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Margaret McQuillan

Case from Sullivan County, NY dated Aug 07, 1891

Victim Details

Margaret McQuillan

Female

White / Caucasian

Sullivan County

NY

1891

49

Margaret

McQuillan

08/01/2026

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Margaret Davison McQuillan, about 49 years old, was a white woman whose life ended in the shadow of a Sullivan County farm, at a moment when the Catskills were still a patchwork of small communities where everyone noticed when something felt off. In late August 1893, she and Sarah McQuillan—described in accounts as her close family member—vanished into the orbit of Lizzie Halliday, a woman who had drifted through aliases and trouble, and who had once been taken in by the McQuillans during he ...
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  • She was crazy about killing - New York Daily News
  • Lizzie Halliday - Wikipedia
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