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Mary E. Hartman, Suspected California Serial Killer - 1930

December 11, 2014, 6:12 pm
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FULL TEXT: Long Beach, Cal. Apr. 24 – Mrs. Mary Hartman, whose husband, son and daughter died under circumstances which police described as mysterious, was held in technical custody today pending an investigation.

Mrs. Hartman’s detention followed discovery by autopsy surgeons yesterday of a poison in vital organs of Ruth Hartman, 14, who died April 14.

Coroner Frank Nance, of Los Angeles county, ordered the bodies of O. B. Hartman, 47, the wom,an’s husband, who died two years ago following a mysterious attack in which his head was injured, and Henry A. Hartman, 22, her son, who died last year apparently of ptomaine poisoning, exhumed for further examination.

The husband’s death was accredited to the attack, but attending physicians reported he was on the road to recovery when he had a sudden relapse and died.

Miss Hartman and her mother were stricken ill after eating sandwiches. Mrs. Hartman rapidly recovered, but the giurl grew worse and died after a week. Physicians, who said they were not satisfied with … [incomplete text. The story continues on page 2, which is missing from this particular copy]

[“Authorities Hold Woman In Deaths Of Three Persons – Members of Family Died Under Mysterious Circumstances; Investigation Begun,” Las Vegas Daily Critic (N. M.), Apr. 24, 1930, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT: Long Beach, Ca., April 25. – Bodies of the husband and son of Mrs. Mary Hartman, to-day were being examined for traces of poison in connection with an alleged insurance swindle, despite denial of the woman that she had anything to do with their deaths.

Exhumation of the body of O. B. Hartman, 47, who died in 1927, and of his son, Henry Hartman, 22, who died a year ago, was ordered yesterday following the discovery of poison in the vital organs of Ruth Hartman, 22, who died a year ago, was ordered yesterday following the discovery of poison in the vital organs of Ruth Hartman, 14, Mrs. Hartman’s daughter, who died two weeks ago.

Mrs. Hartman, beneficiary of insurance policies held by the three members of her family, is being held pending to-day’s autopsy. Alienists who have observed the woman expressed the belief she was unbalanced mentally.

To all questions she made no reply except: “I love them; how could I have killed them?”

[“Exhume Bodies For Poison In Alleged Swindle – Woman Denies She Killed Three to Collect Life Insurance,” Harrisburg Telegraph (Pa.), Apr. 25, 1930, p. 9]

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Victims:
1928 – O. B. Hartman – husband, 47, died
1929 – Henry A. Hartman, 22, son, died
April 14 , 1930 – Ruth Hartman, 14, daughter, died

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[Source for headline used in image: “Woman Held For Inquiry Into Deaths of Husband, Child,” The Vidette-Messenger (In.), Apr. 24, 1930, p. 1]

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Katherine & Elizabeth Nolan, Serial Killer Sisters – Waterford, New York, 1894

December 12, 2014, 1:44 pm
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The sisters, who were indicted for the murder of their brother, were not convicted. Yet the fact of three other deaths in the family in the space of eight months suggests, despite the failure of the one court case, that at least one sister, Elizabeth, was a serial killer.

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 5): Ballston, N. Y., Oct. 16. – Katherine [“Catharine W. Nolan” in some sources] and Elizabeth Nolan, of Waterford, sisters, aged 22 and 17 years respectively, were arraigned in court yesterday afternoon on an indictment charging them jointly with murder in the first degree in having, on June 8, administered arsenic to their brother, John Nolan, with intent to cause his death, that they might obtain and share policy of insurance issued by one of the low-priced assessment companies on his life in which they were named as beneficiaries.

A drug clerk testified before the coroner’s and grand juries to having sold one of the sisters arsenic just before that date. The father, mother and a sister of the Nolans had died within the preceding eight months, on all of whose lives they held similar insurance policies that were paid before John’s death.

[“Killed For Insurance. Two Sisters Are Held for One Murder and Suspected of Four.” By the United Press., Scranton Tribune (Pa.), Oct. 17, 1894, p. 3]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 5): Ballston, N. Y., Oct. 16. – Katharine and Elizabeth Nolan of Waterford, sisters. aged 22 and 17 years old respectively, were arraigned in oyer and terminer [a hearing to “to hear and determine”] on an indictment charging them jointly with murder in the first degree, in having on June 8, 1894, administered arsenic to their brother John Nolan, with intent to cause his death that they might obtain and share a policy of insurance issued by one of the low-priced assessment companies on his life in which they were named as beneficiaries. He died June 13 from such poison as was determined by an autopsy made by direction of Coroner Stubbs. A drug clerk testified before the coroner’s and grand juries to having sold one of the sisters arsenic Just before that date. The father, mother and a sister of the Nolans had died within this preceding eight months on all of whose lives they held similar insurance policies that were paid before John’s death. C. E. Keach, counsel for the prisoners, demurred to the indictment and also moved that it he quashed on affidavits setting forth that the evidence before the grand jury did not present sufficient facts to warrant that the sisters be held for trial. Justice Stover overruled the demurrer and denied the motion to quash. Mr. Keach then entered pleas of not guilty for each of his clients and asked that a date be fixed at this term for their trial. District Attorney Person opposed on the ground that the attendance of necessary witnesses for the people could not be obtained at this term. On his motion the cases were put over till the January oyer.

[“Poisoned  For Money. - Two Sisters Indicted for the Murder of Their Brother.” Freeland Tribune (Pa.), Oct. 22, 1894, p. 2]

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FULL TEXT(Article 3 of 5): Ballston Spa, N. Y., April 25. – An extra panel of jurors has been drawn for the trial of Katharine V. Nolan, which is to begin next Monday, for the Murder of her brother, John Nolan. The Nolan family, consisting of the sisters, Katharine, Mary and Elizabeth, and their brother John, lived in Waterford, Saratoga county, N. Y., until June, 1894. John and two of the girls worked in a mill. There were two insurance policies on John's life.

On June 8 Katharine and Elizabeth prepared the dinner at home. When the others arrived, Katharine, on some excuse, went into the garden while they ate. They all drank tea, John alone using sugar. After he had gone to work Katharine came in, ate her dinner and cleared the table.

That afternoon John was taken ill at the mill. The next morning he was unable to work. He had vomiting, purging and burning sensations, with thirst. The doctor in attendance suspected something was wrong.

After Sunday John improved in health until June 13, when he sat up and Katharine gave him beef tea. Directly afterwards he was taken worse and in a short time was dead.

The stomach and intestines were examined and arsenic was found. Both Katharine and Elizabeth are under indictment for the alleged murder, but have asked for separate trials. The trial of Katherine was postponed at the last term of court, as her sister Mary, who is an important witness for the State was unable to be present.

[“Sisters Accused of a Horrible Crime. They Must Go on Trial Charged With Murdering Their Brother.” (By the Associated Press), The Arizona Republican (Phoenix, Az.), Apr. 26, 1895, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT (Article 4 of 5): Saratoga, April 26. – The Nolan murder trial was continued in the Saratoga oyer and terminer court before Judge Landon.

Dr. Lewis Ralch Albany, the expert called by the prosecution, testifies on crossexamination that the hypothetical questions answered by him were based on fact as assumed and noyt on personal knowlewdge of the circumstances. He did not think a complete and propert autopsy had been made.

Dr. John Higgins, a venerable druggist  of Waterford, deposed to filling a prescription for John Nolan, alleged to have been poisoned by his sister Catherine, and said that it contained no arsenic.

Dr./ M. W. Vandenburgh of Fort Edward was also sworn as an expert on poisoning cases.

Saloonkeepers Michael J. Currier and Michael Costigan of Waterford, testified that Nolan drank heavily in their places on June 8, 1894, the day he was taken ill, and added that he complained of being sick.

The prosecution rested. Counsel for the defense moved for acquittal and, pending argument, Judge Landon, intimated that he would deny the motion, but said he would hear the counsel further.

[“Nolan Poisoning Trial. – Prosecution Rests Its Case After Producing Several Witnesses.” The Olean Democrat (N. Y.), Apr. 26, 1895, p. 4]

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FULL TEXT (Article 5 of 5): Saratoga, Nov. 12. – A claim for $1,000 was made in the County Board of Supervisors to-day by Miss Elizabeth Nolan, of Waterford, as “recompense for having been injured in health and reputation, and unjustly arrested and indicted for the murder of her brother John Nolan, and and after confinement in jail for several months was discharged without trial.” The claim was made a special order for next Friday, when Calvin E. Keach, counsel for the claimant, will be heard in the matter.

