GUILTY OF MURDER
MARIE BECKER SENTENCED IN BELGIUM WILL UNDERGO LIFELONG IMPRISONMENT (Recd This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LIEGE, July 8. Marie Becker was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but she will undergo lifelong penal servitude, because: the death sentence is not enforced on women in Belgium. Marie Becker, described ,3s a typical looking middle-aged Belgian housewife, was charged with eleven murders and five attempted murders. The prosecution alleged that the money she extracted from her victims went to pander to the expensive tastes of herself and her lover. All the victims had lent her money or made wills in her favour, after she had drugged them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1938, Page 8
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