Blanche Taylor Moore's Case

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1. You are to choose any famous black widow case (5 points) • Blanche Taylor Moore. (http://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/moore-blanche-taylor.htm). 2. Give a background of the black widow a. Her biography (Birth, where was she born, etc..) (10 points) Blanche Taylor Moore, was born on February 17, 1933, to their parents: Flone Blanche and Parker Davis Kiser. Her father was a laborer and alcoholic and said she had once forced her into prostitution to pay his gambling debts. Her father died in 1966 and was said to be the cause of a "heart attack". In 1952, she married James N. Taylor, a veteran warlord and furniture repairman, who had two children, one of whom gave birth in 1953 and 1959. By 1954, Blanche had begun working at the Kruger shop as a treasurer. In 1959, she was promoted to head her department, the highest job available to the Kruger employee at the time. b. How many significant others did she murder (20 points) i. Describe how she murdered each person 1) Raymond Reid: her boyfriend. Died in 1986, the doctors thought he has Guillain-Barré syndrome. His body exhumed in 1989, they found he has high level of arsenic. In 1990, Blanche convicted and sentenced to death for the first-degree murder of Reid. 2) James N. Taylor: her …show more content…

In the year before Raymond Rudd Blanche was apparently burned, her house in Burlington, the story of the unknown assailant was painted so the amount of insurance, collected after and bought a mobile home for that amount and Blanche republished the same story of the unknown person but also burned, as an explanation for the burning of the house, Of Reid's death in 1986. Steve Ride, a 27-year-old son of Raymond Ride, said that after his father's death, Blanche received $ 45,000 from his father's life insurance, as well as his inheritance from Ride 's

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