Scientists want Australia’s worst female serial killer

Leading scientists and medical experts are calling for the pardon of convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg after a recent study showed that her victims four of her children may have died of natural causes.

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Folbigg was convicted in 2003 for smothering her children to death as infants between 1990 and 1999, a series of crimes that have earned her the title of ‘Australia’s worst female serial killer’.

Medical experts have argued that her children died due to a rare genetic defect. They inherited a genetic mutation from their mother called CALM2.

CALM-2 mutations are known to cause sudden death due to cardiac arrest.

Calmodulin 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CALM2 gene. Mutations in CALM2 are associated to cardiac arrhythmias.