TIL about Constance Fisher: in 1954 she killed her 3 children. She was found incompetent to stand trial due to "paranoic schizophrenia" and interned in a mental hospital. Released in 1959 to her husband's custody, they had 3 more children. In 1966 she killed her new children, again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Fisher
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