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Marie Alexandrine Becker

Marie Alexandrine Becker

1879–1942

Nationality
Belgium
Occupation
serial killer

Marie Alexandrine Becker (née Petitjean; 14 July 1879 – 11 June 1942), nicknamed The Black Widow, was a Belgian serial killer who was sentenced to death for poisoning eleven people between 1933 and 1936, and attempting to poison five others.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Forest Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Marie Alexandrine Becker (née Petitjean; 14 July 1879 – 11 June 1942), nicknamed The Black Widow, was a Belgian serial killer who was sentenced to death for poisoning eleven people between 1933 and 1936, and attempting to poison five others. Since capital punishment in Belgium had not been applied since 1863, her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.