It is hard to imagine a mother wanting to deliberately kill her own children but that was indeed the case of Martha Needle. And sadly, the evidence points to greed for money. Martha Needle. Courtesy State Library of Victoria. Martha Charles was born in Morgan, South Australia on 9 April, 1863. Her mother, Mary Charles had become a widow shortly after Martha was born. Mary married Daniel Foran in 1870 and had two more children. Needle had claimed her step-father assaulted her
