Female Serial Killers Who Liked to Murder Women

The misandric myth that female violence is always defensive – primarily as the result of “oppression” of males – is challenged by such cases as these. Here is a selection of female serial killers who specialized in murdering women. Many of these psychopaths objectified other women in the form of exploiting and murdering them in partnership with males, yet there are just as many of these harpies who objectified other women with the assistance of only their own sick feminine egos.

An example why such lists as this one are valuable will be found on Yahoo Answers website. In January 2012 a student who was writing a paper for a psychology class asked this question: “Has the ever been a female serial killer that targeted only women?” Despite there being one answerer who offered Rosemary West as a single example, the “community” chose as “best answer” “No.”

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1010 – Freydis Ericsdotter – Early (Viking) America – Murdered 5 women over political disputes.

1610 – Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed, “The Blood Countess” – Hungary – murdered, tortured and sexually mutilated young money, estimates vary, from 80 to 650.

1762 – Darya Saltykova – Russia – murdered 138 women; victims were tortured and sexually mutilated before death.

1868 – Marie Jeanneret – Switzerland – 8 women, 1 man, others.

1883 – “Kakoorgachi Serial Murderess” – Calcutta, India – suspected of murdering 6 women, lured by superstitious charms.

1884 – “Varanda, Hungary Black Widow” – Hungary – confessed to murdering “hundreds” of women, plus, incidentally, 3 husbands.

1891 – Rosalie Schneider – Austria – Couple raped and murdered 8 young women.

1892 – Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano – Mexico – sexually tortured and murdered 3 orphan girls.

1903 – Mary McKnight – USA – murdered 5 women, 2 men, 3 children.

1906 – Mary Maher – Dunkitt, County Kilkenny, Ireland – age 11 when discovered (3 murders, 1 attempted murder; suicide)

This case is notable for the fact that the killer, only 11 years old had siblings of both sexes, yet she murdered (and attempted to murder) only sisters.

1917 – Leopoldine Kasparek – Austria – murdered 4 women; 12 additional women survived murder attempts; arrested 1917.

1920 – Raya & Sakina Aly Hammam – Alexandria, Egypt – murdered 17 women (and many more female victims suspected).

1922 – Jozefina Pasnik (couple) – Warsaw, Poland – She was accused of complicity in the murder of least seven women with her serial killer husband 37 year old Szczepan Paśnik.

1924 – Anastasia Permiakova – Russia – As leader of a gang she murdered 20 women and girls, using a hatchet.

1938 – Marie Becker, “The Belgian Borgia” – Belgium – Acting as a nurse, she murdered 10 wealthy elderly widows. 

1938 – Moulay Hassan – Fez, Morocco – tortured and murdered numerous girls.

1940 – Leonarda Ciancuilli, “The Soap Maker, “The Witch of Correggio” – Italy – murdered 3 women. Their bodies were used to make soap and cakes.

1945 – Hermine Braunsteiner, "The Stomping Mare" – Germany – guard at Ravensbruück concentration camp. According to witness testimony she whipped several women to death and in other instances killed women by stomping on them with her steel-studded jackboots, earning her the nickname “The Stomping Mare.” B. was not “just following orders,” rather she was acting to serve her personal sadistic pleasure.

1945 – Irma Grese, “Beast of Belsen” – Germany – National Socialist Party SS member, Average number of victims, 30 a day, motivated by “sport.” She murdered female inmates in the concentration camp by ordering them  to venture into forbidden zones where they would be shot by guards under strict orders to kill all trespassers. G. was not “just following orders,” rather she was acting to serve her personal sadistic pleasure.

1946 – Lottie Lockman – Dupont, Indiana – suspected of 5 murders, including husband, one elderly man, and 3 women.

1949 – Martha Beck – USA – With Raymond Fernandez, murder 3 women and a 3-year-old girl; both were executed.

1948 – Irmgard Swinka – Germany – Robbed and murdered 5 women.

1950 – Mariam Soulakiotis, “The Woman Rasputin” – Greece – murdered 177 young women. Victims were brutally whipped and tortured before their deaths.

1953 – Caroline Grills – Australia – murdered 3 women & 1 man.

