Lavinia Fisher is remembered as a serial killer—but the truth is darker, stranger, and largely forgotten. Here’s the real story.

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In colonial Charleston, cropping—a punishment involving cutting off parts of a criminal’s ear—was used to shame offenders and deter crime. The practice was public and served as a social control method, often harsher for enslaved people, until reforms phased it out in the 19th century.