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Lizzie Halliday (born Eliza Margaret McNally; c. 1859 – June 28, 1918) was an Irish-American serial killer responsible for the deaths of four people in upstate New York during the 1890s. In 1894, she became the first woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair. [1]
- Who Was Lizzie Halliday?
- Lizzie Halliday’s Murder Farm
- Lizzie Halliday, ‘The Catskills Ripper’
- Lizzie Halliday Is Dubbed The Worst Woman on Earth
- The Hunt For Female Serial Killers
Lizzie Halliday was only three years old when she traveled from Northern Ireland to the United States. In 1879, she married for the first time. Over the next 14 years, she would walk down the aisle five more times. Was Lizzie unlucky — or did she play a rolein her husbands’ high mortality rate? “Whether these men died natural deaths or were murdere...
After his son’s death, Paul Halliday vanished. Wary of Halliday, neighbors asked after Paul, while the black widow insisted that her husband was simply away from the farm on travel. When Halliday wasn’t looking, the neighbors searched the farm. Thanks to her track record of crime, many in the quiet community were convinced that she had killed her h...
“From its circumstances, origin, conception, and execution; its unique characteristics, the abnormal personalities and peculiar localities it involves, and, above all, in the strangeness and mystery of its great central figure, it is unprecedented and almost without parallel in the annals of crime,” the New York Worlddeclared. Reporter Nellie Bly v...
Lizzie Halliday went on trial for murder in 1894. The Sullivan County court quickly convicted her of three murders — the McQuillans and her husband. Halliday almost certainly killed more people, but police could not connect her with other crimes. Her mistake had been hiding the bodies at her farm, where she could be easily connected to the killings...
The late 19th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon – killers who claimed multiple victims and murdered with brutal precision. But Jack the Ripper and H.H. Holmes weren’t the only Victorian serial killers. Women like Lizzie Halliday and Mary Ann Cotton also racked up multiple killings. Female serial killers weren’t exactly like their male counte...
Jun 18, 2023 · Lizzie Halliday likely killed her first two husbands among several others in the 1890s. She was the first woman sentenced to death in the electric chair.
- Freelance Writer
Jun 9, 2022 · While awaiting trial, Lizzie Halliday quickly became a notorious figure. Word of her crime reached reporters who, apparently looking for shocking true crime stories with as much fervor as any modern podcaster, latched onto the gruesome details.
- Sarah Crocker
Aug 25, 2020 · Discover the chilling history of Hudson Valley serial killer Lizzie Brown Halliday, who terrorized Sullivan County in the 1890s.
Sep 26, 2023 · Horrifying story of the serial killer called the "worst woman in the world" Elizabeth Margaret McNally was the first female to be sentenced to death by electric chair.
Aug 11, 2014 · Lizzie Halliday died at Matteawan on June 18, 1918. Photo: Convicted murderer Lizzie Halliday as a young woman. There may be no more despicable person in Sullivan County’s history than Lizzie Brown Halliday. She was known to have murdered at least five persons, and was.
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