1964 – Carmen, Delfina, & Mara Luisa de Jesús Gonzáles – Mexico – victims estimated to be 91, including 80 women.

1972 – Carolyn Elizabeth McCrary & Ginger McCrary Taylor – Athens, Texas, etc. – 3 male accomplices in the crime family; 22 victims suspected, all of them female.

1980 – Charlene Gallego – USA – murdered 9 girls and women, mostly teenagers, with partner Gerald Gallego; victims were raped.

1980 – Robin Murphy –Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

1982 – Judith Neelley – USA – With her husband, she tortured, raped and murdered, by injecting drain cleaner into their blood, an estimated 15 young women.

1986 – Catherine Birnie – Australia – with her husband, David, she murdered 4 women; their fifth escaped, leading to the criminals’ apprehension.

1986 – Cynthia Coffman – USA – With James Marlow, strangled 4 women victims to death, 2 of whom were brutally sexually assaulted.

1989 – Gwendolyn Graham & Cathy Wood – Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA – 5 elderly women; nurse.

1991 – RuizVilleda, Anna Maria & Jimenez Rudolfo Infante – Matamoros, Mexico

1993 – Karla Homolka –  Canada – murdered 3 young women, including Homolka’s younger sister (with Paul Bernardo).

1994 – Dana Sue Gray – USA – Canyon Lake, California – 4 women plus one survivor; strangled with cord or stabbed.

1994 – Rosemary West – Gloucester, England

With her husband Frederick as her crime partner, she murdered and sexually abused 11 women, including her own daughter and step-daughter.

1996 – Michelle Martin – Belgium – With Marc Dutroux, murdered 6 teenage girls after raping and torturing them. This is the most complicated serial killer case in history, involving a large number of mysterious deaths of witnesses, police and others associated with the case during the course of the investigation as well as political intrigue at the highest levels of the Belgian government.

1996 – Lyudmilla Spesivtsev – Novosibirsk, Siberia – with son, Sasha, killed an estimated 32 teenage girls, who were raped by the son and cut up and cooked by the mother.

1998 – “PK” – Europe – murdered 2 women, the 3^rd victim survived. All were complete strangers. 

2003 – Dana Stodolova & husband, Jaroslav – FSK couple – Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

Dana Stodolova (34) and her husband confessed murdering and robbing eight elderly people, mostly women, over an eight year period. Some murders were made to appear to be accidental deaths or suicide. The killer couple was caught after their ninth intended victim survived.

2003 – Monique Olivier – France & Belgium.

2003 – Duan Zhiqun – China – with partner Ma Yong (male) murdered 20 young women; both sentenced to death.

2006 – Juana Barraza, “La Mataviejitas” (The Old Lady Killer) – Mexico City, Mexico – murdered at least 29 women, some reports estimate total victims to be up to 49.2007 – H. D. Kempamma – India – arrested in Bangalore on Dec 30, 2007; murdered an estimated 10 women for their jewelry using cyanide.

2006 – Remedios Sanchez Sanchez – Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

2009 – Mahin Qadiri – Iran – murdered 5 women; she gave them an anesthetic-laced fruit drink and then strangled them.

2010 – Irina Gaidamachuk – Russia – murdered 17 women aged 61-86 with hammer or axe.

 

2016 – Cecilia Steyn – Krugersdorf, South Africa

2016 – Miranda Steyn – Krugersdorf, South Africa

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Update:

“PARANOID,” SHE SAID:

On June 22, 2013 a website called Fem It Up! Put out the following false statement in reference to The Unknown History of MISANDRY.

“Here’s a whole website devoted to exposing the history of “misandry” by telling the sordid tales of female serial killers who targeted men, like Vera Renczi and Viktoria Foedi Rieger. Don’t think the irony is lost on me that I am using a paranoid Men’s Rights site to make my case.”
 

[Christina Paschyn, “Jackie the Ripper: Where Are All the Female Serial Killers on TV?” Fem It Up!, Jun 22, 2013]

Apparently the author did not spend much time working on her psychiatric diagnosis of “paranoia,” since she failed to notice that the website is not devoted primarily to female serial killers, but also contains extensive historical sources on chivalry justice, racketeering (Heart Balm Racket, Badger Game, Alimony Racket, Allotment Annies, etc.), Revenge-Motivated Maternal Filicide, the early history of the Men’s Rights Movement (1910s-1920s), and most notably, violence by women against woman, as exemplified in “Female Serial Killers Who Liked to Murder Women” and “The Forgotten Serial Killers” about child care providers who murdered children (of both sexes, mind you).

