On August 25, 1928, the sheriff of St.
Kay Murph.
Authorities sought to question her in a mystery which had been building for twenty years: Was she a selfless saint who voluntarily cared for the acutely ill in order to nurse them back to health and restore them to their families? Or a minister of death whose crimes would qualify her as one of America\'s few female serial killers? In this riveting nonfiction memoir, journalist S.
Louis County took into custody a fifty-year-old Missouri farmwife.
On August 25, 1928, the sheriff of St