Amy Archer Gilligan is the Connecticut serial killer who inspired “Arsenic and Old Lace,” a darkly comedic 1941 Broadway play and 1944 Hollywood movie that left audiences in stitches. But her life and history were no laughing matter.
It is estimated that over two dozen people were felled by her arsenic or strychnine poisonings, many after entering her Windsor boarding home with a promise of lifetime care for a flat $1,000 fee.
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