Index: Female Serial Killers



•► Myths about Female Serial Killers ◄•

“I don't think there’s much different between male and female serial killers. I think women have got away with it for a lot longer. ” – Martina Cole, Britain’s most popular crime writer, presenter of BBC series on female serial killers in 2008

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Wikipedia currently (Dec. 2011) asserts that “Female serial killers are rare.” “Rare” is a vague term and its use here is not explained. In contradiction to this claim two points should be noted: 1) the vast majority of female serial killers (of victims other than babies, whose corpses were often secretly discarded or destroyed) leave corpses which are believed by others to be the result of non-homicidal causes, thus making serial-killer victims and perpetrators much more difficult to estimate than in cases of male serial killers, where victims are usually easily identified as murder victims. 2) Very little historical research has been done on female serial killers. A study by the editor of The Unknown History of MISANDRY, using only fragmentary English-language newspapers and google as sources, has turned up 460 cases beyond the 140 collected in the longest published list of female serial killer cases, that in Peter Vronsky’s 2007 book. A more ambitious research effort should be expected to increase the number substantially above the current count of about 600.

Wikipedia’s assertion that “most female serial killers murder for money or other such material gain” is not a very useful generalization. “Most” can mean 51%, thus “most” can mean little more than “about half.” Cases of prolific serial killers Bathory, Jager, Popov, Souliakotis, Toppan, demonstrate motives which are sadistic or ideological (in the case of Popov). The case of Martí can be classed as profit-motivated yet the child sexual abuse and cannibalism involved suggests the sadistic motive was paramount, or at least equal to the financial. Tann, who is likely to have murdered thousands of babies was also a sexual pervert who employed other perverts to molest the children she sold for profit. She was also ideologically motivated, holding eugenics beliefs about who was worthy and who was not. Tann, like Bathory, another homicidal sadistic sexual pervert, was one of the most prolific serial killers of either sex. Soulakiotis, murderess of 177 young women engaged, as did Bathory, in ritualized torture of her victims. Child-strangler Weber killed for pleasure. Renczi killed sex partners with a motive that is clearly a proprietary; victims were her “possessions” which she refused to share with the world and whose corpses were fetishistically collected. Popov and Foedi each professed misandric motives, with Popov claiming, implausibly, that each of her 300 victims were determined by her investigations to be of the “abusive” sort, thus justifying their murders, while Foedi similarly expressed a hatred of men in general and offered women assistance in murdering any husband they wished to be rid of. Although Foedi was on at least one occasion well-compensated for the crime, on other occasions was willing to murder for a pittance. Popov charged very little for her services, seeing herself as offering a valuable social service to the community. The “Catania Serial Killer” murdered 23 children in order to exact “revenge” according to her viewpoint and the “Dahr-al-Ahmur Serial Killer” murdered 8 children with a similar motive. Even in cases where profit motive is clear-cut (insurance scams, property inheritances) there needs to be additional severely pathologically antisocial mental factors before there can be a series of  premeditated carefully orchestrated crimes of homicide.
