How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers and Get Away With It

103 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h17min.
What's a gal to do when her loaded lover is getting to be a nuisance? Why, just murder him and take all his money, of course. If you want to be fabulously single with tons of cash, just follow the lead of the beautiful and conniving Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham, who left a trail of broken hearts, empty wallets, and corpses.Minnie was just 16 when she stood trial in 1885 for the wrongful death of her first husband, a successful businessman and politician almost 40 years her senior. Despite overwhelming witness testimony that the Creole beauty from New Orleans had purchased the arsenic that killed him, Minnie's own testimony brought the entire courtroom to tears. She was acquitted. Minnie returned to New Orleans with James Walkup's fortune, life insurance, Civil War pension, and all the expensive clothes she had shipped home before he even died.Minnie still didn't have enough cash for her liking, so she successfully targeted, seduced, and murdered two more wealthy older men while evading justice in the courtroom (and escaping her lawyer's fees, too). How to Murder Your Three Lovers and Get Away with It is an extraordinary and off-the-wall true story of intrigue, scandal, and murder.Prologue1. True Love Never Runs Smooth: The Death of a New Groom2. There is a House in New Orleans3. Don't Cry for Me, Emporia4. Pardon My Dust: Nonstop to Nowhere5. The Company She Keeps6. Moving On Up: In Which Josephine Captures and Loses a Prince7. Blood Money Squandered: The Necessity of Catching Mr. Ketcham8. The Importance of Keeping Mr. Ketcham – and His Money9. Of Plum Jam, Champagne, Wills, Unpaid Bills, and the Final Death That We Know OfEpilogue: The Final Love?Bibliography