She’s called, “The funeral hobbyist” and "Borgia of America." Two nicknames for Ohio serial killer, Martha Wise. Martha was born in 1885 in a small town of Valley City, Ohio. Martha had a deep fascination of funerals. She attended every funeral she heard about. Wise told acquaintances, “I like funerals, I love having sad people around me and hearing the weeping of mourners." Later she married a man named Albert. A few years into the stale marriage, Martha and Albert had three daughters and buried one child at birth. During her pregnancy, Martha still worked on the farm, plowing and tending to the animals. Her husband was a brutal man who abused his wife in every possible way. Martha’s mother advised her to marry Albert or any man who looked her way because she was such a plain looking girl. At night, neighbors witnessed Martha in the field naked, dancing around and what appeared to be white foam coming from her mouth. The people around town lost count of the times they seen her in the fields crawling and acting odd.
Albert was found dead in the house. The cause of death was unknown. Shortly after Albert’s death Martha met a much younger man, John Walters. She fell in love for the first time.
Her family was not thrilled and nagged Martha about dating a younger man. Her mother told she looked like a fool and was making a mockery of her children.
Martha was raging inside from her family’s words that played in her mind repeatedly. She became mad, walking aimlessly around the house, muttering words under her breathe, barking when she would hear sudden noises that distracted her. Her children stayed away from her. They feared for their lives.
On New Year’s Day, 1925, Martha’s mother passed away. Her death thought to be caused by a severe stomach virus. A month later, Martha’s Aunt Lillian and uncle Fred Geinke were dead from the same cause, a stomach virus.
Others were ill in the Geinke home. Lillian and Fred’s three daughters suffered paralysis in their legs. They were kept at the hospital.
The local sheriff thought the story sounded strange and started to investigate. A few weeks into the case he found out arsenic had been poured into the private water supply of the Geinke family property. Martha heard the sheriff was on to her, so she had one more thing to clear up. She set the local church on fire. She sat in the woods as it burned. Martha giggled in delight.
A few days at home, the sheriff arrived for her arrest. Martha did not resist. Under questioning, Martha confessed to the three murders, she told the sheriff, "It was the devil who told me to do it. He came to me while I was in the kitchen baking bread. He came to me while I was working in the fields. He followed me everywhere." Martha confessed to local burglaries and arsons. “I like fires. They were red and bright, and I loved to see the flames shooting up into the sky." Martha pled insanity. John Walters help put Martha away. During the testimony he claimed that Martha had "barked like a dog" during sex. Jurors found her sane and guilty of first-degree murder. She was sentenced to life imprisonment. Not long after her release from prison, she came back .She had nowhere to go and was unable to live among society. Under questioning, Martha confessed the three murders, but said, "It was the devil who told me to do it. He came to me while I was in the kitchen baking bread. He came to me while I was working in the fields. He followed me everywhere." She also cleared the books on other felonies, with her confessing to a string of burglaries and arson incidents.
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