Constance Fisher drew 110,902 Wikipedia views in a day

What this article is

Constance Margaret Fisher was an American serial mass murderer. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, she killed three of her children in Maine in 1954. After spending several years in a mental institution, she was released, only to kill three more of her children in 1966.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 6 edits to this article on 2026-09-05, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Early life
• Escape and death
• First killings
• Internment and release
• Second killings

What changed that day

The article lost 137 characters on balance that day. See everything that changed on 2026-09-05 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

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