Friday, September 30, 2011

The Free Men Project

The Free Men Project: Rejecting the “Good Men” Paradigm

The “Good Man” is obedient, conformist, lacks curiosity, believes “ignorance is bliss,” and is easily manipulated. The good man is, to put it simply: a chump, a mark, a target, a sucker.

The Free Man refuses slavery in all its forms, stands up for his rights and for the human rights of all. He educates himself and escapes to be manipulation, shackling, robbery, extortion, false accusations and caging. Above all, the free men of The Free Men Project actively fight against Misandry in all its forms.


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Here are four inspiring historical examples of men who decided to fight for their rights and become Free Men:





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This informal, decentralized, self-directed “project” includes the following prominent websites (as well as hundreds of others):













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James Welch, “the father who would not give up,”  was shackled by the “officials.”

Yet he publicly fought for his natural parental rights – against all odds – and won.

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The Men’s Rights Movement espouses the forbidden notion that

men’s rights are human rights.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Mrs. Dennison, a Soulless Opportunistic Child-Killer, Executed - 1953

 

FULL TEXT: Montgomery, Ala. – Gov. Gordon Persons today refused to spare the life of Mrs. Earle C. Dennison, the nurse who poisoned her infant niece and must die in the electric chair tonight.
 
In a dramatic announcement to newsmen following a clemency hearing, Pearsons said. “I will not interfere with the sentence.”
 
His refusal to intervene means Mrs. Dennison, 55-year-old former hospital nurse from Wetumpka, Ala., will become the first white woman ever electrocuted in Alabama.
 
Mrs. Dennison is scheduled to die shortly after midnight at Kilby Prison.
 
The governor said, "I am sorry, of course, to have to be the governor to make this decision for the first time. The poisoned child is just as dead as if the crime had boon committed by a man "God bless Mrs. Dennison's soul."
 
Persons' decision come despite a last-minute plea from the condemned woman to "have mercy on me. Save my life."
 
The gaunt, 85-year-old widow, clad in a plain black dress, sat impassively-throughout most of her clemency hearing before the governor's legal adviser, William N. McQueen.
 
But her nerves gave way and tears welled in her eyes as she whispered her, simple plea.
 
She is to pay the penalty for the arsenic poisoning of 2-year-old Shirley Diann Weldon, who died in convulsions in a Wetumpka, Ala. hospital on May 1, 1952.
 
The state contended she killed the Weldon child to collect $5,500 from two insurance policies she had on the tot.
 
She also was charged with killing Weldon child, Polly Ann, but was never tried for that offense. Arsenic was found in the bodies of both girls.
 
Mrs. Dennison, who had been chief operating room nurse at the Wetumpka, Ala., hospital, was arrested May 8, 1952, seven days after Shirley Diann died in convulsions at the hospital.
 
She admitted in two signed statements that she gave arsenic to the blonde, curly haired child in a soft drink during a visit to the Weldon home. Mrs. Dennison recalled that Shirley Diann had climbed affectionately into her lap and hugged her around the neck just before she swallowed the poison." 
 
While the child lay dying, Mrs. Dennison said, she drove to the home of an insurance agent and paid an overdue premium on n $500 policy on the child's life. The aunt was the beneficiary on that policy on the child’s life. The aunt was the beneficiary on that policy and on another one for $5,000.
 
Then, when an autopsy was ordered on Shirley Diann’s body, Mrs. Dennison watched the operation which revealed the arsenic.
 
[“Baby Poisoner to Die Tonight,” syndicated (AP), Hattiesburg American (Ms.), Sep. 3, 1953, p. 1]
 
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Gladys May Parks, Nanny from Hell – Paternity Fraud & Infanticide - 1929


FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 5): Camden, N. J., Nov 11 – Miss Gladys May Parks, a 35-year-old pianist, faced another questioning today in connection with the deaths and secret burial of two children committed to her care.

Detectives were frank in saying they doubted the story of the woman who surrendered in Newark yesterday and subsequently was brought here and put in jail on a charge of murder. The bodies of 4 year-old Dorothy Rogers and her brother Timothy, 2, have been recovered, the boys skeleton having been found yesterday by state troopers near Abscoon after Miss Parks had given them minute directions to its location.

The woman denied killing Timothy, and insisted he died from a fall downstairs Dorothy, she said, died after being slapped. Questioning in Newark and later by police here failed to shake Miss Parks in her story. She gave an emotionless recital of the developments since Allen N. Rogers an insurance agent of Woodbury gave her the children to care for after his wife died last April.

Miss Parks in a cousin of Mrs. Rogers.

Two other persons – Anthony Baker Miss Parks’ common law husband and George W. Parks her father – are being held here as material witnesses.

~ Alleged Blackmailing Game ~

Detective Sergeant Louis Shaw indicated that today’s questioning would seek to determine whether charges of attempted blackmail against Miss Parks could be substantiated.

