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Vera Renczi was a or Hungarian woman known as a serial killer who allegedly poisoned 35 individuals—including her husbands lovers and one son—with arsenic during the 1920s.[citation needed] In 1972 the Guinness Book of World Records found no authoritative sources to support the claim that 35 people were killed by Renczi in early 20th-century Romania. Before and after that time the story has appeared in several versions with varying details.