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Aug 2022
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From Bad Luck To Murder - August 23 2022...

Morning Cup of Murder
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August 23rd: Marie Noe Born (1928)
When does bad luck become suspicious? On August 23rd 1928 a woman was born who would suffer from the cruel hands of, what everyone believed, was horrible bad luck. A woman who, after decades of people believing her story, was charged for not 1, not 2, but 8 murders that had previously given her nothing but sympathy from her community. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Noe, https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/08/06/marie-noe-dead/, https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/marie-noe/, https://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/noe-marie.htm, https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/year-in-review/20100203_Killer_of_8_babies_now_alone.html, https://www.alcatrazeast.com/crime-library/serial-killers/marie-noe/, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mother-charged-with-smothering-her-eight-children
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