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Dena Schlosser

American murder defendant (born 1969)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Dena Schlosser is an American woman who lived in Plano, Texas, who, on November 22, 2004, used a knife to amputate the arms of her ten-month-old daughter, Margaret, and then decapitated her.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Dena, Schlosser and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dena Schlosser” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.