Meet The Real Female Monster- Part One

Madame La Lori was brutally slashing, beating and torturing slaves in the attic of her villa in New Orleans. Legend says even that she killed her husbands, but this was never proven. After the great fire, dungeon horror was discovered and she was brought to the authorities. Finally.

She was born as Mary McCarthy in 1775. She gave birth to several children before she married a third and last husband Leonard Louis Nicolas La Laurie.

Mysterious deaths of husbands

Her third husband was younger than her, allowing her to take charge in the household, but it was quite a rarity at that time.

She was suspected of having killed her first husband, a high-ranking officer. Her second husband was a doctor who conducted experiments on slaves, which included replacement of genital mutilation and breaking bones to create a people-crabs. Every her marriage ended in unfortunate deaths that are never revealed to have taken place.

In 1832, she built a huge house at the Royal, number 1140. Madame La Lori has been a prominent figure in the then white creole community, where she was well-connected with political officials. Just at that time, her influence grew, as well as urban legend about how she was treating their slaves, whose attitude then was legal in New Orleans. But, there were laws that prescribe how people should behave towards slaves, and some actions were of course forbidden.

However, slaves of Madame La Lori lived in horrible conditions, they looked haggard, emaciated and completely miserable. However, Madame la Lori had built beautiful picture about herself in public responsible, she acted very polite to blacks in public and court records clearly prove that she even “emancipated” two slaves.

Gossips failed to undermine her position in the public until one day in 1834, when a huge fire engulfed her huge villa.

A few weeks before the fire, there were stories about a young slave girl, who was was brutally punished in the house of Madame La Lori, after which she jumped from the roof of the villa and died, and her body was allegedly buried in the yard. However, as there was no evidence, the police did not react to these speculations.

Shortly after the accidental death of girls, a magnificent house at the Royal in 1140 engulfed the unseen fire. They suspected that the grandmother of a girl who jumped from the villa, set up this deadly blaze to revenge to the horrible madam.