July 1, 1838 - Baba Anujka
She operated for decades as a village herbalist and poisoner, supplying arsenic compounds to clients who sought to rid themselves of unwanted husbands, relatives, and neighbors — making her complicit in a network of domestic killings that spanned generations in rural Vojvodina. What distinguished her case was less the act of killing than the scale of facilitation: estimates of deaths linked to her trade run into the hundreds. She was tried and convicted in her nineties, having outlived most of her victims and, reportedly, most of her accusers.
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Ana di Pištonja, (née Drakšin or Draxin) better known as Baba Anujka, (Serbian Cyrillic: Баба Анујка; c. 1836 or 1838 – 1 September 1938) was a Serbo-Romanian convicted serial killer amateur chemist from the village of Vladimirovac, which was during her life part of the Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary and eventually Yugoslavia. She poisoned at least 50 people and possibly as many as 150 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was apprehended in 1928 at age 90 and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1929 as an accomplice in two murders. She was released due to old age after spending eight years in prison.
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