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arsenic.
Pauline Bodineau’s body contained 48 mg of arsenic.
Virginie Lalleron ‘s body contained 20 mg of arsenic.
Léon’s great aunt ’s body (86-years-old) contained 35 mg of arsenic.
Léon’s great aunt ’s body (92-years-old) contained traces of arsenic.
Marie-Louise Davaillaud’s body contained 48 mg of arsenic
Marie was charged with thirteen counts of murder. Her trial began in February of 1952. Marie, being an extremely wealthy woman, hired the best legal team of French lawyers money could buy. Marie’s team of lawyers demanded new tests to confirm that all of the victims had been slain with arsenic, which was central to the prosecution’s case. The prosecution had difficulty in defending the results of their exhumation examinations against the battery of highly paid experts the defense team produced. Even though witnesses testified of her attempts to threaten and murder witnesses and female acquaintances testified that Marie had said, “Arsenic was a better alternative to divorce”, the trial ended in a mistrial. The judges ordered new tests to be performed. Marie remained in prison in "preventative detention" until the next trial.
A second trial was held in March of 1954. This time around, Marie was only charged with six murders, as the physical evidence of five of the bodies had deteriorated to such an extent that no reliable tests could be performed on them. This case also led to a mistrial, as none of the forensic experts could agree on their findings. This time, Marie was released on bail.
The third trial took place seven years later on November 20, 1961. At this trial, the prosecution again charged Marie with thirteen murders. In this trial, Marie’s brilliant defense team had learned that the cemetery grounds where the bodies had been buried were fertilized with a product containing arsenic. This evidence meant that the prosecutor and his team would have to prove that the arsenic in the corpses had not been introduced after burial, an impossible task at that time.
Marie Besnard, despite arsenic having been found in thirteen bodies whose deaths enhanced her wealth, her attempts to threaten and murder witnesses, and female acquaintances relating during the trial that Marie had said, “Arsenic was a better alternative to divorce”, was acquitted on December 12, 1961.
Marie Besnard died in 1980 and is unlikely to have uttered the words , “crime doesn’t pay”.
NANNIE DOSS
The Giggling Granny
Nannie Doss was born Nancy Hazle on Nov. 4, 1905, in Blue Mountain, Alabama, to poor farming parents James Hazle and his wife Lou. She soon became known as Nannie after her birth. Nannie was the eldest of five siblings; she had three sisters and one brother. James Hazle, her father, was a farmer and a control freak; the children and their mother lived in fear of him.
Life was hard and by the age of five, Nannie had learned to cut wood, plough the fields, dig the farm free of weeds, scrub pots and pans, and clean the house. School was, despite the two-mile walk, almost a treat from the drudgery of the farm, but her schooling was far from regular because if her father needed her help on the farm that was his first priority. Consequently, Nannie never learned to read or write particularly well, and her education stopped entirely after the sixth grade.
An event, that Nannie later claimed had an enormous impact on her life, happened when she was seven. On her first ever trip away from the farm, and her first train ride to visit family in the south of Alabama, the train suddenly braked. Nannie, propelled out of her seat, smashed her head against a metal bar. In an interview many years later with Life magazine, she claimed that from that point on she suffered from blackouts, severe headaches, and depression.
While her father was an abusive dictator, Nannies’ mother Lou was a gentle, caring woman. To escape the hardship of her life, Lou subscribed to various romantic story magazines and
Pauline Bodineau’s body contained 48 mg of arsenic.
Virginie Lalleron ‘s body contained 20 mg of arsenic.
Léon’s great aunt ’s body (86-years-old) contained 35 mg of arsenic.
Léon’s great aunt ’s body (92-years-old) contained traces of arsenic.
Marie-Louise Davaillaud’s body contained 48 mg of arsenic
Marie was charged with thirteen counts of murder. Her trial began in February of 1952. Marie, being an extremely wealthy woman, hired the best legal team of French lawyers money could buy. Marie’s team of lawyers demanded new tests to confirm that all of the victims had been slain with arsenic, which was central to the prosecution’s case. The prosecution had difficulty in defending the results of their exhumation examinations against the battery of highly paid experts the defense team produced. Even though witnesses testified of her attempts to threaten and murder witnesses and female acquaintances testified that Marie had said, “Arsenic was a better alternative to divorce”, the trial ended in a mistrial. The judges ordered new tests to be performed. Marie remained in prison in "preventative detention" until the next trial.
A second trial was held in March of 1954. This time around, Marie was only charged with six murders, as the physical evidence of five of the bodies had deteriorated to such an extent that no reliable tests could be performed on them. This case also led to a mistrial, as none of the forensic experts could agree on their findings. This time, Marie was released on bail.
The third trial took place seven years later on November 20, 1961. At this trial, the prosecution again charged Marie with thirteen murders. In this trial, Marie’s brilliant defense team had learned that the cemetery grounds where the bodies had been buried were fertilized with a product containing arsenic. This evidence meant that the prosecutor and his team would have to prove that the arsenic in the corpses had not been introduced after burial, an impossible task at that time.
Marie Besnard, despite arsenic having been found in thirteen bodies whose deaths enhanced her wealth, her attempts to threaten and murder witnesses, and female acquaintances relating during the trial that Marie had said, “Arsenic was a better alternative to divorce”, was acquitted on December 12, 1961.
Marie Besnard died in 1980 and is unlikely to have uttered the words , “crime doesn’t pay”.
NANNIE DOSS
The Giggling Granny
Nannie Doss was born Nancy Hazle on Nov. 4, 1905, in Blue Mountain, Alabama, to poor farming parents James Hazle and his wife Lou. She soon became known as Nannie after her birth. Nannie was the eldest of five siblings; she had three sisters and one brother. James Hazle, her father, was a farmer and a control freak; the children and their mother lived in fear of him.
Life was hard and by the age of five, Nannie had learned to cut wood, plough the fields, dig the farm free of weeds, scrub pots and pans, and clean the house. School was, despite the two-mile walk, almost a treat from the drudgery of the farm, but her schooling was far from regular because if her father needed her help on the farm that was his first priority. Consequently, Nannie never learned to read or write particularly well, and her education stopped entirely after the sixth grade.
An event, that Nannie later claimed had an enormous impact on her life, happened when she was seven. On her first ever trip away from the farm, and her first train ride to visit family in the south of Alabama, the train suddenly braked. Nannie, propelled out of her seat, smashed her head against a metal bar. In an interview many years later with Life magazine, she claimed that from that point on she suffered from blackouts, severe headaches, and depression.
While her father was an abusive dictator, Nannies’ mother Lou was a gentle, caring woman. To escape the hardship of her life, Lou subscribed to various romantic story magazines and
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