Latvian Female Bolshevik Executioner – Soviet Russia, 1920

FULL TEXT: Paris, Oct. 12. – A beautiful maniac is chief executioner for the Bolsheviki, according to French prisoners returning here today.

The girl, described as a Lettish [Latvian] beauty with raven tresses and burning black eyes, kills her victims with a revolver, shooting them in the back of the head.

The French prisoners were repatriated after having spent a term in Buirki prison in Moscow. That institution, they said, was filled with 3,000 men from all ranks.

Prisoners, they asserted, were killed without trial.

[“Pretty Girl Is Red Executioner – Repatriated French Prisoners Declare Bolshevik Murderess Is Raving Beauty.” The Topeka State Journal (Ka.), Oct. 12, 1920, p. 1]

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Anna Unger (Boegen), Black Widow Serial Killer – Romania, 1941

FULL TEXT: From Zwickau [Romania] it is reported:  The 72 year old Anna Unger – who was widowed of Mothes, divorced from Schweiger, widowed from Döring, born Boegen, from Zwirtzschen – was sentenced to death by the Zwickau district court for poisoning.

The criminal got rid of her men out of greed through poison.

As early as 1922 she tried to murder a man with whom she had been involved by shooting him from behind with a pistol.

For that she was imprisoned for seven years.

In 1931, after a short marriage, Weber Mothes died, in 1936 the Berginvalid Unger, in 1937 the pensioner Roth, for whom she had run the household for a few months.

The poisoner had already established new connections with other men who were apparently also chosen as victims.

Only then did the crimes come to light.

["A 72 year old poisoner." Sudost German daily newspaper (Temeschburg, (Timișoara, Romania), Oct. 7, 1941, p. 8]

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FULL TEXT: Aus Zwickau wird gemeldet Die72 Jahre alte Anna, berw. Unger, verwitwet gewesene Mothes. geschiedene Schweiger, verwitwet gewesme Döring. geb. Boegen aus Zwirtzschen, wurde vom Zwickauer Landgericht wegen Giftmordes zum Tode verurteilt.

Die Verbrecherin hat sich aus Habgier ihrer Männer entledigt, indem sie ihnen Gift beibrachte.

Schon1922 versuchte sie einen Mann, mit dem sie sich eingelassen hatte, zu ermorden, indem sie ihn hinterrücks mit einer Pistole anschoß.

Sie kam damals auf sieben Jahre ins Zuchthaus. 1931 starb nach kurzer Ehe der Weber Mothes, 1936 der Berginvalid Unger, 1937 der Rentner Roth, dem sie einige Monate den Haushalt geführt hatte.

Neue Verbindungen mit weiteren, offenbar ebenfalls als Opfer ausersehenen Männern hatte die Giftmischerin bereits aufgenommen.

Die Verbrechen kamen erst dadurch ans Tageslicht.

[“Eine 73jährige Giftmörderin.” Sudost deutsche Tageszeitung (Temeschburg, (Timișoara, Romania), Oct. 7, 1941, p. 8]

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For links to other cases of woman who murdered 2 or more husbands (or paramours), see Black Widow Serial Killers.

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MORE: Elderly Female Serial Killers

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Laura Heinz, Serial Baby-Killer – Hungary, 1899

FULL TEXT: In Gran, it is reported that 18-year-old educator Laura Heinz, the daughter of a wealthy middle-class family, was arrested on Saturday because there is reasonable suspicion that she was supervising the two children of Count Hadik-Barkoczy, who had suddenly died in the previous year she was entrusted to have poisoned. The girl denies, but it has already been established that she also murdered her own illegitimate child two years ago.

[“A Female Poisoner.” (“Eine Giftmischerin.”), Vorarlberger Tagblatt (Voralberg, Austria), Jun. 7, 1899, p. 3]

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FULL TEXT: In Gran wurde am Samstag, wie man berichtet, die 18jährige Erzieherin Laura Heinz, die Tochter einer wohlhabendden Bürgerfamilie verhaftet, da der begründete Verdacht vorliegt, daß sie die im Vorjahre plötzlich verstorbenen beiden Kinder des Grafen Hadik-Barkoczy, mit deren Beaufsichtigung sie betraut war, vergiftet habe. Das Mädchen leugnet, doch wurde bereits festgestellt, daß es vor zwei Jahren ihr eigenes uneheliches Kind gleichfalls ermordet habe.

[“Eine Giftmischerin.” Vorarlberger Tagblatt (Voralberg, Austria), Jun. 7, 1899, p. 3]

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Count Endre Hadik-Barkóczy de Futak et Szala (1 November 1862 – 4 March 1931) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Speaker of the House of Magnates between 1917 and 1918.

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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.

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