The history of Female Serial Killers is, nevertheless, an important topic on The Unknown History of MISANDRY, it must be said..

Our research has identified 700 cases, the vast majority of them unknown to experts.

By the way, the majority of victims of female serial killers have been, in the aggregate, women and children.

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Tour Through a Chicago Baby Farm in 1912

FULL TEXT: “Baby Farming” has extended as a profitable business in Chicago.

The profits accrue from starved bodies, neglected and ill treated children, homeless and dependent upon the “farmer,” whom with which they are “boarded” at from $3 to $7 per week.

Most of the “farms” are situated in districts where tumbling buildings are decaying in filth and neglect. The babies are helpless and have no right of selection; they must suffer in silence and often die from disease and neglect.

The first baby farm visited by a reporter for the Sunday Tribune was kept by a middle aged woman trying to care for eight or ten small children in cramped quarters and under poor conditions. Undoubtedly this woman meant well enough. But she needed the money. She simply could not devote enough time to each child to give its little life a fighting chance.

A “baby farm” does not mean a place where the grass is green and there are plenty of trees and cows, but a dingy flat in the “yards” or a four room cottage on a corner where five car lines meet. There is comfortable about a “baby farm” but the income of the woman, who often appears corpulent and luxurious in contrast to the emaciated infants in her charge. They look like cadaverous birds, opening their months continuously for nourishment for nourishment which they do not get.

~  Inspection Fear of Keepers. ~

When a Tribune reporter went unbidden to one “baby farm” in the suburbs, the woman in charge turned pale and her lips trembled. She almost dropped a bottle of soothing syrup she was carrying and gained control of herself only when told that the reporter had a baby to board.

“O,” she said, taking a long breath, “I thought you were from the board of heath. They are inspectin’ the babies somethin’ fierce. Don’t allow more than four children to a house they are getting’ so strict.”

Wails from several distressed voices floated down from the attic as she spoke, and there were five children in the room. It was one of those problems of two times two are five, which the essayists used to write about in school on composition week.

Mental calculation was interrupted by the door bell. A pale mother, almost lost under a sailor hat, and in a cheap long coat, stood on a little stoop before the door. She wished to board her 10 days’ old baby, as she had to go to work in a restaurant the next day. A whispered conference followed in the doorway. The frail mother crossed the woman’s palm with three silver pieces of silver before she hurried off to fetch her baby.

~  Infants the Choice Boarders. ~

“How old is your baby?” was asked.

“A year old,” I stammered, not knowing whether to make my fictitious child real young or not. Then I realized my mistake.

“I like infants best. Infants sleep most of the time and don’t bother me,” she said, shaking the bottle of cordial significantly.

“What do you charge?” I asked.

She picked up a weak child from a dirty gray blanket on a bare floor and said” I get $5 a week for boardin’ this one. She’s getting’ her teeth and looks puny, but she’s strong.”

“I’ll pay you $5 a week, but I must look over the place and see just where the baby will sleep and what attention you can give it.”

The woman slanted her shrewd eyes demurred, haggling for a bargain.

“I hain’t got much room. I have four children of my own, and there are my two boarders, my husband, and myself. My father lives with me, too. I can’t take no more babies in the attic, but I’ll put your baby in the parlor for $7 a week.”

I was afraid of the cats in the front room

~ Cats the Lesser Danger. ~

“Nothin’ is going to hurt your baby sleepin’ down here, she insisted a little coldly, lifting her voice above the wails of infants in the attic. “I’ve boarded children goin’ on six years, and nothin’ has ever happened to one of them.

I insisted upon placing my child in the attic. Then she reluctantly led the way through the kitchen, where I discovered more children. A 2 year old child boarder in a dirty dress rocked herself wearily near the range. Two other wais stood on chairs, hacking at a loaf of bread lying on the mussy oilcloth on the kitchen table. A bare back yard decorated with scraps of old iron and many tin cans could be seen its whole length to the high, unpainted board fence, through the open doorway, This is where the children play.

