“The Murder Factory” - Amy Archer-Gilligan

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.7 • 30.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Amy Archer-Gilligan opened a nursing home in Connecticut in 1907. By portraying herself as a kind and religious woman, she was able to recruit new residents. She was beloved in her neighborhood which is exactly why nobody suspected that she was a cold, calculated killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,
0:02.8	listener discretion is advised.
0:04.8	This episode includes discussions of murder and assault
0:07.9	that some people may find offensive.
0:10.0	We advise extreme caution for children under 13.
0:14.0	In 1914, reporters for the Hartford Current
0:21.0	were busy investigating the Archer Home for the Elderly in Windsor, Connecticut.
0:26.0	Lucy Durand, one of the Archer Homes middle-aged residents, had accused owner and caretaker Amy Archer Gilligan of neglect and abuse.
0:36.0	Amy did her best to silence Lucy.
0:39.0	She drove Lucy over to the neighboring town of Derby and paid off a doctor to declare Lucy insane.
0:46.2	With the diagnosis in hand, Amy put Lucy in a mental institution in Middletown, Connecticut,
0:51.9	assuming that no one would believe Lucy anymore.
0:55.0	Amy was wrong.
0:57.0	A current reporter named Aubrey Maddick managed to uncover Lucy's location.
1:02.0	He quickly traveled to Middletown and scribbled down her
1:05.8	horrifying tale of abuse at the Archer home.
1:10.0	While Lucy's exiled to a mental institution was a terrible fate.
1:14.2	Maddox soon learned that Lucy was lucky to leave the Archer home alive.
1:18.9	Most of Amy's residents weren't so fortunate. By 1916, Amy had killed over 40 of them.
1:27.0	Amy Archer Gilligan was a businesswoman who made a profession out of death.
1:34.0	Hi, I'm Greg Polson, and this is Serial Killers.
1:45.0	Today we're going to take a deep dive into the life of Amy Archer Gilligan,
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