Ottilie Klimek
Ottilie Klimek , nickname Tillie , maiden name Teofila Gburek, (born October 22, 1877 in Poland , † November 20, 1936 in the Joliet Correctional Center , Illinois ) was an American serial killer in Chicago.
Life
After several weeks of shipping, the Gburek family from Poland arrived in Chicago around 1880. In 1895 Tillie married John Mitkiewicz (1873–1914), who died on January 13, 1914. On February 27, the widow married John Ruszkowski, who died on May 20, 1914. For several years she lived with her life partners Joseph Guszkowski, Joseph Grantkowski and Meyers. She claimed to be able to predict the death of pets, neighbors and acquaintances.
In 1921 she married Frank Kupczyk. Tillie urged him to take out life insurance, and then predicted an imminent death. She bought a coffin on sale for $ 30 in stock, which the landlady agreed to keep in the basement of the apartment at 924 North Winchester until her husband's death in 1921. When he died, she married Anton Klimek in 1921. The couple made a will in which they set up each other as heirs.
When Anton Klimek's health deteriorated shortly afterwards, his relatives took him to a hospital, where, after a stomach examination, he was diagnosed with arsenic poisoning . Tillie Klimek filed a voluntary report and only admitted the most recent poisoning. She was arrested on October 27, 1922 and the body of the late Frank Kupczyk was exhumed , after which it was found fatal poisoning with arsenic . When the police arrested Tillie Klimek and her cousin Nellie Kulik and investigated 20 suspicious deaths and illnesses in the Polish neighborhood , headlines about the " Bluebeard clique " appeared in local newspapers .
Tillie Klimek was sentenced in March 1923 in Chicago to life imprisonment , the highest sentence pronounced against a woman in the Cook Country Courthouse . She was taken to Joliet Correctional Center prison and died there on November 20, 1936 at the age of 59. The burial took place in the Bohemian National Cemetery .
See also
literature
- Klimek Tillie in; Adam Selzer, William Griffith: Speaking Ill of the Dead. Jerks in Chicago History . Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut 2012, ISBN 978-0-7627-7291-9 , pp. 151-161 and 210.
- Cara Davidson: Black widow Tillie Klimek . Kindle Direct Publishing , 2016, ISBN 978-1530884636 (Amazon)
Web links
- Tille Klimek at Murderpedia.org (English)
- Ottilie Klimek in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 5, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Strange Murders of Tillie Klimek. Medium, archived from the original on May 12, 2020 ; accessed on May 11, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b Ottilie "Tillie" Gburek Klimek. Find a Grave , accessed on May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Adam Selzer: Tillie Klimek's Many Victims. (No longer available online.) Mysterious Chicago Blog, February 24, 2012, archived from the original on July 25, 2014 ; accessed on July 17, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Karen J Lambert: Ottilie "Tillie" Gburek Klimek. December 2, 2012, accessed July 17, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klimek, Ottilie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klimek, Ottilie (complete last married name); Tillie (nickname); Gburek, Teofila (Polish maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American serial killer in Chicago |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1936 |
| Place of death | Joliet Correctional Center , Illinois , United States |