1854 – Marie
(Gautherot) Gagey – Arnay-sous-Vitteaux, France
Convicted of 5 murders; robbed lodgers.
1872 – Mary Ann Cotton – West Auckland, Durham England
One roomer murdered, among many other murders.
1884 – Catherine Flannigan & Margaret Higgins – Liverpool, England
1906 – Bridget Carey – Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA
Suspected of poisoning 8 persons, with one surviving; 2 of
the dead were boarders: James Carey, brother-in-law, and boarder, died (date?);
Cecilia (Celia) Cook, boarder, died Aug. 13, 1906.
1907 – Ernestine Feige – Grunau Hirschberg, Silesia
“Frau Ernestine Feige of Grunau Hirschberg in the Silesian
Mountains has been condemned to death for poisoning a man named Janitschek and
a woman named Brueckner who had lived with her as lodgers in the years 1903 and
1906.” There were 4 other deaths attributed to poisoning.
1912 – Mary Lucas – Lansing, Michigan, USA
1 murder confessed; suspected of murdering a husband and a
male lodger.
1917 – Amy Archer-Gilligan – Windsor, Connecticut, USA
“While Mrs. Gilligan was tried on one count only, the
indictments returned against her by the grand jury charged that she had
poisoned to death four other inmates of the Archer home had died under peculiar
circumstances during a period of several years. Her motive, the state set up,
was to profit on life contracts she had made with inmates, whereby she agreed
to provide a comfortable home for them during the remainder of their lives for
a specified sum, generally $1,000.”
10 lodgers died. One was apparently pushed off a ladder to
his death because he had not died from poison which had secretly been given to
him.
1931 – “Youngstown Suspected Female Serial Killer” – Youngstown, Ohio, USA
Suspected of murdering 2 boarders plus 4 others. The
prosecutor had claimed he had a strong case, yet it never went forward.
1931 – Margaret Summers – Chicago, Illinois, USA
Several insured lodgers survived; 19 total murders
suspected; 2 lodgers murdered.
1938 – Martha Marek – Vienna, Austria
4 murders; one lodger murdered
1946 – Marjorie Coleman – Camperdown, Australia
3 victims, boarders; charges dropped
1984 – Emily Lynette Kirby Bell – Alexandria, Louisiana, USA
1988 – Dorothy Puente – Sacramento, California, USA
1988 – Dorothy Puente – Sacramento, California, USA
Up to 27 murders suspected. 9 tenants known to have been
murdered: Ruth Munbroe, 61; Everson Gillmouth, 77; Alvaro “Bert” Montoya, 51;
Dorothy Miller, 64; Benjamin Fink, 55; Betty Palmer, 78; Leon Carpenter, 78;
James Gallop, 62; Vera Faye Martin, 64.
2003 – Michelle Knotek – South Bend, Washington, USA
“A man accused of taking part in the torture deaths of three
people was sentenced yesterday to just under 15 years in prison. David Knotek
of Raymond earlier pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting death
of his step-nephew, Shane Watson, as well as unlawful disposal of human remains
and rendering criminal assistance. Knotek and his wife, Michelle Knotek, were
accused in the deaths of Watson and two people who once boarded at their home
in rural Pacific County. Michelle Knotek was sentenced last week in Pacific
County Superior Court to more than 22 years in prison.” [“Man sent to prison
for role in torture deaths,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Wa.), Aug. 26, 2004]
2008 – Rachel Baker & Leigh Baker – Butleigh, Somerset, England
Rachel Baker, owner of an old age home who was investigated
for 7 deaths and tried for one of these, resulting in a manslaughter
conviction. The husband was acquitted.
2015 – Tamara Samsonova – St. Petersburg, Russia – The “Granny Ripper”
Arrested July 27, 2015, she kept a diary of her deeds. She
is suspected of up to 14 murders, all of them involving dismemberment of the
victims’ bodies, the parts of which were distributed throughout St. Petersburg.
The final victim was dismembered while still alive. Internal organs were
removed from bodies and it is suspected Samsonova may have eaten these parts,
particularly lungs. She has confessed, so far, to murdering two persons, a
friend and a tenant. The investigation continues.
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