Faith or Farce?

Blanche Taylor Moore was a preacher’s daughter, preacher’s wife, and a mother.  Her life was encircled by the church, the Bible, and prayer.  From the outside looking in, it was most likely speculated that Blanche lived a good Christian life.  Yet in 1986, she was convicted of murdering her long-time boyfriend, Raymond Reid, by arsenic poisoning.  Blanche is also the prime suspect in many other arsenic poisonings that resulted in the death of her father, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and first husband.  Not to mention the attempted murder of her five day newlywed second husband; the Reverend Dwight Moore.  By all depictions; Blanche is a serial killer, but many years later it was reported by Blanche’s daughter that her letters and cards from jail still teemed with Bible scripture.

God’s assassin?

I don’t endeavor to understand all the goings on inside the thoughts of someone like Blanche, but I would be willing to wager that somehow in her mind, she justifies it.  I imagine that she bel…