I stumbled up the stairs behind the woman, who became wedged in the narrow passageway now and then and stopped to catch her breath. At last we reached the top. It was only a half room up there. I could stand up straight only when I gained the middle of the room. On a bed in a dark corner lay eight babies, half undressed, and crying and unsquirming in uncleanliness. Empty milk bottles and dirty clothes were scattered over the floor. The one window in the in the attic was closed were scattered over the floor. The one window in the attic was closed securely by a nail. I hurried down.

~ All for the Greed of Money! ~

Eight babies in the attic, eight below, four children of her own, two boarders, an aged father, her husband, and herself to care for, all living in four rooms and an attic, this is what the greed for money had led one woman to. Besides, she washed and ironed and did all her housework while caring for the boarding babies.

A bleak wall on an unpaved street was the exterior of a certain was the exterior of a certain “baby farm” in a third floor flat down in the “yards.” Pushing the button above the speaking tube in the middle of the wall, I listened.

“Who’s there?” came down through the mouthpiece.

“I wish to come up.”

“Take the back stairs,” came the answer.

Following the broken board walk, I squeezed between two walls and climbed the rickety back stairs. The surprised German maid announced that her mistress was not at home when I pushed through the screen door. I felt relieved that it wasn’t necessary to have the responsibility of a six weeks’ old baby on my hands to board. (I changed the age of the child from one year to six weeks on the way down on the street car.) All I had to do at the second “baby farm” was to look around.

~ Room in General Disarray. ~

On the floor in the kitchen lay four babies kicking first one pink sock in the air and then a white one. I noticed that the stockings of most of the babies were not mates. On the kitchen table stood three clothes baskets, and in each was an infant wailing pitesly. In the corners, on chairs, beside the kitchen range, hanging like cocoons everywhere were baskets with babies sleeping on pillows turned brown from uncleanliness.

There were nine in the kitchen alone. In the next room were more frail babies, howling from the go-carts, cribs, and baskets. And in the front room more babies cried. An infant covered by a mosquito bar lay apart. She had sore eyes.

~ Milk Not Even Boiled. ~

A 17 year old mother stood leaning over a sleeping baby in the parlor. “He’s nine. His name is red,” she whispered. “Doesn’t he look bad? They almost killed him after I left him here three weeks. He was so neglected that he had spasms. I had to give up my work in the factory and watch him for three weeks. He’s still thin. The doctor said he was starving by inches.

“One time I came to visit him I found him drinking raw milk that had not been boiled. That is how they looked after the babies here. Another time when I came unexpectedly to see my baby I found a strange baby wearing my baby’s clothes.

“The superintendent of the ‘baby farm’ is cruel to the older children. She’s too strict, doesn’t allow them to play in the yard, and makes them sit in a chair all day when she is around. She sends them off to school without breakfast, and they have only bread and molasses for lunch. One morning I had a spare hour before I had to be at the factory. I ran down to see my baby. I did not see the older children eating breakfast She answered that none of the children had.

“As a punishment, the superintendent of the ‘baby farm’ makes the children stand in a corner for hours when they are naughty. She had a dark closet for the mischieveous ones. She pours castor oil and other lubricants down the throats of youngsters who tell falsehoods or washes their mouths out with strong soap to keep them from telling ‘stories.’ They must play in a subdued way in the kitchen, if they play at all.”

~ Little Incentive to Laughter. ~

I glanced at the three little girls and the one little boy sitting around the kitchen table stacking a deck of greasy playing cards. They looked as if they never smiled.

The maid fished a bottle of milk from the tin boiler, full of hot water, on the kitchen range. She carried it to the second room. A loud scream of pain came from a second room. The 17 year old mother and I ran to the rescue of the infant in distress. The mother reached the child first. She cooled the hot bottle of milk under a faucet in the kitchen.

