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State(s)
  
Victims
  
4

Name
  
Caroline Grills


Span of killings
  
1947–1953

Role
  
Serial Killer

Country
  
Date apprehended
  
April 1953

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Born
  
1890 or 1888
New South Wales, Australia

Cause of death
  
Peritonitis from ruptured gastric ulcer

Died
  
October 19, 1960, New South Wales, Australia

Criminal penalty
  
Life imprisonment

Caroline "Auntie Carrie" Grills (nee Mickelson) (born c.1888, Balmain, NSW, Australia – 6 October 1960), was an Australian serial killer.

Caroline Grills Caroline Grills was notorious for using ratbait

Biography

Caroline Grills Caroline Grills was notorious for using ratbait

Grills was born to George Michelson and Mary (nee Preiers) in Balmain, Sydney and married on 22 April 1908 to Richard Grills, and had 6 children, five daughters and a son. She first became a murder suspect in 1947 after the deaths of four family members: her 87-year-old stepmother Christine Mickelson; relatives by marriage Angelina Thomas and John Lundberg; and sister in law Mary Anne Mickelson. Authorities tested tea she had given to two additional family members (Christine Downey and John Downey of Redfern) on 13 April 1953, and detected the common household rat poison, thallium.

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Grills, who was a short dumpy woman who wore thick rimmed dark glasses, commonly served her friends and in-laws tea, cakes and biscuits, and lived in Gladesville, after the death of her father in 1948. She appeared in court charged with four murders and three attempted murders (the third being Eveline Lundberg, Christine Downey's mother) in October 1953. She was convicted on 15 October 1953 and sentenced to death, but her sentence was later changed to life in prison. She became affectionately known as "Aunt Thally" to other inmates of Sydney's Long Bay prison. In October 1960, she was rushed to the Prince Henry Hospital at Randwick where she died from peritonitis from a ruptured gastric ulcer. In the months that followed more cases of thallium poisoning were stated, including notably, prominent Australian Rugby League footballer Bobby Lulham.


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References

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