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While Roche was conducting his autopsy of Paul Halliday, detectives had managed to identify the two women discovered on the farm as Margaret and Sarah McQuillan.
She literally, so that, I was like, when I read that, I was like, what?
Now, days later, we'll get to it, don't worry.
So days later, a coroner's inquest was held, after which it was determined that Lizzie was responsible for the deaths of both women.
In their conclusion, the jury wrote, we do say upon our oath that Margaret J. McQuillan and Sarah J. McQuillan come to their deaths by bullets fired from a pistol in the hands of Lizzie Halliday.
The balls entering the heart were the immediate cause of death that said Margaret was killed on or about August 30th and Sarah McQuillan on or about September 2nd.
When investigators visited Lizzie in her cell and told her the identification of the two bodies on her farm, she responded, Mrs. McQuillan, Mrs. McQuillan.
Oh, yes, I remember Mrs. McQuillan and her daughter.
She says they both showed up at her farm several weeks earlier with some men and they brought whiskey with them.
So she allowed them to stay but refused to drink with them and she just went to bed.
She just went to bed and then they ended up shoving it across.