Wholesale Murderess Receives Life Sentence
(Received 2.30 p.m.) LIEGE. July 8. Madame Marie Becker has been found guilty of murder, and sentenced to death, but she will undergo penal servitude for life, because the death sentence is not enforced on women in Belgium. Madame Becker, apparently a typical middle-aged Belgian housewife, was charged with 11 murders and five attempted murders. The prosecution alleged that the money the woman extracted from her victims went to pander to the expensive tastes of herself and her lover. All the victims had lent her money or made wills in her favour after she had drugged them.
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Northern Advocate, 9 July 1938, Page 5
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