Maria Swanenburg
Maria Catherina Swanenburg was a Dutch murderer who poisoned twenty-seven people with arsenic between 1880 and 1883. Her nickname was Goeie Mie, Dutch for 'Good Mie'. She failed in her attempted to kill another fifty using the same method. Forty-five of them sustained chronic health-problems after the ingestion of the poison. Swanenberg's motive was the money she would receive either through the victim's insurance or their inheritance. She effected most of the insurances herself. Her first victim was her own mother in 1880; shortly after this she killed her father too. She was caught when trying to poison the Groothuizen-family in December 1883. The trial began on April 23rd, 1885. Maria Swanenburg was found guilty and sentenced to live in a 'place of correction' for the rest of her life. She died there in 1915.
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References
- J.H.H. Gaute and Robin Odell, The New Murderer's Who's Who, 1996, Harrap Books, London
- Lennaert Nijgh, Moord en Doodslag, 1990, Schoort
Categories: 1915 deaths | Serial killers