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"Sister" Amy Duggan Archer-Gilligan (October 1868 – April 23, 1962)〔''The Hartford Courant'' newspaper lists her date and place of death as 23 Apr 1962 at the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, Connecticut.〕 was a Windsor, Connecticut, nursing home proprietor and multiple murderer. She systematically murdered at least five people by poison; one was her second husband, Michael Gilligan, and the rest were residents of her nursing home. It is possible that she was involved in more deaths; authorities found 48 deaths total from her nursing homes. == Childhood and marriage == Amy E. Duggan was born in October 1873 to James Duggan and Mary Kennedy in Milton, Connecticut, the eighth of ten children.〔''Connecticut Death Records'' Mary Kennedy Duggan, 1838-1915〕〔''1870 US Census of Litchfield, Connecticut, page 73''; ''1880 US Census of Litchfield, Connecticut''; ''1900 US Census of Litchfield, Connecticut, Sheet 18B''; 1900 US Census of Litchfield, Connecticut, Sheet 24A''; 1910 US Census of Windsor, Connecticut, Page 18''〕 She was taught at the Milton School and went to the New Britain Normal School in 1890.〔''Chronicles of Milton: Village Left Behind by Time'' by the Milton Women's Club〕 Amy married James Archer in 1897. A daughter, Mary J. Archer, was born in December 1897.〔 The Archers got their first job as caretakers in 1901. They were hired to take care of elderly widower John Seymour, and they settled in his home at Newington, Connecticut. Seymour died in 1904. His heirs turned the residence into a boarding house for the elderly. The Archers were allowed to stay. They provided care for the elderly for a fee and in turn paid rent to Seymour's family.〔 (Mara Bovsun )〕 They ran the house under the name of "Sister Amy's Nursing Home for the Elderly". In 1907, Seymour's heirs decided to sell the house. The Archers moved to Windsor, Connecticut and used their savings to purchase their own residence on Prospect St in Windsor center. They soon converted it into a business, the Archer Home for the Elderly and Infirm. It could be considered a pioneer in the health care field in Connecticut. James Archer died in 1910 of apparently natural causes. The official cause of death was Bright's disease, a generic term for kidney diseases.〔 Amy had taken out an insurance policy on him a few weeks before his death, so she was able to continue running the Archer Home. In 1913, Amy married her second husband, Michael W. Gilligan,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Gilligan&GSfn=MIchael&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1914&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=57810519&df=all& )〕 a widower with four adult sons.〔''1900 US Census of Windsor, Connecticut, Sheet 8A''; 1910 US Census of Windsor, Connecticut, Page 12''〕 He was reportedly wealthy and interested in both Amy and in investing in the Archer Home. Michael died February 20, 1914.〔(Connecticut Deaths and Burials record at familysearch.org )〕 The official cause of death was "acute bilious attack", in other words "severe indigestion".〔 Archer-Gilligan was once again financially secure: in their short marriage her new husband had drawn up a will, leaving her his entire estate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amy Archer-Gilligan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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