pine sparrow
Discovered Lavinia Fisher’s story in South Carolina. A guide was obsessed with the story and routinely researched for accurate info. However, occurring in 1820 makes solid details difficult for obvious reasons.
She was the mastermind - here’s the gist:
Husband and wife ran an inn of sorts and would figure out if a patron was wealthy or not. She would give them roofied tea that would knock them out and either the husband would beat the victim to death or there is a tale about a trap door being located at the foot of the bed in a specific room they could dump their victims in. They would kill the victims and steal their valuable property. They were actually booked on “Highway Robbery,” which was a capital offense at the time.
What got me was that they were both publicly hanged - but in this time period married women were considered the property of their husbands and allegedly could not be executed. So …. they hung her husband first, making her a widow, and then hung her.
DANG.
shy magnet