Female Serial Killers of Great Britain

Those who were executed are indicated by (ex.).

800 –  Queen Eadburgh – England

1324 – Alice Kyteler – Dublin, Ireland

1542 – Margaret Davey – Smithfield, England (ex.)

1609 – Jane Hattersley – East Grinstead, Sussex, England (ex. ?)
1635 – Elizabeth Evans – London, England (ex.)

1638 – Linda Downes – Colchester, Essex, England

1658 – Abigall Hill – St. Olaves, Southwark, England (ex.)

1675 – “The Bloody Innkeeper’s Wife of Pultoe” – Pultoe, England

1684 – Elizabeth Ridgway – Leichester, England (ex.)

1693 – Mary Compton, Mary Compton the Younger, Ann David – England (ex.)

1740 – Elizabeth & Mary Branch – Taunton, Somerset, England (ex. x 2)

1761 – Dorcas Kelly – Dublin, England (ex.)

1808 – Mary Bateman – Leeds, England (ex.)

1816 – Susannah Holroyd – Ashton-under-Line, England (ex.)

1828 – Jane Scott – Lancaster, England (ex.)

1835 – Fanny Billing & Catherine Frary – Burnham Market, Norfolk, England (ex. x 2)

1836 – Betty Rowland – Manchester, England
1842 – Frances Bennett – Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
1843 – Sarah Dazley – Bedford, England (ex.)

1843 – Elizabeth Eccles – Bolton, England (ex.)

1844 – Eliza Joyce – Boston, England (ex.)

1845 – Sarah Freeman – Bridgewater, England (ex.)
1846 – Mary Pimlett – Runcorn, England

1847 – Mary Ann Milner – Lincoln, England (ex.)

1848 – Mary May – Colchester, England (ex.)

1849 – Mary Ann Geering – Lewes, England (ex.)

1849 – Rebecca Smith – Westbury, Wiltshire, England (ex.)

1850s – Allie Belchie – Lintlaw, Buncle Parish, Scotland

1851 – Mary Emily Cage – Ipswich, England (ex.)

1851 – Sarah Chesham – Chelmsford, England (ex.)

1862 – Catherine Wilson – London, England (ex.)

1865 – Mrs. Perkins – Canada & England

1865 – Charlotte Winsor – Torquay, England (ex.)

1870 – Margaret Waters – London, England (ex.)

1871 – Ann Burns – Wigan, Lancashire, England

1871 – Agnes Norman – London, England (15-y-o)

1871 – Frances (Hannah) Rogers – Manchester, England

1873 – Mary Ann Cotton – West Auckland, Durham, England
1875 – Bessey Binmore –Exeter, England
1877 – Elizabeth Kirkbride – Liverpool, England

1877 – Sophia Martha Todd – Liverpool, England
1879 – Catherine Barnes – Birkenhead, England

1883 – Adelaide Reece – Gloucester, England
1884 – Catherine Flannigan & Margaret Higgins – Liverpool, England (ex. x 2)

1884 – Mrs. Machayie – London, England

1884 – Emily Charlotte M’Kenzie – London suburbs, England

1886 – Mary Ann Britland – Ashton-under-Lyne, England (ex.)

1887 – Elizabeth Berry – Oldham, England (ex.)

1889 – Jessie King – Stockbridge, Edinburgh, England (ex.)

1889 – Amelia Winters – Deptford, England

1892 – Mary Ann Hall – Manchester, England

1896 – Amelia Dyer – Caversham, England (ex.)
1896 – Maria Dunne – Inchicore, Ireland

1898 – Ann Spinks – Tottenham, England

1899 – Amy M’Neil Douglas – Chingford, England

1900 – Ada Chard-Williams – London, England

1900 – “Golden Wig Female Serial Killer” – England

1901 – Emma Knowles – Birmingham, England

1902 – Amelia Sach & Annie Walters – Finchley, England (ex. x 2)
1906 – Mary Maher – Dunkitt, County Kilkenny, Ireland

1911 – Edith Agnes Bingham – Lancaster Castle, England

1914 – “Edinburgh Serial Baby-Killing Mom” – Edinburgh, Scotland

1928 – Daisy Ellen Chivers – Brighton-on-Sea, England

1954 – Elsie Rodgers – Burton-on-Kent, Statfordshire, England

1957 – Mary Elizabeth Wilson – Jarrow-on-Tyne, Scotland

1965 – Myra Hindley – Hattersley, England

1968 – Mary Bell – Scottswood, England

1971 – Valerie Ridyard – Bolton (Greater Manchester), England
1973 – Margaret Bushell – Downham Market, Norfolk, England
1985 – Rosemary West – Gloucester, England

1991 – Beverly Allitt – Grantham, England

1995 – Maxine Robinson – Ouston, County Durham, England
2000 – Alison Johnson – Rossington, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England

2001 – Susan MacLeod – Glasgow, Scotland
2001 – Kathleen McCluskey – Cambridge, England

2002 – Ann Grigg-Booth – Keighley, West Yorkshire, England

2007 – Rachel Baker – Butleigh, Somerset, England

2013 – Joanna Dennehy – Petersborough, Cambridgeshire, England

2018 – Lucy Letby – Chester, England

[Count, August 28, 2020: 82]

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Note: The Kyteler case is included here for geographical reasons.

1792 – “English Black Widow” – England [discredited, a legend]

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