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1932: A String of Abortion Deaths in Oklahoma City
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The spring of 1932 brought a sudden string of criminal abortion deaths to Oklahoma City.
Was Annie Allison the only victim of "Dr. Green?"
Was Ruth the victim of a criminal abortionist, or was Dr. Maruice Strum really trying to save her life when he performed the fatal abortion?
Sarah Howe was charged with abortion and with manslaughter in the death of 23-year-old Helen Clark. Helen died September 16, 1941.
Virginia Hopkins Watson thought a baby would spoil a film career.
Florence Schnoor, grand-niece of Andrew Carnegie and heiress to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, died in 1942 from a criminal abortion arranged without her husband's knowledge.
Dr. Harvey Lothringer tried to flush Barbara's remains down the toilet.
The first person sentenced to die in Illinois's new electric chair was a doctor whose patient died after a criminal abortion.
It wasn't that easy to hide an abortion death when abortion was a crime.
Another example of the trickiness of hiding the body from a criminal abortion death.
Hiding the body after a criminal abortion death could be difficult.
Funnyman Fatty Arbuckle never recovered from accusations that he murdered Virginia Rappe in 1921. Did an abortionist's attempts to cover his tracks help to thow suspicion on an innocent man?
A tip led police to a private home, where they found an abortion practice and the body of Gertrude Pinsky.
In an illegal abortion, the accomplices shared the risks.
Jackie's boyfriend and abortionist wrapped her dismembered body in Christmas paper and disposed of her in city trash cans.
Ketchum's record as a criminal abortionist was clean. He went on to kill two women in a four month period performing legal abortions in New York.
Nancy's abortion was retroactively declared legal after Roe v Wade, erasing Dr. Richard Mucie's conviction in her death.
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