9. TILLIE KLIMEK was a serial husband poisoner. In 1922, when her fourth husband was hospitalized with a mysterious illness just a year after her third husband had died, Chicago officials got suspicious. During her trial for the death of her thrid husband, neighbors testified that while he was sick, she joked about the coffin she was going to get for him and what she was going to wear to the funeral.
Though she was just convicted for the third husband's death, officials linked her for the arsenic deaths of her first two, a boyfriend and at least two cousins. She had taken out insurance policies on all her husbands, including the fourth, who survived.
10. Amazon tribes made their arrows more deadly by bathing the tips in toxic secretions from frogs. Some tribes would pin the frogs down and rub their arrows on the skin. But the Choco people of Colombia roasted the frogs and caught the drippings in a bottle, allowing for easy arrow-dipping.
Quite the Lady, That Tillie. Wonder If She Went to Prison? --Cooter
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