Alleged Serial Killer: Bertha Gifford

Lipgloss & Lobotomies — Episode Description

What do hydraulic pressure and a suspected serial killer have in common? Probably absolutely nothing… except that we somehow managed to put them in the same episode. 😂🕷️🔪

First, we’re getting weirdly scientific and diving into the fascinating world of wolf spiders and hydraulics—how these eight-legged little nightmares use internal fluid pressure to help move their bodies and even their fangs. Recent research has found evidence that hydraulic pressure plays an important role in the movement of wolf spider chelicerae.

Then we’re leaving the spider lab and heading to Missouri, where we meet Bertha Gifford, a woman whose reputation as a caretaker became intertwined with a disturbing series of mysterious deaths. Gifford was convicted of three murders in 1928, while investigators and later accounts connected her to numerous additional suspicious deaths—leading to her being remembered as one of Missouri’s earliest alleged female serial killers.

So grab your lip gloss, prepare yourself for some creepy crawlies, strange science, arsenic, and old-school true crime, and join us for another wonderfully unhinged episode of Lipgloss & Lobotomies. 💄🕷️🧠

Because apparently we can’t just talk about one disturbing thing at a time. 💀

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