We are what we eat and ate – especially as it pertains to poison. This week marks the 88th anniversary of the sentencing of Daisy de Melker. What does our ongoing obsession with South Africa’s most ...

Robert Colman’s latest drag performance, Daisy’s Well Hung, takes to the Women’s Jail on Constitution Hill over the next fortnight. It’s something of a homecoming for the murderess Daisy de Melker, ...

The infamous poisoner, Daisy Louisa de Melker (née Hancorn-Smith) was born on 1 July 1886 near Grahamstown. Daisy was charged with the murder of her two previous husbands and her son. Her trial began ...

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Female killers usually do so for three reasons – psychopathy, greed and because they’re abused – but there is gender bias even in murder ...