Anna Marie Filser (July 7, 1906 in Bavaria, Germany - December 7, 1938 at the Ohio State Penitentiary) was a German-born American serial killer.
The youngest of 12 children, as a teenager, she had an affair with a Viennese physician. They had a son she named Oskar. Her scandalized family sent her and the baby to America in 1929. While staying with an aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, she met fellow German immigrant Philip Hahn, a telegraph operator; ...
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Anna Marie Filser (July 7, 1906 in Bavaria, Germany - December 7, 1938 at the Ohio State Penitentiary) was a German-born American serial killer.
The youngest of 12 children, as a teenager, she had an affair with a Viennese physician. They had a son she named Oskar. Her scandalized family sent her and the baby to America in 1929. While staying with an aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, she met fellow German immigrant Philip Hahn, a telegraph operator; they married in 1930.
Hahn began poisoning and robbing elderly men and women in Cincinnati's German community to support her gambling habit. Ernst Kohler, who died on May 6, 1933, was believed to be her first victim. Hahn had befriended him shortly before his death; he left her a house in his will.
Her next victim, Albert Palmer, 72, also died soon after she began caring for him. Prior to Parker's death, she signed an I.O.U. for $1,000 that she borrowed from him, but after his death the document was either discarded or simply "disappeared."...
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