifreeze was the poison of choice.
Antifreeze was the poison of choice.
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►ANTIFREEZE
Antifreeze seems to becoming a bit of a trend
among homicide addicts of the fair gender.
Julia Lynn Turner, of Marietta, Georgia, used
antifreeze to murder two partners. In 1995, she killed husband Maurice
Glenn Turner, age 31. On January 22, 2001, she killed her boyfriend, Randy
Thompson, age 32, father of a child conceived while married to her first
victim.
Stacey Castor of Clay, New York, was convicted in 2009 of
killing a husband and a brother, and attempting to murder a daughter using
antifreeze, and idea she got from watching a TV news report on the Turner
case. Her husband was sitting beside her watching as she gained her antifreeze
inspiration.
She killed second husband David Castor, using antifreeze, in 2005. The murderess tried, unsuccessfully,
to pin the guilt for the two successful murders on her third targeted victim,
daughter Ashley Wallace, who had been very close to her deceased father. But
Amy survived the antifreeze and the fake suicide note created by her mother
became damning evidence against the poisoner.
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VICTIMS:
Died:
Mark Staudte, 61, Diane’s husband, died April 2012
Shawn Staudte, 26, Diane’s son, died September 2012
Survived:
Sarah Staudte, 24, Diane’s daughter, survived June 2013
poisoning
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Diane Staudte is far from being the first female serial
killer who enlist one of their adult children as accomplices in their repeat
homicides. The following cases are examples of murder-coaching moms: Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano (1892, Mexico),
Ivanova Tamarin (1909, Russia), Rose Veres (USA, 192), Mary Eleanor Smith
(1938, USA), Leonarda Cianciulli (1941, Italy), Silvia Meraz (2012, Mexico).
Among these murderous moms are two cannibals, one sadistic sex offender and two cannibals and a
human-sacrifice cult leader on the list.
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Fun!
ReplyDeleteRachel would be kinda hot if she'd do something with her hair clothes and some makeup😂
ReplyDeleteShe's a cutie. But cuties can kill too. That's unfortunate, because it's a waste of a cutie. She deserves her sentence and then some.
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