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Tillie Klimek has many nicknames, among them “The Black Widow of Chicago,” “The High Priestess of the Bluebeard Clique,” and—my favorite—“The Premonition Poisoner.” She was rumored to be a psychic, and said to have poisoned as many as 20 people, cementing her name as one of the merry murderesses of 1920s Chicago.

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Episode Source List:

https://murderpedia.org/female.K/k/klimek-tillie.htm

https://www.jezebel.com/lady-killers-tillie-klimek-high-priestess-of-the-blue-1677860528

https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-castle-herald-tillie-klimeknellie-k/141003506/

https://heathermonroe.medium.com/the-strange-murders-of-tillie-klimek-effa70912b5b

https://driehausmuseum.org/blog/view/chicagos-breakdown-when-jazz-came-north

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/arsenic/arsenic-a-murderous-history/

https://news.wttw.com/2017/06/21/ugly-prey-tells-story-first-woman-sentenced-hang-chicago

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/03/09/photos-chicagos-murderess-row-in-1924-and-all-that-jazz/

https://www.racked.com/2018/1/26/16927682/makeover-death-penalty-sabella-nitti