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Baba Anujka, the 92-year-old Serbian grandmother who killed nearly 150 people with "miracle" cures

2022-11-22 13:25:03Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Could you imagine that such a cute granny could kill a bee, let alone 150 people? She was arrested twice, escaping most of the charges due to lack of evidence, and is believed to have killed over 150 people.

The most feared murderer in Europe was a grandmother from Serbia, known as Baba Anujka.

People from distant countries went to Anujka for medical treatments. She liked to boast that her treatments never failed and that her medicines were bought even by aristocrats.

What is imperative to mention is that she also offered a very special service. For a large sum, grandmother Anujka also prepared a cure to "get rid" of a person who had become annoying.

Her victims were always men who left this world unnoticed a few days after taking the medicine which was actually poison.

Every serial killer has a reason

Baba Anujka, named Ana Draxin, was born in Romania sometime in 1837 as the daughter of a cattle dealer, but since childhood, her family lived in Petrovasâla, in Banat, a country in Serbia.

At the age of 20, she contracted syphilis from an Austrian soldier, forcing her to remain in seclusion for some time, where she studied traditional medicine. At her father's insistence, she married a 20-year-old landowner, with whom she bore 11 children (10 of whom did not live to adulthood).

After her husband's death, she opened a laboratory and began preparing her own medicines.

Grandma Anujka's most famous cure was a combination of arsenic, mercury and ethnobotanical seeds, which according to her solved all the client's concerns - material or marital.

She always asked her patients how serious was the problem to be solved: by this, she referred to the weight of the one to be killed, so that she could adjust the dose of the ingredients.

She promised clients that their "concerns" would disappear in 8 days and asked for 5,000 dinars for a bottle of the miracle drug. It is not known exactly how many people Grandma Anujka killed. Many times the families who asked for her help refused the autopsy so that it would not be understood that it was poisoning.

She managed to escape the first time she was arrested in 1914, but did not meet the same fate 14 years later, when, for the first time, the authorities could prove her involvement in the death of a man.

The mistake was that in that case the drink was not made by grandmother Anujka herself but by a nurse. As the cure was not that strong, the victim managed to speak to a doctor before death.

"I have never seen poison in my life. I only prepared medicines, but they were completely harmless," said Baba Anujka in court.

A woman who admitted to paying 5,000 dinars for the wonder drug testified before the court. Baba Anujka at the age of 92 got up and slapped the witness.

A great stir was created around the proceedings, with newspapers from Europe and the United States waiting for all the details. Baba Anujka was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but did not serve the full sentence, being pardoned in 1936 at the age  of 100./ History of Yesterday

 


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