"TORCH" MURDERER
WOMAN BURNS HUSBAND ■CHICAGO, 12th July. Laura Weaver, 21, who is six feet tall and weighs 16.6, confessed that she the-first woman "torch" murderer in American', crime history. . Resenting her husband's cruelty, this Amazon le.t loose her tremendous strength, and strangled him on their bed. She then trussed his body with fishlines, tied him in canvas and carried'him downstairs to their motor car. She took his body into the countrysaturated his clothes witli naphtha, set fire to them, and watched him burn until he was beyond recognition.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 23 July 1929, Page 5
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89"TORCH" MURDERER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 23 July 1929, Page 5
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