Madeleine Mouton | |
|---|---|
 Mouton in 1947 | |
| Born | Madeleine Maxence Le Veller April 15, 1910 |
| Died | April 10, 1948 (aged 37) |
| Cause of death | Execution by guillotine |
| Other names | "The Berthelot Poisoner" |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Conviction(s) | Murder |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4–7 |
Span of crimes | 1943–1944 |
| Country | Algeria |
| State(s) | Sidi Bel Abbès |
Date apprehended | October 1944 |
Madeleine Mouton (née Madeleine Maxence Le Veller; April 15, 1910 – April 10, 1948), known as The Berthelot Poisoner (French: L'empoisonneuse de Berthelot) was a French serial killer who poisoned eleven people in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria in 1943, seven of which were fatal. Convicted, sentenced to death and later executed for these crimes, she became the second-to-last French woman to be guillotined, and the only one to be executed in French Algeria.