This is the story of Elizabeth Reed who in 1845 came to be the initial woman to be hanged in Illinois. She was implicated of poisoning her partner Leonard with arsenic laced tea as well as was convicted by a court of 12 men. The scenarios of her arrest, test, sentence, execution, funeral, and also afterlife have been debated ever since. Folklore exists today that suggests her spirit roams the countryside.
This is the story of Elizabeth Reed who in 1845 came to be the initial woman to be hanged in Illinois. She was implicated of poisoning her partner Leonard with arsenic laced tea as well as was convicted by a court of 12 men. The scenarios of her arrest, test, sentence, execution, funeral, and also afterlife have been debated ever since. Folklore exists today that suggests her spirit roams the countryside.