conviction_status death_place death_date conviction birth_place alias children conviction_penalty charge parents birth_date spouse article_title name
executed by hanging hm prison pentridge , coburg , victoria 1 june 1936 murder hawthorn , victoria , australia the school-girl strangler joan death murder karl and violet -lrb- née wood -rrb- 12 december 1899 bernice -lrb- née pope -rrb- arnold sodeman
 arnold karl sodeman
arnold sodeman

arnold karl sodeman -lrb- -- -rrb- , also known as the school-girl strangler , was a serial killer who targeted children .
he confessed to four killings before being executed at pentridge prison , victoria in 1936 .
sodeman was the second of eleven people to be hanged at pentridge prison after the closure of melbourne gaol in 1929 .
