The corpses piled up everywhere - in kitchens, beds, and even baby cribs. People dropped quietly over their breakfast bowls and wine glasses.
This small Hungarian village, little more than a bunch of single-storey homes and farmland, became the heart of one of the deadliest, strangest murder rings in history.
From 1911 to 1929, women across Nagyrev and the Tiszazug region turned to homemade arsenic poison to get rid of husbands, parents, lovers, and children. While some sought freedom and revenge, for others it was a bitter necessity.
What started as whispers over kitchen tables spiralled into a killing network so big that it caught 43 suspects in its web. At least 28 were hauled into court over the deaths of more than 100 people.
The real number was likely three times that, with police saying as many as 300 may have been poisoned. What's certain is that Nagyrev wasn't just a village - it became a graveyard built by women who had learned to survive by killing.
