Daisy de Melker
(1886-1932)
Executed South African serial killer
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Daisy Louisa C. De Melker (née Hancorn-Smith; 1 June 1886 – 30 December 1932) simply known as Daisy de Melker, was a trained nurse who poisoned two husbands with strychnine for their life insurance while living in Germiston in the central Transvaal (now Gauteng), and then poisoned her only son with arsenic for reasons which are still unclear. She is the second woman to have been hanged in South Africa.
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1 June 1886 Seven Fountains, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
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| Died |
30 December 1932 (aged 46)
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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