These14 cases represent those Serial Killer Girls whose portraits exist. The full collection of 43 cases can be found here: Serial Killer Girls
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► 1899 – Ivy Crabtree – Carmi, Illinois, USA – age 16 at time of apprehension (1 death; 3 separate attempts on total of 6 persons)
Method: arsenic, strangling.
In the Ivy Crabtree case, here are three separate attempted murder events, the final of which involved the poisoning of four persons, resulting in one death. 1) She is reputed to have attempted to murder her baby (4 mo.), after which the child was removed from her custody. 2) “It is reported that the girl attempted to poison her mother-in-law once while living at the home of her husband,” George Crabtree. 3) Poisoned four while living at the home of her parents, the Warthens – stepmother, father, brother, a visiting neighbor (old man) – all survived but her brother.
► 1907 – Ida Schnell – Munich, Germany – age 13 at time of apprehension. (8 deaths)
Method: stab with hat pin.
Ida Schnell admitted that she had killed not only the baby whose body had been exhumed, but five others for whom she had been engaged as nurse. She confessed, further, that she had taken the lives of these infants by plunging a hairpin into the lower part of the back of their heads till they ceased to cry. Asked as to her motive, the girl said that the crying of the infants roused in her unconquerable revulsion, and excited her to such a degree that she lost all control over herself, and would do anything to make them quiet. Next morning she confessed to the sixth murder. [edited from linked source] Further investigation showed that there were probably 8 murders.
► 1911 – Clementine Barnabet (Bernebet) – Lafayette, Louisiana, USA – age 18 (or 19?) at time of apprehension. Age 16 (or 17?) at time of first murder) (22 deaths)
Method: chop with ax.
Clementine Barnabet, self-confessed “ax woman of the sacrifice sect,” was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The woman confessed to 17 murders and testimony introduced in her trial showed that she had slain 22.
► 1923 – Elizabeth McDonald – Boston, Ma. – age 13; 3 other apparent attempts to kill.
Method: drowning.
Elizabeth, nearly 14, drowned a 4-year-old boy. “She is alleged to have pushed four other children into the water at different times and at one time to have attacked her mother, . . . so that the latter was almost in a semiconscious condition.” “The police say that the McDonald girl is mentally deficient and that several months” before the boy’s drowning she had been “examined by City Physician F. A. Mahoney, who said she should be committed to an institution. The mother refused to permit this, it is alleged. Dr Mahoney said her mentality was that of a child of 7 or 8 years.”
► 1925 – Alsa Thompson – Los Angeles, California, USA – age 7 at time of apprehension. Claimed to have committed first murder at age of 6 (?). (multiple attempts; possibly 3 deaths)
Method: poison, ground glass.
Alsa possibly murdered her 2-year old twin sisters and woman she had boarded with following her parents’ separation. Later she poisoned the next family she boarded with, as well as attacking with a razor blade her baby sister and another child. Killed canaries and a cat with poison.
► 1930 – Katharina Riefer – Saarbrucken, Rhenish Prussia – age 12 at time of apprehension. (1 death; 4 attempts, with serious injury)
Method: strangle.
A 12-year-old girl, who has confessed to the killing and mutilating a 3 1/2-year-old girl, and to inflicting savage injuries on four others, aged three to five. "I had to do it!" she said.
► 1961 – Donna Marie Stone – Belleville, Illinois – age 13 at time of capture – 4 murders
Method: shoot with pistol.
With her 32-year old lover, Donna Marie Stone went on a 3-day interstate murder spree. She was the one who fired the first two shots into the head of their first victim, a woman whom they kidnapped. The murdered a man and his 10-year old daughter and finally a male hitchhiker, who was shot 4 times, 2 shots each by each of the pair. She was given a plea deal on a manslaughter charge and was released on parole in 1968.
► 1966 – Piedad Martínez del Águila – Murcia, Spain – age 12 at time of apprehension – 4 murders.
