205 | Crazy About Killing: Lizzie Halliday "The Worst Woman on Earth"
Talk Murder To Me
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🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Lizzie Halliday was an Irish-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 death by the electric chair. Halliday's sentence was commuted and she spent the rest of her life in a mental institution.
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| 0:00.0 | What's it like to have the title of the world's worst woman? |
| 0:04.2 | That distinction goes to a fiend you've likely never heard of. |
| 0:07.9 | And if you're unfortunate enough to get stuck in this black widow's web, |
| 0:12.0 | you may find yourself under the floorboards along with her previous |
| 0:15.6 | kills. |
| 0:16.6 | Tonight we look back to the olden days with one of the oldest cases we've covered and to see |
| 0:21.4 | what it takes to be crowned the worst. |
| 0:24.4 | We don't have a hint tonight but that's okay. So we're just, I am drinking a Sam Adams. |
| 0:37.0 | So is John, and I am drinking a white claw. |
| 0:42.0 | We also have a surprise shot. We do we do I picked it tonight. Yes and it's |
| 0:46.9 | funny because where you Nicole do not like brown liquor or dark liquor |
| 0:54.4 | clear liquor scares me. |
| 0:56.0 | So... |
| 0:57.6 | I don't know how this one's gonna be to be honest we haven't done have had this before |
| 1:00.6 | so... |
| 1:01.6 | That's it's truly a surprise. That's truly a surprise. |
| 1:03.7 | That is also, uh, that's pretty scary. |
| 1:06.0 | Worry. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, I don't like the sound of that. |
| 1:09.8 | But I do like the sound of this. |
| 1:11.2 | Surprise shot. |
| 1:15.0 | Surprise shot. |
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