“How they attend to babies, giving them boiling milk,” snapped the mother, trying to relieve the burned child’s pain, while the maid mumbled” “I know how the milk should be. It’s not too hot,”

It is usually one long, hard struggle with neglect and continuous discomfort for the children. Two infants were killed from underfeeding at one “farm,” the records show; one child was whipped with a rawhide by an attendant, the mother claimed; a baby’s fingers were burned; an infant was scalded on the side when the mother called for a visit. Anyhow, the sixteen infants in this “baby farm” in the third floor flat down in the “yards” looked like plants kept away from the sun.

~ Many Reasons for Seclusion. ~

The children are kept housed for many reasons; because the neighbors do not like to have so many children around, and give the superintendent of the “farm” trouble in finding a flat, because there is danger from contagious disease when infants are taken abroad, or because the woman “farmer” is too proud to let it be known that she boards babies for a living.

One proprietor of a “baby farm” has four grown daughters who are devotees of fashion. These daughters object to the “baby farm” and the infants, although they have no compunction against spending the income from this source. One daughter attends normal school from money earned by her mother in the “baby farm,” yet daughter will do nothing for the babies while at home. She dislike to have them around.

[“Baby Farms in Chicago – Infants Boarded For $3 To $7 Per Week At A Big Profit Because They Require Little Care,” Chicago Tribune (Il.), Jun. 9, 1912, p. F-4]

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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.

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Ellen Batts, Australian Child Care Provider Accused of Murdering 3 Babies - 1889

FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): At Waverley. yesterday the inquest on the body of the infant, Elizabeth Cohen, who died on 10th instant, at the residence of Mrs. Ellen Batts, No. 10, Vernon-street, Waverley, having been in that person’s care, was resumed before the City Coroner and a jury of twelve.

Mrs. Batts, who is now awaiting trial, charged with the murder of two other infants, was before the court.

William Mogford Hamlett, Government Analyst, stated that he subjected to chemical analysis the stomach and viscera of the deceased, which had been placed in a sealed jar. The stomach was almost empty, only a very small quantity of liquid being present. The membrane was very much blackened and discolored. The liquid was examined and found to contain traces of lime and carbonate of soda. The whole of the viscera was divided and analysed, but no metallic or other irritant poisons could be discovered. Neither were there any alkaloids or vegetable poisons; but there were found traces of cadavaic alkaloids.

By the jury : It was not usual to find lime and carbonate of soda in the stomach of infants. The carbonate of soda might possibly have endangered the life of the child by preventing digestion. By Mrs. Batts : The lime may have been given to the child with water. By the jury : It was possible sometimes to trace the presence of laudanum in the system; but owing to the rapid absorption of the drug it was frequently impossible.

Dr. F. M. Smith, of Waverley, said that, having heard the evidence of Mr. Hamlett, he was of opinion that death was due to improper and injudicious feeding, which was tantamount to starvation.

Dr. Goode corroborated Dr. Smith’s opinion as to the cause of death. The average weight of a new-born babe was about 7 1b, but the deceased, who was 2 months old, only weighed 3 1b 9 oz. The average weight of a child about 2 months old was from 9 1b to 12 lb.

Senior-Constable Bobert Stove, stationed at Waverley, testified to having handed the viscera of the deceased, which was in a sealed jar, to the Government analyst.

Emily Stephens deposed that up to the 10th instant she was house-keeping for the late Benjamin Hyam Cohen, at No. 56, Newtown-road. She was present at the birth of the deceased infant, Elizabeth Cohen, on or about August 11. The mother of the child, and the late Mr. Cohen requested witness to take the child to Mrs. Batts’s place. Witness accordingly took the baby there when it was about nine hours’ old. About two months before the child was born witness and Miss Cohen (the mother) went to Mrs. Batts and made arrangements about taking the infant. Did not then hear anything said about payment. On the Wednesday after witness took the child to Mrs. Batts the late Mr. Cohen authorised her (witness) to again see Mrs. Batts, and ask what she would charge for adopting the baby, and added “Get her to do it as reasonable as possible — say about £7.” Told Mr. Cohen that Mrs. Batts would not take less than £9 10s, and the following day that amount was accordingly paid her, for which witness was given a receipt. When witness saw the child again it was sickly and was suffering from a cold.

