[ SECRET POST #3543 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3543 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Are there any other female serial killers in history? She's the only one I ever see brought up and her circumstances are pretty depressing.

[(Anonymous)]

Elizabeth Bathory is one (the most famous, I think)

[philstar22]

Aren't there questions about if she really did those things or if it was just propaganda against her? I don't know, I just heard that somewhere.

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely. But they're less likely to do what she did and more likely to be healthcare workers such as nurses, who kill their patients. They're called Angels of Mercy. But they're actually murderers.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, from what I've heard, most female serial killers tend to be much more subtle with their killing methods, usually through poisonings and things of that sort.

[dethtoll]

There's a few, but she's the most well-known one in modern American culture.

[(Anonymous)]

Several, but they were usually killing with their boyfriends or husbands, like Rosemary West and Karla Homolka, not alone.

[(Anonymous)]

Belle Gunness, the black widow.

[(Anonymous)]

There are a ton of female serial killers. It's just after Monster she really became the go to.

You have Kristen Gilbert the Angel of Death.
A ton of Black Widows, like Nannie Doss & Betty Lou Beets.
There was that Japanese midwife that murdered all those infants.
Several other nursing home murderers.

Female serial killers just tend to not be as bloody as men. Often poisoning and such instead of butchering. Though you do have the butchers like Elizabeth Báthory

[(Anonymous)]

There have been quite a few. I ended up reading an article about them about a month or two ago. This should get your started (trigger warning, obv) -

http://www.the-line-up.com/9-female-serial-killers/

http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-female-serial-killers/reference

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katieheaney/11-terrifying-female-serial-killers-youve-never-heard-of?utm_term=.rtYrVD2Laq#.ss33Vnb86a

[(Anonymous)]

Just in the US: Jane Toppan, Belle Gunness, Dorothea Puente, Genene Jones--and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

[(Anonymous)]

Elizabeth Bathory, as the anon above me also noted, although people will get into arguments as to the authenticity of the accounts, due to the fact that's its over 500 years ago. I think while some of the details have been sensationalized over time, I think she was also a killer.

I've come across accounts of a few female serial killers when reading historical accounts. There were a definite few in the 1700-1800s in the US; the one I'm thinking of advertised herself as a widow looking for a husband. The men would come courting, and never be seen again. She moved around, but eventually got sloppy and a few bodies were found; however, she ended up getting away. Wish I could remember her name, but for all the women I looked up, there were write-ups on Wikipedia, so probably a simple search would turn up some of them.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure you're thinking of Belle Gunness.

[(Anonymous)]

They are less common but exist - to my knowledge though Aileen Wuornos is a bit uncommon cause she wasn't a. an Angel of Death (serial killer nurse) b. a black widow or c. working with a man as a couple (ala Myra Hindley or Karla Homolka)

[(Anonymous)]

Google "Baby Farms". While it's harder to track how many infants/young children died many baby farms from the 1800s-1900s were horrible.
There were a number of women who ran them who let the child die of neglect or right out murder.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, definitely. Most of them weren't quite as, uh, hands on as Aileen Wuornos, though. There were quite a few serial poisoners, such as Mary Ann Cotton. There were so called angels of mercy, who tended to be healthcare workers who murdered their patients. There were women who killed or conspired to kill as part of a team, like Karla Homolka and Rosemary West. But few of female serial killers murdered able-bodied men the way Wuornos did.

[thelesbianfuturist]

Oh they exist, like female school shooters, but generally mass murder is much much more of a male pastime. I'd actually be really interested to know why that is but sadly the gender divide on this is far too politicized to get a real reliable study on it.

[(Anonymous)]

Plenty. http://www.the-line-up.com/9-female-serial-killers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_before_1900

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