Anna Marie Hahn: The Cincinnati Poisonings

Anna Marie Hahn was a German immigrant living in Cincinnati in the 1930s. She cooked for people, spent time with them, and became part of their daily lives. And over time, the men she grew close to began to die.

Source Material

Franklin, Diana Britt. The Good-bye Door: The Incredible True Story of America’s First Female Serial Killer to Die in the Electric Chair. Kent State University Press, 2006.

Hunt, Amber. “Queen City Crime: How serial killer Anna Hahn rocked Cincinnati, made Ohio history.” The Cincinnati Enquirer, February 6, 2024.

Contemporary newspaper coverage, including:

The Cincinnati Enquirer (1937–1938)

The Cincinnati Post (1937)

The Pittsburgh Press (execution coverage, 1938)

Telfer, Tori. Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History. HarperCollins, 2017.

Vronsky, Peter. Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters. Berkley Books, 2007.

Queen, Chelsea. “Anna Marie Hahn: The Deadly ‘Arsenic Widow.’” Medium, 2024