The Angel Maker: Dagmar Overbye and the Children Who Never Came Home
On 2 September 1920, Karoline Aagesen stood in a Copenhagen stairwell and demanded her baby back. The woman she had paid would not open the door. In the stove, police found bone.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of Dagmar Johanne Amalie Overbye — Englemagersken, the Angel Maker — Denmark’s most prolific known serial killer. Between 1916 and 1920 she took infants from unmarried mothers who answered newspaper ads, then made sure those children disappeared. She confessed to sixteen murders. Østre Landsret convicted her of nine. In March 1921 she was sentenced to death; King Christian X commuted…
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