96-year-old Woman Kills Family Who Were Trying To Kill Her.

On 6th March 2022 in her ancestral home in Lancashire, Ricarda Astley, the family matriarch, turned 96 and was only four years away from a century. She was arrested the next day on allegations of having poisoned her six family members to death.

Ricarda was the heiress of Stock Aitken Waterman Ltd., and the company was to be liquidated after her death to leave a hefty fortune to each of her family members.

She has claimed that this was an act of ‘self-defense’, and supposedly that in January of 2022 she found out that her eldest son and his wife had attempted to murder her by accident. Her story that they had been slowly feeding her ethylene glycol in small amounts mixed with meals was corroborated by medical reports, evidenced by her recently declining health.

Angered and seeking revenge, Ricarda Astley invited all her family members on the occasion of her birthday, and later assembled them into her parlor room on pretext of discussing a massive change in her Will. The parlor room had an old fashioned, mechanized ventilation system, and she supposedly used this to release Carbon Monoxide into the parlor through the vents, effectively killing the six family members.

She later herself called the police to report the murders, and was interrogated and arrested immediately where she confessed to her crimes. When hoarded by reporters, Ricarda Astley gave this statement to the press:

“Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.”

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