We hear about men serial killers but how often have you heard about women serial killers other then watching Deadly women that is. Well there is actually quite a few women serial killers that we just never hear about, but believe it or not there are evil women out there that have also done some of the most horrific crimes that are unspeakable. And here I am to tell you all about these crazy women that have made history in the world of crime.
Lavinia Fisher was the first women serial killer in the U.S. She was born in 1793 but other then that nothing else is known of her child hood. She grew up and married her husband John Fisher. They owned a B&B in Charlston, South Carolina called the Six Mile Wayfarer House. Charlston was a close knit community you could count on your fingers the families that lived there everyone knows everyone. So when men was coming up missing around town last place they was seen was the wayfarer house. Lack of evidence kept police from making any arrest. Lavinia would chat the male guest up about their finances if they have a lot of money she would poison their tea before bed. After these men would go to bed husband John would come in and slit their throat’s and the couple would take all his money. Over time Lavinia had a trap door put in under the guest beds. When guest John Pebbles comes to town needing a room everything changed. John did not like tea like all the other men so when Lavinia was not looking he poured it out. Over the course of the night he had grown a little suspicious and did not sleep in the bed, but chose to sleep in the chair by the door. He awoke with the loud bangs of the trap door flying open leaving hole in middle of the room. John rode off to alert the authorities who arrested the couple it takes a year from the day they was arrested to the day they were hung. Story told around the jail house and the gallows where she hung she often haunts the land.
Aileen Wuornos so ok we have heard this monster who has a movie made of her no other name then Monster. Will have to say Charlize Theron did an outstanding job protraying Aileen she looked like the real deal, but for those of you that might have missed the movie. Aileen has a rough child hood growing up her father had killed himself. At the lost of her husband mom abandoned Aileen and her younger brother with an alcholic grandmother and very stern grandfather. At age 16 Aileen has started prostituding and taking care of herself. She had suffered some sexual assult as a child that all she knew was sex. Aileen meets her partner Tyra Moore the love of her life all Aileen wants is to provide for her. Aileen first vitium was Richard Mallory, she claims in court that he assaulted her and that is why she kills him. She claims all her victims attached her but later retracts that statement. Aileen kills six men from 1989 till 1990. Tyra Moore was the love that gets her locked up, the police trace her down and in the end was the testimony that finds her guilty on Jan. 27 1992 and sentenced to death row. Oct 9 2002 Aileen is giving lethal injection leaving her last words, “I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back like Independence Day with Jesus June 6. Like the movie, big mother ship and all. I’ll be back.
Belle Gunness Serial killer Belle Gunness is reported to have murdered more than 40 people between 1884 and 1908 before disappearing without a trace. Belle Gunness was born Brynhild Paulsdatter Strseth on November 11, 1859 in Selbu, Norway. The daughter of a stonemason, Gunness immigrated to the United States in 1881 in search of wealth. What followed were a series of insurance frauds and crimes, escalating in size and danger. No-one was safe around this evil women killing children and family members including at least two husbands. Belle was very money hungry and killed for money no matter what the price was many bodies of her victims were found on her land after she disappeared.
Jane Toppan “Jolly” Jane Toppan was a serial killer in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. Toppan claimed her life goal was to “have killed more people – helpless people – than any other man or woman who ever lived. Jane was born as Nora growing up with her sister Delia in a Boston female asylum where many daughters were abandoned there. Her sister Delia was forced into prostitution when she reaches of age. However Jane (Nora) was freed with $50 dollars to start with at age of 18. She works as a servant till she becomes a student nurse after the death of Ann and her granddaughter. This is where she really found herself, building relationships and getting to know her patients, she finds that she enjoys the easier elderly patients. She starts by giving them opium to see how they react to it. Many times she would poison them and then nurse them back to health looking like the good guy. She had many families that she worked for all over Boston killing many of their loved ones without any clue, until she uses a metallic based poison that gets authorities attention. In 1902 she was found guilty and is sentenced to life in an asylum where she fears they will poison her food. She dies in the asylum at age eighty one.
Velma Barfield born as Velma Bullard on October 26 1932 in South Carolina to a poor family where he crimes start young. Velma was steeling money from her parents and even $80 from a neighbor, till her father finds out he beats her. Velma does not steel anything else after that in her childhood. Velma was lonely and felt like she wasn’t a full women after having a hysterectomy . After having an argument with her husband she takes her kids and leave the house. Shortly after leaving the house catches on fire taking her husbands life. Velma moves away but then returns to meet her new husband who is as well a widow. Once again after an argument he becomes deathly ill. Where he dies of a heart attach shortly after. While living at home with her parents he dad dies of lung cancer and her mother gets unexpectedly ill. Velma starts working around town as a caregiver. Many of the couples that she worked for and a new boyfriend all come up sick. After someone tips off the police about all the deaths’ an investigation looks back on her victims and find arsenic traces. Velma confessed to four of the murders and was given a death sentence, and although psychiatric witnesses tried to stop Velma from being sentenced, she was convicted in the end – the first woman to be executed since 1962, it was reinstated for her execution. She was put to death by lethal injection on November 2, 1984, her last meal was a bag of Cheeze Doodles and a Coca-Cola.
