Perpetrator
Marie Lafarge
- Born
- 15 January 1816
- Died
- 1852, aged about 36
- Record
- Wikidata Q274927 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Lafarge Affair
Born Marie-Fortunée Capelle in Paris. Convicted of poisoning her husband; pardoned in 1852 and died months later. Death date given as 7 November or 7 September 1852.
1839–1840 · Le Glandier, Corrèze, France · Convicted
A Parisian bride, a crumbling former monastery in Corrèze, a husband dead of 'cholera', and the Marsh test that made toxicology a courtroom science. Read the case.
Dated events
She marries Charles Pouch-Lafarge in Paris after an engagement arranged through a marriage broker.
Charles Lafarge dies early in the morning.
Marie Lafarge is arrested and taken to prison at Brive.