[From: “Telegraphic Notes,” New York Tribune (N. Y.), Nov. 14, 1895, p. 1]

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Georgia Brown, Kansas Double Black Widow - 1926

December 14, 2014, 6:02 am
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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 4): Fred R. Morton, formerly of this city [Ft. Scott, Kansas], and son of the late F. Q. Morton, a former Fort Scott man, was shot and instantly killed by his wife in the yard of their premises at Pittsburg yesterday afternoon about 5:30 o’clock. The woman shot herself in the head immediately afterward, and will probably die. She was taken to Mt. Carmel hospital. Morton was shot in the heart, and died instantly.

The shooting was the culmination of a quarrel in which the Mortons had engaged for perhaps an hour before the tragedy, according to reports. The cause of the quarrel; is not definitely known. one report is that recently Mrs. Morton went to the poor farm to visit a relative, and that yesterday’s fatal quarrel was the result of his reproaching her severely for the visit. Another report is to the effect that it was a triangle case.

That the quarrel, even before it reached the point of the tragedy, was a violent one is evidenced by the fact that the neighbors called the police. Before they could reach the Morton address, at 512 North Joplin street, the shooting had occurred.

Mrs. Morton is 40 years of age, and Mr. Morton, it is said, was several years her junior. Mrs. Morton has two grown daughters, one of them married.

Morton was a Frisco brakeman, and formerly worked in that capacity here for the Frisco. He had been in Pittsburg only about a year., it is said, although his wife had lived there practically all her life. It is reported that Morton was her third husband.

[“Fred Morton Killed – Former Ft. Scott Man Shot By Wife in Pittsburg. Then She Tried Suicide – Frisco Brakeman Shot Through Heart, and Wife Will Probably Die – Cause Uncertain.” The Fort Scott Tribune (Ka.), Aug. 22, 1921, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 4): Girard, Kas., June 19. – The varied matrimonial career of a Girard woman, Mrs. Georgia Brown, had added to it another chapter today with the shooting of Mrs. Brown’s sixth husband, James Gilbert Brown, an employe with a coal drilling company.

Mrs. Brown, charged with first degree murder, is in the county jail awaiting arraignment, probably Monday.

Brown was found by officers shot to death at his home shortly after midnight, following a call from neighbors who had heard a shot. Mrs. Brown reported at that time she was awakened by the shot and found her husband dying.

The shooting followed the return of Mrs. Brown last night from Texas, Charles Reid, a farmer living near Girard, who had been staying with Brown during the woman’s absence, testified before the coroner’s jury that Mrs. Brown and her husband had quarreled within a short time after her arrival last night.

Brown is the third of Mrs. Brown’s to meet a violent death. Fred Morton, her fourth husband, was fatally shot in Pittsburgh five years ago [Aug. 21, 1921]. Mrs. Brown, then Mrs. Morton, was tried for first degree murder at that time and was acquitted.

Her first husband, Will Altember, was shot to death by a brother-in-law at Ashton, Ark.

Altogether, Mrs. Brown has been married seven times, having divorced O. G. Leonard in June 1919, and remarried him later the same year. he was divorced a second time. Leonard was the third husband. The second and fifth were Frank Ferguson and George Francis, both of whom she had married in the district and later divorced.

[“Seventh Husband of Kansas Woman To Meet Violent End - Mrs. Georgia Brown, Held in Jail in Girard, to Be Arraigned Monday of Charge of Having Murdered Husband – Neighbors Heard Shot.” Springfield Republican (Mo.), Jun. 20, 1926, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT:(Article 3 of 4): Pittsburgh, Kans., Nov. 19. – Mrs. Georgia Brown, seven times married, was found guilty of second degree murder by a jury which returned its verdict at Girard shortly after midnight last night. She was tred on a charge of slaying her husband while he lay asleep at their home in Girard.

The jury was out nearly seven hours and reached an agreement on conviction with the fourth ballot. Later polls were taken to determine the extent of the crime. She will be sentenced November 27.

One of the state’s points was that the gun with which it charged Mrs. Brown killed her sleeping husband was the same weapon which blazed death five years ago for her fourth husband, while the couple were living in Pittsburgh. She was tried on a murder charge at that time and acquitted on a plea of self defense.

The state also brought out that a third husband met a violent death several years ago in Arkansas. Mrs. Brown’s matrimonial career has included six husbands, one of whom she married twice. Marriage and divorce records show that on one occasion she was wedded a month before one of her four divorces was granted.

[“Jury Says Woman Guilty In Death, Seventh Spouse – Mrs. Georgia Brown Convicted in Court at Pittsburgh, Kan.,” The Morning-News-Star (La.), Nov. 19, 1926, p. 1]

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FULL  TEXT (Article 4 of 4): Girard, Kas., Nov. 27 – Mrs. Georgia Brown, 45, must spend from 10 years to life at the state industrial farm for women for the slaying of her sixth husband, James Gilbert Brown here on June 19. sentence was passed today.

Mrs. Brown was alleged to have shot her husband in his sleep with the same revolver that husband No. 4, John Morton, was killed with five years ago. She was tried and acquitted of Morton’s murder.

~ Her Record is 7. ~

She was married seven times in all, twice to No. 3, named Leonard. Three of her husbands met tragic ends, No. 1, named Altember, having been killed by her brother.

[“Dame, Wed 7 Times, to go up for Killing Her Sixth Husband,” The Helena Independent (Mt.), Nov. 28, 1926, p. 1]

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For links to other cases of woman who murdered 2 or more husbands (or paramours), see Black Widow Serial Killers.

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Feminist “Science” according to Luce Irigaray - 1987

December 18, 2014, 9:54 am
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“Is E = mc^2 a sexist equation?  Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us.  What seems to me to indicate the possibly sexed nature of the equation is not directly its use by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest….”

Here we see that the concept of “privilege” used by feminists and race-marxists does not refer to individual persons but rather to the inequality in the sense that any understandings of differences in degree or quality denotes the presence of an ideologically contemptible “inequality.”

[Luce Irigaray, Parler n’est jamais neutre. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1987, p.110.; Quoted in, and translated by, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Intellectual Impostures, London: Profile Books, 1998, p.100.]

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Luce Irigaray(born 1932 in Belgium) is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist. She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) and This Sex Which Is Not One (1977). [Wikipedia]

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This post is included in the Misandric Fixation section, even tho it does not so much deal with obsessive hostility towards males and maleness per se, but rather exemplifies the irrationality of the mindset that promotes the current race/class/gender marxist mindset that calls for radical social engineering to be implemented by totalitarian measures.

It might be amusing to look at what the author of the offending equation, Albert Einstein, had to say about the relations between the sexes in the United Stated, as he perceived them during his first visit to that country.

Einstein’s Theory of Relationships

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For more cases of misandric fixation see: What Is Misandric Fixation?

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Daniela Poggiali, Italian Alleged Serial Killer Nurse

December 19, 2014, 5:50 pm
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Shortly after her arrest on October 9, 2014, in Lugo, Italy of suspected serial killer nurse Daniela Poggiali, the number of her victims was estimated to be 38. Two months of investigation has resulted in a much higher estimate: 96.


One of her nursing colleagues described to police Daniela’s strange behavior following the deaths of her patients: “She was particularly euphoric and wanted to have a photo next to the dead body,” as Il Corriere della Sera reports. Investigators propose the motive for the killings was that the victims “irritated her.”

A long article ion the case published in the US in Newsweek in December 2014 introduces this larger victim count and asserts that “if found guilty of killing all those patients, she will be classed one of the most prolific serial killers in history.” Such a characterization demonstrates just how little is generally known about female serial killers. A great quantity of erroneous obsolete claims clutter the internet and are found on seemingly authoritative sources on the internet. Wikipedia’s extremely incomplete treatment of female serial killers, sporting an index page containing only a few dozen cases of the many hundreds known to researchers. This most certainly results in giving journalists seeking quick knowledge a wildly false impression of what is actually available to be learned about the topic.

Personally, I am not qualified to report on male serial killers, but I can state that my research on female serial killers suggests that there are over thirty cases which involve a larger number of suspected victims than are thought to have been murdered by Daniela Poggiali. Following is an excerpt from our catalog of Prolific Female Serial Killers.

