Book Reviewed: Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore by Jim Schutze

Lady from hell The story of Blanche Moore is a Southern-comfort facade of gentility, a fusion of Scarlet O’Hara and Blanche DuBois, hides a murderous revenge on men in her life. Apparently rooted in the sexual abuse from her father when she was a little girl. Blanche is seductively nice and compassionate until she would find her way of finishing them off, literally. Spiking milk shakes, or potato soups or a drink with anti-ant poisoning, she was cold and calculated killer who manipulated the men she was intimate with. The motive was for financial gain or a plain revenge. She poisoned three men in her life; her first husband, a co-worker, Raymond Reid with whom she worked with, and her second husband, a preacher who survived despite intense arsenic poisoning. She may also be responsible for her father’s death, and her mother-in-law by her first marriage. Currently Blanche Moore is awaiting execution in the state of North Carolina for the 1986 killing of her boyfriend, Raymond Reid. The 1993 movie “Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story” starring Elizabeth Montgomery offered a brilliant performance as sweet-talking cold faced killer. In fact, much of the movie is based on the research work of author Jim Schutze. It saves you great deal of time to watch the movie than read the book. In addition, it saves you from reading the ghastly details of pain and sufferings of arsenic poisoning.