Caroline Grills 4066267 224226541 2008-07-07T21:58:23Z Longhair 99037 rm cat, subject is dead {{Infobox Serial Killer | name=Caroline Grills | image=replace this image female.svg | image_size= | caption= | birthname=Caroline Mickelson | alias= | birth=variously [[1890]] or [[1888]]<ref name=biog/> | location=probably [[Balmain, New South Wales]]<ref name=biog>''Australian Dictionary of Biography Online'', [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140381b.htm Grills, Caroline]</ref> | death=[[6 October]] [[1960]]<ref name=biog/> | cause=[[peritonitis]] from ruptured gastric [[ulcer]] | victims=4 murders and 3 attempted murders | country=[[Australia]] | states=[[Redfern, New South Wales]]<ref name=biog/><ref name=famousNswCases>{{cite news | url =http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Murder-tried-and-true/2005/02/10/1107890341655.html | title =Murder, tried and true | publisher =[[Sydney Morning Herald]] | date =2003-02-11 | accessdate = 2008-01-16 }}</ref> | beginyear= | endyear= | apprehended=April [[1953]] | penalty=[[life imprisonment]] }} '''Caroline Grills''', born '''Caroline Mickelson''' ([[1890]] - October [[1960]]) was an [[Australian]] [[serial killer]]. Grills became a suspect in [[1947]] after three family members (87-year-old stepmother Mrs. Christine Mickelson; Mrs. Angelina Thomas, a relative of Mrs. Grills' husband; and Mr. Grills' brother-in-law John Lundberg) and a close family friend (Mrs. Mary Anne Mickelson) died. Authorities tested [[tea]] that she had given to two additional family members (Mrs. Christine Downey and Mr. John Downey) on [[13 April]], [[1953]] and found the [[poison]] [[thallium]]. Grills 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]]<ref name=biog/> and sentenced to life in [[prison]], and became affectionately known as "Auntie Thally" to other inmates. In October 1960 she was rushed to hospital where she died from peritonitis from a ruptured gastric ulcer. ==References== {{reflist|2}} * Book, [http://www.fireflybooks.com/Publicity/books/4839.html Hidden Evidence: Forty true crimes and how forensic science helped solve them] by David Owen (Firefly Books, September 2000). * Book, Murder! 25 True Australian Crimes by Vivien Encel & Alan Sharpe [[Category:1890 births|Grills, Caroline]] [[Category:1960 deaths|Grills, Caroline]] [[Category:People from Sydney|Grills, Caroline]] [[Category:Female serial killers|Grills, Caroline]] [[Category:Australian serial killers|Grills, Caroline]] [[Category:Poisoners|Grills, Caroline]] [[Category:Australian female murderers|Grills, Caroline]] [[Category:Deaths from peritonitis|Grills, Caroline]] [[Category:Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by New South Wales]] [[Category:Prisoners who died in New South Wales detention]] [[nl:Caroline Grills]]