Ogresses: Female Serial Killers of the Children of Others

This selection does not include baby farmers, nurses, baby-sitters, nursemaids, foster parents, midwives.

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1871 – “Dahr-al-Ahmur Serial Killer” – Dahr-al-Ahmur, Lebanon – kidnapped, poisoned and cut up 8 children to get even with a “rival in love.”

1892 – “Chihuaha Cannibal Female Serial Killer” – Chihuaha, Mexico – kidnapped children and ate them. The locals’ punishment of her was a weird one. 

1892 – Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano – Mexico – sexually tortured and murdered 3 orphan girls

1895 – Gaetana Stomoli – Catania, Sicily – murdered 23 children

1903 – “Cairo Cannibal Female Serial Killer” – Cairo, Egypt – kidnapped, murdered, cooked and ate numerous children.

1904 – Jeanne Bonnaud – Chatain, Haute Vienne, France – age 18 at time of apprehension; murdered 5 children using a wide range of methods.

1908 – Jeanne Weber – Paris, France – child strangler, acquitted twice by chivalrous men, only to see her kill again and again.

1910 – Esteis Liberis – Barahona, Haiti – voodoo practitioner who ritually sacrificed and ate children.

1912 – Enriqueta Marti – Barcelona, Spain – grabbed street children, hired them out to pedophiles and murdered them, cooking their corpses to make “love potions.”

1912 – Maria Reyes – Mexico City, Mexico – kidnapped and murdered babies and toddlers

1925 – Dinorah Galou – Paris, France – suspecting of being a serial killer of children, she was most certainly a child trafficker, involved in renting out babies who were victims of a bizarre torture technique used by street-beggars.

1930 – “Shanghai Female Jack the Ripper” – Shanghai, China – stabbed in the neck and strangled two children.

1938 – Moulay Hassen – Fez, Morocco – kidnapped, tortured, imprisoned, trafficked and murdered children.

1995 – Filita Mashilipa – Zambia – prosecuted as a witch who killed and ate 6 of her own children in order to gain magical powers.

2008 – Babita – Tigra Village, Gurgaon, India – murdered four children, 3 nephews and a niece.

2009 – “Sunday” – Southern Sudan – cannibal child snatcher

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