“Four well known Philadelphia men, and three from Atlantic City have told us of her game,” Shaw said. We will not reveal their names because the men need not be mixed up in this affair. She used these children (Timothy and Dorothy) and others to confront the man she was trying to blackmail. She would tell them the children were theirs.”

Miss Parks was unmoved in describing the death and burial of the children. She said she was afraid she would be charged with murder. If she told police about what she apparently considered the accidental deaths of Timothy and Dorothy.

~ Miss Parks’ Confession ~

According to Miss Parks’ confession, she had been trying for some time to discipline Dorothy and slapped her frequently. On Aug. 7 she had occasion to slap Dorothy. Miss parks said the girl fell to the floor, but thinking was shamming she left the room. Returning she tried to revive her by using rubbing alcohol it was then Miss Parks said she realized Dorothy was dead.

Shortly after that Miss Parks moved, carrying Dorothy’s body from the old house to one on Burns street house she found the concrete flooring broken in several places so she said she dug a hole and placed the girl’s body under the floor. On Aug. 26 she dug up the body wrapped it in the sheet and took it to National park pouring quicklime on it and hiding it under some leaves where it was found recently by two children. It was a laundry mark on the sheet that enclosed Dorothy’s body which caused the search for Miss Parks and caused her to surrender.

During the questioning detectives told Miss Parks it was impossible to get a child’s body into a suitcase without dismembering it.

“Oh I can do it she said,” here I’ll show you.

~ Proved Herself an Adept ~

Taking 6-year old Perdita Morris, daughter of friends of the police matron Miss Parks bent the girl’s legs back, folded her arms doubled the child at the waist and closed the suitcase.

“There,” said Miss Parks triumphantly, “that’s how its done.”

Miss Parks said that three weeks after Dorothy’s death Timothy fell down stairs. She related how she held the child under the kitchen faucet trying to revive him. That failing she then forced a child’s body into a suitcase and took a bus for Absocon. Again she hid a body and sprinkled lime over it.

In a few days she received a letter from Baker in Newark. Miss Parks said, and went to live with him. She stayed there until her surrender yesterday.

[“Woman Surrenders – Is Accused of Murder of Two Children – Admits the Deaths but Says They Died After a Slight Punishment – Buried Bodies With Quick Lime. – Alleged To Have Been In Blackmailing Game – Demonstrated to Police It Was Easy to Pack Child’s Body in an Ordinary Suitcase Without Dismembering It.” syndicated (UP), Dunkirk Evening Observer (N.Y.), Nov. 11, 1929, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 5): Camden, N.J., Nov. 11 – Police today worked on a theory that four other children may have met the same fate as 4-year-old Dorothy Rogers and her brother, Timothy, 2, for whose deaths Gladys May Parks is used on a charge of murder.

Detective Sergeant Louis Shaw announce that Miss Parks, who is 35 years old, had confessed she had used the Rogers children in a blackmailing scheme.

~ Seven Men Accuse Her ~

He said he had found seven men who accused her of having demanded money of them, after showing them the children are asserting the children were theirs. Shaw said the description given by them men of the four children used in the alleged blackmailing, were “entirely different” from the descriptions of the Rogers children.

“Now” Shaw said, “we are trying to find what became of those  other children – whether they, too, have been murdered. We suspect that she may have done with them what she did with Dorothy and Timothy.”

Miss Parks ended a widespread search by walking into police headquarters at Newark, N. J., yesterday and surrendering, with her was Anthony Baka, her alleged common law husband, who is held as a material witness. Police said she admitted having killed Dorothy Rogers by a blow struck in punishment for a childish indiscretion, but maintained that Timothy was killed in a fall down the stairs at her home.

She also confessed to carrying their bodies to Absocon, N. J., in a suit case, of burying them, and then later of digging up Dorothy’s body and taking it to National Park.

The Rogers children were placed in Miss Parks’ care last June by their father, Allen Rogers, an insurance broker of Woodbury, N. J., whose wife, a cousin of Miss Parks, died about a year ago.

[“Woman Admits Using Children For Blackmail – Two Killed And Four Others Sought In Plot To Milch Seven Fathers,” The Tucaloosa News (Fl.), Nov. 11, 1929, p. 3]

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FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 5): Camden, N. J.— Gladys May Parks, also known ax Mrs. Baker, charged with killing one child and suspected of slaying another, today re-enacted how she buried the children in different parts of New Jersey and witnessed the wrath of a group of women who cried out “lynch her.”

At National Park, after Miss Parks had shown how she had disposed of one child’s body, she was startled when the women who made up a group of 1,000, surrounded the police automobile in which she was, and shouted threats against her.

“Give her what she gave those poor children,” one cried. Another with a bunch of flower’s in her hand shouted, “kill her and I’ll put these on her.”

The accused woman was well protected by policemen and detectives.

Tonight Miss Parks was again in the Camden jail, still holding to her story that Dorothy Rogers, 4. and her brother Timothy, 2, came to their deaths by accident.

The police frankly declare they do not believe her but have found no motive with which to confront her and break down her statements.
 

