Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Marlene Lehnberg (born c. 1957) is a South African murderer more commonly known as The Scissor Murderess. She was 18 years old in 1974, when she and hired killer Marthinus Choegoe stabbed Susanna Magdalena van der Linde, the wife of her 47-year old lover, Christiaan van der Linde, to death with a pair of scissors. At 19, she was the youngest woman to be convicted of murder in South Africa until a 14-year old Durban girl was found guilty of plotting the murder of her grandmother in 2004. Both Lehnberg and Marthinus Choegoe received the death penalty, but this was later set aside and she served 11 years of her 20 year sentence, in Pollsmoor Prison outside Cape Town.. }
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- Marlene_Lehnberg abstract "Marlene Lehnberg (born c. 1957) is a South African murderer more commonly known as The Scissor Murderess. She was 18 years old in 1974, when she and hired killer Marthinus Choegoe stabbed Susanna Magdalena van der Linde, the wife of her 47-year old lover, Christiaan van der Linde, to death with a pair of scissors. At 19, she was the youngest woman to be convicted of murder in South Africa until a 14-year old Durban girl was found guilty of plotting the murder of her grandmother in 2004. Both Lehnberg and Marthinus Choegoe received the death penalty, but this was later set aside and she served 11 years of her 20 year sentence, in Pollsmoor Prison outside Cape Town.".