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Word: cataumet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habit of giving them less-than-lethal doses to prolong their illnesses if she liked working for them. One day in 1901, her old friend Mrs. Alden P. Davis came to visit her, died in convulsions after dinner. Nurse Toppan accompanied the body to the Davis home at Cataumet. When people came with flowers (Nurse Toppan later said), "I wanted to say to them: 'You had better wait and in a little while I will have another funeral for you.'" Sure enough, within 40 days she had done away with Mr. Davis and two Davis daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chronic Murder | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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