Psychic? Or A Murderer? - November 20 2024

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:12.0	A cup of murder...
0:15.0	Till death do you part.
0:17.3	It's a promise made during most wedding ceremonies, and when said, most people picture the couple old and gray.
0:25.3	On November 20, 1936, a woman died behind bars for crimes committed against her many husbands,
0:32.8	men whom she helped arrive at the death part of their vows earlier than intended. So if you like your
0:39.3	coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
0:45.6	Otili Tilly Clemack was born Atalia Greberich sometime in 1876 in Poland, and shortly after her birth, was moved to the United States by her parents,
0:58.5	though some sources say she was born in October of 1877. Settling in the Chicago area, a place
1:06.2	that at this point in time boasted a very large Polish population, the Giberic family consisted of
1:12.8	seven children, and Tilly was the oldest. Not much is known about her childhood, but we do know that
1:20.0	in 1895, she was married to a man named Joe Mitkiewicz. The couple was extremely well-liked in their community, and Tilly herself
1:29.5	had a reputation for two very distinct things, her delicious cooking, and her uncanny ability
1:37.0	to predict someone's death. You see, according to the sources, Tilly had these dreams in which
1:43.9	she claimed she could see the deaths of the people around her, people who, it seemed, got on her very last nerves, like her argumentative neighbor and the stray dogs in the neighborhood who drove her nuts.
1:57.6	While most called her a psychic, in reality, Tilly was a woman of action who, likely guarded by her sex and the perception of women at the time, seemed to get away with killing anyone whom she found bothersome, including her beloved husbands.
2:15.2	In 1914, though some sources say 1919,
2:19.6	Joe Mikkowitz passed away after a short battle with an illness.
2:24.3	His death was officially listed as heart trouble,
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