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Illinois Poisoner Confesses to Additional Poison Murders

Flora Illinois Mrs Elsie Bible Malin fifty four sky forty four under life sentence for murder by poison of former wife of her third husband has substantially admitted committing two other poison murders and attempted a fourth State's Attorney Harold S Williams announced Her other victims were a husband and the former wife of a former husband The confession came on the eve of her departure for Joliet prison She broke down under circumstantial evidence but did not fully confess The information publicized by Williams is that about 15 years ago she killed the wife of Hawiii Bible to marry him and about three years ago she poisoned Bible again when dissatisfied with him Her first husband Wilbur Cope divorced her 18 years ago after an alleged unsuccessful poisoning attempt She was later convicted of living in adultery with Bible Her second husband Ernest L Malinsky was her present husband She gave poison to his wife causing her death last September 26 She then married Malinsky and her arrest followed exhumation of the first Mrs Malinsky and chemical testing of the viscera Malinsky is held in the murder of his first wife but the poison murderer has absolved him No new charges are to be filed against her }