CAROLINE GRILLS
Affectionately known as “Aunt Thally”, Grills laced teas, cakes and biscuits with the rat poison thallium to kill her well-off family members in the late 1940s.
Through her culinary killing spree, Grills inherited her father’s Gladesville home in Sydney and a holiday home in the Blue Mountains. She murdered her stepmother Christine Mickelson, her sister-in-law Mary Anne Mickelson and relatives by marriage Angelina Thomas and John Lundberg.
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