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►• Index of Female Serial Killer Posts •◄

Note: Peter Vronsky's book on female serial killers lists 140 cases. The Unknown History of MISANDRY has collected more than 500 additional cases, of which only a portion are as yet posted.

§  indicates case not listed by Vronsky
>  indicates link to other site

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Before 1600 BC – Queen Ji Xia – China §
42 BC – Anula of Anuradhapura – Sri Lanka §
48 AD – Valeria Messalina – Rome
59 AD – Julia Agrippina – Rome
69 AD – Locusta – Rome §
705 – Empress Wi Zetian – China §
940 – “White-necked Crow” – China §
1010 – Freydis Ericsdotter – Early (Viking) America §
1196 – Mahaut de Bourgogne – France §
1315 – Queen Margaret of Burgundy – France §
1324 – Alice Kyteler – Ireland §
1300s – Sultana Khadeejah – Maldives §
1542 – Margaret Davey – England §
1587 – Walpurga Hausmännin – Germany §
1610 – Elizabeth Báthory – Hungary
1613 – Dona Catherina – Sri Lanka §
1635 – Elizabeth Evans – England § 
1650 – Catalina de Erauso – Spain & New Spain §
1658 – Hieronyma Spara – Italy
1658 – Gratiosa – Italy
1660 – Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer – Chile §
1673 – “The Cruel French Lady” – France §
1673 – Louise Mabre – France §
1675 – “The Bloody Innkeeper’s Wife of Pultoe” – England §
1676 – Brinvilliers, Marquise de – France
1679 – Marie Bosse – France §
1679 – Catherine Deshayes – France §
1679 – Madame Vigoreux – France §
1684 – Elizabeth Ridgway – England §
1693 – Mary Compton, Mary Compton the Younger, Ann David – England §
1762 – Darya Saltykova – Russia
1772 – Luisa de Jesus – Portugal §
1788 – Giovanna Bonnano – Italy
1792 – “English Black Widow” – England § [discredited, a legend]
17th c – “Lady Guilfort” (“Princess Jabirouska”) – France §
1800s – Mme. Bonhours – France §
1803 – Sophie Ursinus – Germany
1807 – Ching Shih – China §
1809 – Anna Zwanziger – Germany
1814 – “Malága Black Widow” – Spain §
1816 – Susannah Holroyd – England §
1819 – Ane Nielsdatter – Denmark §
1828 – Jane Scott – England
1829 – Patty Cannon – USA
1831 – Gesche Gottfried – Germany
1835 – Fanny Billing & Catherine Frary – England §
1835 – Margaret Jaeyer & S. K. Rentner – Germany §
1840 – Hanna Hanson Kinney – USA §
1843 – Sarah Dazley – England
1843 – Elizabeth Eccles – England
1844 – Eliza Joyce – England
1845 – Sarah Freeman – England
1845 – Elizabeth Reed – USA §
1846 – Mary Pimlett – England §
1847 – Sarah Chesham – England
1847 – Mary Ann Milner – England
1848 – Mary May – England
1848 – Rose Theyre – France §
1849 – Mary Ann Geering – England §
1849 – Rebecca Smith – England §
1850s – “Hungarian Husband-Poisoners” (60) – Hungary §
1850 – Canadian Indian Cannibal Serial Killer – Canada §
1850 – Madame Segard – France §
1851 – Mary Emily Cage – England
1851 – Hélène Jégado – France
1852 – Nancy Hufford – USA §
1852 – Margaret Waldgrave – USA & Cuba §
1854 – “Villa Vico Baby Farmer” – Portugal §
1857 – Polly Frisch – USA §
1858 – Lydia Studley – USA §
1858 – Phebe Westlake – USA §
1860 – Mary Jane “Bricktop” Jackson – USA
1860 – Elizabeth McCraney – USA §
1862 – Marianne Dumollard – France §
1862 – Josepha Perez – Spain §
1862 – Catherine Wilson – England
1863 – Madame Rossner – USA §
1865 – Maria Oliviero – Italy §
1865 – Martha Grinder – USA §
1865 – Charlotte Winsor – England §
1866 – Madame Balouzat – France §
1867 – Julienne – France § 
1867 – La Gizzi – Italy §
1868 – Marie Jeanneret – Switzerland
1869 – Madame Delpech – France §
1869 – “Gardiner, Maine Black Widow Serial Killer” – USA §
1869 – Madame Mizard & Anne Dupin – France §
1869 – Mrs. White – USA §
1870 – Margaret Waters – England
1871 – Ann Burns – England §
1871 – “Dahr-al-Ahmur Serial Killer” – Lebanon §
1871 – Frances Rogers – England §
1871 – Lydia Sherman – USA
