Missouri's murderous matrons, Emma Heppermann and Bertha Gifford, Victoria Cosner & Lorelei Shannon
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- Women serial murderers -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Arsenic + Toxicology -- Missouri -- Case studies
- Serial murders -- Missouri -- Case studies
- Poisoners -- Missouri -- Biography
- Women poisoners -- Missouri -- Biography
- Serial murderers -- Missouri -- Biography
- Gifford, Bertha, approximately 1876-1951
- Heppermann, Emma, 1891?-1968
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Missouri's murderous matrons, Emma Heppermann and Bertha Gifford, Victoria Cosner & Lorelei Shannon
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eng
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non fiction
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Missouri's murderous matrons
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Victoria Cosner & Lorelei Shannon
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Emma Heppermann and Bertha Gifford
Summary
Two notorious female serial killers from the Show Me State share the spotlight in this true crime history. At the turn of the twentieth century, people in Missouri experienced unexpected and horrible deaths due to arsenic. Two different women in two different areas of Missouri, and for two different reasons, used arsenic as a means to get what they wanted. Emma Heppermann, a black-widow killer, craved money. Bertha Gifford, an angel of mercy, took sick people into her home and nursed them to death. Follow the trails of these women who murdered for decades before being tried and convicted. From Wentzville to Steelville, Emma left a trail of bodies. And. Bertha is suspected of killing almost 10 percent of the population of the little town of Catawissa. Authors Victoria Cosner and Lorelei Shannon offer the gruesome history of Missouri's murderous matrons
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adult
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Emma Heppermann and Bertha Gifford
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