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Title	Murdered spouses, Paris, Illinois
Alternative Title	Murdered spouses; Murdered spouse;
Genre	Legend -- People
Description	Devon Scobee's transcribed interview of Charles Toma about murdered spouses in Paris, Illinois. According to Toma, a family from Paris, Illinois, lived in a large house and people thought that the mother and daughters were witches. Rumor had it that the daughters caught their father cheating on their mother, and they killed him because of his infidelity. Some people say that the father is still alive and lives in Chicago, Illinois, with his daughters.
Informant	Toma, Charles
Collector	Scobee, Devon
Date of Original	1978-12-05
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Illinois -- Edgar County -- Paris -- 1978
Subject	Legends People Homicides Spouses Murder victims Witches
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-14
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-MurderedSpouses002

Murdered spouses, Paris, Illinois

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