A Murderess Affair

Today, we're talking about Shayna Hubers, who I heard about in this wonderful book called Porn and Murder. This is an actual book that I own on my kindle account.  Shayna was convicted of murdering her on again/off again boyfriend Ryan Poston in 2012. 

 It's October aka the best month of the year and it's time to get spooky! Or, at least more spooky than usual. This month, we're going to be tying our women to the tropes we find most often in horror movies.  Our first murderess?  A woman who strangled her best friend for around $2000. Her name was Guen Garlejo Aguilar and she murdered Jane Parangan La Puebla in the early 2000s.

Razia Sultana, South Asia's first female ruler. She was a sultan who broke across many barriers, first female ruler being only one of them. 

This week we're talking about Yang Kyin Hsiu, aka " Olive" Yang. She was royalty turned warlord, who's CIA supplied army had opium delivery routes all across the golden triangle. She also helped fund public schools in rural areas and dated famous Burmese actress Wah Wah Win Shwe. You can see how she definitely caught my attention.    Check out our merch here: frumiousreads.com/shop

This week, we're talking about Marie Equi, a Wild West style of doctor who was devoted to provide care to those who were working class or poor.  She was one of the first 60 women to be a physician in Oregon, and was the only female doctor from the Oregon team to help with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake disaster. 

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH Y'ALL!   Well it's June and that means it's time for us to cover women in LGBTQ+ history who you may or may not have heard of. Not that we save those stories for June specifically, we aren't every other corporation in America here, but I think in June it's nice to focus specifically on those in history who were part of the LGBTQ+ community but otherwise may remain unknown or hear...

This episode we talk about the "Lioness of Brittany", a woman who took revenge against King Philip IV by becoming a pirate and commandeering war ships known as the Black Fleet. Outraged by the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson haunted the French fleet for 13 years during her piracy career, before deciding to marry and retire. Her story is definitely one you should know! 

After the disgusting woman of last week's episode, Ghislaine Maxwell and her involvement with Epstein, I felt like it was important to cover a woman who's story ended with her getting her own justice. Now, trigger warning for mentions of rape, but our story is Timoclea of Thebes, who murdered the man who raped her by pushing him down a well and throwing heavy stones on him until he died.

Maxwell is infamous at this time for her association with convicted pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and is currently awaiting trial for charges against her involving sex trafficking and conspiracy. After watching the docuseries "Filthy Rich" on Netflix, there is a lot to discuss about her case and involvement. TW for topics of sexual assault, pedophilia, and human trafficking.    Nat...

Today we journey to Madagascar, in the early 1800's at a time when the country was being increasingly fought over by France and Britain. From what I've been able to tell, her story is one that's hard to find the truth on because it's been so exaggerated and twisted by history. I'll give my final opinion at the end, but in most of these stories Ranavalona ranges from being literally the most evil a...

Gesche Gottfried is our murderess of the week, keeping with the theme of caretakers who poison and kill those who are under their care. Gottfried had killed anywhere between 16-30 people using arsenic between the years of 1813-1826, and was the last person to be publicly executed in Bremen, Germany. 

Our murderess of the week was described as being sweet, charismatic, and a downright saint. At least, until she was caught and admitted to murdering anywhere between 30-100 people. This week, we're talking about "Jolly" Jane Toppan, who used her profession as a nurse to get her hands on opiates and sedatives that she would use is a deadly cocktail mix on her victims. 

And here we go with part two of our Phoolan Devi episode! This week, let's talk about Phoolan Devi after she decides to quit her life of banditry. If you can imagine it, her life only includes MORE adventures afterwards. 

We're talking about India's Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi. She had so much happen to her starting at a young age, she was a child bride, kidnapped, leader of bandits, arrested and put in jail, and eventually elected to hold a seat in the Indian Parliament. And this was all by the time she was around 37 years old.

This week, we're celebrating the start of 2021 by going back a century to 1921, and investigating the murdering postmistress Lena Clarke. She admitted to murdering a man named Fred Miltimore, but got away with it by pleading insanity. Some highlights include, her bringing a crystal ball to testify on the stand about her 12 previous lives.    Buy our merch here! frumiousreads.com/shop

This week I'm talking about not one, not two, but THREE women who committed crimes on Christmas Day. Spoilers: One of them involves a ceramic squirrel. Let's talk about Jasmine Jackson, Randi Young, and Helen Ann Williams who were all arrested for some pretty humbug-ish behavior this holiday.  Buy some merch! frumiousreads.com/shop Follow/Subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen! 

Twas the night before Christmas...and  murder was afoot.  Our next murderess in our Christmas countdown is Michele Anderson, a family annihilator who murdered six members of her family the night before Christmas along with her boyfriend. Together, they murdered six people, killing essentially 3 generations of Michele's family.  Check out our merch here: frumiousreads.com/shop   g32menuc  

Our first murderess of the week is Melissa Young, a transgender Scotland native who was arrested for murdering her neighbor because he, apparently, hated his gift. Some gifts are literally to die for. Or kill for, in this case. Buy our merch: frumiousreads.com/shop Check out our home page: frumiousreads.com/a-murderess-affair

Happy Thanksgiving!! Due to some technical difficulties, I was unfortunately unable to upload this episode when I wanted (curse you computer), but I hope you all enjoy it anyway! If possible, I'll try to get a bonus episode up this weekend for y'all!  Our murderess of the week was declared responsible for a series of poisonings that rocked a tiny village in Nagyrev, Hungary. A series of poisonings...

Today we're covering Mexican revolutionary Petra Herrera, who also went by "Pedro". She was an active participant of the Mexican Revolution under the leadership of Francisco "Pacho" Villa. When she was outed as a woman, removed of her military rank and status, she formed her own militia of women with members between 400-1000 who would fight alongside the men in battle.  Let me know what you think...

Happy almost Halloween!! I seriously cannot wait to celebrate my favorite holiday of the year. And what better way to celebrate throughout the month than by talking about a Russian noble who murdered many of the servants working there as a twisted sort of revenge for her lover having an affair with another woman. Her name was Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova. 

Otillie "Tillie" Klimek was born on October 22nd 1877 in Poland. She was considered to be a "psychic", predicting the deaths of the people around her with astounding accuracy. Almost a little too accurate, as it turned out. Let's talk about Tillie Klimek and her much less heard of cousin Nellie, who were responsible for the deaths of over 10 people.  Shop merch here: frumiousreads.com/shop

If you didn't know, this month is Latinx Appreciation Month. It runs from September 15-October 15th and I figured I'd take advantage to use this time to talk about a woman from history that not many people may know about. A woman who was considered to be a trailblazer for many, a great teacher, and the woman who stared down a group of Texas Rangers and forced them to turn back from where they had...

Our murderess of the week is Anna Zwanzinger of Bavaria, Germany. She would poison her employers with arsenic, and then help nurse them back to health so they held her in higher favor and were grateful of her. Not exactly the best way to win employee of the month.  Check out the podcast home page here: https://www.frumiousreads.com/a-murderess-affair

This week we are taking a trip to Argentina, where we're learning about Maria de las Mercedes Bernardina Bolla Aponte de Murano, better known as Yiya Murano. Her case is one of the most famous in Argentina, and she was imprisoned for sixteen years for committing 3 different murders.  Sixteen years really doesn't seem like much when it comes to killing 3 different people, if I'm being honest.  MERC...