Calculating Cancer: The Angel-Maker

Signs of Danger: A True Crime Astrology Podcast · Jul 13, 2026 · 30m

She told the mothers their babies had been adopted by rich families in distant countries. One payment. One handoff. And your child -- the one born outside of marriage, the one you could not afford -- would be raised by people with means. The mothers paid. The mothers left. The mothers believed. What Elisabeth Wiese actually did was poison the babies with morphine and burn their bodies in a stove in her apartment. She was a former midwife. A woman trained to bring children into the world.

Seven hundred miles south, in Belgium, a woman served digitalis in tea to her elderly customers. When the…