“Attendorf Black Widow,” Suspected Serial Husband-Killer – Austria, 1886

FULL TEXT (Translated from German): One reports from Fraustadt, March 16th: “Our city has been in great excitement since Sunday. A landowner in Attendorf was called up because she is suspected of having poisoned her four husbands one after the other; her fourth husband died suddenly on March 3rd. Today a judicial commission went to Attendorf to exhume the corpses."

[“A Female Bluebeard.” (“Ein weiblicher Blaubart.”), Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung Morgenblatt (Vienna, Austria), Mar. 20, 1886, p. 6] 

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Attendorf is a former municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Hitzendorf.

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FULL TEXT: Man meldet aus Fraustadt, 16. März: “Seit Sonntag befindet sich unsere Stadt in großer Aufregung. Eine Bauerugutsbesitzerin in Attendorf ist gefänglich eingezogen worden, weil sie im Verdachte steht, nach einander ihre vier Ehemänner ver ­ giftet zu haben; ihr vierter Mann verstarb am 3. März plötzlich. Heute hat sich eine gerichtliche Commission nach Attendorf begeben, um die Exhumirung der Leichen vorzn- nehmen."

[“Ein weiblicher Blaubart.” Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung Morgenblatt (Vienna, Austria), Mar. 20, 1886, p. 6]

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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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