Between 1914 and 1929 the small, isolated village of Nagyrév in central Hungary endured a murder ring of local women, led by a superstitious midwife, that killed an estimated 160
Auntie Suzy, a Romany midwife and village “healer,” was not someone to be trifled with, as we learn in “The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring.” Author Patti McCracken tells the harrowing, true-crime story about how an enormous murder ring in a small, early 20th century rustic Hungarian village […]