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Martha Wise
Martha Wise (1884 – June 28, 1971), born Martha Hasel, was an American poisoner. After her husband died and her family forced her to end a relationship with a new lover, Wise retaliated by poisoning seventeen family members, of whom three died, in 1924. She was convicted of one of the murders, despite defense claims that she was mentally ill and that her lover had ordered her to poison her family. The case is considered one of the most sensational of the era in Ohio, where it occurred.
==Early life==
Wise was born in 1884 to Sophie Hasel and her husband,〔Sources name the mother, but provide only the last name "Hasel" for the father.〕 farmers in Hardscrabble, a town in Medina County, Ohio. Three brothers and a sister were also born to the family,〔 although contemporary sources name only one, a brother named Fred. In 1906, Martha Hasel met the substantially older Albert Wise at a box social;〔 the two were married, though Wise neglected to give her a wedding ring.
The marriage was not happy. Martha moved onto Albert's farm, but quickly discovered that he expected a farmhand more than a wife, and life was no less poor as a married woman than it had been when she lived with her parents. Even when pregnant, she was forced to do farm work that was generally male-oriented (such as plowing fields〔 and slopping hogs〔) as well as the usual household chores of baking and cleaning. The couple's first child, Albert, did not survive infancy; four others, Everett, Gertrude, Kenneth, and Lester, did.〔
Wise's main source of diversion during this period was funerals; she seldom missed a visit to any funeral held in or near the town, whether she had known the deceased or not. When questioned, she simply said that she liked funerals.〔 Albert Wise died suddenly in 1923, leaving his wife a 40-year-old widow with four children. Her odd behavior and fixation on funerals became more noticeable,〔 and she began not only attending funerals, but openly crying and lamenting at them, no matter who had died.〔
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