Anna Maria Zwanziger

Anna Maria Zwanziger
Anna Maria Zwanziger
	Zwanziger passed out
Born	Anna Margaretha Zwanziger; 7 August 1760; Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
Died	17 September 1811 (aged 51); Kulmbach
Cause of death	Execution by beheading
Conviction	Murder
Criminal penalty	Death
Details
Victims	4
Span of crimes	1801–1811
Country	Germany

Anna Margaretha Zwanziger (7 August 1760 – 17 September 1811) was a German serial killer.^[1] She used arsenic, which she referred to as "her truest friend".

From 1801 to 1811, Zwanziger was employed as a housekeeper at the home of several judges in Germany. She would poison her employers with arsenic, and then nurse them back to health to gain their favour.^[1] She poisoned three people and attempted to poison several others.^[1] She killed four people, one of whom was a baby.^[2]

Zwanziger was judged guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Before she was beheaded, she said it was probably a good thing she was to be executed, as she did not think she would be able to stop.^[2]

Wilkie Collins referenced her in his 1880 thriller Jezebel's Daughter.

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1 2 3 Dan Norder, Wolf Vanderlinden and Paul Begg, Ripper Notes: Madmen, Myths and Magic, Inklings Press, 2004, p. 17
1 2 "Anna Marie Zwanziger at Serial Killer True Crime Library". Archived from the original on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

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[Ripper-1] 1 2 3 Dan Norder, Wolf Vanderlinden and Paul Begg, Ripper Notes: Madmen, Myths and Magic, Inklings Press, 2004, p. 17

[Anna-2] 1 2 "Anna Marie Zwanziger at Serial Killer True Crime Library". Archived from the original on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

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People	Deutsche Biographie

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Anna Maria Zwanziger

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