Victims:
1853 – Infant daughter, drowned,
Vigerslev Mark (born: Jan. 8, 1853).
1855 – infant son, Barfredshøj in
Ramsø.
Mar. 1861 – infant son, drowned,
Damhussøen.
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On Saturday, December 21, 1861 at 8 in the morning Ane Cathrine Andersdatter was beheaded at Rødovre Mark, north of Damhuskroen, Denmark. She had deliberately and in cold blood murdered three of her four children.
~ First infanticide ~
Ane Cathrine was born October 30,
1829 in Karrebæk at Kotri. She was a domestic servant. She gave birth out of
wedlock to a girl on January 8, 1853 at the Royal Birth Foundation. The father,
a farm laborer, provided no financial assistance. She drowned the baby in a
ditch near Vigerslev Mark, placing the baby the icy water, and held her head
under until she died, afterwards burying the corpse in a hole Ane dug with her bare
hands. The body was never found.
~ Second infanticide ~
In the summer of 1854 earned Ane
Cathrine on the farm Barfredshøj in Ramsø. Here
she met a laborer, and it was intended that they should marry. Karlen broke her vows, and when Ane Cathrine was pregnant
with her second child, she knew that her situation was again impossible.
On April 3, 1855, she gave birth to
a boy, fathered by a fiance who broke his vow. She was to start a new job on
April 24. She contacted the father, who was working on a farm near Rødovre but to no avail. She threw the baby in a well.
Though the corpse was discovered a month later police never discovered its
identity.
~ A Child Who Survived~
In 1856 Ane Cathrine gave birth to
another boy. The father was a laborer who took
care of the baby and brought it to his own mother, who raised the child.
~ Third infanticide ~
On February 15, 1861, Ane gave birth
to a son with a family in Borgergade, where she had been referred to the Birth
Foundation. After telling a series of lies to prevent detection, on March 5 she
drowned the boy in a well in Damhussøen – at the corner of Rødovrevej and Rødager
avenue. She later announced that the child had been turned over to foster
parents, consistent with the false story she had broadcast earlier.
~ Arrest ~
On March 30, 1861 found the body of
the little boy was discovered. Police learned
that Ane had been spotted making repeated “suspicious” excursions carrying the
baby. She confessed to the the murder under investigation as well as the two
earlier killings. Ane was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Ane
Cathrine Andersdatter was executed by beaheading on Saturday, December 21, 1861
at 8 in the morning at Rødovre Mark, north of
Damhuskroen, Denmark.
[Text based on: Marie Drost, “Den
tredobbelte barnemorderske” (“The Triple Child
Murderess”), Rodovre Bibliotex, Jan. 8, 2014]
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For more cases of this type, see Serial Baby-Killer Moms.
More cases: Female Serial Killers Executed
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