Method: potassium cyanide & chlorine
In the household of a Spanish working-class family with ten children, the daytime head of household was 12-year-old Piedad Martínez del Águila. In July 1965, her mother became pregnant with an eleventh child. By December young Piedad had become frustrated at having to run the household and work on the family’s cottage industry: polishing chrome metal parts, while her mother attended to tasks of cooking for twelve. The girl missed being able to play and see her friends. She decided to kill the youngest children, the ones who required the most attention from her. So, she poisoned them, starting with the youngest in series by increasing age. Little Piedad used chlorine tablets used for cleaning chrome combined with potassium cyanide rat poison, which she dissolved in milk.
► 1968 – Mary Bell – Scotswood, England – age 11 at time of apprehension. (2 deaths; several attempts, one with serious injury)
Method: strangle.
The only case on this collection that is truly well-known. Bell is sometimes not treated as a proper serial killer since she killed two victims only. Yet this young killer had indeed attempted to murder two others. He proclivity was clearly of the serial kind. She most likely would have continued these activities if it were not the inherent restrictions on her activities that are automatically conferred by the life of a child.
► 1980 – Helen Patricia Moore – Claymore, Australia – age
18 at time of apprehension; age 17 at time of first murder. (4 deaths; 2
attempts, crippling one victim)
Method: suffocation.
Australian Baby-sitter, Helen Patricia Moore, murdered five children aged from one to seven years, and crippled another, aged 2, between Mar. 1, 1979 and Mar. 24, 1980. Moore was only 17 when she began her serial killing career. She was convicted and after serving only 13 years of a “life sentence” was released from prison.
► 1980 – Robin Murphy – Fall River, Massachusetts, USA – age 17 at time of apprehension (3 murders)
Method: Blunt object (?)
EXCERPT: Witness Robin Murphy, 17, who Monday testified she was present during the murders of the two woman and a third prostitute, said Tuesday she participated in Miss Marsden’s murder while in a trance-like state. Defense Attorney John Burknis asked Miss Murphy if her state of mind was similar to that she described when she said she attended cult meetings led by Drew during which she experienced “out of body” sensations. “I wouldn’t do anything like that to Karen,” Miss Murphy told her the crowded courtroom. “I loved her. I did it, yes, but not because I wanted to.” [“Star witness admits her role in satanist slaying of hooker,” Billings Gazette (Mt.), Mar. 11, 1981, P. 9-A]
► 2009 – “Sao Paulo Girl” – São José do Rio Preto, Brazil – age 17 at time of apprehension; age 15 at time of first murder. (30 deaths)
Method: stab with knife.
A 17-year-old girl confessed to stabbing to death 30 men within the period of two years.
► 2011 – “La Perris” (alias) – Medellin, Colombia – age 17 at time of apprehension; 14 at time of first gang criminality. (multiple adult deaths presumed; 1 child death; 2 attempts, both with serious injury)
Method: shooting.
"La Perris," 17, who was in charge of a group of hitmen, has worked for Vargas Cardenas, one of the most-wanted men in Medellin and one of the top leaders of the Oficina de Envigado gang, for about three years. In 2011, she was arrested in Medellin, Colombia, for possession of a firearm. Police also expect that La Perris was involved with training or assisting young assassins in the Antioquia department's capital city of Medellin. La Perris was allegedly involved with an attack on a 16-year-old girl, which killed one girl and injured a 13-year-old and 6-year-old in the process. According to General Yesid Vasquez, the attack occurred because the two girls refused to be part of her gang. The 6-year-old is in critical condition at San Vincent de Paul hospital, after suffering a shot to the neck and cardiac arrest. [edited from linked source]
► 2014 – Gakirah Barnes – Chicago, Illinois, USA – age 17 when murdered (20 murders, reputed)
Method: pistol
Gakirah Barnes committed her first murder, it is thought, at the age of 14, in 2011. She then joined a Southside Chicago gang, St. Lawrence Boys (AKA Fly Boy Gang). By the time she was killed in 2014 in a drive-by shooting by a rival gang, she is reputed to have committed 20 murders.
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