~ Gives Herself Up. ~

Miss Parks, who had been sought by the police for a week for questioning in connection with the finding of the skeleton of the girl in the woods at National Park on Nov. 2, walked into the Newark police headquarters early Sunday. After making her identity known she was arrested and confessed she had buried Dorothy at National Park and Timothy at Absocon, near Atlantic City, both last August. The boy’s skeleton wan found yesterday.

The woman said that the girl died after a beating in which she had no intention of seriously harming the child, and that the boy died after an accidental fall down stairs in her Camden home. Becoming frightened, she said, she hid the bodies and then buried them. The heads were found separated from the rest of the bones, but Miss Parks denies she dismembered the bodies.

Dorothy and Timothy were the youngest children of Alan Rogers, Woodbury, N. J., insurance broker, whose wife died a year ago, leaving six children. Miss Parks was a  cousin of Mrs. Rogers and the father consented to let her raise the youngest ones He never saw the children after turning them over to Miss Parks.

At Absocon today some 50 curious persons followed in Miss Parks' wake as she led detectives to the spot in the woods, where she had buried the body of Timothy.

She began to sob as soon as she bent over the shallow hole, with her hands crossed over her breast.

“Oh, I loved Timmie,” she cried, “I loved him so much.”

From the grave the party went to the morgue of Coroner B. Wilson Cunningham where Dr. Isaac Leonard, county physician, had examined the skeleton of the boy. Miss Parks was not asked to view the bones.

The doctor reported that the boy’s skull showed there was a severe fracture, but ho could not determine whether it was from a blow or a fall.
 

From the morgue the party went across the state again to National Park, where they encountered the crowd, many of them women. The people had come from all over the countryside and motor cars were parked all around the vicinity.

As the police entered the town, Miss Parks directed them to Essian Avenue, where she said she had left an automobile in August in which she said friends had taken her on the night she disposed of Dorothy’s body. She had carried the boy in a suitcase, the same which she used in disposing of the little boy’s body, but the friends with whom she rode that night believed she was returning dishes to a friend living in the town.

After showing where she got out of the motor car. Miss Parks took the detectives in the chimp of bushes among which she had laid the body of the girl. The crowd rushed about the police car so that it was impossible for her to leave it. After she indicated how she had disposed of the body the crowd became restive. The angry women pounded on the doors of the automobile. It took the driver 10 minutes to maneuver the car away from the murmuring crowd. Anthony Baka, who has lived with Miss Banks, and who is held at the county jail as a material witness, was not taken with the party. Police said they have no evidence against him.

[“Women Attempt To Lynch Accused Slayer Of Babies - Suspect Says One Child Died During Whipping; Other Fell Down Stairs - Gives Self Up - Police Unable to Find Motive for Killing Children Of Suspect’s Sister,” syndicated (AP), San Antonio Express (Tx.), Nov. 12, 1929, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT (Article 4 of 5): Camden, N. J. – Alan N. Rogers, Woodbury, N. J., insurance man and father of Dorothy and Timothy Rogers, was recalled today in Criminal Court in the trial of Gladys May Parks, charged with the murder of the two children.

Rogers, on the stand only 15 minutes, was questioned regarding two poems he wrote about children whom he permitted Mrs. Parks to raise after the death of her mother, the defendant’s first cousin.

~ One Poem Barred. ~

Two poems were the out-pourings of a widowed father’s heart. That written for little Dottie was admitted into evidence yesterday, but the one he wove around the toddling baby, Timmie, was excluded today when father could not say with certainty whether it was written before or after the child’s death.

The poem dedicated to Dorothy, which Rogers said he gave Mrs. Parks when he entrusted her with his two children follows:

If you see God, in the blue of the skies,
You should behold the love that shines in my Dorrie’s eyes.
And you’ve seen the showers come so quickly on a summer day,
Well, the tears in her eyes of blue come just that way.
And have you seen in the spring the whole world so happy and gay?
Oh if you could see the joy and dancing of my Dottie at play.

~ Praised Behavior. ~

Mrs. Lulu Johnson, temporary housekeeper for Mr. Rogers after the death of his wife in 1928, testified to the father’s excellent character and the good behavior of the children while at home.

The evidence apparently was introduced to refute Mrs. Parks’ declaration she slapped Dorothy because infuriated over the child’s bad habits and uncleanliness.

[“Father’s Verse Barred In Trial – Court Rejects Poem Rogers Wrote to Slain Baby; Other Is Admitted.” Syndicated (UP), The Pittsburgh Press (Pa.), Jan. 15, 1930, p. 2]

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FULL TEXT (Article 5 of 5): Camden, N. J., Jan. 20. –  Gladys May Parks was today sentenced to serve 25 years at hard labor for the death of Dorothy Rogers four years of age, and her brother, Timothy, two years old.

Convicted by a jury late Saturday night Supreme Court Justice Lloyd sentenced her to 25 years on the charge of second degree murder for the death of Dorothy, and to 10 years on the manslaughter charge for the death of the boy, the court directing that the sentences run concurrently.

