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Dagmar Overbye
Dagmar Johanne Amalie Overby (; 23 April 1887 – 6 May 1929) was a Danish people, Danish serial killer. She murdered between 9 and 25 children, including one of her own, during a seven-year-period from 1913 to 1920. On 3 March 1921, she was Capital punishment in Denmark, sentenced to death in one of the most noted trial (law), trials in History of Denmark, Danish history—one that changed legislation on childcare. The sentence was later clemency, commuted to life in prison. Overbye was working as a professional childcare, child caretaker, caring for babies born Illegitimacy, outside of marriage, murdering her own charges. She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her masonry heater. The corpses were either cremated, burial, buried or hidden in the loft. Overbye was convicted of nine murders, as there was insufficient proof of the others. Her lawyer based the case on Overbye being Child abuse, abused herself as a baby, but that did not impress the judge. She be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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