1871 – Agnes Norman – England §
1871 – Elizabeth Wharton – USA §
1872 – Catherine Batchelor – USA §
1872 – Charlotte Lamb – USA §
1872 – Pètronillo Schimonska – Poland §
1873 – Kate & Katie Bender – USA
1873 – Mary Ann Cotton – England
1873 – Sarah Earhardt – USA §
1873 – Wilhelmina Waltmann – Germany §
1873 – Mrs. York – USA § (discredited)
1875 – Brigitte Burckel – France §
1875 – Mary Reignolds – USA §
1876 – “Grey Nuns of Montreal” – Canada §
1876 – Margaret McCloskey – USA §
1877 – Elizabeth Kirkbride – England §
1877 – Rozilla Worcester – USA §
1878 – Sallie Hardman (Gibbs) – USA §
1878 – Mrs. David Drake – USA §
1879 – Catherine Barnes – England §
1879 – Alice Danbrough – USA §
1879 – Bapistine Philip – France §
1879 – Frances Shrouder – USA §
1880s – Sultana Pangyan Inchi Jamela – Philippines §
1881 – Jeanne Raies – Switzerland §
1881 – “Silesian Serial Killer” – Germany §
1882 – Sophia Ivanovitch & Anna Minify – Hungary §
1882 – Kathi Lyukas – Hungary §
1882 – Thekla Popov – Hungary §
1882 – Phyllis Wright – USA §
1883 – Mrs. Christian – USA §
1883 – “Kakoorgachi Serial Murderess” – India §
1883 – Emma Stillwell – USA §
1883 – Maria Swanenburg – Netherlands
1884 – Catherine Flannigan & Margaret Higgins – England
1884 – Angenette Haight – USA §
1884 – Nettie Hoxan – USA §
1884 – Leonarda Martinez – Mexico §
1884 – Symenthe S. Nivison – USA §
1884 – “Varanda, Hungary Black Widow” – Hungary §
1885 – Mary Kleman – USA §
1885 – Rachel Ostrovoskafa – Ukraine §
1886 – Mary Ann Britland – England §
1886 – Sarah J. Dockery – USA §
1886 – Mary Hart – USA §
1886 – Pauline Mittlestedt – USA §
1886 – Harriet Nason – USA §
1886 – Sarah Jane Robinson – USA
1887 – Cynthia McDonald – USA §
1887 – “Odessa Baby Farmer” – Ukraine §
1887 – Anastaa Rubio de Pascadera – Mexico §
1887 – Martha Ryckman – Canada §
1887 – Annie Snoots – USA §
1888 – Louisa Collins – Australia §
1888 – Eva Micsik – Hungary §
1888 – Sarah Whiteling – USA §
1889 – Lizzie Brennan – USA §
1889 – Miss Delaware – New Zealand §
1889 – Mary Glynn – USA §
1889 – Jessie King – Scotland §
1889 – Jennie Seiffert – USA §
1889 – Sophie von Mesko – Hungary §
1889 – Amelia Winters – England §
1889 – Annie Zachoegner – USA §
1890 – Catherine Claus – USA §
1890 – Esther Sarac – Hungary (Serbia) §
1890 – Madame Skoblinska – Poland §
1890 – Makrena Stankovic – Serbia §
1891 – Evelyn Abbott – USA §
1891 – Mrs. Thomas Austin – USA §
1891 – Jane Dorsey – USA §
1891 – Frau Kernaez – Hungary (Serbia) §
1891 – Stojsits Kurjakow – Hungary (Serbia) §
1891 – Frau Pionieski (Rivnicski) – Hungary (Serbia) §
1891 – Mila – Serbia §
1891 – Marie Sorgenfrie  – USA §
1892 – Bedwarska – Poland §
1892 – “Berlin Baby Farmer” – Germany §
1892 – “Chihuaha Cannibal Female Serial Killer” – Mexico §
1892 – Mary Ann Hall – England § 
1892 – Annie Hanson – USA §
1892 – Nellie Haven & Hattie Graham – USA §
1892 – “The Limburg Baby Farmer” – Germany §
1892 – Sarah Jane Makin – Australia 
1892 – Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano – Mexico §
1892 – Frau Myer – Germany §
1892 – Feige Noskina – Russia §
1893 – Madame Barthian – France §
1893 – Lizzie Halliday – USA §
1893 – Frances Knorr – Australia §
1893 – Mrs. H. W. Meyer – USA §
1893 – “Przemysi Baby Farmers” – Austria §
1894 – Mrs. Julian Butler  – USA §
1894 – Mary Cowan – USA §
1894 – Martha Needle – Australia §
1894 – “Nijni Novgorod Serial Killer” – Russia §
1895 – Marie Hevesy – Hungary §
1895 – Marie Therese Joniaux-Ablay – Belgium §
1895 – Gaetani Stomoli – Sicily §
1896 – Amelia Dyer – England
1896 – Mrs. C. M. Powers – USA §
1896 – Hermann Springstein & Auguste Bock – Germany §
1897 – Frau Czordus – Hungary §
1897 – Maria Jager – Hungary §
1897 – Jennie Layton & Mary Sammon – USA §
1897 – Marie Ret – France §
