Female
Serial Killers & Gambling
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1807
– Ching Shih –
China
“In
1810, amnesty was offered to all pirates, and Ching Shih took advantage of it.
She ended her career in 1810, accepting an amnesty offer from the Chinese
government. She kept her loot, married her lieutenant and adoptive son Cheung
Po Tsai, and opened a gambling house.”
1895
– Marie Therese Joniaux-Ablay –
Antwerp, Belgium
“It was proved beyond the
shadow of a doubt that the beautiful Mme. Joniaux, a born gambler, a woman who
had been detected cheating at cards in private circles, trying to cheat at Spa,
incurring suspicion at Monte Carlo, borrowing money under false pretences,
obtaining jewellery one day and pawning it the next, had, when all her sources
of credit were exhausted, turned to life insurances as a means of obtaining
money. She had insured her relatives for large sums, and had deliberately
poisoned them, in order to draw the stakes for which she had played.”
1927
– Alma McClavey (Theede) –
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Furthermore,
since gambling was now Alma’s only vice Mike gave his wife pin money with which
to gamble, saying he could afford it. In time, however, Mike found Alma’s
gambling too expensive. He restricted her allowance. Irked
by his parsimony and bored by his “goodness,” McClavey’s wife considered
returning to the streets to earn gambling money. But as often as she considered
it, Alma rejected the thought of letting her husband down that way.
1938
– Anna Marie Hahn –
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
“Shackled
by gambling debts Anna-Marie Hahn turned to the position of a live in attendant
for elderly men. She stealthily poisoned each of her clients, tallying up more
than ten murders in the span of five years. Hahn was careful, always covering
her tracks and never drawing too much attention to her murders. But she was
eventually arrested and put on trial for murder in the fall of 1937. Found
guilty, and executed in Ohio's electric chair on December 7, 1938.” [Source:
Pinterst]
1996 – Elfriede Blauensteiner –
Vienna, Austria
She
was a lunatic’s lunatic. Elfriede Blauensteiner was one of the most unique
serial killers of modern times. A compulsive roulette gambler who in one year
alone dropped into the casino, Spielcasino Baden, on no less than 230
occasions, she was suspected of 15 murders and confessed to six, offering
“good” reasons why each needed to be polished off. When investigators asked
about other murders she was suspected of having committed her reply was “How
much will you pay me for it?”
2006
– Remedios Sanchez Sanchez
– Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
On July 6, 2006, Remedios Sánchez Sánchez, 48, following a police
search of her home in Barcelona, was arrested.
She was charged with a series of attacks on elderly women whom she
robbed, three of whom were murdered and five others who survived stranglings. Sánchez was apprehended by police in a gambling parlor
playing a slot machine.
2008 – Manuela Gonzalez Cano – Villard-Bonnot, Isere region, France
2009 – Lin Yuru – Nantou County, Taiwan
A
woman named Lin Yuru, 28, was charged April 7, 2010 in Nantou County, Taiwan
with the serial murders her mother, mother-in-law and her husband, in an
insurance fraud scheme hoping to raise money to pay off gambling debts incurred
from the purchase of Mark Six lottery tickets.
Lin, aged 28, was addicted to betting on underground lottery since 2003. As a result she chalked up huge gambling debts totaling many millions of Yuan.
Lin, aged 28, was addicted to betting on underground lottery since 2003. As a result she chalked up huge gambling debts totaling many millions of Yuan.
2014 – Andrea Giesbrecht –
Winnipeg, Canada
Andrea
Giesbrecht, AKA Andrea Naworynski, a 40-year-old married woman, was arrested
Oct. 20, 2014 and charged with six counts of concealing bodies of six newborn
infants. The corpses were discovered October 20 by U-Haul employees when
emptying a storage unit after Giesbrecht failed to make payments. Police
initially believed there were three or four bodies found in various states of
decomposition and preserved in a liquid; later raised the total to six. For
over a decade she had been a chronic gambler and her losses had frequently been
the source of tension between Andrea and her husband.
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