DE MELKER Daisy Louisa C.

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Daisy de Melker
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Executed
Personal Information
Full Name	Daisy Louisa C. de Melker
Birth Name	Daisy Louisa C. Hancorn-Smith
Born	June 1, 1886 Seven Fountains, Cape Colony (now Republic of South Africa)
Died	December 30, 1932 (aged 46) Pretoria, Transvaal, Union of South Africa
Cause of Death	Executed by hanging
Gender	Female
Race/Ethnicity	White
Spouses	William Cowle Robert Sproat Sydney Clarence de Melker
Child	Rhodes Cecil Cowle
Criminal Information
Offender Type	Serial Killer
Method of Killing	Poisoning
Conviction	Murder
Criminal penalty	Death
Victims	3
Span of crimes	1923 - 1932
Country	South Africa
Date apprehended	April 1932
Imprisonment	Pretoria Central Prison — Pretoria, Transvaal

Victims

Name	Age	Date of Death	Cause of Death
William Cowle		January 11, 1923	Poisoning
Robert Sproat		November 6, 1927	Poisoning
Rhodes Cecil Cowle	20	March 5, 1932	Poisoning

In popular culture

Film adaptation

• Daisy de Melker (1993) on IMDb

Links

• Daisy de Melker at Wikipedia