Francisca Ballesteros

Francisca Ballesteros (born 1969) is a Spanish woman who poisoned to death her first baby, a five-month-old daughter, in 1990. Fourteen years later, in 2004, she killed her husband and second daughter because she had met a man on the Internet and wanted to run away from her parenting and marriage to be with her newfound lover. Ballesteros then tried to poison her twelve-year-old son, although he survived after eight months of recovery. Following her son's poisoning, she was arrested by Spanish authorities. She was convicted on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and sentenced to eighty-four years in prison in 2005.