Scammer Catherine Flannagan
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Name: | Catherine Flannagan |
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Born: | 1829 |
whether Dead or Alive: | 1884 |
Age: | 55 |
Country: | UK |
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Criminal / Fraud / Scam Penalty: | Death |
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Description :
Catherine Flannagan (1829 3 March 1884) and Margaret Higgins (1843 3 March 1884) were Irish sisters who were convicted of poisoning and murdering one person in Liverpool, England, and suspected of four more deaths. The women collected a burial society payout (a type of life insurance) on each death, and were found to have been committing murders using arsenic to obtain the insurance money.