1898 – Margaret Ann Smith – Australia §
1898 – Ann Spinks – England §
1898 – Mary Tressa – Austria (Italy) §
1899 – Henrietta Bamberger – USA §
1899 – Amy Douglas – England §
1899 – Lulu Johnson – USA §
1899 – Lisa Triku – Hungary (Romania) §
1900 – Nikola Bettuz – Hungary (Romania) §
1900 – Marie Bonelli – Italy §
1900 – Ada Chard-Williams – England §
1901 – Jane Toppan – USA
1902 – Nellie Campbell – USA §
1902 – “Christiana Baby Farmers” – Norway §
1902 – “Osaka Baby Farmers” – Japan §
1902 – Amelia Sach & Annie Walters – England
1902 – “Romanian Bandit Queen of Jassy” – Romania §
1903 – Caroline Finity – USA §
1903 – Emily Gobay & Emma Kitchen – USA §
1903 – Madame Guzovska – Poland §
1903 – Mary McKnight – USA §
1903 – Mrs. A. H. Miller – USA §
1903 – “Cairo Cannibal Female Serial Killer” – Egypt §
1903 – Caroline Pryzgodda – Germany §
1903 – Elizabeth Wiese – USA §
1904 – Elizabeth Ashmead – USA §
1904 – Annie Batten – Australia §
1904 – Jeanne Bonnaud – France §
1904 – Rachel Galtie – France §
1904 – “Harbin, Manchuria Serial Black Widow” – Russia §
1904 – Mary Lowry – USA §
1904 – Catherine Miller – USA §
1905 – Balapa – Hungary §
1905 – Mary Bellears – Australia §
1905 – “Czongrad Serial Killer” – Hungary §
1905 – Lizzie Geisler – USA §
1905 – Malvina Roester – Hungary §
1906 – Catherine Biber – Hungary (Romania) §
1906 – Bridget Carey – USA §
1906 – Wilhelmenia Eckhardt – USA §
1906 – Mrs. Gustav Holmen (alias) – Sweden §
1906 – “Knez Four-Time Black Widow” – Hungary (Romania) §
1906 – Marianne Konopkova – Poland §
1906 – “Osaka ‘Devil Woman’” – Japan §
1906 – Martha Petromany – Hungary (Romania) §
1906 – “Paris Baby-Killers” – France §
1906 – Ida Schnell – Germany §
1906 – “Vivienne Midwife” – France §
1907 – Ernestine Feige – Germany §
1907 – Marie Vere Goold – France §
1907 – Frau Hazyok – Hungary (Romania)
1907 – “Kursk Female Serial Killer” – Russia §
1907 – Alice Mitchell – Australia §
1907 – Mrs. Fred West – USA §
1908 – Grete Beier – Germany §
1908 – Jeanne Gilbert – France §
1908 – Belle Gunness – USA
1908 – Francesca Herrera – Spain §
1908 – Jeanne Weber – France
1909 – Augustina Mora – Mexico §
1909 – Madam Popov – Ukraine
1909 – Martha Rendell – Australia
1909 – Maud Turner – Canada §
1910 – Esetis Liberis – Haiti §
1910 – Marie Semit – Russia §
1911 – Clementine Barnabet – USA §
1911 – Edith Agnes Bingham – England §
1911 – Annie Crawford – USA §
1911 – Marie Gerzan – Hungary §
1911 – Linda Burfield Hazzard – USA §
1911 – Rachel Lynn – USA § 
1911 – Agnes Orner – USA §
1911 – Jane Taylor Quinn – USA §
1911 – Louise Vermilya – USA
1912 – Matilda Connelly – USA §
1912 – Mary T. Godau – USA §
1912 – Frau Kapuczan – Hungary (Romania) §
1912 – Louise Lindloff – USA §
1912 – Enriqueta Martí – Spain
1912 – Maria Reyes – Mexico §
1912 – Frieda Trost – USA §
1912 – Ivanova & Olga Tamarin – Estonia §
1913 – Cynthia Buffom – USA §
1913 – Ellen Etheridge – USA §
1913 – Madame Kusnezowa – Russia §
1913 – Ida Leckwold – USA §
1913 – Isabella Newman – Australia §
1914 – “Edinburgh Serial Baby-Killing Mom” – Scotland §
1916 – Amy Archer-Gilligan – USA
1917 – Leopoldine Kasparek – Austria §
1917 – Annie Monahan – USA §
1918 – Taytu Betul – Abyssinia (Ethiopia) §
1920 – Raya & Sakina Abdel-Aal – Egypt §
1920 – Dagmar Overbye – Denmark §
1920 – Ann Tomaskiewicz – USA §
1921 – Frau Buchmann – Switzerland §
1921 – Mary Demmer – USA §
1921 – Kaneko – Japan §
1921 – Ekaterina Pishianova – Russia §
1921 – Lyda Trueblood Southard – USA
1922 – Clara Carl – USA §
1922 – “Cleveland Black Widow” – USA §
1923 – Abertina Blomqvist – Sweden §
1923 – Clothida Cravana – Italy §
1923 – Mary France Creighton – USA §
1923 – Tillie Klimek – USA
1923 – Nellie Koulik – USA
1923 – Eliza Potegian – USA §
1923 – Marie Torosian – Armenia §
1924 – Annie Hauptrief – USA §
