Les MacDonald

 

 

 

              Here are a few reviews of Hell Hath No Fury: Women Who Kill

 

 

 

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book, January 28, 2015

By sherri l. steinert-brown - Verified Purchase

This review is from: Hell Hath No Fury: Women Who Kill (Kindle Edition)

  "I read this book in just a few hours. I found it so interesting that i could not put it down."

 

 

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read, January 20, 2015

By Amazon Customer - Verified Purchase

This review is from: Hell Hath No Fury: Women Who Kill (Kindle Edition)

 "This ebook is wonderful. It's a true crime ebook with very lengthy and detailed descriptions of the cases of female murderers and is the most detailed ebook about true crime cases that I have ever read."

 

 

5.0 out of 5 stars Horrific and fascinating, November 30, 2014

By Mlvlnt -Verified Purchase

This review is from: Hell Hath No Fury: Women Who Kill (Kindle Edition)

 "I  can't imagine doing anything as horrible as what I've been reading. I felt disgust, anger, and pity reading about all the lives that were twisted and ruined. It was like a horrible car accident; you want to look away, but you can't. I read the entire book at one sitting. I feel the authors did the right thing by calmly relating the stories; no hype or sensationalism, no speculation, just the facts."

 

 

 

5.0 out of 5 stars Women who kill...November 20, 2014

By jrfoltz - Verified Purchase

This review is from: Hell Hath No Fury: Women Who Kill (Kindle Edition)

 "It makes you wonder what runs in these woman's minds. I guess they believe they can get away with it. Some of these woman are young and stupid. This is a good book to read. It just makes you wonder!!!!!"

 

 

 

4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for true crime lovers, November 20, 2014

By J. Nowicki (Amherst, Ohio) - Verified Purchase

 This review is from: Hell Hath No Fury: Women Who Kill (Kindle Edition)

 "Very interesting read, well written with just a touch of humor. Good mix of well known cases with more obscure ones also. Recommended to those who enjoy true crime cases."

 

 

 

       Here is the chapter list for Hell Hath No Fury: Women Who Kill

 

 

            

Part One: Women Who Kill Their Children

 

1. Marie Noe and Waneta Hoyt

2.  Darlie Routier

3.  Susan Smith

4.  Andrea Yates

5.  Dena Schlosser

6.  Belle Gunness

7.  Diane Downs

8.  Marybeth Tinning

9.  Marilyn Lemak

10. Michelle Kehoe

11. Susan Eubanks

12. China Arnold

13. Paula Sims

14. Veronica Herrera

15. Christina Marie Riggs

16. Frances Newton

17. Otty Sanchez

18. Kathleen Folbigg

19. Alexandra Tobias and Shannon Johnson

20. Marilyn Edge

21. Melissa Centeno

 

 

 

Part Two: Women Who Kill Their Husbands

 

22. The Anti Freeze Killer

23. The Black Widow of the Internet

24. The Lonely Hearts Husband Killer

25. The Merry Widow of Windy Nook

26. The Acid Lady

27. Just a Touch of Arsenic

28. The Texas Black Widow

29. The Lady in Red

30. For the Love of Money

31. For the Love of Money 2

 

Part Three:  More Notorious Murders by Women

 

32. A Fatal Attraction

33. The Pickaxe Killer

34. Hell Born Hitchhiker

35. Kristen Gilbert

36. The Soap Maker of Correggio

37. Arsenic Anna

38. Janie Lou Gibbs

39. Genene Jones

 

Part Four: Some Younger Females Who Kill

 

40. Girls Just Want To Have Fun

41. The Killer and His Raven

42. Terror on County Road 2370

43. Sisters Can Be Murder

44. Murder in Medicine Hat

45. MySpace.com Murder

 

 

    

 

 

Here is the chapter on Marie Noe and Waneta Hoyt which is the first one in the book.

 

 

                                                             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                  

                                                              Marie Noe

    

 

   Waneta Hoyt and Marie Noe did not know each other and never met. Marie hailed from Philadelphia while Waneta was from New York City. However, if it wasn't for the Waneta Hoyt case, Marie Noe may never have been brought to justice. I use the term "justice" very loosely here...you will understand later. Let's start with Marie. Young Marie had a rough childhood. At the tender age of five she was diagnosed with scarlet fever. Marie had an older sister who became pregnant. The sister was very ill equipped to handle the situation and, at the age of thirteen, Marie dropped out of school to care for her young niece who was raised as Marie's sister. At the age of twenty-one Marie found her way out. She met Arthur Noe and, after a brief courtship, the pair got married.

    There must have been an instant attraction because before you could ask, "where's the bedroom?" Marie was in the family way. On March 7, 1949 Richard Allan Noe entered the world. The trouble was that Richard Allan Noe exited the world exactly one month later on April 7, 1949. As there were no signs of violence or foul play, the baby's death was listed as death by natural causes. Crib Death, later known as Sudden Death Infant Syndrome or SIDS, was a fairly routine occurrence in those days. Baby Richard's death did not deter the young couple. Within eight months Marie was pregnant again and had a baby girl. Elizabeth Marie arrived on September 8, 1950 and lasted a little longer than Richard. On February 17, 1951 five month old Elizabeth Noe was found dead in her crib. The cause of death was officially listed as crib death. Two years, two seemingly healthy young babies and what seemed like incredibly bad luck. You might think that the young couple would be more than a little worried about trying again. Not Marie and Arthur. They almost immediately went back to the drawing board. On April 23, 1952 another healthy baby girl was born to the young couple. Jacqueline Noe was dead before she was two weeks old. Jacqueline's cause of death? You guessed it. Once again the death was put down to SIDS. This time the couple did wait a period of time before trying again...but not long enough. Marie became pregnant again in 1954 and, on poor Jacqueline's birthday, April 23, 1955, Arthur Joseph Jr. was born. Arthur Jr. lasted five days. The cause of death? I am glad you asked. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The Noe family had now lost four babies in a six year span.

