The riveting true story of a 1950s sweater-girl-turned-serial-killer in Bible Belt America. The beautiful daughter of a traveling preacher man, Blanche was the kind of woman men watched and women envied. But then her first marriage soured, and soon her husband was dead. Next came a fiance, and then a second husband, before doctors uncovered a chilling pattern of poisonings that eventually put Blanche on death row. 20 photos.
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The riveting true story of a 1950s sweater-girl-turned-serial-killer in Bible Belt America. The beautiful daughter of a traveling preacher man, Blanche was the kind of woman men watched and women envied. But then her first marriage soured, and soon her husband was dead. Next came a fiance, and then a second husband, before doctors uncovered a chilling pattern of poisonings that eventually put Blanche on death row. 20 photos.
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If you?re looking for a can?t-put-down true crime book, you won?t regret reading Preacher?s Girl, by Jim Schutze, the story of Blanche Taylor Moore, who was given the death sentence for poisoning one man with arsenic (and believed responsible for, but never tried for, the arsenic death of her father, first husband, mother-in-law, and near death of her second husband). Schutze loves words and knows how to use them. Together with an eye for detail and a reporter?s instinct for balancing both sides, he captures the diabolical dual personality of Blanche Taylor Moore, who could be a pious church woman one minute and spewing sexual obscenities the next. From her teen years to her late fifties, when she went to prison, Blanche was a clever manipulator and modern Lucrezia Borgia, getting away with murder for decades. Preacher?s Girl covers all aspects of the murders, investigation, exhumations, and the most interesting parts of the trial (without resorting to tedious court transcripts). The book was written in the early 90s and later turned into a hit TV movie. As of 2009, Taylor Moore has not been executed; she is still in prison, appealing her sentence and professing her innocence.