The 35-year-old prisoner took the sentences stoically, facing Justice Lloyd at a distance of not more than three feet. She was permitted to stand before the justice because her hearing is so bad she could not hear the sentence at a farther distance.

~ Appears In Rage ~

Completely surrounded by deputy sheriffs and matrons the woman was hurried from the court room and some time during the next 24 hours will be taken to the state prison at Trenton.

As she turned away from the judge’s bench to return to her cell she apparently was in a rage. Her face was flushed, her eyes flashed and she fairly flung herself off the low platform where she stood while hearing the sentence.

[“Woman Given Long Sentence - Gladys May Parks Sentenced To 25 Years For Murder Of Dorothy Rogers, 4.” Syndicated (AP), The Gettysburg Times (Pa.), Jan. 20, 1930, p. 1]

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TO BE ADDED: [“Gladys Parks In Asylum; Slayer of Two Child Wards Taken From Jersey Prison to Hospital.” The New York Times (N.Y.), Aug. 30, 1930, p. 17]

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For similar cases see: Baby-Sitter Serial Killers

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http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2012/07/paternity-fraud-rackets.html


For more cases, see: Paternity Fraud Rackets

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Black Widow Serial Killers


This selection includes only those female serial killers who murdered at least two husbands (including common-law husbands), or who murdered one husband and unsuccessfully attempted to kill a second. Women who were serial killers but among whose victims was only a single husband – a category which includes a large number of cases – are not included. The widows are presented chronologically under the date of arrest.

A number of the following cases have not appeared in lists of serial killers. Among these newly uncovered cases several are connected to European husband-killing syndicates, a number of which are themselves forgotten by historians of crime – until now.

Those Black Widows on the following list who murdered four or more husbands (31 cases known so far) will also be found collected together in a short list called The Champion Black Widow Serial Killers

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As of April 8, 2021, this list has reached the 314 mark.

Peter Vronsky’s 1997 list of 140 female serial killers includes 23 Black Widows: Barfield, Becker, Beets, Besnard, Buenoano, Cotton, Dazley, Doss, Fazekas, Gottfried, Gunness, Kinne, Klimek, Lyles, Martin, de Melker, Moore, Olah, Renczi, Sherman, Trueblood (Southard), Velten, Vermilya.

SEE: “Exciting careers in serial widowhood,” by Robert St. Estephe, A Voice for Men, Sep. 10, 2012