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►100 or more victims (33)

Agrippina the Younger– 59 AD – Rome – more than 100
Bamberger, Henrietta– 1899 – St. Louis, Mo. – 300 babies estimated
Báthory, Elizabeth– 1610 – Čachtice Castle, Hungary – est. 80-600
Bedwarska, Madame– 1892 – Lodz, Poland – 117 babies buried in cellar
Blanco, Griselda– 1985 – Miami, Florida – drug mafia, 200+
Deshayes, Catherine (“La Voisin”) – 1679 – Paris, France – (2,500)
Dyer, Amelia– 1896 – Reading, England – ext. 300 babies
Fazekas, Suzanna– 1929 – Nagyrev, Hungary – estimated over 100
Fortmeyer, Julia Etta – St. Louis, Missouri – 1875 – 300
“Grey Nuns of Montreal”– 1876 – Montreal, Canada – 631 babies     
Gruber, Maria– 1989 – Vienna, Austria – Lainz Angels of Death– est. 49-300
Guzovska, Madame– 1903 – Warsaw, Poland – over 500 babies
Holmen, Mrs. (alias, true name unknown) – 1906 – Stockholm, Sweden – 1,000 victims
Ishikawa, Miyuki(Kyuuki)– 1948 – Tokyo, Japan – 103
Jager, Mari– 1897 – Hodmozoe, Hungary – more than 100
Kusnezowa, Madame– 1913 – Archangel, Russia – 1,000+ babies
Leidolf, Irene– 1989 – Vienna, Austria – Lainz Angels of Death– 300
Meyer,Stephanija– 1989 – Vienna, Austria – Lainz Angels of Death– est. 49-300
Mwerinde, Credonia– 2000 – Kunungu, Uganda –1,386
“Osaka Baby Farmers”– 1902 – Osaka, Japan – 300 babies  
“Osaka ‘Devil Woman’Baby-Killer”– 1906 – Osaka Japan – over 100 babies          
“Paris Baby-Killers”– 1906 – Quartier Vivienne, Paris, France – 120 children
Petromany, Martha – Knecz, Romania (Hungary) – 1906 – 100
Popov, Thekla– 1882 – Melencze, (Serbia); Hungary – about 100
Popova, Madame– 1909 – Samara, Ukraine – about 300
Rubio de Pascadera, Anastaa– 1887 – Mexico – over 100?
Sach, Amelia & Annie Walters– 1902 – Finchley, England – probably 100s of babies
Safarine, Sophie– 1927 – Navoia, Russia – 3 of her own husbands + 55 husbands of others
Saltykova, Darya Nikolayevna– 1762 – Moscow, Russia – 132
Soulakiotis, Mariam– 1952 – Keratea, Greece – 177
Spara, Hieronyima– late 1600s – Italy – more than 100, multiple arrests of accomplices (executed)
Szabo, Frau– 1929 – Nagyrev, Hungary – 7 confirmed, est. around 100
Tann,Georgia– 1950 – Memphis, Tennessee – probably many 100s of babies
Thompson, Coleen – 2003 – Rockville, Maryland – 211 suspected
“Vivienne Midwife”– 1906 – Paris, France – over 120 babies
Wagner, Waltraud– 1989 – Vienna, Austria – Lainz Angels of Death– est. 49-300
Young, Lila Gladys– 1945 –  Halifax, Nova Scotia, Can. – 400-600

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[Harry Spooner “’Angel of Death’ Who May Be One of the World's Worst Serial Killers,” Newsweek, Dec. 19, 2014]
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/angel-of-death-who-may-be-one-of-the-worlds-worst-serial-killers/ar-BBgZMS1

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For more cases, see Sicko Nurses

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Hattie Whitten, Maine Serial Killer - 1902

December 20, 2014, 10:50 am
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Victims:

1900 (or 1898?) – Mr. Whitten, husband, died, Dover, Maine
Sep. 19, 1902 – Frannie B. Whitten, daughter (11), died, Dexter, Maine
Nov. 27, 1902 – Jennie E. Whitten, daughter (9), died, Dexter, Maine

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): Dexter, Me., November 30. – Mrs. Hattie Whitten, who was arrested yesterday on the charge of having poisoned her 9-year-old daughter, from whose funeral she had just returned, committed suicide today by hanging while in the custody of the deputy sheriff. Her death ends a case which promised to be as sensational as any inquired into in many years.

Mrs. Whitten is suspected also of having caused the death of an elder daughter, aged 11, on September 19 last, and this body has been exhumed. Both children died suddenly, when previously they had appeared to be in the best of health. Mrs. Whitten’s husband also died suddenly two years ago. The children were insured for $56 and $85, respectively. As a cause of death the physician’s certificate mentioned meningitis and heart failure.

An autopsy on the body of the younger girl disclosed arsenic and strychnine. The result of the autopsy on the older girl has not been made public. The woman was taken in charge by a deputy sheriff, and this afternoon being left alone, she tied together two towels and hanged herself to a bed post.

A coroner’s jury had reported that the girl’s death was due to poison administered by the mother. Mrs. Whitten was arraigned on Saturday. She pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder and was held until Tuesday for a hearing.

Since her death some of the evidence presented before the coroner’s jury has been made public. It was shown that she brought laudanum, arsenic and castor oil the day prior to the death of her daughter in September, and strychnine and arsenic on three days the past week. Dr. Murphy, who attended both children, said if poison was given the poison undoubtedly was administered in oil, that it might pass through the stomach into the intestines and to make useless a stomach pump. As regards the second child it was shown that on Tuesday Mrs. Whitten left a postal card of the post-office calling Dr. Murphy to attend the child, regardless of the fact that he lives only a half mile from where she was stopping  and has a telephone.

Mrs. Whitten was about 45 years of age and came here from Dover, Maine, three months ago.

[“Died Self-Slain After Poisoning Her Daughter – Tragic Death of Mrs. Whitten Who Killed Her Children and Husband. – Arrested While Returning From Child’s Funeral – After Her Arrest She Secured Two Towels and Ended Her Miserable Existence – Wanted To Get Insurance on Their Lives.” The Atlanta Constitution (Ga.), Nov. 30, 1902, p. 12]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 3): Bangor, Me., Nov. 20. – Mrs. Hattie L. Whitten, of Dexter, who was arrested on Saturday, charged with the murder of her two little daughters, Jennie and Fannie, committed suicide by hanging this afternoon in the house of Deputy Sheriff Leslie  Curtis, where she was being held, pending a further hearing in the case next Thursday.

Deputy Sheriff Curtis had kept close watch upon Mrs. Whitten until 2 p. m., when he went out to care for his horse, leaving his prisoner in care of his wife. Mrs. Whitten asked for two towels, which were brought by Mrs. Curtis, who then stepped out of the room. Five minutes later, when Mrs. Whitten had hanged herself by means of the towels to the bedpost. Physicians were called, but the woman was dead.

It has been found that Mrs. Whitten came of a respectable family, but has led rather an irregular life since her husband died four [sic] years ago. She was addicted to morphine, and her children say that for several days before her arrest and suicide she was mentally unbalanced. Since she came to Dexter for four months ago, Mrs. Whitten has kept company with a weaver named Sutro, and it is said that they were about to be married.

[“Murderess Suicides – She Was Accused of Having Poisoned Her Own Daughters, Jennie, and Fannie. – Was Probably Insane,” The Scranton Republican (Oh.), Dec. 1, 1902, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 3): Dexter, Me. – Mrs. Hattie L. Whitten, who was arrested charged with having poisoned her nine-year-old daughter, from whose funeral she had just returned, committed suicide by hanging from a bedpost while in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Curtis.

Her death ends a case which promised, from the suspicions held against Mrs. Whitten, to be as sensational as any inquired into in Maine for a long time.

Mrs. Whitten was suspected not only of having caused the death of the child just buried, but also that of her husband, who died two years ago, even that of an elder daughter, aged eleven, who died September 19 last. Both children died suddenly when just previously had appeared to be in the best of health. The children were insured for $56 and $85 respectively.

Suspicion having been aroused by the death of a younger Thursday the physicians decided to hold an autopsy. The autopsy was held while the body was at the cemetery awaiting interment. Traces of arsenic and strychnine were found. Mrs. Whitten’s arrest followed.

Without delay a Coroner’s jury was impaneled, and on evidence presented it was reported that the girl’s death was due to poison administered by the mother.

Since Mrs. Whitten’s death some of the evidence presented before the Coroner’s jury has been made public. It was shown that she bought laudanum, arsenic and castor oil the day prior to the death of one daughter, in September, and strychnine and arsenic on three days of last week.

The autopsy showed evidences of poisoning in the stomach, intestines and brain, warranting of sending these parts to Professor Robinson, of Bowdoin College, for analysis. The stomach and intestines from the body of the elder daughter, which was exhumed, were also sent to Professor Robinson.

Mrs. Whitten was about forty-five years of age, and came her from Dover, this State, three months ago.

An incident just brought out that last Monday Jennie, then in good health, was selling small wares from house to house, stating that with the proceeds she intended to purchase her mother a Christmas present, and at the same time her mother was at the drug store purchasing poison.

[“Child Poisoner A Suicide – Woman Arrested at Dexter, Me., Hangs Herself. – Victims’ Lives Were Insured – The Accused Murderess Also Was Suspected of Having Killed Her Husband, Who Died Two Years Ago – She Had Purchased Poisonous Drugs and Gave Them to Her Little Daughters.” The Western North Carolina Times (Hendersonville, N. C.), Dec. 5, 1902, p. 5]

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Serial Killer Moms & Step-Moms owho Murdered Children Aged 2 Years Or Older

December 20, 2014, 3:15 pm
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This checklist is distinct from that which lists Female Serial Killers who serially murdered their own babies.

