Accused Murderer Marie Besnard
Nov. 20, 1961 - Bordeaux, France - Accused of killing 12 people with arsenic, including her husband and her mother, MARIE BESNARD became famous as The Black Widow Of Loudun. However Besnard benefited in some manner from each of the murders, thus providing the prosecution with a motive, aside from the poison, the prosecution had only circumstantial evidence against Besnard. Pictured during her third court case, when she was acquitted
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