What is Dagmar Overbye's middle name?
Johanne Amalie
What is Dagmar Overbye's full name?
Dagmar Johanne Amalie Overbye
Dagmar Overbye nickname(s):
Dagmar Johanne Amalie Overbye, Dagmar Overbye
Dagmar Overbye date of birth:
April 23, 1883
How old was Dagmar Overbye when died?
46
Where was Dagmar Overbye born?
Denmark
When did Dagmar Overbye die?
May 6, 1929
What is Dagmar Overbye nationality?
Danish
What is Dagmar Overbye's occupation?
Female Serial Killer
Short Biography
Dagmar Johanne Amalie Overbye (April 23, 1887 – May 6, 1929) was a Danish serial killer. She murdered between 9 and 25 children – of which one was her own – during a seven-year period from 1913 to 1920. On March 3, 1921, she was sentenced to death in one of the most noted trials in Danish history, that changed legislation on childcare. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison.Overbye was working as a professional child caretaker, caring for babies born outside of marriage, murdering her own charges. She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her masonry heater. The corpses were either cremated, buried or hidden in the loft.Overbye was convicted of nine murders, as there were no proof of the others. Her lawyer based the case on Overbye being abused herself as a baby, but that did not impress the judge. She became one of the three women sentenced to death in Denmark in the 20th century, but she – like the other two – was reprieved.[citation needed]She died in prison on May 6, 1929, at age 42. Notes relating to her case are included in the Politihistorisk Museum (Museum of Police History) in Nørrebro, Copenhagen.The Danish author Karen Søndergaard Koldste wrote a fiction novel called Englemagersken (The Angel Maker) based on her. Teatret ved Sorte Hest in Copenhagen has performed a play named Historien om en Mo(r)der (Morder meaning "murderer" and moder meaning "mother") based on her life.