For those cases, see: Serial Baby-Killing Moms

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►1st c BC – Princess Laodice of Cappadocia– Kingdom of Pontus, Anatolia

She poisoned to death 5 sons; the 6th was rescued before being murdered.

►1835 – Margaret Jäger (Jager, Joye, Jaeyer, Jaeger) – Mentz, Swabia – murdered 3 daughters (2, 5, 10) & 5 others. (inheritance motive)

May 1825, her uncle.
June 1826, her mother, 68.
December 1830, her father, 70.
August, 1831, her husband, Jäger ("Jaeyer")
December 1831, daughter, 2
December 1831, daughter, 5
December 1831, daughter, 10
August, 1833, Renter ("Rentner"), the husband of her mistress, with her assistance.

►1844 – Eliza Joyce– Boston, England

Emma Joyce, step-daughter, 19-months, died Oct. 1841, (laudanum)
Ann Joyce, daughter, aged 6-weeks, Jan. 1812, (laudanum)
Edward William Joyce, step-son, of some years’ growth, arsenic

►1846 – Joseph & Mary  Pimlett– Runcorn, England; May 16, 1846; 2 own children, attempted to murder a 3rd. (life insurance proceeds).

James Pimlett, 10 months, died, Mar. 6, 1846
Richard Pimlett, died Mar. 21, 1846
Thomas Pimlett, 3 years 10-months-old, poisoned Mar. 27, 1846

►1847 – Mary Runkle– Oneida, New York, USA

5 suspected victims:
1831 – peddlar
1831 – Mary Margaret Runkle, age 6, drowned
1831 – Cornelius Runkle, age 3,  drowned
Year? (between 1831-1847) – son (age?)
1847? – John Runkle, husband

►1849 – Mary Anne Geering– Lewes, England – (“burial club” life insurance)

Richard Geering, husband, died
James Geering, son, died
George Geering, son, died
Benjamin Geering, son, survived

►1850 – Madame Segard– Nancy, France

Victims:
M. Marchal, first husband, died 1842
Anne Marie Florine Segard, 10-months-old, died Feb. 28, 1848
Anne Marie Florine Marchal, 8-years-old, died Feb. 28, 1848
Joseph Arsène Segard, son, 10-months-old, died Mar. 18, 1848
Constant Segard, son, died Mar. 28, 1848
Jean-Baptiste Segard, 37, second husband, died May 2, 1848

►1851 – Mary Emily Cage– Ipswich, England

5 of Mary Emily Cage’s 14 children died within a fortnight. She was hanged in August 1851.

►1860 – Elizabeth McCraney– New York & Wisconsin, USA

Her child #1, Ostego County, New York
Her child #2, Ostego County, New York
A previous husband
Resident #1 of Lancaster County, Wisconsin
Resident #2 of Lancaster County, Wisconsin
Huhlah McCraney, stepdaughter, 17
Mr. McCraney, husband
Thomas P. Burnett, brother-in-law
Mrs. Burnett (wife of Thomas)
Burnett daughter

►1869 – Mrs. Wahle– Jacksonville, Illinois, USA

Mrs. Wahle murdered (5 children ages not stated, except for the last to die: 11 mo.)

►1871 – Ann Burns– Wigan, Lancashire, England

3 victims: step-father & 2 own children

►1871 – Charlotte Lamb– Trimbelle, Wisconsin, USA

Victims:
Mrs. Carr – friend, poisoned in Fall 1871, survived; subsequent poisonings, survived.
Chauncey S. Lamb, husband – died Sep. 18, 1871.
Mrs. Lamb, Chauncey’s first wife – suspected murder.
Woman, friend of widower Chauncey Lamb – suspected murder.
Orrin (Daniel) S. Lamb, son, 18 – died May 24, 1872.
Sarah A. Lamb, daughter – died June 24, 1872.
Irene Hall Ottoman – neighbor, died Aug. 3, 1872; 2 separate poisonings.
Royal Garland, 32 – employer (C. L. was his cook), died Aug. 15, 1872.
Sears, boy – friend of Orrin, poisoned, survived.

►1871 – Lydia Sherman– New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Edward Struck – husband # 1
Martha Struck, 6, her own child
Edward Struck Jr., almost 4, her own child
William Struck, 9 months, her own child
Dennis Hurlburt, husband # 2
Horatio N. Sherman, husband # 3
Ada Sherman, her own child
Frankie Sherman, her own child.

►1873 – Mary Ann Cotton– West Auckland, Durham, England

Victims:
Husband 1: William Mowbray January 1865.
Husband 2: George Ward– married in Monkwearmouth on Aug. 28, 1865; died Oct. 1866.
her 3½-year-old daughter Mowbray died.
Husband 3: James Robinson married Mary Ann at St Michael's, Bishopwearmouth on 11 August 1867.
Mary Ann Cotton’s mother, 54, died spring of 1867
Isabella Mowbray, daughter Apr. 1867.
Robinson child – died Apr. 1867.
Another Robinson child – died Apr. 1867.
Mary Isabella, daughter, born Nov., died Mar. 1868..
Margaret Cotton, Frederick’s sister – died Mar. 1870.
Husband 4: Frederic Cotton, married Sep. 17, 1879 – died Dec. 1871.
Frederick Cotton Jr., Step-son – died Mar. 1872
Charles Cotton, Step-son – Jul. 12, 1872
Robert Cotton, infant – died soon after death of Frederick jr. (Mar. 1872)

►1875 – Marguerite Léris Grieumard– Saint-Vincent, France – intense hatred of children, severe abuse

Victims:
Jean Greiumard, Marguerite’s husband – died Jun. 27, 1875
Marguerite Greiumard, daughter – died Jun. 30, 1875
Antonin David, 11, grand-son – died Jun. 12, 1875
Jean David sr., Marguerite Greiumard’s father-in-law– died Jun. 15, 1875
Jean David, jr., 26, son-in-law – poisoned but survived

►1886 – Sarah Jane Robinson– Summerville, Massachusetts, USA

Deaths:
Oliver Sleeper, 72, her landlord, died Aug. 10, 1881
Moses Robinson Jr., husband, 45, died Jul. 23, 1883
Emma M. Robinson, daughter, 10, died Sep. 6, 1884
Elizabeth B. Freeman, 1, niece, died Apr. 15, 1885
Prince A. Freeman, 33, brother-in-law, died Jun. 27, 1885
Elizabeth A. Robinson, 24, daughter, died Feb. 22?, 1886
Thomas A. Freeman, 7, nephew, died Jul. 23, 1886
Mrs. Feeeman, sister, wife of prince A., died 1884

►1886 – Annie Snoots– Adamsville, Ohio, USA

Wilber Snoots, infant, died Oct. 6, 1883
Daughter (name not given), died Apr. 1884
Georgie Snoots, died Jul. 1886
Carrie Snoots, 6, died Jul. 5, 1888

►1888 – Sarah Jane Whiteling– Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Victims:
John Whiteling, husband, 38, died Mar. 20, 1888
Bertha Whiteling, daughter (Thomas Story, father), died Apr. 24, 1888
William (Willie) Whiteling, son, 2, died May 26, 1888
Possibly 5 other Whiteling children, “unaccounted for”
Martin boy, poisoned with candy, recovered
2 other Martin children, attempted to poison with candy.

►1889 – Lizzie Brennan– Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA

Victims:
Michael (“John” in some sources) Brennan, son, died May 1889
Michael Brennan, 70, husband, died Apr. 1889
Edward (“Thomas” in some sources) Brennan, 15, son, died Jun. 26, 1889
Daniel Brennan, son, poisoned, bur recovered

Probable intended victims:
Dennis Brennan, 19, son (life insurance taken out)
Mary E. Brennan, 20, daughter (life insurance taken out)
Lizzie B. Brennan, 41, daughter? (life insurance taken out)

►1891 – Mrs. Thomas Austin– Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Mrs. Thomas Austin murdered a husband and 5 children (ages not stated, yet they were of various ages, not all babies)

►1893 – Martha Needle– Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Henry Needle, her husband, died Oct. 4, 1889
Mabel Needle, 3, her own child, died Feb. 28, 1885
Elsie Needle 6, her own child, died Dec. 9, 1890
May Needle, 4 years and 11 months, her own child, died 27th Aug. 27, 1891
Louis Juncken, the brother of her fiancé, Louis sickened on Apr. 26, died15 May 1894

►1902 – Hattie Whitten– Dexter, Maine, USA

Victims:
1900 (or 1898?) – Mr. Whitten, husband, died, Dover, Maine
Sep. 19, 1902 – Frannie B. Whitten, daughter (11), died, Dexter, Maine
Nov. 27, 1902 – Jennie E. Whitten, daughter (9), died, Dexter, Maine

