Rhonda Bell Martin
Rhonda Bell Martin (* probably 1908 , † October 11, 1957 ) was an American serial killer from Birmingham (Alabama) . She was executed on the electric chair .
Life
Out of greed for profit, the waitress poisoned her mother, two of her five husbands and three of her own children with arsenic between 1932 and 1956 . She found autopsy results so that she ultimately confessed to these murders . She vehemently denied two other child killings and protested that these children died of natural causes. The opposite could no longer be proven due to the time that had now passed.
During the investigation, she was vague about her motive, but investigating officers found that she had previously taken out high life insurance policies on all victims. Her last husband barely survived the poison attack on him, but remained permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
Rhonda Bell Martin was the third woman to be executed in Alabama on the electric chair introduced in 1927. It was only on 10 May 2002 was here with Lynda Lyon Block, a cop killer to get back to a woman in this way a death sentence carried out.
The Martin case was described by Ellery Queen in the short story Mrs. Martin's Murder Spree , originally published in The American Weekly in 1958 or 1959 . In 1966 she reappeared under the title The Mystery of Rhonda Bell Martin in the book The Woman in the Case .
She was the inspiration for the film Katie Bird - The Birth of a Monster .
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| SURNAME | Martin, Rhonda Bell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American serial killer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1908 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1957 |