1924 – Marie Krueger – Germany §
1924 – Euphemia Mondich – USA §
1924 – Anastasia Permiakova – Russian §
1924 – Mrs. Tanaka – Japan §
1924 – Erna Yarz – Germany §
1925 – “Constantinople Female Serial Killer” – Turkey §
1925 – Anna Cunningham – USA
1925 – Helen Geisen-Volk – USA §
1925 – Mrs. Dvoracek – Czechoslovakia §
1925 – Dinorah Galou (suspected) – France §
1925 – Pearl Jackson – USA §
1925 – Vera Renczi – Yugoslavia (Romania)
1925 – Antoinette Scierri – France
1925 – Julia Shepherd – USA §
1925 – Della Sorenson – USA
1925 – Birdie Strome – USA §
1925 – Martha Wise – USA
1926 – Rennette Cure Bussey – USA §
1926 – Elsie Bible Malinsky – USA §
1926 – Josephine Tzany – Hungary §
1927 – Diana Lacroix – Canada §
1927 – Alma McClavey (Theede) – USA §
1927 – Leontina Tydrich – Poland §
1928 – Daisy Ellen Chivers – England §
1928 – Bertha Gifford – USA §
1928 – Annuja de Poshonja (Anna Pistova) – Yugoslavia (Serbia) §
1928 – Mme. Tamara – Greece §
1929 – “Brazilian Black Widow” – Brazil §
1929 – Christine Chordas – Hungary §
1929 – Maude Dieden – USA §
1929 – Zsuzsi Fazekas – Hungary
1929 – Juliana Foeldvary – Hungary §
1929 – Maria Kardos – Hungary §
1929 – Lisa Karl – France §
1929 – Julianne Lipka – Hungary
1929 – Suzi Olah – Hungary
1929 – Mrs. Louis Oser – Hungary §
1929 – Frau Palinka – Hungary §
1929 – Hattie Stone – USA §
1929 – Esther Szabo – Hungary
1930 – Maria Aszendi – Hungary §
1930 – Agnes Bittner – Czechoslovakia §
1930 – “Shanghai Female Jack the Ripper” – China § (2 victims)
1930 – Maria Varga – Hungary §
1931 – Madame Stanke – Slovakia §
1931 – Margaret Summers – USA §
1931 – Rose Veres – USA §
1932 – Anna Allas, Mary Chalfa & Gizella Young – USA §
1932 – Daisy de Melker – South Africa
1932 – Camille Tounie – France §
1933 – Viktoria Foedi Rieger – Hungary §
1934 – Amelia Rivers Webb Waldrop – USA §
1935 – Dora Bullock Frost – USA §
1935 – Julianna Nagy – Hungary
1935 – Milka Pavlovich – Yugoslavia §
1936 – Lila Gladys Young – Canada
1937 – Agnes Joan Ledford – USA §
1938 – Anna Marie Hahn – USA
1938 – Marie Becker – Belgium
1938 – Martha Marek – Austria
1938 – Mary Eleanor Smith – USA §
1939 – Anna Louise Sullivan – USA §
1939 – Marie Besnard – France
1939 – Carina Favato – USA §
1939 – Victoria Lefebvre – USA §
1939 – Rose Carina – USA §
1939 – Bertie Wrather – USA §
1941 – Leonarda Cianciulli – Italy
1942 – Dorothy Hahn – Australia §
1943 – Helen Moeller – Germany §
1943 – Bernice Williams – USA §
1944 – Louise Peete – USA
1945 – Hermine Braunsteiner – Germany §
1945 – Irma Grese – Germany
1946 – Valentina Bilien – Germany §
1946 – Marjorie Coleman – Australia §
1946 – Marguerite D’Andurian – France, Syria §
1946 – Anna Katschenka – Austria §
1946 – Lottie Lockman – USA §
1946 – Ella Schmidt, Liesel Bachor & Kathe Pisters – Germany §
1946 – Marianne Tuerk (Türk) & Margarethe Heubsch – Germany §
1947 – Bertha Gosset Hill – USA §
1948 – Miyuki Ishikawa – Japan §
1948 – Lillie Winter – USA §
1949 – Martha Beck – USA
1949 – Marie Jeanbracq – France §
1949 – Irmgard Swinka – Germany §
1950 – Juanita Louise Carr – USA §
1950 – Mrs. Schaub – USA §
1950 – Miriam Soulakiotis – Greece
1950 – Georgia Tann – USA §
1952 – Roberta Elder – USA §
1953 – Caroline Grills – Australia
1953 – Yoke Ying – Singapore §
1954 – Daisie “Nanny” Doss – USA
1954 – Christa Lehmann – Germany §
1954 – Elsie Rodgers – England §
1956 – Virginia B. Jaspers – USA §
1956 – Rhonda Belle Martin – USA
1957 – Mary Perkins – USA §
1957 – Mary Elizabeth Wilson – England
1958 – Putli Bai – India §
1958 – Anjette Donovan Lyles – USA
1960 – Marie Fikackova – Czechoslovakia §
1960 – Magdalena Solis – Mexico §
1962 – Sienna Engelbredht – South Africa §
1962 – Mrs. Janos Holhos – Hungary §
1962 – Ekaterini Dimetrea – Greece §
