Episode 63

Written By Maria Raha

First Lady of Lethal: America’s original female serial killer | Oct. 30, 2024 | 32:00

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

19th-century Ireland, Philadelphia, and New York spawn a killer who repeatedly makes jaw-dropping mistakes.

Hosts

Greg Caputo

Maria Raha

Jason Schell

Topics

  • This week’s headline: WMTW, July 10, 2024, Rockland, Maine

  • Lizzie Halliday

  • Paul Halliday

  • Eastern State Penitentiary

  • Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

  • Nellie Bly

  • Nellie Wicks

Additional Resources

  • Bly, Nellie. “Nellie Bly Visits Mrs. Halliday,” The World. Oct. 22, 1893, page 17.

  • Eds. “Her Trial [illegible],” Tunkhannock Republican. June 22, 1892, page 2.

  • Eds., “Murder is a Mania with Her,” Harrisburg Daily Independent. Sept. 11, 1893, page 2.

  • Eds., “Thirst for Blood was her Mania,” The Philadelphia Inquirer. Sept. 11, 1893, page 1.

  • Eds., “Mania Like Jack the Ripper,” The Roanoke Times. Sept. 13, 1893, page 1.

  • Eds., “Lessons of Moral Depravity,” The Buffalo News. Sept. 14, 1893, page 26.

  • Eds., “Guilty of Murder,” The Piqua Daily Call. Sept. 14, 1893, page 1.

  • Eds., “Guilty of Murder,” The Owensboro Messenger. Sept. 15, 1893, page 5.

  • Eds., “A Murderous Maniac,” Weekly Herald. Sept. 16, 1893, page 7.

  • Eds., “Mystery of a Murder,” The Anaconda Standard. Sept. 22, 1893, page 8.

  • Eds., “Lizzie Halliday Case,” Indianapolis News., June 16, 1894, page 5. 

  • Eds., “ A Wierd [sic] Murderess,” The Evening World. June 20, 1894, page 1.

  • Eds., “Mrs. Halliday Get Excited,” The Philadelphia Times. June 20, 1894, page 4.

  • Eds., “She Heard It Unmoved,” The Waterbury Democrat. June 20. 1894, page 1.

  • Eds., “She Killed Three People,” Wilkes Barre Daily News Leader. June 20, 1894, page 1.

  • Eds., “Defense Begins,” The Buffalo News. June 21, 1894, page 1.

  • Eds., “Lizzie Halliday Found Guilty,” The Lewiston Daily Sun. June 22, 1894, page 1.

  • Eds., “Lizzie Halliday Convicted,” Springville Journal. June 28, 1894, page 1.

  • Eds., “Mrs. Halliday,” Wayne County Herald. June 28, 1894, page 3.

  • Eds., “Is Facing the Jury,” The Leavenworth Times. June 30, 1894, page 3.

  • Eds., “Second Murder of Crazy Woman,” Buffalo Courier. Sept. 28, 1906, page 3.

  • Eds., “Her Fourth Murder,” The Tennessean. Sept. 28, 1906, page 1.

  • Eds., “Mad Murderess Kills Girl Nurse,” French Broad Hustler. Oct. 4, 1906, page 6.

  • Eds., “Worst Woman on Earth,” News Democrat. Oct. 28, 1906, page 13.

  • Eds., Associated Press. “In the Chair,” The Buffalo News. June 22, 1894, page 1.

  • Levine, David. “The Female Serial Killer who Terrorized the Catskills a Century Ago,” Times Union. June 18, 2023. https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvally/catskills/article/lizzie-halliday-catskills-serial-killer-18155927.php

  • Telfer, Tori. Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History. HarperCollins. 2017.

  • Tupper, Edith Sessions. “Men, Women, and Ghosts,” The Buffalo Times. Aug. 28, 1927, page 47.

  • Wilson, A.C. “Murder by a Maniac,” The Piqua Daily Call. Nov. 15, 1906, page 6.

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