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Before 1600 BC (3 husbands & 2 others)
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42 BC (5 husbands)
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Zenobia - Syria
275 ("a series of lovers")
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Queen Fredegund – Merovignian Kingdom
597 (husband, multiple lovers)
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940 (about 36 husbands)
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Mahaut de Bourgogne – France
1196 (4 husbands)
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Alice Kyteler – Ireland 
1324 (4 husbands)
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Sultana Khadeejah – Maldives
1380 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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ca 1520 (paramour, husband & 1 other)
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1613 (5 husbands)
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Elizabeth Ridgway – England
1684 (husband & paramour; & others)
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1725 (2 husbands)
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1814 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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Gesche Margarethe Gottfried - Germany
1827 (2 husbands & 13 others)
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Betty Rowland - England
1836 (3 husbands)
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1840 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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"Oxford Skeleton Black Widow"
1841 (4 husbands)
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1843 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1846 (2 husbands)
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Mrs. Frey - USA
1847 (2 husbands)
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1850 (2 husbands & 4 others)
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Mrs. Truesdale - England
1851 (2 husbands)
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1852 (3 husbands)
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1852 (3 husbands, 1 other)
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"Big Mary" - USA
1857 (4 husbands)
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1857 (6 husbands, suspected)
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1860 (2 husbands & 7 others)
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1860 (2 husbands)
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1862 (2 husbands; 4 others & 1 attempt)
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Carrie E. Holbrook Chandler - USA
1864 (2 husbands)
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Marie Binet Soques - France
1865 (2 husbands)
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Nancy Lyman – USA
1869 (2 husbands)
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1869 (4 husbands)
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1870s (“numerous” paramours)
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1870 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1870 (2 paramours & 1 other)
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Mrs. Hoffman / Wenxel - USA
1870 (3 husbands)
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1871 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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Lydia Sherman - USA
1871 (3 husbands & 7 others)
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1873 (2 husbands; others)
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1873 (3 husbands & 12-17 others)
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1874 (2 husbands)
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1874 (2 husbands)
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1875 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1875 (2 husbands; 3 others)
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1877 (3 husbands; & 2 children)
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Florence Bravo - England
1878 (2 husbands)
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1878 (2 husbands & 2 others)
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1878 (3 husbands)
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1878 (2 men: husband; paramour)
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Takahashi Oden – Japan
1879 (lover & husband)
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1880 (7 husbands)
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1881 (2 husbands)
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1881 (2 husbands)
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1882 (2 husbands & 26 others)
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1883 (3 husbands & 4 others)
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1883 (2 paramours & 1 man lynched because of her)
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1884 (3 husbands & 1 other)
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1884 (2 husbands)
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Elizabeth Vanderhoff - USA
1885 (2 husbands)
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1884 (3 husbands, 100s of others)
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Nellie Grant - USA
1885 (2 husbands)
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1886 (4 husbands)
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1886 (4 husbands)
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1886 (2 husbands (1 survived) & 1 other)
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1888 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1888 (2 husbands)
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1888 (3 husbands)
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1888 (husband & “another man”)
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Josephine Carnahan Ramsey Artz – USA
1889 (2 husbands)
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1889 (3 husbands & 1 other)
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Carrie Vandergrift - USA
1890 (2 husbands; 1 other)
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Jane Dorsey - USA
1891 (4 husbands & 4 others)
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1891 (2 husbands)
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1891 (4 husbands)
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1892 (2 husbands; 1 survived)
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Kate Painter - USA
1892 (2 husbands)
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1892 (2 men)
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1893 (3 husbands (possibly) & 5 others)
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1894 (2 husbands & 4 others)
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1894 (2 husbands)
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1895 (2 husbands)
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1896  (49 husbands)
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Fatima Ben Abdel Kader - Algeria
1896 (3 husbands)
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"Mischar Triple Black Widow" - Serbia
1896 (3 husbands)
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Queen Piea Waar - Hermit Islands
1897 (2 husbands)
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1897 (2 husbands)
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1897 (2 husb. & att. husb.)
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1898 (2 husbands)
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1899 (2 husbands)
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1899 (2 husbands)
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1899 (2 husbands)
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1899 (3 husbands)
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1899 (husbands)
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1899 (2 husbands)
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Late-19th century (2 husbands & 4 others)
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1900 (4 husbands)
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1902 (2 husbands, 2 others)
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1902 (4 husbands & 14 others)
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1903 (husband, paramour & 2 others)
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1903 (2 husbands)
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1903 (2 husbands & 9 others)
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1903 (5 husbands (1 survived))
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Marie Knauer - USA
1903 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1904 (3 husbands)
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Mrs. Massilon - USA
1904 (3 husbands, suspected)
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Marie Nowak - Moravia
1904 (3 husbands)
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Anna Bergmann –Germany
1905 (5 husbands)
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1905 (3, or more, husbands)
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1905 (4 “lovers”)
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Sofronia Agatescu - Romania
1906 - (3 husbands)
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1906 (4 husbands)
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Emma LeDoux (McVickar) – USA
1906 (3, or 4, husbands)
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Shui Hing – China
1908 (8 men)
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1907 (2 Husbands & 1 other)
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1908 (2 husbands)
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1908 (2 husbands & dozens of fiancés)
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1908 (many paramours)
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Alice Watford - USA
1908 (2 husbands)
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1909 (3 husbands; 2 others)
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1911 (2 (or 3) husbands)
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Louise Vermilya – USA
1911 (2 husbands & 7 others)
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1912 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1912 (2 husbands & 3 others)
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1912 (2 husbands & 3 others)
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1914 (2 husbands)
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1914 (2 husbands & 1 paramour)
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1914 (3 husbands)
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1915 (3 husbands)
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Amy Archer-Gilligan – USA
1916 (5? husbands & several others)
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1917 (2 husbands & 2 others)
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1918 (10 husbands)
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 1918 (8 husbands susp.; 2 confirmed)
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Henrietta Williams - USA
1918 (3)
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 1920 (2 husbands, 1 lover)
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Ca. 1920s (2 husbands)
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1920 (4 husbands)
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1920 (2 husbands)
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1921 (2 husbands & 2 "lovers," & 1 husband who survived)
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1921 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1921 (2 husbands)
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1921 (4 husbands)
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Gertrude Gerstenberg Guerreriri - USA
1922 (2 husbands)
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1922 (3 husbands & 2 others)
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1923 (4 husbands & 9 others & 6 survivors)
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1923 – (6 husbands)
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1924 (2 husbands (1 survived) & 4 others)
1924 (2 husbands & others)
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1924 (3 husbands)
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1924 (2 husbands & 1 boyfriend)
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1924 (2 husbands & 2 others)
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1924 (2 husbands & 1 possible survivor husband)
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1925 (2 husbands & 33 others) (possibly a hoax story; requires confirmation)
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1925 (2 husbands; 30 others)
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Georgia Brown - USA
1926 (2 husbands)
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1926 (2 husbands (1 survived))
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1926 (2 husbands (1 survived) & 2 others)
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1926 (8 paramours)
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Ora Lee Thacker – USA
1926 (2 husbands)
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1926 (2 husbands & 6 others)
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1927 (3 husbands; others)
