May 24, 1876 - Hilda Nilsson
Operating in early twentieth-century Sweden, she took in infants — a practice known as baby farming — and killed at least eight children in her care, earning a grim local epithet that masked the scale of what she had done. Her case sits at the intersection of poverty, inadequate child welfare oversight, and the informal economies that left vulnerable infants without legal protection. The sentence handed down was death, though she died by her own hand before it could be carried out, leaving her as a singular footnote in Swedish legal history.
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Hilda Nilsson (24 May 1876 – 10 August 1917) was a Swedish serial killer from Helsingborg who became known as "the angel maker on Bruks Street". She is one of Sweden's most notorious female serial killers.
In 1917, she was imprisoned for murdering eight children. Her trial, which included a mental examination, began on 2 June 1917. At the conclusion of the trial on 15 June 1917, she was sentenced to death. She escaped execution by committing suicide while in jail in Landskrona. She hanged herself with a linen cloth which she had tied to a cell door, and was thus the last person sentenced to death in Sweden not to have the sentence commuted.
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