Tillie Klimek

Criminal

Birthday October 22, 1877

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Poland

DEATH DATE Nov 20, 1936 (59)

About

Chicago-based serial killer who used lethal doses of arsenic to poison her victims. She killed between five and seven victims during her reign her terror. She passed away while living out her sentence in the Joliet Correctional Center in the mid 1930s.

Before Fame

She married Jozef Mitkiewicz in the year 1895 and murdered him in the year 1914.

Trivia

She killed all three of her husbands. She claimed to have precognitive dreams that allowed her to see when and how people would die. 

Family Life

She murdered her husbands Jozef Mitkiewicz, Joseph Ruskowski, and Frank Kupczyk. Klimek was born Otylia Gburek in Poland. She came to the United States as an infant with her parents.

Associated With

Both she and HH Holmes were serial killers in America.