1963 – Mairiya Zikabuma – Nyasaland (Malawi) §
1964 – Delfina, María, Carmen & Maria Luisa de Jesús González – Mexico
1964 – Sharon Kinne – USA
1967 – Bessie Reese – USA §
1968 – Mary Bell – England
1969 – Barbara Wilkinson – Australia §
1978 – Velma Barfield – USA
1977 – Cecile Bombeek – Belgium §
1980 – Charlene Gallego – USA
1980 – Helen Patricia Moore – Australia §
1980 – Laverne O’Bryan – USA §
1980 – Blanche Wright – USA §
1982 – Shirley Elizabeth Allen (Goude) – USA §
1983 – Maria Velten – Germany >
1983 – Judias Welty Buenonano – USA >
1983 – Suzan Barnes Carson – USA
1984 – Debra Sue Tuggle – USA
1984 – Lise Jane Turner – New Zealand
1985 – Mary Lou Beets – USA
1985 – Griselda Blanco – USA §
1986 – Cynthia Coffman – USA
1988 –  Myriam Marlein – Belgium §
1989 – Sara Maria Aldrete – Mexico §
1989 – Blanche Taylor Moore – USA >
1989 – Geraldine Parrish – USA §
1989 – Amy Lynn Scott – USA §
1991 – Dorothy Williams – USA
1993 – Karla Homolka – Canada
1993 – Kazuko Hatayama – Japan §
1995 – Sachiko Eto – Japan §
1995 – Filita Mashilipa – Zaire §
1997 – Agnes Pandy – Belgium §
1998 – “PK” – Europe §
1999 – Dao Ruiying – China §
2000 – Credonia Mwerinde – Uganda §
2001 – Josephine Gray – USA §
2001 – Jummai Hassan – Nigeria §
2002 – Valentina Dolbilina – Russia § 
2002 – Junko Ogata – Japan §
2002 – “Zhytomyr Cannibal Female Serial Killer” – Ukraine §
2004 – Le Thanh Van – Vietnam §
2005 – Wang Fang – China §
2006 – Juana Barraza – Mexico §
2007 – K. D. Kempamma – India §
2007 – Julia Lynn Turner – USA >
2008 – Babita – India § 
2008 – Ulisa Mary Chavers – USA §
2008 – Betty Neumar – USA § >
2009 – Miriam Helmick – USA § >
2009 – Kanae Kijima – Japan §
2009 – Mahin Qadiri – Iran §
2009 – “Sao Paulo Girl” – Brazil §
2009 – Lin Yuru – Taiwan §
2011 – Sandra Nataly Giraldo – Colombia §
2010 – Irina Gaidamachuk – Russia §
2012 – Melissa Friedrich – USA & Canada §
2012 – “Husum Baby-Killing Mother” – Germany §
2012 – “Indonesian Cannibal Female Serial Killer” – Indonesia §
2012 – Silvia Meraz – Mexico §
2012 – Bruna Oliveira da Silva & Isabel Cristina Pires – Brazil §
2013 – Esneda Ruiz Cataño – Colombia §
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►• Black Widows Who Murdered only 2 persons, both husbands •◄

(List – with links – of Black Widow Serial Killers including victim count of 2 or more)

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1846 – Elizabeth Van Valkenbugh – USA
1881 – “Broncho Lou” (Mrs. Yankers) – USA
1881 – Mrs. Pleasant – USA
1881 – Mrs. Gossau – Switzerland
1884 – Anna Stutt – Germany
1888 – Louisa Collins – Australia
1888 – Martha Johnson – USA
1892 – Kate Painter – USA
1894 – Ann Miniver Davis – Australia
1897 – Olive Sternaman – Canada
1898 – Mrs. Camfield – USA
1899 – Marie Nikodem – Hungary
1899 – Jerinia Zsimcsa – Hungary
1903 – Minnie Cummings – USA
1921 – Madame Potiot – France
1924 – Annora Yeoman – USA
1929 – Rosa Holybe – Hungary
1932 – Elizabeth Ziolkowski - USA
1938 – Florence Peters – USA
1926 – Laura Christy – USA
1948 – Josefa Idler – Germany
1950 – Bessie Lee Cunningham – USA
1952 – Yvonne Fletcher – Australia
1952 – Margie Zeglen – USA
1957 – Daisy Scott Lott – USA
1975 – Kathy Tyree Viets Dean – USA
1976 – Mrs. Elmer Conyers – USA
1978 – Shirley Allen – USA >
1979 – Alma Wittenmyer – USA
1982 – Pauline Rogers – USA
1987 – Carrie E. Allen – USA
1987 – Anne Gates – USA
2002 – Natthakan Anaman – Thailand
2012 – Amy Herrera – USA
2012 – Catherine Symanowski – USA
2013 – Coleen Ann Harris – USA
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Stunning! Scores of Female Serial Killer Cases Rediscovered


►Monikers & Nicknames of Female Serial Killers◄

NOTE: Many female serial killers have multiple nicknames, and a number of nicknames have been used for more than one female serial killer.