►1906 – Bridget Carey– Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Suspicious Deaths & Illnesses (acquitted; accused of 8? (10?) murders):
James Carey, brother-in-law, and boarder, died (date?)
Rose Carey, sister-in-law, died 1903
Mrs. Ann Carey, mother-in-law, died 1903 or 1904
Peter Carey, husband, died circa Jan. 1906
Cecilia (Celia) Cook, boarder, died Aug. 13, 1906
Patrick Cook (“Coyle” incorrectly), 37, boarder, died Sep. 17, 1906
Mary Carey, 8, daughter, poisoned on Nov. 16, 1906, died on 17th
Anne Carey, 6, daughter, poisoned on Nov. 16, 1906, died on 17th
Edward Carey, 3, son, poisoned on Nov. 16, 1906, recovered

►1911 – Louise Vermilya– Chicago, Illinois, USA

9 deaths:
1) Arthur F. Bisonette – 26, policeman, died Oct. 26, 1911.
2) Richard T. Smith – boarder, died Mar. 11, 1911.
3) Frank Brindkamp – 22, son of Mrs. Vermilya, died Oct. 30, 1910.
4) Fred Brindkamp – 66,  first husband of Mrs. Vermilya, died “some years” before 1911 in Barrington.
5) Charles Vermilya – 59, second husband, died Aug. 1, 1909, at Maplewood.
6) Lillian Brindkamp – 26, died Jan. 21, 1906, at No. 2916 Groveland ave.
7) Harry G. Vermilya – 25, stepson, died Sep. 20, 1901, at No. 395 West Diversy Parkway.
8) Cora Brindkamp – 8, daughter, died at Barrington.
9) Florence Brindkamp – 4 1/2, daughter, died at Barrington.

►1911 – Carrie Bodie (Boddy) Sparling– Ubly, Michigan, USA (accomplice, Dr. Robt. Macgregor)

Deaths:
John Wesley Sparling, husband – Jul. 1909 (“1908”) (in London, Ontario)
Peter Sparling, eldest son – Jul. 1910
Albert Sparling, second son – May 1911
Cyril Sparling, son, 20 – Aug. 1911

Other suspected murders:
Margueret Gibbs, nurse
Dr. Robert A. MacGregor
Mrs. Carrie Bodie Sparling

►1912 – Jennie O. (Wilbur) Guild– Sheldonville, Massachusetts, USA

Suspected Victims:
Benjamin H. Guild, died Jul. 18, 1902 (husband, married, Jun. 4, 1902)
Leroy Wilbur, 3, son, died Nov. 4, 1892
Tracy Wilbur, 9, son, died Nov. 4, 1892
Nathan G. Wilbur, died Aug. 27, 1894 (husband, married 1881)

►1912 –Frieda Trost (“Grost”) – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Three children of her first husband (who died mysteriously) also died mysteriously.

►1913 – Cynthia Buffom(Buffum) – Little Valley, New York, New York, USA

Victims:
Norris, son, 4, died May 1913
Willis Buffom, husband, dies August 11, 1913
Laura, daughter, 12, died Feb. 2, 1914
Herbert, son, 18 (in 1913), crippled by poison

►1913 – Ida Leckwold– Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

6 children murdered:
Viola Leckwold, daughter, aged 9 (died Sep. 8, 1913)
Laura Leckwold, daughter, aged 11 months (died Jul. 8, 1913)
4 of Ida Leckwold’s babies aged under 1 year (between 1905-1911)

►1922 – Nellie Sturmer Koulik– Chicago, Illinois, USA – (not tried)

Victims:
1 – Wojcik Stermer, Nellie’s first husband, died in 1918. Body, exhumed, disclosed arsenic.
2 and 3 – Sophie and Benjamin Stermer, Nellie’s 7-month-old twins, who died within a month of each other in 1917.
4 –  Dorothy Spera, 2 year old granddaughter, who died in 1921, after her grandmother insisted that she be
5 – John Stermer, 22, Nellie’s son, who became ill in 1918 when his father died, but recovered. He declared he thought his mother had poisoned him.

►1922 – Edith Murray“Cleveland Black Widow” – Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Edith Murray was not prosecuted; suspected of murdering 3 husbands and 2 children.

►1923 – Clothida Cravana (Maria Clothida Gaione, nee Cravino) – Turin, Italy

Ernest, son, 10, died Feb (or “Mar.”) 1916
Angela, daughter, died Sep. 1918 (or “1917”)
Giovanni Gaione, husband, died Jan. 1919

►1925 – Della Sorenson– Danneborg, Nebraska, USA

Mrs. Sorenson’s first victim was little Viola Cooper, daughter of her first husband’s sister. The baby died July 23, 1918.
Her first husband, John Weldman, was her next victim. He passed away of poison in 1920. John Weldman’s mother. Mrs. Wilhelmina Weldman, died a short time later from the same cause.
Mrs. Sorenson’s other victims, in the order of their deaths, were:
Minnie Weldman, 8, daughter. She died September 7, 1921.
Clifford Cooper, 4 months old, infant brother of Viola Cooper. August 20, 1932.
Ruth Brock, less than a year old, daughter of a relative. February 20, 1923.
Delores Sorenson, one year, daughter of her second marriage. February 19, 1924.
Another child, an unnamed infant, sometime in 1924.

►1929 – Hattie Stone– Belair, Maryland, USA

Victims:
Mrs. Emma Stone, mother-in-law,
Edward Stone, husband
Edgar Stone, son
George, 15, son, died Jun. 3, 1929

►1930 – Mary E. Hartman – Long Beach, California, USA
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1928 – O. B. Hartman – husband, 47, died
1929 – Henry A. Hartman, 22, son, died
April 14 , 1930 – Ruth Hartman, 14, daughter, died

►1931 – Alice Mason– Pekin, Illinois, USA

Victims:
John Mason, husband, died circa Nov. 1930
Mildred Mason, daughter, died Aug. 9, 1931
Harry, 15, ill in Oct. 1931, recovered (one sources, apparently in error, gives age as “18”)
Robert, 22, son, planned to murder

►1934 – Emilia Webb Wardrop - Coshocton, Ohio, USA

Victims:
Oct. 1, 1931 – Herbert George Webb, 18, son, died.
Jan. 7, 1932 – Mrs. Iona Cordelia Webb Senter, 24, daughter, died.
Mar. 1932 – Charles Hughes, 21, nephew, crippled from hips down.

►1935 – Dora Bullock Frost - Houston, Texas, USA



Deaths:
July 16, 1932 – Vernon Bullock, 10 months old, died.
Jan. 1, 1933 – Leola (Lee Lola) Bullock, 10, died.
March 2, 1934 – John Bullock, 43, former husband, died.
June 1, 1934 – Woodrow Wilson Bullock, son, 17, died.

►1938 – Lillie May Curtis– Center, Texas, USA

Victims:
Marcle Jack, five, boy.
Margie Ree, seven.
Robert, nine.
Billie Burke, 10, girl.
Gloria Jean, 11.
T. O. Curtis, 13.

►1952 – Roberta Elder– Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Husbands:
Rev. William H. Elder (died Aug. 21, 1952)\
John Woodward (36, common law h, died 1938)
James Garfield Crane (45, died 1947)

Children (her own):
Willie May Thurmond (2-weeks-old)
Lizzie May Thurmond (1-week-old)
James Garfield Crane (1, died Dec. 1943)
James W. Thurmond (13,  Jun. 1939)

Step-children:
Willie Thurmond (12, died 1939)
Fannie Mae Elder (15, died Mar. 1951)
Annie Pearl Elder (9, died 1951);

Other victims:
Mother – Mrs. Kelly “Collie” Brown (died 1945)
Cousin – Gloria Evans (died Dec. 26, 1944)
Grandchild –Jimmy Lee Crane Hunter (2, died 1943)
Former wife of husband – Mrs. Willie Mae Elder (41, died Jan. 1950)
Friend – Nora Scott Harris (93 or 94, died Dec. 22, 1951)

►1954 – Nannie Doss– Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

1) Daughter (one of four daughters) of husband no. 1 Charles Braggs, and Nannie.
2) Another daughter (one of four daughters) of husband no. 1 Charles Braggs, and Nannie.
3) Husband no. 2, married Robert (Frank Harrelson), married 1929, died Sep. 16, 1945.
4) Robert Lee Haynes, grandson, Jacksonville, Alabama, died as newborn, 1943, hatpin.
5) Robert (born, 1943; 3-1/2-years old) her grandson (son of Melvina Braggs).
6) Husband no. 3, Arlie Lanning, died at Lexington, North Carolina, in 1952; house burned.
7) Mother-in-law Arlie Lanning’s mother; died 1945?
8) Husband no. 4, Richard Morton -- laid to rest at Emporia, Kansas. 
9) Husband no. 5 Samuel Doss, married (June 1953; or, Jul. 1954?), in Tulsa, Oklahoma, died Aug. 1954; died Oct. 5, 1953.
10) Louisa, Nannie’s mother, died January 1953.
11) Nannie’s sister Dovie, died.
12) Another of Nannie’s sisters, died.

