Caroline Grills
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{{Infobox Serial Killer
| name=Caroline Grills
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| 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]]
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