Perhaps that’s why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to “the female monster.”įrom history’s earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain’s notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to ‘Honeymoon Killer’ Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournos-the first female serial killer-as-celebrity-to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity. How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as men-with women registering low on our paranoia radar. Aileen Wuornos had a tragic childhood, having been abandoned by her mother and raised by her grandparents. She was a trained nursing professional and indulged in ‘baby farming,’ a popular practice in which. Over a period of 20 years during the Victorian era in England, she is said to have murdered about 300 infants, whom she had taken in to ‘take care of.’. Crime: Found guilty of killing six men between the years of 1989-1990. Amelia Dyer is known as one of the most brutal and infamous serial killers in history. Aileen Wuornos (aka 'That chick from Monster ), 1956-2002. She confessed to killing between 31 and 100 people, but was declared insane and sent to an insane asylum, where she persished in 1938.In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill-and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim. Heres some of Americas most notorious female criminals: 1. Based on the autopsy of one of these bodies, she was caught as a poisoner in 1901. She killed dozens of people while bustling around smiling, including an entire family that she was sent to take care of. She later said that being in bed with people in their last moments turned her on however, at the time, no one suspected anything due to her sunny disposition. Presents an in-depth approach to evaluating the life and crimes of some of the worlds most vicious women, including Lady Elizabeth Bathory, Bell Gunness. Toppan would bring patients in and out of consciousness, and end them with morphine or atropine either by accident or because it pleased her. Wuornos, who shot her victims at point-blank range, claimed that all of these men had assaulted her and she’d committed her homicides in self-defense. From 1989 to 1990, Wuornos was working as a sex worker in Florida and murdered seven different men. As an in-demand nurse at several hospitals, she earned a good living but did terrifying things to those under her care. Aileen Wuornos is perhaps the most well known female serial killer of all time. It is important to note that the number of women who commit serial killings is relatively small compared to men and it is not a new phenomenon. As young children, she and her sisters were taken away from their father and sent to the Boston Female Asylum until they were adopted. Additionally, some female serial killers have been found to have a history of financial gain as a motivation for their killings, such as in the case of Dorothea Puente. She had a tragic and impoverished childhood under the care of her alcoholic father after her mother passed. While working as a nurse, she took the lives of at least 31 patients in the late 1800s. Jane Toppan, known as "Jolly Jane," was born in 1857. Bathory was locked in a room in a castle until she perished in 1614. She and her accomplices were put on trial and convicted of 80 counts of murder in 1611. When Bathory eventually turned her attention from the poor of Hungary to young noblewomen, the king intervened. After her husband's passing, her violence only escalated, becoming increasingly sadistic. In one case (according to several sources), she even forced a girl to cook and eat part of her own flesh.Īs Bathory was a well-connected countess, her crimes were ignored for years. With the help of her husband and other servants and companions, she would kidnap peasant girls from neighboring villages and trap them in her castle, where she would sometimes bite chunks out of their bodies, push pins and needles under their fingernails, and drink their blood in the reported belief that it would keep her young. To keep her happy, her husband allegedly built her a torture chamber where she took the lives of countless young women. Known as " The Blood Countess" and alleged by some to be a vampire or the origin of certain vampire legends, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was famous for torturing and murdering servant girls and peasants in her Hungarian castle.
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