Ane Cathrine Andersdatter (20 October 1829 – 21 December 1861) was a Danish serial killer who murdered three of her children between 1853 and 1861, shortly after their births. For her crimes, she was beheaded on Rødovre Mark north of Damhuskroen by Annexgårdsvej, in the current residential area of Søtorp. She was the last woman executed in the country, and the only to be executed since the abolition of the absolute monarchy. First child While working as a maid on a farm in Herlufmagie, Andersdatter became pregnant by the tenant. On 3 January 1853, at age 23, she gave birth to a daughter at the Fødselsstiftelsen in Copenhagen. However, the child's father was uninterested in looking after her and returned to Sweden. Unable to care for her, Andersdatter set out for Ringsted, where she planned to give the child up for adoption. When she reached a farm near Vigerslev, she sat down at the edge of a ditch, and as she breastfed her baby, it occurred to her that she could easily drown her in the icy ditch water. After doing so, she buried the body in a field. The remains were never found. Andersdatter then went on to serve on the Barfredshøj farm in Ramsø in the summer of 1854. Second child Two years later, Andersdatter became pregnant again, this time by a fellow servant who was unfaithful to his wife. On 3 April 1855 she gave birth to a boy, but was due to begin work in three weeks, leaving her unable to care for him. At first, she thought of asking his father for help and went to Rødovre, where he was working on a farm, but remembering how harshly he had treated her, she decided against it. On her way back, she stopped at a well she had noticed on the corner of Rødovrevej and Rødager. She threw the baby into the well, then continued along. A month later, the body was found, but since police were unable to find any evidence leading to the perpetrator, the case was quickly closed. Third child In 1856, Andersdatter gave birth to her third child, again by a servant. This one she took home to her mother, letting the boy grow up with his grandmother. The couple were unmarried, but in 1861, she became pregnant again, without the father's knowledge. Remaining silent about the pregnancy, she traveled to Copenhagen