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1927 (3 husbands)
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1927 (3 husbands & 55 others)
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Tamara – Greece
1927 (3 husbands, or more)
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1928 (3 husbands & 1 other)
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1928 (2 husbands, 1 other)
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1929 (3 husbands)
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1929 (2 husbands & dozens of others)
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1929 (2 husbands)
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1929 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1930s (3 husbands)
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1930s (multiple “lonely hearts” victims)
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Agnes Bittner – Czechoslovakia
1930 (2 husbands & 5 lovers)
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Maria Joljart - Hungary
1930 (husband & paramour)
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Maria Varga – Hungary
1930 (2 husbands & 5 others)
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Johanna Schadenhofer - Austria
1931 (1 husband & 1 husband attempted)
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1931 (5 husbands & 14 others)
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1931 (3 husbands)
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1931 (2 husbands)
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1931 (2  husbands; 4 others)
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1932 (2 husbands, 1 fiancee; & 4 others)
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1932 (2 husbands)
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1932 (2 husbands)
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1933 (3 husbands suspected; 1 other)
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1933 (2 husbands; 1 other)
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1935 (2 husbands; 2 others & 1 att.)
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1936 (2 husbands, 9 others & 5 survivors)
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1938 (2 husbands (1 survived))
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1939 (3 husbands)
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1938 (1 husband & 1 paramour)
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1939 (3 husbands)
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1939 (2 husbands (1 survived) & 1 other)
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1940 (5 husbands; plus others)
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1940 (3 husbands)
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Lue Burns - USA
1941 (2 husbands)
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Concepcion Gonzalez - USA
1941 (2 husbands)
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1941 (3 husbands)
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1943 (3 husbands & 2 others)
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1946 (2 husbands & 2 others)
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1948 (3 husbands)
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1949 (2 husbands & 11 others)
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1949 (2 husbands & 3 others)
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1950 (2 husbands)
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1950 (Common law husband & another man)
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1951 (17 husbands)
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1952 (3 husbands & 9 others)
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1952 (2 husbands)
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Alicia Roberts - Wales
1952 (2 husbands)
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1952 (2 husbands)
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1954 (4 husbands & 7 others)
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1956 (2 husbands & 4 others)
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1957 (2 husbands)
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Mary Elizabeth Wilson - England
1957 (3 husbands & 1 other)
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Anjette Lyles - USA
1958 (2 husbands & 2 others)
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1962 (3 husbands)
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1962 (1 husband, 1 boyfriend)
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Effie Norris - USA
1963 (1 husband, 1 boyfriend, 1 employer)
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1962 (2 husbands)
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1964 (2 husbands)
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Irena Cubirkova (Čubírková) – Czechoslovakia
1966 (husband & boyfriend)
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1967 (2 husbands & 7 children)
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Catalina Domingo Campins - Spain
1970 (2 husbands & 3 others)
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1975 (2 husbands; 3 others who survived)
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1975 (2 husbands, 1 survived)
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1975 (2 husbands & 1 “man”)
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1978 (2 husbands & 4 others)
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Margarita Herlein - Argentina
1978 (4 (3 husb, 1 bf))
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1978 (2 lovers)
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1979 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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1979 (2 husbands)
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1980s-1990s (4 husbands)
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1982 (3 husbands; 1 survived)
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Pauline Rogers - USA
1982 (2 husbands, 1 survived)
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1983 (2 husbands & 3 others)
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1983 (4 husbands (1 survived) & 1 other)
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1984 (3 men; 1 survived)
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1984 (1 husband, 1 fiancé (survived; 1 other)
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Lois Thacker - USA
1984 (2 husbands)
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1985 (3 husbands & 200 others)
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1985 (5 husbands)
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1985 (2 husbands)
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1987  (2 husbands)
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1987 (2 husbands; 7 others)
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1987 (2 husbands)
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Eugenia "Sweetlove" Moore - USA
1987 (3; 2 husb; 1 bf)
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1988 (2 husbands)
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 Sharon Lynn Nelson (Harrelson)– USA
1988 (2 husbands)
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1988 (2 husbands)
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Blanche Taylor Moore - USA
1989 (2 husbands & 4, or more, others)
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1989 (“multiple husbands & others)
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"Greenland Black Widow" - Greenland
1990 (2 husbands)
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Lynda Calvey - England
1990 (2 husbands)
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Rodica Negroiu - France
1990 (3 husbands)
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 Frances Beasley Truesdale – USA
1992 (2 husbands)
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1992 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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 Jill Coit – USA
1993 (2 husbands)
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1994 (2 husbands; & 1 survived)
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1995 (2 or more husbands)
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1996 (2 husbands, 2 lovers; 2 others)
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Terri Gilbert – USA
1996 (2 husbands)
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1996 (2 husbands; 1 surv.; others threatened)
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1998 (2 husbands & 1 boyfriend)
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1999 (2 husbands)
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Jamila Belkacem - France
1999 (1 dead; 1 survived)
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Laurene Dye - Canada
1999 (2 husbands & 1 att. on a husband)
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Tammy Martin - USA
1999 (1 dead husband; 1 survived)
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Yuko Takahashi - Japan
2000 (2 husbands)
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2001 (2 husbands)
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2001 (3 husbands)
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2001 (4 husbands)
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Kathleen McCluskey – England
2001 (4 men)
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2002 (2 husbands)
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2003 (husband & paramour)
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2003 (2 paramours; 1 husband)
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Raynella Dossett Leath – USA
2003 (2 husbands)
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Janet Smith - USA
2003 (1 husband, 1 fiancee; & 2 plots)
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Uhm - South Korea
2005 (2 husbands)
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 Sonia Rios – USA
2006 (2 husbands)
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2007 (2 husbands, 1 other (survived))
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2007 (1 husband & 3 boyfriends)
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2007 (2 husbands; 1 survived)
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2007 (2 Husbands & 1 other)
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2008 (husband, boyfriend)
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Manuela Gonzalez Cano - France
2008 (3?; & 2 attempts)
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Betty Neumar - USA
2008 (5 husbands)
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Miriam Helmick - USA
2009 (2 husbands)
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2009 (3 husbands)
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2009 (7 men, "personals")
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2009 (2 husbands & 1 other)
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Sonia Rios Risken - USA
2009 (2 husbands)
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Miyuko Ueti – Japan
2009 (5 “dates” & 1 fiancee)
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2011 (1 husband & 1 “boyfriend”)
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2011 (1 husband & 1 paramour)
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2011 (multiple husbands)
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2011 (2 husbands)
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2012 (2 husbands (suspected))
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Catherine Symanowski – USA
2012 (1 husband & 1 surv. boyfriend, shot 6 times)
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2012 (2 husbands & 2 who survived)
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Esneda Ruiz Cataño – Colombia
2013 (3 husbands)
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Patricia Dagorn - France
2013 (2 paramours; poisoned 4 others)
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2013 (2 husbands)
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Robyn Lindholm - Australia
2013 (2 boyfriends)
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Emma Raine - USA
2013 (3 husbands)
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2013 (2 boyfriends)
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2014 (2 husbands)
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2014 (husband, another man, poss. others)
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2014 (7 husbands  & paramours, susp.)
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Noh (husbands: Lee; Kim) – Korea
2014 (husband & paramour; 1 other)
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Marli Teles de Souza - Brazil
2014 (3 husbands & 1 boyfriend)
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 Brenda Jacobs – USA
2015 (2 husbands)
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Kelly Marie Cochran - USA
2016 (husband, boyfriend; possible others)
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2017 (4 husbands & paramours; 1 other)
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Wane Brenda - Brazil
2018 (2 boyfriends)
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Meshell Hale - USA
2018 (2 husbands)
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Lori Vallon Daybell - USA
2020 (3? & multiple others?)
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►►BLACK WIDOW SERIAL KILLERS CATEGORIZED

