But in many instances the apparent profit was very minor, and her motivations remain uncertain to this day. All of her murders seemingly had some pecuniary motive, including those early ones of her own kin (think inheritance).
#Empire of sin poison still series#
The “Angel of Bremen” - so earned for her kindly habit of nursing her victims through the death throes she prepared them - began as is customary with her spendthrift first husband, followed soon by the three children she had by him, her own mother, father, and brother, and her second husband.Īfter a six-year break apparently because her access to Mäusebutter had run out, Gottfried was able to resume her career in 1823 by offing her second husband followed by a series of less intimate acquaintances: a neighbor, a landlady, a maid, a creditor. This delectable served for 15 murders over as many years in the 1810s and 1820s. Gottfried wielded the 19th century’s weapon of choice for subtle domestic homicide, arsenic, mixed into spreadable fat, a concoction known as Mäusebutter after its intended legitimate use. 1794: Three generations of Noailles women, but not the Marquise de Lafayette - 2008.1209: Massacre of Beziers, "kill them all, let God sort them out" - 2009.1501: Antonio Rinaldeschi, bad gambler - 2010.1635: Domingos Fernandes Calabar, traitor? - 2011.1789: Joseph-Francois Foulon, corrupt financier, lynched - 2012.
Times being what they were, the torture-spectacle parts of the sentence - like having his offending hand struck off - were remitted all things equal, we assume that Bisp would have best preferred to keep the one extremity he was still required to sacrifice. Thomas Thomasen Bisp, an adulterer who fatally poisoned his wife after he got the hots for his maid, became on this date in 1822 the last person executed in the North Jutland city of Hjørring. 1986: Andrew Sibusiso Zondo and two other ANC cadres - 2009ġ822: Thomas Thomasen Bisp, skull exhibit.1437: Jan Rohác z Dubé, Hussite marshal - 2010.1861: Not William Scott, the Sleeping Sentinel - 2011.
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