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Lizzie Halliday | |
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.png) Newspaper portrait of Lizzie Halliday | |
| Born | Eliza Margaret McNally c. 1859 County Antrim, Ireland |
| Died | June 28, 1918 (aged 58–59) Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Fishkill, New York, United States |
| Other names | Maggie Hopkins Lizzie Brown |
| Occupation(s) | Shop owner Housekeeper |
| Spouses | Ketspool Brown (married 1879; died 1881) Artemus Brewer (married and died 1881) Hiram Parkinson George Smith Charles Playstel Paul Halliday (murdered 1891) |
| Children | 1 |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4-8+ |
Span of crimes | 1891 – 1906 (possibly as far back as 1881) |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | New York (state) |
Date apprehended | 1888 1891 |
Lizzie Halliday (born Eliza Margaret McNally; c. 1859 – June 28, 1918) was an Irish-American serial killer responsible for the deaths of four people in upstate New York during the 1890s. In 1894, she became the first woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair.[1] Halliday's sentence was commuted and she spent the rest of her life in a mental institution. She killed a nurse while institutionalized and is speculated to have killed her first two husbands.
- ^ Farrell, Elaine; McCormick, Leanne. "'Bad Bridgets': The criminal and deviant Irish women convicted in America". The Irish Times. Retrieved January 4, 2021.