Author: Lea MacDonald
Cited by
- M.R Sellars (1)
- IN: Miranda (2010) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, American
EPIGRAPH: Blanque, MIRANDA: A perverse and sadistic murderess of early and middle 1800’s New Orleans, Louisiana, who is rumored to have derived autoerotic gratification from the intense suffering of her victims. Sister of Delphine LaLaurie, it has been theorized that the siblings were jointly responsible for the torture and subsequent deaths of numerous household slaves as reported in the New Orleans Bee, 1834. [See also Mistress Miranda; Devereaux, Annalise; LaLaurie, Delphine; paraphilia; sexual homicide; sadism; spirit possession, Voodoo]
FROM: Excerpted from Hell Hath No Fury: A Comprehensive Study of Women Who Kill
Luettecke, Seitz, amp; Witt – BCM Press
Revised Third Edition, March 2006, (2006), NULL, US