►1956 – Rhonda Belle Martin– Montgomery, Alabama, USA

Victims:
Emogene Garrett, 3(her daughter) – died 1939
George Garrett(her second husband) – died 1939
Anna Carolyn Garrett, 6 (her daughter) – died 1937
Ellyn Elizabeth Garrett, 11 (her daughter) – died 1943
Mrs. Mary Frances Gibbon(her mother) – died 1944
Claude Carroll Martin, 51 (her fourth husband) – survived poisoning, crippled

►1967 – Janie Lou Gibbs– Cordele, Georgia, USA

Victims:
Charles Clayton Gibbs, husband, 39, died Jan. 21, 1966;
Marvin Ronald Gibbs, son, 13, died Aug. 29, 1966;
Melvin Watess Gibbs, son, 16, Jan. 23, 1967;
Roger Ludean Gibbs, 19;
Ronnie Edward Gibbs, grandson, 1-mo, Oct. 28, 1967.

►1990 – Diana Lumbrera– Friona, Texas, USA

Six children murdered:
Nov. 30, 1976 – daughter, Joanna Lumbrera, 3 months old, Friona, Texas.
Feb. 13, 1978 – son, Luís Garza, 2 ½ months old, Friona, Texas.
Oct. 2, 1978 – daughter, Melissa Lumbrera, 3 years old, Friona, Texas.
Oct. 8, 1980 – cousin, Ericka Leonor Aleman, 6 weeks old, Muleshoe, Texas.
Aug. 17, 1982 – daughter, Melinda Lumbrera, 3 years old, Friona, Texas.
Mar. 28, 1984 – son, Christopher Daniel Marcos, 5 ½ months old, Dimmitt, Texas.
May 1, 1990 – son, Jose Antonio Lumbrera, 4 years old, Garden City, Kansas.

►1994 – Rosemary West – Gloucester, England

1) Charmaine West (8; born 22 February 1963): Rose’s step-daughter. Killed in June 1971 by Rose West while Fred was in prison, the motive said to be Rose’s wish to break links with Charmaine’s mother, “Rena.”
2) Heather Ann West (16; born 17 October 1970), daughter of Rose and Fred. Killed June 1987.

►1995 – Filita Mashilipa– (remote village), Zambia

Mashilipa confessed to killing seven of her nine children. she considered herself a witch.

►2013 – Diane Staudte– Springfield, Missouri, USA

This mother-daughter serial killer team engaged in a homicidal house-cleaning project using antifreeze, a deadly poison,  as their tool. The serial poisoner mom told detective 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.”

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►597 – Fredegun, Queen of Franks– Merovignian Kingdom, Soissons, France

“Before [King] Chilperic married her, she got one queen repudiated and strangled another. Then shemurdered her three stepsons.”

►1843 – Elizabeth Eccles– Bolton, England

Alice Haslam, 10, daughter from previous marriage – died September 10, 1842, daughter, died in 1840 (?)
Nancy Haslam, 6, daughter from previous marriage – died early September, 1842
William Eccles – stepson, 13 (or 15?), died September 1842
Hannah Haslam – daughter, died in infancy
William Heywood – baby boy, died

►1860 – Elizabeth McCraney– Medford, Otsego County, New York, USA

Clark child #1 (of Abram Clark, first, husband, later divorced) Ostego County, New York.
Clark child #2, Ostego County, New York.
Spencer Baker, Husband # 2.
Allen Baker, brother-in-law.
Her sister.
Resident #1 of Lancaster County, Wisconsin.
Resident #2 of Lancaster County, Wisconsin.
Huhlah Ann McCraney, stepdaughter, 17, Oneonta, N. Y., died May 11, 1860.
Thomas P. Burnett, brother-in-law.
Mrs. Burnett (wife of Thomas).
Burnett daughter.

►1873 – Wilhelmina Waltmann– Stade, Germany

This serial killer of seven persons was executed by beheading. She murdered the parents of the man she loved because they objected to their union. Four other adults she murdered before she married a widower, murdered his children and was finally brought to justice.

Child – knocked eye out
Wife of employer – death by poison
Her own child – murder suspected
Husband, Brunswick, army officer – death by poison
Mr. Wachter, Hanover – father-in-law
Mrs. Wachter, Hanover – mother-in-law
Mr. Woltman (her husband), Stade – 2 step-children

►1878 – Mrs. David Drake– Westfield, Massachusetts, USA

Husband #1
Son (with husband #1)
Mrs. Drake, husband #2
Etta, step-daughter, 17 (with husband #1)

►1909 – Martha Rendell– Perth, WA, Australia (executed)

Victims:
Annie May Morris, (various sources give age as: 7, 9, 10), died, Jul. 28, 1907
Olive Lilian Morris, (various sources give age as: 5, 7, 8), Oct. 6, 1907
Arthur J. Morris, (various sources give age as: 14 or 15), Oct. 8, 1908

►1913 – Ellen Etheridge– Meridian, Texas, USA

4 step-children murdered, one poisoned but recovered; planned to kill all 8:
Jun. 1913 – Beulah Etheridge, 2, step-child, poisoned with lye, died
Jun. 1913 – Harrison Etheridge, 8, step-child, poisoned with lye, died
Oct. 2, 1913 – Oscar, Etheridge, 5, step-child, poisoned with arsenic, died
Oct. 2, 1913 – Richard, 9, step-child, poisoned with arsenic, died
Oct. 2, 1913 – Pearl Etheridge, 7, step-child, poisoned with arsenic, but recovered.

►1923 – Eliza Torosian– Fresno, California, USA

Aug. 1919 – Garabed, stepson, 18 months old, was found dead in a shallow pool.
Jun. 1923 – her husband died after a brief illness.
Oct. 1923 –  Margaret, 17,  stepdaughter, died after a brief illness.
Oct. 1923 –  Gordon (Goorken), 26?, stepson, poisoned but recovered.
Nov. 5, 1923 – Attempted bribery following arrest.
Nov. 7, 1923 – Attempted suicide following arrest.
Mar. 1, 1924 – Found guilty of murder of Margaret.

►1924 – Annie Hauptrief– San Marcos, Texas, USA

Died:
Court Schroeder (first husband), died 3 months after wedding
Walter Hauptrief, 14, died , died Apr. 11, 1923
Lydia Hauptrief,12, died Apr. 7, 1923
Herbert Hauptrief, 8, died May 1923
Anna (Annie) Hauptrief, 10, died Nov. 11, 1923; poisoned early Jul. 1924
Survived:
William Hauptrief (husband), crippled by poison, in wheelchair

►1925 – Birdie Strome– Springfield, Ohio, USA

Step-daughter had predicted own death, died of strychnine poisoning. Mrs. Strome was suspected of being a serial killer (former husband and sister-in-law died of “mysteriously”). She was convicted of the girl’s murder and died in prison not long afterwards.

►1937 – Agnes Joan Ledford– St. Helens, Oregon, USA

Vicrims:
1932 – John Matson, husband, died
September 6, 1937 – Ruth, 13, step-daughter, died
September 8, 1937 – Dorothy, 15, step-daughter, died

►1939 – Anna Louise Sullivan– Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Jan. 30, 1931 – Fred Ricklefs, husband #2, died
Feb. 20, 1938 – Theresa Sullivan, 11, step-daughter, enters hospital, survives, crippled
Apr. 28, 1938 – James Sullivan, 18, step-son, dies
Dec. 12, 1938 – Michael J. Sullivan, husband #3, first entered hospital, survived
Jan. 10, 1939 – Michael Sullivan again enters hospital, survived, crippled

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Mary Josephine Ward and Her Deadly New York City Baby Farm - 1884

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FULL TEXT: New York, N. Y. – The bodies of two little babies lay on the table in the parlor of Mrs. Mary Josephine Ward’s “St. Vincent de Paul Nursery and School for Children,” at No. 692 East One Hundred and Sixty-fourth-street, yesterday afternoon. In the play-room outside three chubby babes rolled about on the floor and laughed and crowed merrily as though there was no token of death in the house. They are all that remain of 13 little ones who have been boarded at the establishment, which is known as a “baby farm,” since Jan. 6 last. The other 10 have all died, three of them within the last 36 hours.

The little forms in the parlor were those ofMabel Louisa Baker, a colored child of 6 months who died at 1 o’clock yesterday morning of what Mrs. Ward thought was convulsions, in connection with meningitis, and Mary Ellen McCartney a white baby of 2 months, who died at 2o’clock yesterday afternoon of what Mrs. Ward pronounced exhaustion, due to an attack of cholera infantum. No physician was called to attend either of the children, as Mrs. Ward says that she thought she could treat them herself, although they have been ill and constantly falling since Saturday last. On Monday night Josephine Cress, a 3 months’ old baby, had died without medical attendance. Coroner Merkle and Deputy Coroner Messemer viewed the bodies of the two babies yesterday, and an autopsy will be held at the Morgue this afternoon.