    After the death of Arthur Jr. the couple once again took some time off but, on February 24, 1958, Constance Noe was born. Twenty-four days later Constance was gone. SIDS once again was to blame. The count was now five babies (three girls and two boys) that were all dead in less than nine years. Letitia Noe was stillborn on August 24, 1959. The cause of death was a knot in the umbilical cord. SIDS could not be blamed for this one. We'll try to curb our sarcasm a tad in order to speed this along. On June 19, 1962 Mary Lee Noe made her first appearance. Mary Lee lasted the longest up to this point. She died on January 14, 1963 at six and a half months old. The cause of death, SIDS. An eighth child, Theresa passed away in 1963 from a hemorrhage and the death is officially listed as resulting from natural causes. Catherine was born on December 3, 1964 and became the longest living Noe child. She passed away in February, 1966 after living for more than a year. The next one is a bit strange. We guess that Marie and Arthur were beginning to run out of names. On July 28, 1967 another bouncing baby boy was born and the couple named him Arthur Joseph Jr. (same name as baby number four). On January 2, 1968 Arthur Joseph Jr. met the same fate as all of his siblings. Arthur was a caesarian birth but was considered healthy. Mother Marie however suffered a uterine rupture and was forced to undergo a hysterectomy. We will revisit this story but let's slip away to New York City for a moment and take a peek at the story of Waneta Ethel Hoyt.


                                               Waneta Hoyt


 

    Waneta, like Marie, dropped out of school in her teens. She was just seventeen years old when she married Tim Hoyt in January, 1964. The young couple, like Marie and Arthur Noe, did not waste any time. Eric Hoyt was born on October 17, 1964 but passed away three months later. The official cause of death was Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The couple would try again and on May 31, 1966 another son James was born. James was still alive when, on July 19, 1968 Julie was born. The family now had a son (James was now almost two and a half years old) and baby daughter Julie. Things were looking pretty good for the Hoyt family but September, 1968 would change all of that. Within three weeks of each other, Julie and James both passed away. Both deaths were attributed to SIDS. The pattern would continue into the 1970's with Molly being born in March 1970 and being dead less than three months later. One more son, Noah, was born on May 9, 1971 and died on July 28, 1971. In all, five children had died in a span of six years. Waneta and Tim later adopted a son, Jay, who lived.

    In 1986 William Fitzpatrick, a New York State prosecutor was researching infant deaths for a case he was working on in which he was prosecuting a woman for murdering her baby daughter. During the course of his research he came upon the deaths of the five Hoyt children. He refused to believe that all five of the children could have perished from SIDS and he vowed to revisit the case when time permitted. In 1992 the New York District Attorney began an investigation which culminated in Waneta Hoyt confessing to murdering her five children. She was quoted as saying, "I didn't want them to die. I wanted to quiet them down." Waneta Hoyt was tried and convicted in 1995. She received life sentences for each death. In 1998, at the age of fifty-two, Waneta Hoyt died in prison of pancreatic cancer. Now, let's get back to Marie.


                                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                        Marie leaving court


   

 

   A 1997 book, The Death of Innocents, chronicled the life and crimes of Waneta Hoyt. The book shone a bright light on the issue of SIDS while an article in a Philadelphia magazine recalled the deaths of the Noe children more than twenty-five years previous. The article came to the attention of the police who were simply routinely questioning Marie not expecting anything to turn up. While being questioned, Marie confessed to suffocating four of her children. Marie said that she simply could not remember what happened to the other four. On August 5, 1998 seventy year old Marie Noe was formally charged in the deaths of eight of her ten children. The first death had occurred fifty years earlier.                 

    

    Now to the infamous plea bargain. You must be sitting down for this. Marie Noe pleaded guilty to eight counts of second degree murder. The agreed to sentence? Twenty years of probation with five years of house arrest. The house arrest would be monitored with Marie wearing an ankle bracelet. No jail time. Eight children murdered equals twenty years probation. That equals two and a half years of probation for each child's murder. Let's quote the judge..."this is one of those situations that makes us human. Some things happen in life that we cannot understand." That is correct Your Honor...your sentence is the one thing here that we cannot understand. Marie Noe is now 82 years old and is a free woman.

 

Author’s Note: I decided to leave my opinion in to make a point. This chapter was written quite a while ago. Since then, I have learned quite a bit about mental health issues, postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. Back at the time of the murders, there was not a lot known about postpartum problems. I am not saying that this was the cause in Marie’s case but it may have played a part. Then again, I think the judge was mostly considering Marie’s age when handing down his sentence. Right or wrong?