DDT - Deambulações DeMentes Teóricas 26

The Serial Killer - Part XVII
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We proceed with another female killer, Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, who conspired with her lover, army captain Godin de Sainte-Croix to poison her father Antonine Dreux d'Aubray in 1666 and two of her brothers, Antoine d'Aubray and Francois d'Aubray, in 1670, in order to inherit their estates. There were also rumors that she had poisoned poor people during her visits to hospitals. I can only think that she might have been trying the poison to see if it really worked, before using it on her main victims.

As her predecessor, she appears to have used Tofana poison, whose recipe she seems to have learned from her lover, who had in turn learned it from Exili, an Italian poisoner, his cellmate in the Bastille. In 1675, after her lover died, she fled to England, Germany, and a convent, but was arrested in Liège. She was forced to confess and sentenced to death. On 17 July 1676, she was tortured with the water cure, that is, forced to drink sixteen pints of water. She was then beheaded and her body was burned at the stake. Her trial and the attendant scandal launched the Affair of the Poisons, which saw several French aristocrats charged with poison and witchcraft.

The only thing that makes Marie-Madeleine a candidate to serial killing is her hospital tryouts, but I should note that it takes much more than that to make a serial killer, as I think we all agree upon by now.