Dr. Messemer said to a TIMES reporter last evening: “Mrs. Ward’s house, so far as I can discover, and I nave made a searching investigation, is not a ‘baby farm’ in the bad sense of that term. I never saw an institution of the kind more cleanly, and the living children are as healthy as such children can be expected to be. The only trouble with the woman seems to be that she has neglected to call in physicians when the babies were sick, and they have died on her hands. This was the cane with these last three only. Dr. H. H. Dodin certified to the deaths of five, and Dr. J. Milton Williams to those of two of the other seven who have died.”

A TIMES reporter inspected the nursery kept by Mrs. Ward yesterday, from attic to cellar, as did also an officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and found the place to be just as Dr. Messemer stated. Mrs. Ward is a colored woman, and the neighbors speak highly of her, and say that she takes remarkably good care of the children in her charge. The nursery is an incorporated institution, the incorporators being Drs. John E. Comfort, Hiram Turner, William J. McMahon, Joseph E. Miller, and H. H. Dodin, and Joseph J. and Mary J. Ward. Joseph J. Ward filed about eight months ago, and since then his widow has carried on the institution alone. She receives $10 a month for the board of the children. Superintendent Jenkins, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, says that he has had the place investigated before, and he found nothing that could be complained of. The investigation yesterday resulted in the same way, and he believes that Mrs. Ward treated the babies well, and is to be blamed only for neglecting to call physicians to attend to the sick ones.

“We have been censured,” said Mr. Jenkins, “for not seeing that this nursery was licensed. As it is an incorporated institution it is not required by the law to be licensed. We keep a keen lookout for baby-farming establishments, and this is nothing of the kind. We have kept it in view from the beginning.”

Coroner Merkle will make an effort to find the mothers of the dead children before holding an inquest.

[“Ten Out Of Thirteen Dead. - Inquiring Into The Management Of Mrs. Ward’s Nursery.” New York Times (N.Y.), Jul. 3, 1884, 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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Abittibee Lake Cannibal Mother: Ontaria, Canada - 1889

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FULL TEXT: Ottawa, Ont., October 10 – A gentleman just returned from an exploring expedition in the wilds of northwestern Ontario said that he had discovered during his travels a tribe of Indians who have practiced cannibalism up to within a few years ago when the country was first visited by French missionaries.

In the vicinity of Abittibee lake he was shown an Indian child whose grandmother had killed and eaten seven of her young children, the child’s father being the only one to escape. He made his mother’s [sic] terrible deed known to the chief of the tribe, who sent his men to arrest her. On entering the wigwam they found the head of the last child boiling in a pot over the fire. She was ordered to be shot, lots having been drawn to see who the executioneer [sic] should be. The unlucky straw fell to an old Indian, who successfully removed the unnatural mother from doing further harm.

On the Quinze lake several years ago he found that full blooded warrior had killed and eaten four of his sons, but was awkward shot and killed by his fifth son.

[“Cannibals In the Northwest. – An Indian Woman Who Ate Seven Children and a Man Who Ate His Four Sons.” The Atlanta Constitution (Ga.), Oct. 11, 1889, p. 1]

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NOTE: It would be reasonable to say that this case, since it involves a woman who was apparently brought up in a culture that practiced cannibalism, should no be properly classed as a “serial killer” case. Nevertheless, such borderline category cases as this one ought to be looked at when studying the who spectrum of serial killer case varieties, thus it is included here.

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Irmgard Swinka (Kuschinski), German Serial Killer - 1948

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►Robert St. Estephe, “Summary of the Swinka case based on German language sources,” Dec. 26, 2014

FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 4): Irmgard Swinka-Kuschinski, 36-years-old, was the last person to ever be sentenced to death in the West German Republic. But she was saved from the gallows by the passing of a law eliminating the death sentence in West Germany.

Irmgard Kuschinski, maiden name Swinka (the name most commonly used in reports on her case), a 36-year-old waitress was, along with accomplice 42-year-old Ernst Himpel (and occasionally others), murderous robber who roamed Germany in the years following the end of World War II, preying upon elderly women. She presented herself as a Good Samaritan, always ready with a cup of tea or coffee, cigarettes or some other comfort for her lonely prey. The offerings – including the cigarettes – were poisoned with a concoction of sleeping pills and morphine. Once the victim was unconscious, Irmgard and her accomplices looted the home, grabbing “money, jewelry and food stamps, and often completely worthless things.”

Swinka had stolen the drugs she used on her victims. In 1947 she had been prosecuted for theft of drugs from a former SS medic, working in a Berlin refugee camp

An estimated 40 victims, in locations throughout Germany, survived killer couple’s attacks. Six, however, died: inBerlin, Lüneburg, Brandenburg, Giessen and Köln.

The 36 year-old waitress, was the object of a year-long police hunt in both the the East and the West occupied Zone. Her photo was placed in newspapers resulting in a woman from her home town near Hamm recognizing her and provided police with her address.

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During the final weeks of their spree, the killers forced one of their final victims, Minna S,  to write a “suicide note” before she passed out from the drugs Swinka had dosed her with. But Minna survived, just barely, and was able to provide police with a description of her assailants. In July of 1948, Helene S. (63) became Swinka’s final murder victim.

On July 13, 1948, Swinka and Himpel were captured in Unna resulting from a woman on the Dortmund-Unnatrain having recognized the surly disheveled Himpel on the train, who face she knew from a “wanted” photo distributed by police.The woman alerted the railway police.

Swinka was soon found by police in a restaurant in Unna. In her possession were numerous false identification papers. Police found Himpel in the vicinity in the process of searching out suitable burglary targets, and arrested him.Both were taken to the police prison Cologne, where they were put under suicide watch.

Following her arrest, Swinka was, apparently, hoping to avoid the death sentence through establishing an insanity defense through behaving as eccentrically as possible, announcing to her three cellmates in the Bonn Court prison: A prison official, hearing what he regarded to be utter nonsense barked out to Irmgard, telling her:

“If I say just a few words to Satan he will appear to you and you will know for sure!”

These “Satanic” episodes were recounted before a jury in Cologne beginning on April 21, 1949, during a hearing process which included 235 witnesses and 40 experts. The prosecutor has brought charges of six counts of murder and ten for attempted murder.

The Swinka case played a large part in the public debate in the new West German Republic over whether the the death sentence ought to be abolished, the “retentionist” faction arguing that Swinka provided a good example of why retaining capital punishment was the wiser choice.

On May 7, 1949, Irmgard Swinka was found guilty of multiple murders and attempted murders and was sentenced to die by hanging. The day before, however, capital punishment had been formally abolished.

After her conviction, Swinka’s defense lawyer described his client as “unscrupulous, lazy, shiftless and a liar.”

In 1987, Swinka was pardoned by Prime Minister John Rau.At 74, under the false name of “widow Moser” she was placed in an old age home near Aachen. She stayed there until her death at the age of 76 from heart failure in October 1988.

[Robert St. Estephe, “Summary of the Swinka case based on German language sources,” Dec. 26, 2014]

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German language journalistic sources:

1) “Irmgard Kuschinsky,” Der Spiegel, Jul. 17, 1948, p. 17
2) “Gespräch mit Satan: Dann wird er auch ihnen ersceinen,” Der Spiegel, April 9, 1949 (09.04.1949), p. 8
3) “Lebenslänglich,” Der Spiegel, Mar. 5, 1984 (05.03.1984), p. 236
4) Lisa Zehner, “Giftmörderin Irmgard SwinkaDarum wurde das letzte Kölner Todesurteil nicht vollstreckt,” Express, May 9, 2014

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English language newspaper reports:

FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 4): Hamburg, Germany – German police said Wednesday [Jul. 13, 1948] they had arrested a woman they accused of killing six housewives by poison. They identified her as Irmgard Kuschinsky, 36.

The police said the woman, a resident of Hamm, entered 20 houses on various pretexts. Once inside, they said, she would offer the housewife a cigaret or some packaged tea or coffee.

The gifts were poisoned and when the hostess collapsed, the Kuschinsky woman would rob the house, police said. They said six victims died and the others became ill, but survived.

[“Woman Kills Six Others By Poison, The Bradford Era (Pa.), The Bradford Era (Pa.), Jul 15, 1948, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 4): Cologne, Germany, May 7 – Irmgard Swinka, 37-year-old Berlin waitress, was sentenced today to be hanged for murdering five elderly spinsters with poisoned cigarettes. After giving the lethal cigarettes to her victims, she robbed them.

