The World’s Oldest Serial Killer

A girl in it’s early 20’s met a young, handsome military officer that frightened her for life. Nobody ever thought that one break-up will lead to so many deaths…

Audrius Šaras
4 min readAug 4, 2020
Grandma Anujka, 1929. Source: http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-witch-of-vladimirovac-anujka-de.html

DDamp basement. It’s a dark, inclement night. An old lady, with a black scarf and a black dress, is standing behind the table and is mixing toxic plants and arsenic to make a so-called “magic-water”. And, no, this is not your typical horror movie or a nightmare that you are going to have once in a while. This old lady was one of the most successful serial killers’ during her time and in history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were reoccurring murders in a small village of Vladimirovac in Kingdom of Yugoslavia that left everyone with a question: WHO? It was grandma Anujka.

Who was Baba Anujka?

Ana Drakšin, or the witch of Vladimirovac, was a medicine expert and herbalist that was very well-known in her time. She attended private school, spoke 5 languages and had all the tools for a prosperous future. However, if you recall the first sentences of the article, it was this

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Audrius Šaras

Deeply embedded love for history. Student of Communication science in University of Amsterdam. Interests in politics, psychology and sports.