  • Agatha Christie Serial Killer – Mahin (first name only, as reported) (Iran)
  • American Borgia – Lydia Sherman (USA)
  • American Delilah – Belle Gunness (USA)
  • Angel of Bremen – Gesche Margarethe Gottfried (Germany)
  • Angel of Death – Jane Toppan (USA), Beverly Allitt (England)
  • Angel-Maker of St. Pauli – Elizabeth Weise (Germany)
  • Angelmakers of Nagyrev –  Suzanna Fazaekas (Hungary)
  • Arsenic Witch – Julianne Nagy (Hungary)
  • Aunt Thally – Caroline Grills (Australia)
  • Barbie Killer – “The Ken and Barbie Killers” Karla Homolka (USA)
  • Beautiful Beast – Irma Grese, also “Beast of Belsen,” “Hyena from Auschwitz” (Germany)
  • Beautiful Blonde Killer – Anna Marie Hahn, also “Blonde Borgia”(USA)
  • Belgian Borgia – Marie Becker (Belgium)
  • Belle of Indiana – Belle Gunness, also “Lonely Hearts Killer,” “Lady Bluebeard” (USA)
  • Beast of Belsen – Irma Grese (Beautiful Beast, Hyena from Auschwitz) (Germany)
  • Black Angel – Timea Faludi (Hungary)
  • Black Eyed Borgia – Mary Frances Creighton (USA)
  • Black Widow – Judias Anna Lou Buenoano (Mexico)
  • Black Widows of Liverpool - Catherine Flanagan & Margaret Higgins (England)
  • Black Widow of Sacramento – Dorothy Puente, also “Grandma Serial Killer” (USA)
  • Blond Borgia – Anna Marie Hahn, also “Beautiful Blonde Killer” (USA)
  • Blood Countess – Elizabeth Bathory (Hungary)
  • Bloody Benders – Kate Bender and family (USA)
  • Bluebeard Poisoners – Tillie Klimek, also “polish Borgia”; & Nellie Koulik (USA)
  • Borgia of America – Martha Hasel Wise (USA)
  • Borgia of the Century – Martha Grinder (USA)
  • Borgia of Somerville – Sarah Jane Robinson (USA)
  • Borgias of the Slums – Catherine Flanagan & Margaret Higgins (England)
  • Brick Top – Mary Jane Jackson (USA)
  • Cat Woman – Winnie Olah Freeman (USA)
  • Catherine the Terrible –Ekaterina Pishianova, (or, Catherine Planovsky) (Russia)
  • Catnip Slayer – Moulay Hassen (Morocco)
  • Cyanide Mallika – K. D. Kempamma (India)
  • Damsel of Death – Aileen Wuornos (USA)
  • Death Rose – Rose Carina; also Kiss of Death Widow, Kiss of Death Killer (USA)
  • Death Row Granny – Velma Barfield (USA)
  • Devil – Martha Wise (USA)
  • Devil Woman – Belle Gunness, also “Lady Bluebeard, “Belle of Indiana” (USA)
  • Dutchess of Death – Louise Peete (USA)
  • Fearsome Bejarano, The (“La Temible Bejarano”) – Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano (Mexico)
  • Female Bluebeard – Carina Favato (USA)
  • Female Executioner, The ( “La Mujer Verdugo”) – Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano (Mexico)
  • Feminine Bluebeard – Clara Carl (USA)
  • Finchley Baby Farmers – Amelia Sach & Annie Walters (England)
  • Firecracker – Sheila LaBarre (USA)
  • Giggling Granny – Nancy “Nanny” Doss (USA)
  • Goddess of Death – Kanae Kijima (Japan)
  • Good Me – Maria Catherina Swanenburg, Netherlands, 1885 (Dutch: Goeie Mie, or Goede Mie) (Netherlands)
  • Grandma Serial Killer – Dorothy Puente, also “Black Widow of Sacramento” (USA)
  • Hand-Grenade Moll – Yoke Ying (Singapore)
  • Hollywood Slasher – Carol Bundy & Doug Clark, also “Sunset Slayer”(USA)
  • Hyena from Auschwitz – Irma Grese (“Die Hyäne von Auschwitz”), also “Beast of Belsen,” “Beautiful Beast” (Germany)
  • Internet Black Widow – Melissa Frederick (Weeks) (Canada)
  • Killer Granny – Betty J. Neumar (USA)
  • Kiss of Death Killer – Rose Carina (USA)
  • Kiss of Death Widow – Rose Carina; also Death Rose, Kiss of Death Killer (USA)
  • “Konkatsu Killer” – Kanae Kijima (Japan) (Konkatsu = marriage hunting)
  • La Madrina – Griselda Blanco “The Godmother” (USA); also Sara Marina Aldrete
  • La Mataviejitas (the old-lady killer) – Juana Barraza, also “The Silent Lady” (stage name as wrestler)     (Mexico)
  • La Voisin – Catherine Deshayes (France)
  • Lady Bluebeard – Belle Gunness, also “Lonely Hearts Killer.” “Belle of Indiana:” (USA); Marie Krueger (Germany)
  • Lady Rotten – Mary Ann Cotton (England)
  • Lady Sundance – “The Night Rider and Lady Sundance,” Judith & Alvin Neelley (USA)
  • Las Poquianchis – González, Delfina & María de Jesús (Mexico)
  • Lonely Hearts Killer – Belle Gunness, also “Lady Bluebeard, “Belle of Indiana” (USA); Martha Beck (with Raymond Fernandez) (USA)
  • Mama Coca – Griselda Blanco – (USA)
  • Man-Woman Devil of Pista – Viktoria Foedi Rieger (Hungary)
  • Magic Medicine Woman – Nagy (”Hagy”)
  • Married Woman’s Best Friend – Thekla Popov (Hungary)
  • Modern Lucretia Borgia – Jane Toppan (USA)
  • Monster of Portoglio – Vitaline Morandini (Italy)
  • Monstermutter – (“Monster Mother”), Sabine Hilschenz (Germany)Mother Abbott – Evelyn Abbott (USA)
  • Mysterious Hunteress – Vera Renczi (Yugoslavia)
  • Obese Ogress – Martha Beck (USA)
  • Ogress – Madame Kusnevova (Russia)
  • Ogress – Jeanne Weber (France)
  • Ogress of Fez – Moulay Hassen (Hassan) (Morocco) Oum-el-Hassen, Umm-el-Hassan, alias Léonie Vallon.
