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17-year-old Ida Place had the stepmother from hell. When her father William married Martha Place, he probably didn’t expect her to become a total psycho. But she definitely wasn’t responsible enough to be left around all those potential murder weapons. 

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Episode Source List:

https://murderpedia.org/female.P/p/place-martha.htm#google_vignette 

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18990321.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2018/10/the-brooklyn-murderess.html 

https://www.brownstonedetectives.com/an-electric-chair-for-hancock-streets-murderess/ 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/martha-place

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35009372/ida_mildred-place 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1244410/ 

https://www.britannica.com/technology/photography/Development-of-stereoscopic-photography