There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

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When a true story reaches the level of pop culture phenomenon, it becomes difficult to suss out what is fact and what is

headline-grabbing fiction. Today's story is one such tale. On April 10th, 1834, the victims of a

famed serial killer were found in a story that is still incredibly popular today.

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

Marie Delphine McCarty, or McCarthy, depending on the sources,

was born on March 19, 1787 to a wealthy family living in New Orleans.

With a family background in the military and with many of the men owning land,

by 1794, Delphine's family owned a large 1,344-acre plantation in a premier location with famously wealthy neighbors, and had a father who was knighted as a chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis,

had an uncle by marriage who was the governor of the Spanish-American provinces of Louisiana and Florida,

and a cousin who would serve as the mayor of New Orleans.

It's safe to say that with all of this,

young Delphine from birth lived a charmed and extravagant life. Now, in 1791, when Delphine was only

four years old, something called the Haitian Revolution happened. And when it did, it made slaveholders

in the southern U.S. and Caribbean extremely

worried that resistance and rebellion would happen in their homes next. In fact, a few decades before,

one of Delphine's own uncles was murdered by his slaves, and the revolution inspired quite a few

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