When a Diplomat's Widow Killed Their Five Children - Neatorama
When Ruth Mae Urdanivia married Jose Urdanivia, a Peruvian diplomat, he life turned into a whirlwind of gentility, world travel, and state occasions. The couple had five children and seemed very happy. Then in 1957, Jose died of heart attack at age 42, and Ruth moved back to her hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania. She had trouble adjusting to life as a single working mother. Urdanivia spent two years hoarding a prescribed barbiturate, and in October of 1959, gave it to her five children, aged f





