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Marie Fortunée <I>Cappelle</I> Lafarge

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Marie Fortunée Cappelle Lafarge

Birth
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
Death
7 Sep 1852 (aged 36)
Ussat, Departement de l'Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, France
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Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Parricide - Poisoner
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: January 3, 1840
Date of arrest: January 26, 1840
Date of birth: January 15, 1816
Victim profile: Charles Pouch-Lafarge (her husband)
Method of murder: Poisoning (arsenic)
Location: Beyssac, Corrèze, Limousin, France
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor on September 19, 1840. King Louis-Philippe, however, commuted her sentence to life without hard labor. On June 1852, stricken with tuberculosis, she was released by Napoleon III. Died on November 7 of the same year
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Parricide - Poisoner
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: January 3, 1840
Date of arrest: January 26, 1840
Date of birth: January 15, 1816
Victim profile: Charles Pouch-Lafarge (her husband)
Method of murder: Poisoning (arsenic)
Location: Beyssac, Corrèze, Limousin, France
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor on September 19, 1840. King Louis-Philippe, however, commuted her sentence to life without hard labor. On June 1852, stricken with tuberculosis, she was released by Napoleon III. Died on November 7 of the same year

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