Sofie Johannesdotter

Sofie Johannesdotter (24 August 1839 – 18 February 1876) was a Swedish-Norwegian serial killer who poisoned at least three people in Fredrikshald (present-day Halden) from 1869 to 1874. Johannesdotter would later be convicted of these killings and executed, the last woman to be executed in Norway and the penultimate execution overall.

Early life Sofie Johannesdotter was born on 24 August 1839 in the small village of Ärtemark in Sweden. She came from a family of poor, uneducated peasants who had five other children, two of which died in infancy.

On 18 February 1876, Sofie Johannesdotter was beheaded at the Borgermesterløkken in Fredrikshald by executioner Theodor Larsen.