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Locusta

Roman murderer
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  • serial murder
    / History

    …the earliest documented cases involved Locusta, a Roman woman hired by Agrippina the Younger, the mother of Nero, to poison several members of the imperial family; Locusta was executed in 69 ce. Serial murders also were documented in medieval England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy. The French baron Gilles de Rais,…

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    …the earliest documented cases involved Locusta, a Roman woman hired by Agrippina the Younger, the mother of Nero, to poison several members of the imperial family; Locusta was executed in 69 ce. Serial murders also were documented in medieval England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy. The French baron Gilles de Rais,…

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