Mad Madame LaLaurie

Name: Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed
ISBN: 9781609491994

New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed

Victoria Cosner Love

2011·142 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Crime

gritty true crime

Historians Victoria Cosner Love and author Lorelei Shannon uncover the truth behind one of New Orleans' most famous stories and one of America's most haunted houses. On April 10, 1834 Firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning home of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. The horrible discovery of chained and mutilated slaves spawned a legend that has endured for over 150 years. But what really happened in the Lalaurie home? Who was "Mad Madame Lalaurie," and what motivated her to commit such ghastly atrocities, if in fact she really did?

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