Unknown Gender History: Sicko Nurses: Female Serial Killers

This list is limited to female serial killer nurses, yet there are many cases of male serial killer nurses as well. A few of the earlier cases involve non-professional nurses.

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1676 – Brinvilliers, Marquise de – Paris, France – 50+ victims; experimented on patients

1848 – Rose Theyre – Saint-Victoir-La-Coste, France – 7 murders, or attempts

1858 – Phebe Westlake – Goshen, N. Y. – 5 deaths (nursed by P. W.), 3 survivors

1862 – Catherine Wilson – Kirkby, England – 5-7 victims

1868 – Marie Jeanneret – Geneva, Switzerland – 7-8 victims

1876 – “La Flèche Serial Killer Girl” – La Flèche, France – age 12 at time of apprehension.

1881 – Jeanne Raies – Geneva, Switzerland – 12 victims

1883 – Maria Swanenburg – Leiden, Netherlands – 27 deaths, plus 55 survivors

1901 – Jane Toppan – Boston, Massachusetts – 31-100 victims

1911 – Marie Gerzan – Szegedin, Hungary – 8 men poisoned by wives with poison provided by M.G.

1916 – Amy Archer-Gilligan – Windsor, Connecticut – 20-40, or more, victims

1925 – Martha Wise – Hardscrabble Valley, Ohio – 3 victims

1925 – Antoinette Sierri (Scierri) – St. Gilles, France – 30 victims

1928 – Bertha Gifford – Catawissa, Missouri – 17 victims
1938 – Anna Marie Hahn – Cincinnati, Ohio – 5-15, or more, victims

1946 – Valentina Bilien – Velpke, Germany – 114 babies

1946 – Anna Katschenka – Vienna, Austria – Government “Death Panel”

1946 – Lottie Lockman – Dupont, Indiana – 5 victims suspected

1946 – Ella Schmidt, Liesel Bachor & Kathe Pisters – Kreis, Germany – 370 babies

1946 – Marianne Tuerk (Türk) & Margarethe Heubsch – Vienna, Austria – 250 children

1952 – Marie Emilie Raymond – Galan, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

1956 – Virginia B. Jaspers – New Haven, Ct. – At least 3 babies killed, others injured
1960 – Marie Fikáčková – Susice, Czechoslovakia – 10 infant victims

1975 – Betty Jakim – Ann Arbor, Michigan – 50+ victims; 9 deaths
1978 – Cecile Bombeek – Wetteren, East Flanders, Belgium – up to 30 victims

1978 – Mary Rose Robaczynski – Baltimore, Md., nurse, hung jury, 4 confessed vics., 77-78

1982 – Genene Ann Jones – Kerrville, Texas – estimated 47 victims

1983 – Dorothy Matajke – Little Rock, Arkansas – 3, or more, victims
1985 – Terri EdenRachals – Maples Albany, Georgia – 6-9 victims

1985 – Bobbie Sue Terrell – St. Petersburg, Florida – 12, or more, victims

1987 – Gwendolyn Gail Graham – Walker, Michigan – 5 victims

1987 – Catherine May Wood – Walker, Michigan – 5 victims

1989 – Maria Gruber, “Lainz Angels of Death” – Vienna, Austria – 49-300 victims

1989 – Irene Leidolf, “Lainz Angels of Death” – Vienna, Austria – 49-300 victims

1989 – Stephanija Meyer, “Lainz Angels of Death” – Vienna, Austria – 49-300 victims
1989 – Waltraud Wagner, “Lainz Angels of Death” – Vienna, Austria – 49-300 victims

1989 – Michaela Roeder, “Wuppertal Angel of D” – Wuppertal, Germany – 10 victims

1991 – Beverly Allitt – Lincolnshire, England – 4 victims died, 9 others harmed

1991 – Marianne Noelle (Nölle) – Cologne, Germany – 7-8 victims

1994 – Aleata Beach – Chickasha, Oklahoma – 4 victims
1994 – Gail Cutro – Irmo, South Carolina, USA

1995 – “Martha U” – Delfzijl, Netherlands – 4-13 victims

1996 – Kristen Gilbert – Northampton, Massachusetts – 5, or more, victims

1998 – Christine Malèvre – Mantes-la-Jolie, France – 7-30 victims

1999 – Cheryl May – Fort Wayne, Indiana – 5 victims suspected

2001 – Anne M.Nicolai – Waterford township, Mi. – 3 vics, (96-97 crimes)

2001 – Timea Faludi – Budapest, Hungary – 40 victims

2002 – Vickie Dawn Jackson – Nocona, Texas – 10 victims

2002 – Barbara Salisbury – Crewe, Cheshire, England
2003 – Coleen Thompson – Rockville, Maryland – ch. with 5 murders; 211 suspected

2004 – Francine Brunfaut – Laken, Belgium – 7-19 victims suspected

2004 – Sonya Caleffi – Como, Italy – estimated 15-18 victims

2004 – Peggy Couse – Marion, In. – 4 victims suspected

2002 – Barbara Salisbury – Crewe, Cheshire, England
2005 – “Doris B.” – Straubing, Germany – 7 victims suspected
2005 – Michaela G. – Wachtberg-Bremen, Germany –

2006 – Irene Becker – Berlin, Germany – 5 victims

2007 – Françoise Navez – Loverval, Gerpinnes, Belgium – 3 victims (1 survived)

2008 – Rachel Baker – Butleigh, Somerset, England –

2008 – Kimberly Clark Saenz (Kimberly Clark Fowler) – Lufkin, Texas – 5 deaths (dialysis)

2008 – Cornelia V. – Tuttlingen, Germany – 10 victims
2009 – Aino Nykopp-Koski – Helsinki, Finland –

2012 – Carel June Cody – Cottage Grove, Oregon –

2013 – Ludivine Chambet – Cesalet, Near Chambery, France – 9 patients, psychotropic drugs
2014 – Věra Marešová – Rumburk, Czech Republic – 6 victims (overturned)
2014 – Daniela Poggiali – Lugo, Italy – 96 suspected victims
2015 – Christina Hansen - Nykobing Falster, Denmark –

2016 – Faust Bombino – Piombino, Italy –
2016 – Ayumi Kuboki – Yokohama, Japan
2016 – Elizabeth Wettlaufer – Woodstock, Ontario, Canada – 8 victims

2018 – Reta Mays – Clarksburg, Virginia, USA

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A number of the cases on this list are not widely known. These obscure cases are taken from:

“Serial Murder ByHealthcare Professionals,” J Forenscic Sc, Yorker et al, 2006

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