A good share of the cases cited here are ones that have been completely overlooked by criminologists, including those crime scholars who specialize in the study of serial killers and female criminality.
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“Wow. What a trip! I thought, ‘To taste death, and yet give
life.’ Have you ever tasted blood? It’s warm and sticky and nice.” (V, 400)
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►Clementine
Barnabet – Lafayette, Louisiana – convicted of 17 murders, victims were
“horribly mutilated” (1912)
“I killed them all, men, women and babies, and I hugged the babies to my breast. But I am not guilty of murder.”
“I killed them all, men, women and babies, and I hugged the babies to my breast. But I am not guilty of murder.”
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“I like hurting
people.”
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► Joanna
Dennehy – Bifield, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England – She stabbed male
strangers in the heart as a for of amusement, leaving 3 dead, 2 seriously
wounded. (2013)
“I want my fun. I need you to get my fun.” She told her
friend, when she asked him to provide transportation in her hunt for the next
victim.
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►Elena
Lobacheva – Moscow, Russia – 25-year old sexual sadist, with her
20-year-old male accomplice, whose alternative sexuality preference involved
stabbing 12 men (up to 107 times), all strangers, randomly selected, to death,
and photographing them “with their stomachs cut open.” She was inspired by the
movie “Bride of Chucky,” and has a tattoo of the character on her arm. (2015)
“Randomly stabbing the body of a dying human brought me
pleasure comparable to sexual pleasure.”
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►Margaret
McCloskey – New York, N. Y. – child care provider, at least three babies
died (1876)
Mrs. Clifford found the youngest child apparently dying from
starvation, and was told by one of the women that Mrs. McCloskey had been angry
because the other infant had been removed, and had struck the little one,
saying:
“Let it die; it’s paid for.”
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►Lydia
Olah – Nagyrev, Hungary – sister of serial killer Suzi Olah, co-conspirator
in husband-killing syndicate which killed scores (perhaps hundreds), of victims
mostly married men at the behest of wives (1929)
“We are not assassins! We did not stab our husbands. We did
not hang them or drown them either! They died from poison and this was a
pleasant death for them!”
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► Anujka de Poshtonja (Anna Pistova) – Vladimirovac, Yugoslavia (Serbia) – Sold
poison for the murder of primarily husbands to women for 50 years before being
arrested at the age of 90. She was known as “The Witch of Vladimirovac.” (1928)
To a
young police sergeant: “I work with the devil, young man. If you imprison me
you’ll remember it to your dying day. Don’t play with the forces of evil.”
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Marie Emilie Raymond – Galan, Hautes-Pyrénées, France – serial
killer nurse (1952)
“I love looking at dying people. The last smile on a dying face gives me a
great thrill.” “The dying, they’re so inspiring.”
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► Dr. Virginia Helena Soares de Souza – Brazil –
doctor suspected of being responsible for the deaths of up to 300 of her patients
(2013)
“I want to clear the intensive care unit. It’s making me
itch” (statement obtained via wiretap recordings.)
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►Della
Sorenson – Dannenborg, Nebraska – murdered 8 relatives, including 3 of her
own children (1925)
“They bothered me, so I decided to kill them.”
“They bothered me, so I decided to kill them.”
“Every time I gave poison to one of Mrs. Cooper’s children, I said to myself, “Now I’m going to get even with you (Mrs. Cooper) for what you have said about me,” the confession said.
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►Josefa
Szanyi (Josephine Tzany) – Budapest, Hungary – an avowed predatory
misandrist who sought out men, mostly married ones, to seduce and then murder,
12 of them. (1926)
“I am an enemy of the male sex. Years ago a man wronged me deeply and broke my girl’s heart. I
vowed to be revenged on him and his sex. I have kept my word, for I have made
men suffer something of what I have suffered. They may say I am responsible for
the death of these men, and they may even take my life for what they call my
crime. If they do I shall be glad to die with the knowledge that I have paid my
debt in full. I do not deny that I have derived pleasure from the sufferings of
the men they call my victims. I have enjoyed every pang they suffered, every
agony they endured. Pangs and agony have been balm to my wounded and bruised
heart. My one regret is that I was not able to strike directly at the man who
wronged me.”
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► Lillian
B. Thornman – York, Pennsylvania – A 15-year old servant girl murdered a
child who was “roasted from head to toe” by placing the youngster on the stove.
She had murdered 2 children the same way previously. (1906)
Lillian Thornman’s
confession contained this remarkable statement: “I am a devil and I will
burn them.”
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►Lise
Jane Turner – Christchurch, New Zealand – 2 own babies, 1 other baby &
4 other attempts (1984)
“I thought, okay. I never got caught for [the first baby's]
death, I don't want this child, how am I gonna get rid of it, you know, so I
smothered her the same way as I did with [the first baby].”
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► 1903 – Elisabeth
Wiese – Hamburg, Germany
“Children’s blood and the blood of
white doves brings good luck.”
“The carbon residue resulting from
the burning of a placenta brings good luck.”
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►Martha
Wise – Hardscrabble Valley, Ohio – murdered 3 persons (1925)
“I liked their funerals. I could get dressed up and see
folks and talk to them. I didn’t miss a funeral in twenty years. The only fun I
ever had was after I kilt people.”
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►Maria
Zwanziger – Bavaria, Germany – murdered at least 3 persons (1809)
She stated: “Yes, I killed them all and would have killed
more if I had the chance.” Then she referred to arsenic as her “truest friend.”
Before being beheaded in July 1811, she told her executors “It is perhaps
better for the community that I should die, as it would be impossible for me to
give up the practice of poisoning people.”
, “The Surprising Truth About Women and Violence,” TIME,
June 25, 2014
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