Weapons, Poisons & Methods

Antifreeze – Shirley Allen, Stacy Castor, Julia Lynn Turner

Axe – Belle Gunness, Lizzie Halliday

Beat to death – Linda Lou Charbonneau, Ulisa Chavers

Carbon Monoxide – Cynthia Phillips, Kanae Kijima

Drown – Kanae Kijima, EmilseYulima Emilsen Rojas Castaño

Fireplace poker – Ann Gates

Gunshot  (handgun unless otherwise noted) – "Broncho Lou" (Mrs. Yankers), Minnie Cummings, Jane Taylor Quinn, Mary T. Godau, Euphemia Mondich, Alma McClaney (Theede), Margie Zeglen, Nannie Doss, Betty Lou Beets, Sharon Kinne, Betty Lou Beets, Carrie Allen, Ann Gates, Hazel Allison (shotgun), Cynthia Phillips, Barbara Stager, Sandra Bridewell, Geraldine Parrish, Sylvia Ipock White, Jill Coit, Terri Gilbert, Cynthia Phillips, Josephine Gray, Raynella Leath, Sonia Rios, Betty Newmar, Miriam Helmick, Goidsargi Estibaliz 'Esti' Carranza, Amy Herrera, Catherine Symanowski (rifle, handgun), Colleen Ann Harris, Della Sutorius

