October 22, 1877 - Tillie Klimek
What distinguished Klimek from many of her contemporaries was the elaborate social performance she constructed around her crimes — presenting herself as gifted with prophetic dreams while methodically poisoning those closest to her in Chicago's Polish immigrant community. The gap between her cultivated image and her actual conduct is what made her effective for as long as she was, and it is that calculated deception, as much as the killings themselves, that secures her place in the record.
From Wikipedia
Ottilie "Tillie" Klimek (born Otylia Gburek; 1876 – November 20, 1936) was a Polish American serial killer, active in Chicago. According to accounts, she pretended to have precognitive dreams, accurately predicting the dates of death of her victims, when in reality she was merely scheduling their deaths.
Further reading
- Black Widow Tillie Klimek
A focused profile of Polish-American serial killer Tillie Klimek, who allegedly poisoned between six and twenty victims with arsenic in early 1900s Chicago, with help from her cousin.
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This book chronicles how Chicago's most feared female poisoner used fake death predictions to mask her arsenic-fueled killing spree through husband after husband in Jazz Age Little Warsaw.
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