In 1920s Chicago, Tillie Klimek seemed to have an unsettling gift: she could predict when the people around her were going to die. But when one husband survived long enough for doctors to discover arsenic in his system, investigators began to wonder whether Tillie wasn’t predicting death at all—she was planning it.
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