Lyles, Anjette (1917–1977)
Lyles, Anjette (1917–1977)
American serial killer. Born 1917; died in Milledgeville, GA, Dec 1977.
Worked as restaurant owner in Cochran, GA, and practiced black magic and voodoo; murdered 4 people with arsenic: her 9-year-old daughter Marcia (1958), 2 husbands (1952 and 1955), and mother-in-law (1957); in highly publicized trial, tried only for death of daughter Marcia and found guilty; though sentenced to death, later found to be insane and sent to State Hospital at Milledgeville, GA, where she died of heart failure at 52.
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