Hazel McNally laughed as a prosecutor described how she brutally murdered her infant twins.

She “laughed uproariously” as witnesses and lawyers sniped, she “snickered” at grieving family and had a “twinkle of merriment return to her eyes” as her husband described how she would pelt him with plates and shoes, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

“While Frank McNally, her 55 year old husband accuser, sat with glum face, alternately glaring at a witness and glancing away towards a nearby window, Mrs. McNally, just 26 and jauntily dressed, snickered behind her gloved hand as his son, Lloyd, told how tenderly the ‘father’ had carried one of the ‘dummy twins,’” the Oct. 19, 1922, Tribune said.

For three days in 1922, Hammond hosted a murder trial that captivated and confused the nation. Aut

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