The Murder of Münchausen | Michelle Dean | Buzzfeed | 19th August 2016

Shocking, and horrifying, and gripping to read. A mother insists that her daughter suffers from cancer, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, and innumerable other conditions. She subjects the girl to twenty years of non-stop surgery and drugs at the hands of compliant doctors. Yet the daughter is not ill. In medical terms it is the mother who is sick, with Münchausen’s disease by proxy. But she is no longer around to be diagnosed, because her daughter eventually killed her, and went to prison for it