Antoinette Scieri
French nurse
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Antoinette Scieri (1890–1968) was a French nurse convicted of murdering her elderly patients.[2]
Scieri was born in Italy and studied nursing at Doullens during World War I.[1] She was arrested and imprisoned for fraud and theft in 1915 for stealing valuables and posing as injured men to receive funds.[1]
After her release in 1916, she moved to Saint-Gilles in 1920 with her violent and abusive partner and began work as a private nurse.[1] Deaths began in 1924 and continued through 1926. On April 27, 1926, she was convicted of poisoning twelve people with the herbicide pyralion.[3] She confessed and was sentenced to death.[2] Her sentence was commuted to life and she died in 1968 after being released from prison in 1960.[3]
