Her victims were poisoned over a three-year span in 1930s Belgium, a campaign that went undetected long enough to claim eleven lives before authorities intervened. What distinguished her case was not only the scale but the social context — she moved among her targets with apparent normalcy, and her eventual prosecution brought Belgian capital punishment law into sharp relief after decades of disuse.

His path from nationalist lawyer to wartime dictator spanned roughly two decades of radicalization, exile, and state-sponsored terrorism before he was handed effective control of a country. As Poglavnik of the NDH, Pavelić oversaw a regime whose systematic persecution of Serbs, Jews, and Roma placed him among the central perpetrators of genocide in occupied Europe during World War II. The Ustaše apparatus he built and led operated with a brutality that drew notice even from German and Italian authorities.