Des crimes presque parfaits

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Jeanne Weber, nurse and prostitute, was accused of having murdered, between 1905 and 1908, a dozen children, including two of hers. Nicknamed "the ogress of the Golden Drop" because of the name of the street where she lived, she was first acquitted during her trial in 1906. Experts and doctors, divided on the circumstances of the death of her supposed victims, had then concluded to natural deaths. But two years later, caught in the act of murdering a 10-year-old child, she was recognized as an authentic serial killer. She was then declared mad and imprisoned at the asylum in Maréville, where she hanged herself in 1910.

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