The female black widow eats her male counterpart after mating and Lavinia Fisher is her own version of the infamous black widow spider. Legend has it she is the first female serial killer in history; her and her husband both locked away in the crummy, dark old city jail located right here in Charleston. Some believe she was convicted of murder but her execution was necessary. The notorious case of Lavinia Fisher, and the rundown jail where her spirit is said to still reside, interest me because of its deep seeded mystery and its effect on Charlestonians and tourist alike.
The photos you see of Lavinia wearing a scorching rose lipstick, can be compared to the red dots often found on the stomach of the black widow spider. She was known for baiting
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“I'm gonna love you until it hurts/Just to get you I'm doing whatever works”(Black Widow). This quote, from the hit song Black Widow, sung by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora, illustrates Lavinia’s role in the murderings that took place. She would seduce men into staying at their Six Mile House, where then she would offer them the black widows venomous tea, taking them through a series of questions to relax them. It would be later into the night that her husband John would enter the room and murder the guest before stealing the money stuffed in the corpse's pockets.
According to Robert Wilhelm, writer of “The Legend of Lavinia Fisher,” While the couple was in custody, after being detained for a highway robbery they took part in with their gang, two bodies were found 200 feet from Six Mile House. No one was charged with the murdering due to lack of
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This story makes us wonder why Mr. Fisher decided to come back for his wife when he could have chosen freedom and a new life. While thinking about this we fail to realize that poor John, the big bad murderer, is trapped in Lavinia's venomous web of deceit. “You used to be thirsty for me/but now you wanna be set free/ This is the web, the web that you weave/So baby now rest in peace”(Black Widow). This quote, again from the song “Black Widow,” explains Mrs. Fisher's attitude about the execution her and her husband were about to face. It is reported that Reverend Richard Furman would pay a visit to Lavinia and her husband hoping for them to repent before their execution. Lavinia wouldn’t speak to the pastor and often times greet him with curse words but John see his error of ways and asked for