Ellen Batts, after being cautioned in the usual way by the Coroner, deposed that when she received the child it was small and weak. Fed her on cow’s milk and limewater. Sometimes fed her with a spoon. Never gave the deceased any carbonate of soda. Cleaned the feeding-bottles with washing soda and water. Witness always prepared the food, and gave it to the babies her self. Deceased soon contracted jaundice. Used about three and a-half bottles of cod liver oil in all, but she did not get any better. Deceased was then seized with the whooping cough, and witness gave her syrup of squills. Deceased, like the other children, never could keep any food on its stomach. Witness had sixteen years’ knowledge of the rearing of children. Believed deceased to have died of whooping cough. Witness found the clothing for deceased, but the late Mr. Cohen paid the funeral expenses. For a whole month witness never retired to bed, in consequence of having to attend to the children who were suffering from whooping cough. Never allowed the babies to sleep together. Witness received £9 10s for adopting the deceased.

By the jury: She did not send for a doctor, because the child did not seem to fall away, only when it was seized with the whooping cough. Three babies were taken away from her charge. During the past eight months she had adopted four children, all of whom were dead. Within the past eleven months twelve children had died in her house. The Coroner in summing up said that according to the evidence of the mother and Mrs. Stephens, the child was strong and healthy when born, but this was denied by Mrs. Batts. The evidence of the doctors prove that the child was healthy; but that it had been deprived of food and proper nourishment, and they could not in any other way account for death. Therefore the jury could scarcely come to the conclusion that death arose from natural causes. The child had been placed in Mrs. Batts’s charge, and she was responsible for its care. The jury would have to consider whether this child’s death was due to wilful starvation or simple negligence— one was murder and the other manslaughter.

The jury then retired to consider their verdict, and after half an hour’s deliberation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against the woman Ellen Batts.

Mrs. Batts was then formally committed to take her trial.

[“That Waverley Baby Farm. - Inquest On The Third Infant. - Died From Starvation. Mrs. Batts Again Committed To Murder.” Evening News (Sydney, NSW, Australia), Oct. 23, 1889, p. 6]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 2): Ellen Batts, the keeper of a baby farm at Woollahra, has been again acquitted on a charge of murdering another of the infants who died while in her keeping.

[From “New South Wales” column, The South Australian Register (Adelaide, Australia), Nov. 25, 1889. p. 3]

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To learn more details about murderous child care providers in history, including baby farmers, adoption agents and baby sitters, see “Death on the Baby Farm,” by Robert St. Estephe, Female Serial Killer Index.

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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.

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Shirin Gul, “The Kebab Killer”: Prolific Afghan Serial Killer Bandit - 2004

Shirin Gul, “The Kebab Killer,” was convicted in Afghanistan of killing 28 men in collaboration with her husband and his in-laws. The family was part of a large regional gang that specialized in stealing and selling cars, particularly taxis. Accomplices were used to transport taxis over the Pakistani border to the town of Miram Shah, where the cars were sold there for more than $10,000 each. The three accused men admitted that they had invited the men into their home with offers of tea and kebabs, which contained sedatives. Then they would kill and rob them. According to some reports, Shirin would also lure taxi drivers to her house for sexual intercourse.

Her lover Rahmatullah, her 18-year-old son, Samiullah, and four others believed to be involved in the killings. Rahmatullah had murdered her first husband. Police think her first husband, Mohammed Azam, was probably an accomplice in the early murders but was himself killed when Shirin Gul and Rahmatullah became lovers.

During an investigation that began in June 2004 with the discovery of the naked body of a wealthy businessman Haji Mohammed Anwar, near Kabul, He had been invited to the couple's home, ostensibly to discuss a property deal. Soon after the start of the investigation of the Anwar murder, police recovered 18 corpses from under the yard of Shirin Gul’s former home in the eastern city of Jalalabad, and another six at an address in Kabul.

The body of Shirin Gul's 60-year-old first husband was found under the floor of her Jalalabad home. After murdering Azam in Jalalabad, the killer couple moved from to Kabul and lived as man and wife. The murderess liked to spend her loot on gold jewelry and shoes.

