FULL TEXT: WALTON, N. Y. – A 5-year- old girl clubbed her
younger sister to death with a toilet-seat cover less than a month after the
younger child had been found crammed in an earthenware crock, a district
attorney says.
Dist. Atty. Richard Farley said Patricia Kirk may have been
jealous of her 2 ½ -year-old sister, Lois, or have held a grievance against
her. Lois' crying often annoyed Patricia, he said.
Lois died in a hospital Sunday, nine hours after her parents
found her unconscious in a bed she shared with Patricia and a brother, Wesley 3
½, in the family’s trailer home in this Catskills mountain community.
Patricia admitted hitting Lois on the head with a
toilet-seat covers he called it "a pretty stick" sometime between 11
p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday, Farley said.
On July 18, he said, Patricia apparently took Lois from the
trailer to a nearby shed and either placed or helped her into a 20-gallon
crock. When Lois was found by a neighbor about two hours later, her head was
covered with blankets and a suitcase. The district attorney said Patricia had a
"wild imagination," and was "very mixed up emotionally."
The child seldom talked to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley
Kirk, and would confide only in her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Ezra Burgher of
Oneonta. with whom she now is staying, Farley said.
Dr. Harry Wilbur, Delaware County coroner, ruled the death a
homicide.
[“Girl Kills Sister With Toilet Seat,” Madisonville
Messenger (Ky.), Aug. 9, 1961, P. 8]
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A mentally disturbed 5 year old child tragically killed her younger sibling.
ReplyDeleteHow does this translate into her being a "female serial killer"? Do you even know the definition of serial killer? Why do you have an entire section devoted to "female" killers but not male perpetrators? And why write about (female) crime if you don't even know the basic definitions??
You are seriously warped, dude. But thankfully nobody reads here so I guess it doesn't really matter.
Oh dear Karen......
DeleteWhy bother with your comment if no-one reads this ????
But ...you've clearly read it to write this !
DeletePardon me, but the only reference to this case using the term "serial killer" in existence is the July 1, 2021 comment by "klv." True, this not a hugely popular blog. It only has 7.7 million views so far.
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klv July 1, 2021 at 10:06 PM
A mentally disturbed 5 year old child tragically killed her younger sibling.
How does this translate into her being a "female serial killer"? Do you even know the definition of serial killer? Why do you have an entire section devoted to "female" killers but not male perpetrators? And why write about (female) crime if you don't even know the basic definitions??
You are seriously warped, dude. But thankfully nobody reads here so I guess it doesn't really matter.
I do enjoy your blog it features interesting cases that I’ve never heard of. I’ve always been into female killers since I was a young girl. I am curious to know how you find these cases. One critic I have to say is that most of these cases have nothing to do with misandry. If a man kills a woman it’s not always due to misogyny unless the man is misogynistic..so just because a woman kills a man doesn’t make her misandristic and a woman killing women is also not misandristic. I do enjoy your blog but unfortunately it seems to be a bitter one out of misogyny and not out of interest of female killers
ReplyDeleteThe lack of study and of journalistic coverage is the point. Female Serial Killers was not the original interest in this blog. The blog was focused on presenting historical facts that contradict many of the false claims and simplistic stereotypes (based on "Theory," not fact) that have infested education and journalism, continuing to worsen from the 1970s onward. Revealing the little-known facts is scholarly and academic and is the fruit of inquisitiveness and willingness to reject go-along-to-get-along social conformity . Whether historical research into overlooked subject-matter it is evidence of joy, delight, bitterness, amazement or sadness is a different matter altogether.
Deleteokay that makes so much sense, I’m glad he developed his site more because half of these cases received no media attention so I scroll hours on here and unfortunately a lot of these women got a slap on the wrist due to being women, this needs more attention. I still wonder how the owner got a hold of this case, how did he stumble upon it? All I see is a newspaper linked but it led me no where. This case still intrigues me, it was featured on Criminally Listed on YouTube word by word, that’s what led me here.
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