'My Mother Was A Serial Killer'

Hazel kept her mum’s shocking secret for more than a decade

- Madison Spira

Read all about the woman on three murder charges,” the paper boy yelled at Hazel Baron as her husband Bill pulled up at a set of traffic lights. Cradling the newborn baby boy they’d just adopted, Hazel looked at her beloved partner and started to cry.

It was 1964 and the woman splashed across the front page of the newspaper was the same woman who’d raised Hazel – her evil 52-year-old mother Dulcie. After years of hiding the truth, the infamous Australian serial killer would soon be behind bars for life.

“The feeling was just indescribable,” Hazel, now in her late 70s, tells Woman’s Day. “It was as if an angel had sat on my shoulder and said, ‘You have this beautiful new baby in your arms and your mum will soon be locked up.’ I knew everything was going to be OK.”

Hazel was just nine years old when her mum broke the news that her beloved father Ted Baron, 48, had gone down to the river for a drink and accidentally drowned. But later that day, the little girl found out the chilling truth.