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LuÃsa De Jesus
LuÃsa de Jesus (10 December 1748 – 1 July 1772), known as The Foundling Wheel Killer (Portuguese: ''A Assassina da Roda'') and Luiza de Jesus (the way her name was spelled at the time), was a Portuguese delivery worker, baby farmer, fraudster and serial killer who smothered at least 33 infants in Coimbra from the 1760s until 1772. While she confessed to only 28 of these, she was convicted on all counts, sentenced to death and ultimately executed, becoming the last woman to be executed in the country's history. She is also considered the deadliest serial killer in Portuguese crime history. Biography LuÃsa de Jesus, spelt Luiza at the time, was born on 10 December 1748, in Figueira de Lorvão, a locality that was part of the municipality of Coimbra in the 18th century but which has been within Penacova municipality since the 19th century, the daughter of small-time farmers Manoel and Marianna Rodrigues. In the parish registers, there is only one entry that corresponds to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figueira De Lorvão
Figueira de Lorvão is a parish in Penacova Penacova ( or ) is a town and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 15,251, in an area of 216.73 km2. Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 8 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): ... Municipality, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 2,737, in an area of 26.68 km2. It is the birthplace of the last female Portuguese serial killer executed in the country's history, LuÃsa de Jesus. References External links * Freguesias of Penacova {{Coimbra-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embezzlement
Embezzlement (from Anglo-Norman, from Old French ''besillier'' ("to torment, etc."), of unknown origin) is a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer. It often involves a trusted individual taking advantage of their position to steal funds or assets, most commonly over a period of time. Versus larceny Embezzlement is not always a form of theft or an act of stealing ''per se'', since those definitions specifically deal with taking something that does not belong to the perpetrators. Instead, embezzlement is, more generically, an act of deceitfully secreting assets by one or more persons that have been ''entrusted'' with such assets. The persons entrusted with such assets may or may not have an ownership stake in such assets. Embezzlement differs from larceny in three ways. First, in embezzlement, an actual '' conversion'' must occur; second, the original taking must not be trespassory, and third, in penalties. To say that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century Murderers
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in Society, human society and the Natural environment, environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, History of slavery, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russian Empire, Russia and Qing dynasty, China. Western world, Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
