Blanche Taylor Moore

Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore (born February 17, 1933) is a convicted murderer and probable serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. She was convicted of killing her boyfriend by slipping arsenic into his food, and is suspected of killing three other people and nearly killing another in the same manner. She was born Blanche Kiser to P.D. Kiser, an ordained Baptist minister and alcoholic, who later forced her into prostitution to pay gambling debts. At least in part due to this, she was known to switch from quoting Scripture to sexually explicit topics in the same breath. In 1952, she married James N. Taylor; she bore him two children, one in 1953 and another in 1959. In 1954, she began working at Kroger as a cashier. By 1959,...