While she started by killing her first husband and her kids, she eventually ran out of either people or mausebutter, and when she started killing again six years later, she moved on to neighbors, a landlady, and a maid. Her weapon of choice was mausebutter - a spreadable fat laced with arsenic. It's essentially a condition where sufferers cause (real or imagined) illnesses in those closest to them, so they can care for them through their sickness. The cause? Leukemia.Īccording to Atlas Obscura, it's thought Gottfried suffered from Munchausen's syndrome by proxy. Her estimated death toll was 11, and in 1965, she died in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, reports Tulsa World.
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More children and grandchildren died "mysteriously," and it wasn't until her fifth husband (who was a fine, upstanding man) died that an autopsy was ordered, and it was found he had a stomach full of arsenic.
It wasn't until 1943 that her newborn granddaughter died mysteriously, and her daughter - only semi-conscious post-delivery - swore she saw her mother stab the baby with a hatpin, but there was never proof. She met her second husband through a lonely hearts column, and their marriage lasted an impressive 16 years until. And he ended up being the only husband she didn't kill. The official cause was food poisoning, but her husband - suspecting actual poison - took off with their oldest. After the birth of their fourth, the two middle children died. They had three children in three years - years controlled by a manipulative mother-in-law and an abusive, constantly drunk husband. As you might guess, things quickly went downhill.
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