Robinson, Sarah Jane (d. 1905)
Robinson, Sarah Jane (d. 1905)
Irish-American serial killer. Born in Ireland; died in prison, 1905; married a man named Robinson (murdered 1882); children: William and Lizzie.
While living in Cambridge, MA, indicted for 6 murders by arsenic poisoning (1886), though she may have been suspected in even more cases; killed her husband, sister, and at least 1, if not both, of her children; convicted for murder of her brother-in-law.
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