The Serial Killer - Part XXIII
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Madame Delphin LaLaurie was a French Socialite who lived in New Orleans, and her life would have gone absolutely unremarked, were it not for her preference for torturing and murdering black slaves in the 1800s.
LaLaurie treated her slaves as less than animal, often dawning them in iron collars and mutilating them for no particular reason. Reports of her cook being chained to the stove and LaLaurie beating her daughters when attempting to feed the slaves are the lesser offenses. Her crimes were noted after a fire that was said to be started deliberately to draw attention to her actions.
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Madame Delphin LaLaurie was a French Socialite who lived in New Orleans, and her life would have gone absolutely unremarked, were it not for her preference for torturing and murdering black slaves in the 1800s.
LaLaurie treated her slaves as less than animal, often dawning them in iron collars and mutilating them for no particular reason. Reports of her cook being chained to the stove and LaLaurie beating her daughters when attempting to feed the slaves are the lesser offenses. Her crimes were noted after a fire that was said to be started deliberately to draw attention to her actions.
After the discovery of her crimes, a mob quite literally ran her out of town and she fled back to Paris where she died in Paris in 1842, though the method of death is unclear.
After 1945, stories of the LaLaurie slaves became considerably more explicit. Jeanne deLavigne, writing in Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans (1946), alleged that LaLaurie had a "sadistic appetite [that] seemed never appeased until she had inflicted on one or more of her black servitors some hideous form of torture" and claimed that those who responded to the 1834 fire had found "male slaves, stark naked, chained to the wall, their eyes gouged out, their fingernails pulled off by the roots; others had their joints skinned and festering, great holes in their buttocks where the flesh had been sliced away, their ears hanging by shreds, their lips sewn together ... Intestines were pulled out and knotted around naked waists. There were holes in skulls, where a rough stick had been inserted to stir the brains."
However DeLavigne's sources are unclear and, on the other hand, in public appearances LaLaurie was seen to be generally polite to blacks and solicitous of her slaves' health, and court records of the time showed that she even emancipated two of her own slaves (a Jean Louis in 1819 and a Devince in 1832).
I would not call this serial killing, but pure and simple racism, which has nothing to do with our subject. For a serial killer all others are less, it doesn't matter if they're black, brown, white or polka dotted.
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