TRUE CRIME: BUS STOP READS; are short quick reads.
Martha Wise was an American woman serial killer in the 1920’s. When, as a widower, her family ridiculed her over a new relationship and forced her to end it, Martha retaliated by poisoning seventeen members of her family. Three of the members died. When she was eventually arrested she claimed, “It was the devil who told me to do it.”
Newspapers of the time described her as the "Borgia of America." and it was one of the most sensational trials of the era in Ohio, where the murders occurred.
THE FUNERAL HOBBYIST
Martha Wise was an American woman serial killer in the 1920’s. When, as a widower, her family ridiculed her over a new relationship and forced her to end it, Martha retaliated by poisoning seventeen members of her family. Three of the members died. When she was eventually arrested she claimed, “It was the devil who told me to do it.”
Newspapers of the time described her as the "Borgia of America." and it was one of the most sensational trials of the era in Ohio, where the murders occurred.
