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TIL about Constance Fisher (1929–1973), a woman with schizophrenia who killed three of her children in 1954. After years in an institution, she was released, then killed three more children in 1966. Deemed unfit for trial, she was hospitalized, escaped in 1973, and died soon after in an accident.

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