Shirin was sentenced to 20 years in prison.  It is thought that she “still runs a mafia-style operation from her cell.” (St. Estephe text) 

[One of the sources: Tom Coghlan, “’Kebab killer’ defies Kabul court,” BBC News, Mar. 29, 2005]

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For similar cases, see: Female Serial Killer Bandits

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For similar cases, see Murder-Coaching Moms

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Diane & Rachel Staudte, Missouri Mom & Daughter Serial Killer Team - 2013

According to criminal charges filed in June 21, 2013, Diane Staudte (51), of Springfield, Missouri confessed to poisoning three family members with anti-freeze. Yet Mrs. Staudte had good reasons for her homicidal house-cleaning campaign.

The serial poisoner told detectives that she chose to terminate the life of her husband Mark because she “hated him.” Her son Shawn deserved to die  because he was “worse than a pest.” Daughter Sarah, who survived the attempt on her life, barely, was deemed not fit to live because she “would not get a job and had student loans that had to be paid.”

At first, this killer mom attempted to cover up daughter Rachel’s role as an accessory. Yet ultimately Rachel (22), was revealed to have planned and executed the crimes in tandem with her malicious mother.

Antifreeze was the poison of choice.

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►ANTIFREEZE

Antifreeze seems to becoming a bit of a trend among homicide addicts of the fair gender.

Julia Lynn Turner, of Marietta, Georgia, used antifreeze to murder two partners. In 1995, she killed husband Maurice Glenn Turner, age 31. On January 22, 2001, she killed her boyfriend, Randy Thompson, age 32, father of a child conceived while married to her first victim.

Stacey Castor of Clay, New York, was convicted in 2009 of killing a husband and a brother, and attempting to murder a daughter using antifreeze, and idea she got from watching a TV news report on the Turner case. Her husband was sitting beside her watching as she gained her antifreeze inspiration.

She killed second husband David Castor, using antifreeze, in 2005. The murderess tried, unsuccessfully, to pin the guilt for the two successful murders on her third targeted victim, daughter Ashley Wallace, who had been very close to her deceased father. But Amy survived the antifreeze and the fake suicide note created by her mother became damning evidence against the poisoner.

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VICTIMS:

Died:

Mark Staudte, 61, Diane’s husband, died April 2012

Shawn Staudte, 26, Diane’s son, died September 2012

Survived:

Sarah Staudte, 24, Diane’s daughter, survived June 2013 poisoning

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Diane Staudte is far from being the first female serial killer who enlist one of their adult children as accomplices in their repeat homicides. The following cases are examples of  murder-coaching moms: Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano (1892, Mexico), Ivanova Tamarin (1909, Russia), Rose Veres (USA, 192), Mary Eleanor Smith (1938, USA), Leonarda Cianciulli (1941, Italy), Silvia Meraz  (2012, Mexico).

Among these murderous moms are two cannibals, one sadistic sex offender and two cannibals and a human-sacrifice cult leader on the list.

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Minnie Dean, New Zealand “Baby Farmer” Executed For Killing Babies - 1895

EXCERPT from Wikipedia: Williamina "Minnie" Dean (2 September 1844 – 12 August 1895) was a New Zealander who was found guilty of infanticide and hanged. She was the only woman to receive the death penalty in New Zealand.

In 1895, Dean was observed boarding a train carrying a young baby and a hatbox, but observed leaving the same train without the baby and only the hatbox. As railway porters later testified, the object was suspiciously heavy. A woman, Jane Hornsby, came forward claiming to have given her granddaughter, Eva, to Dean, and clothes identified as belonging to this child were found at Dean's residence, but Dean could not produce the child herself. A search along the railway line found no sign of the child. Dean was arrested and charged with murder. Her garden was dug up, and three bodies (two of babies, and one of a boy estimated to be three years old) were uncovered. An inquest found that one child (Eva) had died of suffocation and one, later identified as one year-old Dorothy Edith Carter, had died from an overdose of laudanum (used on children to sedate them). The cause of death for the third child was not determined. Dean was charged with their murder.

