In this today’s episode of Pushing Up Lilies, we take a deep dive into the enigmatic case of Karen Read, accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, hitting him with her SUV outside a house party in Canton on January 29, 2022.
MLB Star Martin Bergen, Killed His Wife and Children With an Axe
Today on our series ‘Men Who Kill Their Wives’, we are going to go way back to the year 1900, when a horrific murder-suicide took place by a professional baseball player.
On January 19th, Marty Bergen, characterized as the best catcher in baseball history, killed his wife Harriet and his two children, three year old Joseph and six year old Florence, with an axe. After killing his family, Marty then used a straight razor to forcefully cut his own throat.