  • Ogress of Reading – Amelia Dyer (England)
  • Ogress of Saint Saveur - Camille Tounie (France)
  • Old Lady Killer (La Mataviejitas) – Juana Barraza, also “The Silent Lady” (stage name as wrestler) (Mexico)
  • Old Shoebox Annie – Mary Eleanor Smith, also: “Shoebox Annie Mayer” (USA)
  • Paris Cat-Eater – Dinorah Galou (France)
  • Pittsburgh Poisoner – Martha Grinder (USA)
  • Poison Mixer – Martha Petromany (Hungary)
  • Poison Witch – Maria Jager (Hungary)
  • Poisoner of Leiden – Maria Catherina Swanenburg (“de Leidse Gifmengster”), also “Good Me” (Netherlands)
  • Polish Borgia – Tillie Klimek, also Bluebeard Poisoners (with Nellie Koulik”) (USA)
  • Predator – Esneda Cataño Ruiz  (Colombia)
  • Queen of Stranglers – Marie Rets, also “Terror of the Fortifications” (France)
  • Queen Poisoner – Lydia Sherman (USA)
  • Sally Arsenic – Sarah Chesham (England)
  • San Francisco Witch Killers – Suzan & Michael Carson (USA)
  • Satan in a Skirt – Irina Gaidamachuk (Russia)
  • Sex Slave Killer – Charlene Gallego (USA)
  • She-Wolf – Josepha Perez (Spain)
  • Sheila the Peeler – Sheila LaBarre (USA) “peeler” is slang for stripper or burlesque dancer
  • Shoebox Annie Mayer – Mary Eleanor Smith, also “Old Shoebox Annie”  (USA)
  • Silent Lady, The – Juana Barraza (stage name as wrestler), also “La Mataviejitas,” the old-lady killer (Mexico)
  • Siren Widow – Belle Gunness (Indiana)
  • Silesian Lucretia Borgia – Ernestine Feige (Germany)
  • Sister Amy – Amy Archer-Gilligan (USA)
  • Sister Godfrida – Cecile Bombeek (Belgium)
  • Smoking Peter – Viktoria Foedi Rieger (Hungary)
  • Soap Maker – Leonarda Cianciulli, also “Witch of Correggio” (Italy)
  • Stomping Mare – Hermine Braunsteiner (Polish, “Kobyła;” German, “Stute von Majdanek”) (Germany)
  • Sunset Slayer – Carol Bundy & Doug Clark, also ”Hollywood Slasher” (USA)
  • Terror of the Fortifications – Marie Rets, also “Queen of Stranglers” (France)
  • Tiger Woman – Louise Peete (USA)
  • Tigress of Cordoba – Augustina Mora (Mexico)
  • Tyneside Strangler – Mary Bell (aged 11) (England)
  • Vampiress of Barcelona – Enriqueta Martí (Spain)
  • White Devil – Suzanne Fazekas (Hungary)
  • Wisconsin Borgia – Charlotte Lamb (USA)
  • Witch of Correggio – Leonarda Cianciulli, also “The Soap Maker” (Italy)
  • Witch of Vladimirovac – Anna Pistova (Yugoslavia)
  • Woman Landru of Morocco – Moulay Hassan (Morocco) (Henri Désiré Landru: 12 Apr 1869 – 25 Feb 1922)
  • Woman Rasputin – Miriam Soulakiotis (Greece)
  • Wuppertal Angel of Death –Michaela Roeder (Röder) (Germany) “Todesengel von Wuppertal”
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