Episode 88
Deadly Good Deeds & Toxic Kindness | Jan. 7, 2026 | 44:00
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
A woman runs rampant in 1930s Cincinnati.
Hosts
Greg Caputo
Maria Raha
Jason Schell
Topics
Headline: USA Today, Guangxi province, China, Oct. 25, 2019
Anna Marie Hahn
Philip Hahn
Karl Osswald
Ernst Koehler
George Heis
Jacob Wagner
George Gsellman
Georg Obendoerfer
croton oil
Additional Resources
Eds. “Blonde is Unperturbed by Sudden Deaths of Six Associates,” The Cincinnati Post. Aug. 12, 1937, page 2.
Eds. “Probers Find Poison in Body,” The Cincinnati Post. Aug. 13, 1937, page 1.
Eds. “Interview is Off, Then Mrs. Hahn Relents; Once had Desire to be Beauty Specialist,” The Cincinnati Enquirer. Aug. 18, 1937, page 4.
Eds. “Jury will Hear ‘Sweet Dady’ [sic.] Letters Read,” The Cincinnati Post. Oct. 23, 1937, page 2.
Eds. “I Slewed Four: Mrs. Hahn’s Confession,” The Washington Herald. Dec. 20, 1938, pages 1 and 6.
Hahn, Anna Marie. “Mrs. Hahn, While Waiting Death[,] Confessed to Killing Four,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dec. 27, 1938, page 1.Hahn, Anna Marie. “‘I Must Have Been Mad,’ Anna Marie Hahn Wrote,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dec. 28, 1938, page 3.
Lecky, George. “Arsenic Killings Sent First Woman to the Electric Chair,” The Cincinnati Post. April 30, 1980, page 16.
Perrin, Lisa. The League of Lady Poisoners.Chronicle Books: San Francisco. 2023. Pages 103–106.
Telfer, Tori. Lady Killers. Harper Collins: New York. 2017. Pages 135–157.
