From Peter Vronsky: In France between 1664 and 1672, the aristocratic Marie de
Brinvilliers was reported to have poisoned fifty or more victims. Prior to
murdering her father, who opposed her marriage, and then her two brothers to
seize an inheritance, Marie experimented with poisons concocted by her lover in
hospital charity wards, where she began volunteering to care for patients. She
carefully observed the effects of her poison on the patients, adjusting the
doses accordingly. Marie was discovered and became a fugitive until she was
captured in 1676 and beheaded in Paris.
[Peter Vronsky, Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women
Become Monsters, 2007, Berkley Books, p. 94]
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