Claim: Jacques Lebaudy(1868 - January 11, 1919) moved to the United States with only his wife who later placed him in an asylum at at her request, he later killed her.
Evidence: Jacques Lebaudy (1868 - January 11, 1919) was a Frenchman from an extremely wealthy family of sugar refiners, known for his eccentricity and his attempt to establish a new nation, the Empire of the Sahara. Lebaudy reportedly tried several times to have his wife and daughter killed, and was finally shot and killed by his wife on January 11, 1919 at her home in Westbury on Long Island.