Notorious child killer Valmae Faye Beck, formerly known as Fay Cramb, has died in hospital, Acting Police Minister Robert Schwarten said.
Beck was admitted to Townsville General Hospital earlier this month after suffering a shortness of breath and chest pains.
She was placed in a medically-induced coma following complications with heart surgery.
Beck and her former husband Barrie Watts were jailed for life in 1987 for the torture and murder of Noosa schoolgirl Sian Kingi.
WHEN murder — the most violent, unforgivable crime a human being can commit — follows an unimaginably sick sexual attack on a child, the dimension of horror widens.
That is exactly what happened on the afternoon of November 27, 1987, to a bright, attractive, blonde 12-year-old schoolgirl at Noosa. Sian Kingi, innocently riding her bike home, was abducted by two Queensland monsters, Valmae Fay Beck and Barrie John Watts.
"Today is the day," Watts told Beck minutes before Sian rode by.
The dumpy and matronly woman — with six children from previous marriages — stopped Sian and asked about a mythical missing dog.
Watts grabbed her from behind. Sian, arms and mouth taped, was driven away to bushland.
Watts raped, beat and repeatedly stabbed Sian and cut her throat while Beck looked on. The two then calmly went home to Lowood, had a bath and watched TV.
Beck, 44, and Watts, 34, had been married for almost a year.
It emerged in their separate trials that the marriage was going sour and Watts had fantasies about raping and killing a young virgin.
Beck, obsessed with her rat-featured husband, agreed to help him.
Watts told Beck, in secretly taped conversations between the two while they awaited their court hearing, "I'd like to do it again. You wanted it as well. You wanted to do it again."
Beck — who showed no reaction to her life sentence — told a stunned court that Sian "never cried, never shed a tear, (she was) a brave little girl, she never uttered a peep, she just did everything he told her."
this is a picture of Sian ... remember this angel in your prays
.. sam xx
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