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“Why did you kill all these human beings?” asked the judge. 

“They were men,” Vera Renczi answered. “I could not endure the thought that they would ever put their arms around another woman after they had embraced me.” 

“But,” the judge stammered, “you also murdered your own son.” 

“He had threatened to betray me,” said Madame Renczi. “He was a man, too. Soon he would have held another woman in his arms.”

Vera Renczi was convicted of poisoning her husband, son and 33 boyfriends and then storing their bodies in her cellar. The only reason she would give for these murders was jealousy that the men would later be with other women.  Vera confessed to the police that on occasion she liked to sit in her armchair amidst the coffins, surrounded by all of her former suitors.