Alexe Popova
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Madame Alexe Popova (died 1909), native of Samara, Russia, was a "murderer for hire" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For a fee, she would "liberate" wives married to supposedly cruel husbands using inexpensive, lethal remedy.
Her murders began in 1879 and lasted until 1909, when the police were tipped off by a remorseful liberated woman and Popova was captured. During that time, she had killed over three hundred victims by poison.
Czarist soldiers saved her from a mob that sought to burn her at the stake, and she was unrepentant as she stood before the firing squad.
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