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Lizzie Halliday
Lizzie Halliday ( – June 18, 1918) was an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of four people in upstate New York during the 1890s. In 1894 she became the first woman to be sentenced to be executed by the electric chair but her sentence was commuted and she spent the rest of her life in a mental institution. She killed a nurse while institutionalized and there was speculation that she may have killed at least two more people, her husbands from previous marriages.
==Biography==
Lizzie Halliday, originally Eliza Margaret McNally, was born around 1859〔Harold Schechter, Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of, Random House Publishing Group – 2012, page 58 (born 1859)〕 in County Antrim, Ireland. Her family moved to the US when she was young (given as aged three or eight).〔 In 1879 she married a Pennsylvania man called either Charles Hopkins or Ketspool Brown.〔 They are said to have had one son who ended up institutionalized. In 1881 Hopkins died and she married a pensioner named Artemus Brewer but he died less than a year later. She then married Hiram Parkinson who left her within their first year of marriage. She went on to marry George Smith, a war veteran who had served with Brewer. She supposedly made a failed attempted to kill Smith by putting arsenic in his tea and then ran off to Bellows Falls, Vermont, stealing many items from Smith's house. She married Vermont resident Charles Playstel but vanished two weeks later.〔
In the winter of 1888 Lizzie resurfaced in Philadelphia when she turned up at a saloon on 1218 North Front street that was run by old friends from Ireland, the McQuillans. Going by the name "Maggie Hopkins"〔(Serial Killer Lizzie Halliday, unknownmisandry.blogspot.com (excerpts from several contemporaneous newspapers and publications ))〕 she set up a shop but was later convicted of burning it down for the insurance money and was sentenced to two years at Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary.
In 1889, now going by the name "Lizzie Brown", she became the housekeeper for Paul Halliday, a twice-widowed seventy-year-old farmer living in Burlingham in Sullivan County, New York with his sons.〔 They married in 1890 and things were bad almost from the start with the elder Halliday telling one son Lizzie was prone to "spells of insanity" that would then go away.〔("A Murderous Maniac – The Many Crimes Charged Against Lizzie Halliday, A mania Like Jack The Ripper" Frederick NewsMaryland, U.S.A. 11 September 1893 (reprinted at findagrave.com) )〕 Within the next two years the Halliday house and barn both burned down; Lizzie was suspected of setting the fires. At some point she stole a team of horses and had a neighbor help her drive them to Newburgh, New York where she sold them. She was acquitted of the crime on the grounds of insanity (accounts vary as to this happening in 1890 or 1893).
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