Amy Duggan Archer-Gilligan: The Notorious Nursing Home Serial Killer
Early Life and Marriages
Amy E. Duggan was born on October 31, 1873, in Milton, Connecticut, as the eighth of ten children to James Duggan and Mary Kennedy. In 1897, she married James Archer, and they had a daughter, Mary J. Archer, in December of the same year. In 1901, the couple became caretakers for John Seymour, an elderly widower in Newington, Connecticut. After Seymour's death in 1904, the Archers continued to run the residence as "Sister Amy's Nursing Home for the Elderly." In 1907, they moved to Windsor, Connecticut, and established the "Archer Home for the Elderly and Infirm." James Archer died in 1910 from what was officially reported as Bright's disease. In 1913, Amy married Michael W. Gilligan, a wealthy widower, who died on February 20, 1914, from an "acute bilious attack."
Suspicious Deaths at the Archer Home
Between 1907 and 1917, the Archer Home experienced an alarming number of deaths—60 in total. Notably, only 12 residents died between 1907 and 1910, but from 1911 to 1916, 48 residents passed away. One significant case was that of Franklin R. Andrews, a healthy man who suddenly fell ill and died on May 29, 1914. His sister, Nellie Pierce, discovered correspondences indicating that Amy had been pressuring him for money shortly before his death.
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