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The Murders of Martha Wise: A Shocking True Crime Story
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 1 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She baked bread, loved funerals-and poisoned her family.
A meticulously researched, propulsive true-crime biography of Martha Wise, the Ohio widow who slipped arsenic into food and water in 1925-leaving three dead and dozens ill.Step into the packed courthouse. Hear the confession. See whether the Devil really told her to do it.
Includes trial details, period newspaper research, and newly clarified timelines. Reads like a thriller-documented like history. In the winter of 1924-1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, was shaken to its core. Martha Wise-an ordinary farm widow with an extraordinary obsession-slipped arsenic into her family's food and water. Three of her relatives were dead, dozens more gravely ill, and a rural community was gripped by fear.
What followed was a murder investigation and trial unlike anything the Midwest had ever seen. Was Martha a cold-blooded killer, or-as she later claimed-a woman under the spell of the Devil himself?
If you enjoy the classic storytelling of Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Harold Schechter, or the gripping modern style of Gregg Olsen, Kathryn Casey, and M. William Phelps, you'll find yourself hooked by The Murders of Martha Wise. Meticulously researched but written with the pace and passion of a thriller, this is true crime that grips like a novel.
Step into the courthouse packed with reporters and gawkers. Smell the cigarette smoke curling through the air. Hear Martha's confession in her own words-and watch as a prosecutor, a small-town sheriff, and a grieving community demand justice.
A chilling true story so shocking, it reads like the darkest crime novel.
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