Female Serial Killers
Name↕ | Nickname↕ | Country↕ | Active Years↕ | Confirmed Victims↕ | Method↕ | Fate↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aileen Wuornos | The Damsel of Death | United States | 1989-1990 | 7 | Shot male clients while working as a sex worker in Florida | Executed by lethal injection, 2002 |
Belle Gunness | Hell's Belle | United States | 1884-1908 | 14 | Lured suitors via lonely-hearts ads and killed them for insurance and valuables | Disappeared after her farmhouse burned; fate unknown |
Dorothea Puente | Death House Landlady | United States | 1982-1988 | 9 | Poisoned elderly boarders and cashed their social security checks | Died in prison, 2011 |
Elizabeth Bathory | The Blood Countess | Hungary | 1585-1610 | 80 | Tortured and killed young servant girls at her Hungarian castle | Walled into a room in her castle; died 1614 |
Jane Toppan | Jolly Jane | United States | 1885-1901 | 31 | Nurse who poisoned patients with morphine and atropine | Committed to an asylum for life; died 1938 |
Mary Ann Cotton | The Black Widow | United Kingdom | 1852-1872 | 21 | Poisoned husbands, lovers and stepchildren with arsenic for insurance | Hanged in Durham, 1873 |
Beverley Allitt | The Angel of Death | United Kingdom | 1991 | 4 | Pediatric nurse who injected children with insulin and potassium chloride | Serving 13 life sentences in a high-secure hospital |
Nannie Doss | The Giggling Granny | United States | 1927-1954 | 11 | Poisoned four husbands and several family members with arsenic | Died in prison of leukemia, 1965 |
Amelia Dyer | The Ogress of Reading | United Kingdom | 1869-1896 | 200 | Baby farmer who strangled infants placed in her care | Hanged at Newgate Prison, 1896 |
Genene Jones | Death Nurse | United States | 1977-1982 | 2 | Pediatric nurse injecting infants with digoxin and succinylcholine | Serving 99-year sentence; suspected of up to 60 killings |
Rosemary West | Rose West | United Kingdom | 1973-1987 | 10 | Tortured and killed young women with husband Fred at 25 Cromwell Street | Serving whole-life order |
Myra Hindley | The Moors Murderer | United Kingdom | 1963-1965 | 5 | Abducted and killed children with partner Ian Brady and buried them on Saddleworth Moor | Died in prison, 2002 |
Leonarda Cianciulli | The Soap-Maker of Correggio | Italy | 1939-1940 | 3 | Killed three women and turned their bodies into soap and teacakes | Died in a criminal asylum, 1970 |
Tillie Klimek | The Psychic Poisoner | United States | 1914-1921 | 4 | Predicted the deaths of husbands and relatives she poisoned with arsenic | Died in prison, 1936 |
Juana Barraza | La Mataviejitas | Mexico | 1998-2006 | 16 | Former professional wrestler who strangled elderly women in Mexico City | Serving 759-year sentence |
Daria Nicolodi / Darya Saltykova | The Cannibal Noblewoman | Russia | 1756-1762 | 138 | Noblewoman who tortured and killed her own serfs, mostly young women | Imprisoned in a convent until her death in 1801 |
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