In her trial, Dean's lawyer Alfred Hanlon argued that all deaths were accidental, and that they had been covered up to prevent adverse publicity of the sort that Dean had previously been subjected to. On 21 June 1895, however, Dean was found guilty of Dorothy Carter's murder, and sentenced to death. Between June and August 1895, Dean wrote her own account of her life. Altogether, she claimed to have cared for twenty eight children. Of these, five were in good health when her establishment was raided, six had died whilst under her care, and one had been reclaimed by her parents. Apart from her two adopted daughters, that left fourteen or so children unaccounted for, according to her own record.

On 12 August, she was hanged by the official executioner Tom Long in Invercargill, at the intersection of Spey and Leven streets, in what is now the Noel Leeming carpark. She is the only woman to have been executed in New Zealand, and as capital punishment in New Zealand has been abolished, it is likely that she will retain that distinction. She is buried in Winton, alongside her husband, who died in a house fire in 1908. Her crimes led to the belated passage of child welfare legislation in New Zealand – the Infant Life Protection Act 1893 and the Infant Protection Act 1896. 

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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.

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More cases: Female Serial Killers Executed

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Martha Cooper, New Zealand Serial Baby-Killer - 1922

NOTE: Daniel Cooper was an abortion provider.  Together with his wife, he offered an adoption placement service for unwed mothers. This service was a fraud. The couple collected money the from mother and then starved the baby to death. The Coopers were charged with murdering three babies following the discovery of as body of a newborn at Lyall Bay. Daniel Cooper was found guilty of the murders and hanged at the Terrace Gaol on June 16, 1923. Martha Cooper pleaded that she had only taken part in the atrocities because her husband had forced her to, although it was reportedly she who had been the person who had deliberately starved the babies to death. She was acquitted of the charges and left the country soon after.

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FULL TEXT: Wellington. Wednesday. – The Court of Appeal this morning delivered written reasons for the dismissal of the application by Daniel Richard Cooper for ,leave to appeal against his conviction for murder.

The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, in the course of his judgment, said that the main reason given by counsel for Cooper in support of this application was that evidence had been admitted with respect to the finding of other bodies than the one in respect of which Cooper was charged with murder, and that such evidence was not admissible until a prima facie case of murder had been made out. I am of opinion,” continued His Honor, that, even if that be the law, sufficient evidence has been adduced to warrant the Court in admitting the evidence. There was some evidence — first, that a child found buried on the prisoner’s property was the body of the child of Margaret McLeod, and it was this child Cooper was charged with murdering. There was evidence to the effect that the body was that of a child about the age her child was at the time of its disappearance; second, that the child had been born alive, and had lived a few days; third, that the child was of dark complexion; fourth, that the sex was the same; fifth, that the child had been given by McLeod to Mrs. Cooper, who was living with prisoner, and that immediately after McLeod was told by Cooper that the child had been given to persons for its adoption. There was evidence that she had demanded possession of the child, and could not get any definite answer as to whom it had been given by Cooper, nor where it was; and the child could not be found. Further, there was evidence that the child had not been adopted. All these facts were put forward in Court before evidence as to other children was advanced.

I am of opinion,” concluded His Honor, that this case is indistinguishable from the case of Makin against the Attorney-General of New South Wales, and Regina v. Dean, and the Court is bound by the decisions in these cases. In view of these decisions, it is clear that evidence regarding other bodies found in the ground at Newlands belonging to prisoner was relevant evidence, and tended to show he had been guilty of killing babies, the custody of which had been granted to him by their mothers. The jury could rightly infer that from evidence adduced.”

Mr. Justice Hosking, in his judgment, concurred with the Chief Justice, that a prima facie case was made out before the evidence objected to was admitted. Mr. Justice Salmond said the case was indistinguishable from Makin v. the Attorney-General of New South Wales, and the admission of evidence objected to was in accordance with the rule laid down by the Court of Anneal in Regina v. Whitta and Regina v. Smythe: Amplication for leave to appeal was therefore refused..

[“The Murder Trial. - Cooper’s Conviction. Application To Appeal. Reasons. For Refusal.” Syndicated (Telegraph. Press Association), The New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand), May 31, 1923, p. 9]

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Images taken from a long article, “’Foul Deeds Will Rise’ - Coopers Tried For Murder - The Massacre of the Innocents - Out-Heroding Herod,” New Zealand Truth (Wellington, New Zealand), May 19, 1923, p.. 5]

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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.

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