Published Online: Mar 04, 2017
Page range: 41 - 43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjfs-2016-0007
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This is the story of the serial killer, Mrs. Gesina Gottfried from Bremen, Germany. She was executed in 1831, being charged and convicted for having murdered at least 16 people, partly from her own family, with arsenic trioxide.