History Is the Crime

In post–World War I Hungary, the small village ofNagyrév captured the attention of the world as the hub of one of the largest female-led mass poisonings. At the center of this poisoning scandal was a midwife named Zsuzsanna Fazekas. When women confided in her about their problems, the midwife offered them a homemade arsenic solution, which they used to get rid of their abusive husbands, ailing fam...