The Widow of Liège: Marie Alexandrine Becker
In 1930s Liège, a widow poured the tea, borrowed the money, and measured the dose. Marie Alexandrine Becker — the Black Widow, the Belgian Borgia — was convicted of poisoning eleven people and attempting to kill five more.
Host Alexander Lawson follows her rise from a farm in Waasmont to a dressmaker’s parlour, the digitaline in the cup, the anonymous letters that finally stopped her, and the 1938 trial that ended in a death sentence Belgium would not carry out.
The most dangerous room in this story was not a dungeon. It was a sitting room with two cups.
A True Crime Podcast.
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