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She Healed Them… Then Killed Them | The Bertha Gifford Story

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They said her pies could fix a bad day. Her soups could warm your bones in winter. But graves don’t lie.

In a quiet Missouri town, Bertha Gifford was known as the neighbor who baked, prayed, and cared for the sick. But when the sheriff ordered the first coffin raised, everything changed.

How many did she “help” to die?

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, Kaitlyn steps into the farmhouse kitchen where faith, trust, and arsenic mixed together — and explores the psychology behind one of America’s earliest female serial poisoners.

🎧 In this episode:

• How Bertha Gifford’s kindness hid something darker
• The rise of a small-town angel turned silent killer
• Why arsenic was the poison of choice for women in early America
• The courtroom drama and insanity defense that shaped her legacy
• The psychology behind caregiving turned control

This is more than a murder story — it’s about care as control, and how trust can become the most dangerous weapon of all.

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Chapters

1. She Healed Them… Then Killed Them | The Bertha Gifford Story (00:00:00)

2. Introduction to Bertha Gifford (00:00:10)

3. The Small-Town Angel of Death (00:00:41)

4. The Cost of Kindness (00:01:31)

5. Patterns of Death (00:02:27)

6. The Role of Poison (00:03:24)

7. The Investigation Begins (00:05:41)

8. The Trial of Bertha Gifford (00:06:40)

9. The Question of Justice (00:08:06)

10. Understanding Bertha's Mind (00:09:12)

11. The Historical Context (00:11:14)

12. Life in the Hospital (00:12:02)

13. The Aftermath of Trust (00:12:40)

14. Lessons from Bertha's Story (00:13:48)

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