My First Supervisor Was a Serial Killer

They called her “The Black Widow”

Lisa Beth Wright
5 min readJul 29, 2024

My first job was working as a cashier at a local grocery store. I was just a normal college kid who had no idea my supervisor was a serial killer.

As an 18-year-old on her first job, I was happily oblivious to company politics, much less the personal drama in Blanche Taylor Moore’s life.

She was well-liked by customers, and her public persona was that of a “good Christian woman.”

But, I remember several of the bag boys saying that they felt uncomfortable around her. She was just a little too affectionate for their liking.

Blanche often brought in food to work to share with co-workers. It was an act of kindness that chilled them to the bone when she was linked to a string of arsenic laced food murders.

Thankfully, I never ate anything she made.

There was tension between her and the other women who worked at the customer service desk. I figured it was because she was their supervisor.

Little did I know, there was so much more drama going on underneath the surface.

Kevin Denton

The Kroger regional manager when I worked there was Kevin Denton.

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