Knife – Sienna Engelbredht, Mary Lou Martin, Esneda Ruiz Cataño, Mme. Tamara

Poison (arsenic unless otherwise noted) – Gesche Margarethe Gottfried (arsenic), Hannah Hanson Kinney, Sarah Dazley, Mrs. Van Valkenbugh, Madame Segard, Mary McKnight (strychnine), Elizabeth P. McCraney, “Gardiner, Maine Black Widow,” Lydia Sherman, Catherine Batchelor, Mary Ann Cotton, Brigitte Burckel, Sallie Hardman (Gibbs), Mrs. Gossau, Kathi Lyukas, Mrs. Christian, Angenette B. S. Haight, “Varanda, Hungary Black Widow, “Silesian Black Widow,” Louisa Collins, Martha Johnson, Mrs. John Dorsey, Caroline Sorgenfrie (Paris green), Kate Painter, Ann Miniver Davis, Olive Sternaman, Mrs. Camfield (aconite and acotine), Lulu Johnson, Marie Nicodem, Lisa Triku, Jerinia, Zsimcsa, Sultana Pongyan Juchi Jamela, Caroline Przygodda, Malvina Roeste, (rose bay leaves), “Knez Four-Time Black Widow,” Louise Vermilya, Louisa Lindloff, Frieda Trost, Amy Archer-Gilligan, Annie Monahan, Anna Tomaskiewicz, Frau Buchmann, Madame Pitiot, Lydia Trueblood Southard, Clara Carl,  “Cleveland Black Widow,” Tillie Klimek, Annie Hauptrief, Annora Yeoman, Vera Renczi, Laura Christy, Elsie Bible Malinsky, Nora Edwards, Julia Fazekas, Suzi Olah, Maria Aszendi, Agnes Bittner (?), Maria Varga, Margaret Summers, Daisy de Melker (strychnine), Marie Becker, Florence Peters, Rose Carina, Victoria Lefebvre, Anna Louise Sullivan, Helen Moeller, Marguerite D’Andurian, Josefa Idler, Marie Besnard, Marie Jeanbracq (digitalis), Bessie Lee Cunningham, Roberta Elder, Yvonne Fletcher, Rhonda Belle Martin, Anjette Donovan Lyles, Bessie Folse Toups, Mrs. Elmer Stone Conyers, Velma Barfield, Ada Wittenmyer, LaVerne O’Bryan (horse tonic), Shirley Allen, Pauline Rogers, Maria Velten, Judias Buenoano, Blanche Taylor Moore, Raynella Leath (morphine), Kanae Kijima (medicines), Melissa Friedrich (Weeks) (drugs)

Suffocate – Lydia L.

Torture to Death –“Brazilian Black Widow”

Miscellaneous

“Accidental” Death – Sharon Kinne, Sharon Lynn Nelson (Harrelson), Natthakan Anaman (drugged, auto wreck), Raynella Leath (morphine, supposedly trampled by cattle), EmilseYulima Emilsen Rojas Castaño

Advertising (lonely hearts) – Belle Gunness, Marie Krueger, Nannie Doss, Ada Wittenmyer, Lydia L., Kanae Kijima, EmilseYulima Emilsen Rojas Castaño?

Dismemberment – Marie Vere Goold, Ulisa Chavers, Goidsargi Estibaliz 'Esti' Carranza (with chainsaw)

Escape from Prison or Fugitive – Lydia Trueblood Southard, Sandra Bridewell, Sharon Kinne, Goidsargi Estibaliz 'Esti' Carranza

Execution of  perpetrator – Gesche Margarethe Gottfried (arsenic), Sarah Dazley, Mrs. Van Valkenbugh, Madame Segard, Rhonda Belle Martin, Velma Barfield, Judias Buenoano, Betty Lou Beets

Fake Suicide –Raynella Leath, Miriam Helmick,  Kanae Kijima, Amy Herrera

Incineration – Madame Tamara

Married in prison – “Brazilian Black Widow”

Occult – Louisa Lindloff, Frieda Trost, Madame Tamara, Anjette Donovan Lyles,  Josephine Gray, Geraldine Parrish,

Proxy – Mrs. Gossau (leap-frog), Euphemia Mondich (leap-frog), Sharon Nelson (Harrelson), Geraldine Parrish, Gray (leap-frog), Esneda Ruiz Cataño, Cynthia Phillips, Geraldine Parrish, Sylvia Ipock White, Jill Coit, Cynthia Phillips (attempts), Linda Lou Charbonneau, Josephine Gray, Sonia Rios,

Suicide of perpetrator – Louise Vermilyea, Marie Torosian, Annie Hauptrief, Julia Fazekas, Suzi Olah, Julia Lynn Turner, Josefa Idler, Ada Wittenmyer, Catherine Symanowski

Trophy cadaver accumulation – Vera Renczi

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Abstract: This research examines one type of ‘Black Widow’ killer as an unexplored area of romance scams. Black Widow killers murder those close to them, usually those who they have some form of romantic association with, such as a husband or lover, however, they also prey on their own relatives. The type of Black Widow killer focused upon in this research is those who murder for the purpose of financial gain, through using romance to initiate the process. These killers are referred to as ‘Scamming Black Widow killers’. The notion that such a killer could be identified as a type of romance scam is due to these killers and those fraudsters conducting romance scams having the same motivations. Romance scams involve fraudsters romancing their victims to form a trustworthy ‘relationship’, to then defraud them of their finances.

The crime of murder itself, committed by Black Widow killers, is extremely serious in that it requires attention. There is no way to fully understand the incidence of Black Widow murders, as it is possible for some to go undetected or possibly ruled as accidental deaths. The other crime of non-lethal romance scams discussed in this research is also a serious crime, which can result in high quantities of money lost, and great emotional pain for the victims. Although these two crimes are separate, the link between them has previously been weirdly unexplored.

This research aims to fill this knowledge gap, proposing Scamming Black Widow killers to be understood as one type of romance scam.


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