Amelia Dyer was born as Amelia Elizabeth Hobbley in 1836 in Bristol, England. Her family is not poor but makes a descent income thanks to shoemaker dad. Her mother was mentally ill and after suffering from a bad fever her mother became violent. Amelia mother often beat the many children that she had. Amelia suffered from depression due to her childhood and loosing two of her sisters. Then in 1859 dad then passes away as well. At age 24 Amelia marry her husband George Thomas who is quite a bit older then her. Her husband helped her join a nursing school to train as a nurse. Amelia seemed happy and subsequently, became a successful entity in the local ‘baby farming’ industry. Amelia starts her farming business putting flyers up all over town. Amelia receives a small fee to care for the babies. Amelia gets greedy and can not care for all of the infants so she starts getting rid of the babies to bring in more. Amelia gets sent to prison for six months for neglect she was found guilty on. While in prison she becomes mentally unstable and seems suicidal. She spends along time depressed and is put in multiple asylums. Finally she gets back into her baby farming where she even hires help. The murders last about 2 decades killing at least 300 infants found in multiple back yards that her and her huband lived in. In police custody she admits to the crimes and is sentenced to dealth by hanging.
Nannie Doss she seemed like the loving grandma everyone would of wanted. Nannie was born to family of farmers in 1905. The children do not go to school but stay home to do chores and work on the farm. Nannie grew up in Blue Mountain Alabama with a father that was abusive and mother that looks the other way. Nannie at age 7 years old suffers from a brain injury that changes her life for ever. At age 16 Nannie marries her first husband a day she has been longer for to find the perfect husband. From 1921 till 1927 they have 4 children together before marriage fails. Two of the children die without reason just mysteriously die. The couple divorce in 1928 Nannie keeps her infant child while husbands takes the oldest. One year later she marries her second husband who is an abusive alcoholic. This marriage last for 16 years, during this marriage she kills her own infant with a clothes hanger right before birth. Some of the family infants such as her grandchild were mysteriously die. Nannie has been oblivious of her husbands cheating ways being busy taking care of her mother, till she dies then Nannies husband dies mysteriously. Nannie is accused of killing four out of five of her husbands and some close family members. Even though she was the nice sweet loving women she was found guilty of arsenic poisonings in her last four husbands. Nannie is believed to have killed 12 people in which they believe was blood related.
Bertha Gifford was born August 30 1872 in cattawisa missiouri she was one of ten children. Bertha has been married two times the first husband had past away leaving her widow till second marriage. Bertha is said to be the most beautiful women in town very loving and caring. Bertha is known around the community for cooking and caring for sick neighbors. Many of her patients would die violently, Bertha was known to be so much help she would make it to the victims before the corners would arrive. Eventually an investigation would take place on many of her victims, finding traces of arsenic in their systems. Bertha was accused of 17 most of which are children. Bertha says she used arsenic to relieve their pain. Bertha was found criminally insane and sent to a hospital where say was said to be a cook.
Jeanne Weber was a French woman born on October 7 1874 in a fishing village in northern France. At age 14 she leaves home for Paris where she works a few jobs until getting married in 1893. Jeanne husband was an alcoholic but after losing two out of three children Jeanne is drinking with him. On March 1905 Jeanne starts babysitting for her sister in law and her brother. During the times she would be watching children they would die. One child was said to died from choking but had red marks around the Childs throat. The doctors always ignored the red marks found around the children’s death. On 5 April 1905, Weber invited two of her sisters-in-law to dinner, remaining home with 10-year-old nephew while the other women went out shopping. They returned prematurely, to find the child gasping on the bed, his throat mottled with bruises, Jeanne standing over him with a crazed expression on her face. Charges were filed, and Weber’s trial opened on 29 January 1906, with the prosecution alleging eight murders, including all three of Weber’s own children and two others — Lucie Aleandre and Marcel Poyatos — who had died while in her care. It was alleged that Weber killed her son in March to throw suspicion off, but Weber was being defended by the brilliant defense lawyer Henri-Robert, and jurors were reluctant to believe the worst about a grieving mother. She was acquitted on 6 February. Jeanne was eventually caught strangling a child red-handed and was found to be insane and sent to asylum where she strangles herself.
Dorothea puente ran a boarding house in the 1980’s in Sacramento California. While running the boarding house for the elderly Dorothea would cash social sercurity checks from the elderly that lived in her house. In 1982 Dorotheas friend and partner in business rented a room from her shortly after overdosing on condince and tynol when questioned Dorothea said her friend was very sad and depressed. Serval weeks later Dorothea is accused of drugging and steeling pension from a resident and she was found guilty, serving five years where she meets a pen-pal. After being released she opens a joint account with her new pen-pal. In November of that year, Dorothea hired a handyman, to install wood paneling in her home. After he completed the job, Dorothea paid him an $800 bonus and gave him a red 1980 Ford pickup truck- the exact same model and year of her pen-pals car. She told her handyman that the truck belonged to her boyfriend who gave it to her. Dorthea also hired her handy man to build a box that was six feet by three feet by two feet, which she stated that she would use to store “books and other items.” She and her handy man then travelled to a highway in Sutter County and dumped the box in a riverbank. On January 1, 1986, the box was recovered by a fisherman, who called the police. When police arrived and opened the box, they found the decomposed remains of an elderly man- who would not be identified as the pen-pal she met and for another three years. During this time, Dorothea collected pension and forged letters to his family. After wards Dorothea couniues collecting from her boarding and hiring another handy man that disappears after putting new concrete in the basement. In 1988 Dorothea is reconized in a local bar and the man calls the police. Dorothea was charged with nine counts of murder, for the seven bodies found at her house in addition to her pen-pal. She was convicted of three of the murders, as jury could not agree on the other six. Dorothea was sentenced to two life sentences which she served at Central California Women’s Facility in Madera County, California until her death in 2011 at age 82. Until her death, she continued to insist that she was innocent and that the tenants had all died of natural causes
Never underestimate any woman out there these women and many others have proven to be just as dangerous as any man out there. I guess my point is there is no boundaries on the evil in this world from the beginning of time.
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