She may escape the gallows, however. The West German Constituent Assembly voted Friday [May 6] to abolish the death penalty.

[“Berlin Murderess May Escape Noose,” Portland Sunday Telegram (Me.), May 8, 1949, p. A-10]

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FULL TEXT (Article 4 of 4): Cologne – Irmgard Swinka, former Berlin waitress, was sentenced to death yesterday for poisoning five women.

The 37-year-old woman had offered poisoned cigarets and drugs to elderly spinsters and robbed them of their belongings.

Two accomplices were given prison terms of three years and life.

It is not certain whether Miss Swinka will be executed since Western Germany’s constitutional assembly at Bonn has voted to abolish death sentences under the new West German government.

[“Ex-Berlin Waitress Sentenced to Death For Poisoning Five,” syndicated (UP), Stars and Stripes European Edition, May 9, 1949, p. 11]

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“Youngstown Suspected Female Serial Killer” – Ohio, 1931

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): Youngstown, Ohio. – Police Tuesday were informed by the county prosecutor’s office they have sufficient evidence to bring murder charges against a woman accused of six killings, but decided upon a further investigation before issuing any warrant.

Detective Lieut. Louis Colabine, in charge of the investigation, said he would not act until he has checked death certificates and conferred with Coroner M. E. Hayes and a physician.

The woman, operator of a boarding house, was blamed by a neighbor and her son-in-law for the deaths of two children, two husbands and two boarders. She held insurance policies on the lives of three of the men.

Her first husband died of a leg infection six years ago, police said two years ago in the Massillon State Hospital for the Insane. The second husband, a boarder said, “fell over in a fit” after drinking a cup of tea brewed by his wife.

The boarder said another boarder died on the way to work and he overheard the woman say she soon would “have another boarder in the hole.” He said he became frightened when he learned she had a $500 policy on his own life and left her home.

The woman denied she had anything to do with the deaths of the four men.

[“Female Bluebeard Charges Delayed – Police Informed Evidence of Wholesale Murder Sufficient for Warrant,” Hope Star (Ak.), Jan. 18, 1932, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 2): Youngstown, Jan. 14. – Reports that a doctor has refused to sign a death certificate for a boarder who died in her home were added today to the tangled investigation of a woman accused of killing four men and two children.

~ Hear Story From Neighbor ~

Police got the story of the deaths from a neighbor. Coroner M. E. Hayes, who signed death certificates for two of the men, expressed belief the story was prompted by a neighborhood quarrel. Officers, nevertheless, were assured by Assistant Professor James Cooper that they had evidence enough to warrant murder charges.

Investigation began after the police informant said his wife had dug bits of flesh, bones, and clothing from her garden. Records showed one of the woman’s husbands died in an insane asylumto which he had taken as an emergency case. He went into convulsions after drinking a cup of tea, a witness said. The other husband died of a leg infection. The boarders, according to the coroner, died of heart disease. Three of the men left the woman $1,000 life insurance policies.

~ Refused to Sign Warrant ~

The doctor said he was called to attend a boarder at the house, and found him in severe cramps. The patient died a few days later.  The physician said Coroner M. E. Hayes asked him to sign the death certificate, but he refused, “due to strange circumstances.” Hayes himself finally signed the certificate, giving heart disease as the cause of death.

[“Mystery Piles Up In 6 Deaths In Youngstown – Woman Accused of Killing 2 Husbands, 2 Children, 2 Boarders – Prosecutor’s Aid Figs Up Evidence – Doctor Refuses To Sign Death Warrant For One Boarder,” (AP), The Salem News (Oh.), Jan. 14, 1931, p. 1]

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Rosa Bronzo, Italian Serial Child-Killer - 1879

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FULL TEXT: Rosa Bronzo was lately arrested in a village near Salerno, Italy. For two years past she has been taking infants, for a consideration of 30 francs each, from their parents or guardians, offering either to care for them for a certain period, or to take them to the Children’s Hospital at Salerno. It was lately discovered that she poisoned the children with laudanum. Several of their bodies have been discovered.

[Untitled, Iola Register (Ka.), Jan. 17, 1879, p. 4]

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Pamela Myers (alias Snyder), Pennsylvania Baby-Killing Mom - 1854

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): Pamela Myers, alias Snyder, is the name of the woman who is charged with the murder of her children. Our telegraph reports yesterday contained some particulars of the case, the following are additional circumstances: She confessed to the Mayor (of Philadelphia) to having in succession killed five of her children as soon as born, two by one father, and three by another. The last child was born five days since, and was made away with, like the others, by being thrown into the sink. The first information of this horrible disclosure was made to the Mayor by an anonymous letter. The affair happened at Nicetown, in the upper part of Philadelphia. – this hearing of the case was to have taken place yesterday forenoon, but was deferred owing to the illness of of the unfortunate woman. The children were of course all illegitimate.

[Untitled, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (N. Y.), Nov. 7, 1854, p. 2]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 2): On Thursday two of the special officers of the police paid a visit to the house occupied by Mr. Rice, at Nicetown, for the purpose of endeavoring to find the body of one of the children of Pamela Snyder, which she stated had been buried there. They effected their object, and an inquest was held upon the remains yesterday at the Union street station house, by Coroner Delavan, in the presence of Alderman Lenney.

The first witness called was Dr. Andrew J. Smiley, who testified to having examined the remains of a child found among a quantity of decomposed matter, contained in a rough wooden box, about three feet long and one foot wide. He detailed in technical terms the various portions  of the skeletons found, including the bones of the head, spinal column, arms and lower extremities. He considered from the size of the bones that the child had arrived at its full time; but from the advanced stage of decomposition, it was impossible to say that the child had been born alive, or to decide upon its sex. There was no mark upon the skull to indicate any violence.

Officer Clark detailed the steps taken in the case from the arrest of the girl up to Thursday, when he went in company with officer Seed to Nicetown. Some information received from Charlotte Snyder, an aunt of Pamela, they dug in a spot she pointed out to them, and in a few minutes came to a rough wooden box, about three feet beneath the surface. This is the child that Wm. Snyder told me that he and George Altemus had buried, and he at the same time acknowledged himself to be the father of it. – Pamela Myers at the time lived with her grandmother, in the house to which the yard where the body was found was attached. It was now occupied by Mr. Rice. The child was born on Sunday evening, February 22nd, 1852, and was the next day washed and laid out by Elizabeth McGuire.

Officer Seed corroborated the evidence of Mr. Clark, stating in addition, that Pamela had told him of having had five children, two of which choked to death. One of these she said she had thrown into the cess-pool of the yellow house opposite the house in which she was arrested, and that it was afterwards taken out by her uncle and other people, who buried it in the garden. I think the body found is that of the third child she acknowledges having; two she said had not come to their full time, and she left them in the field.

Hannah Snyder, an aunt of the accused, testified that she could not tell the exact time when it was born, except that it happened on a Sunday. Pamela had been down to her mother’s, and after coming home, appeared to be in labor. She went up stairs, and from what she saw, accused Pamela of having given birth to a child, but she denied it.

After hunting for it, we discovered it in the cesspool attached to the house. The attempt to get it out failed, but after night Wm. Snyder put a ladder down, and in that way it got out. The body was placed in a wooden box that I used to bring coal in. the next night it was buried. This was about three years since, and I believe she has had two children since that. I saw the child; it was a girl. I saw a dent upon the head, and supposed it was caused from striking something in falling into the well. I understood she was taken sick once before when riding into the city with her brother. – While he was serving some customers with milk, she went up an alley, and on getting into the wagon again her brother drove out home with her. Her last child was born four weeks ago last Thursday. I know this only by hearsay, but I know that she was previously in the family way.

Geore Altemus testified that on the 22d of February, 1852, he mistrusted there was something wrong, from seeing blood in the yard, and two women looking about as if something had been lost. He inquired the object of their search and was informed they supposed a child had been thrown in the well. Witness got a rake, and raised what he supposed to be the child’s foot. Afterwards, a ladder was brought, and in the presence of Wm. Snyder and David Kern, the child was taken from the well. The child was taken from witness by Snyder. The next day the witness and Snyder buried the child in the garden. The box in which it was buried was recognized by witness. The father was said to be George Care. Pamela is reported to have given birth to two children since 1852.

Thomas Rice testified that while digging a well on the farm on which he now lives, he struck on a box which Wm. Snyder had told him he had put there. Mr. Rice said he had heard of a child being born, and that it had been buried there, but did not suppose any foul means had been used to destroy its life. He said it was a common occurrence for poor people in the country to bury children in the gardens or lots, to save the expense of  putting them in the grave-yards. An additional reason why he supposed no crime had been committed, was the circumstances of an Alderman having investigated a case of supposed infanticide, and found nothing in it. In answer to a question by a Juror, whether he ever supposed the girl to be in a delicate situation, while in his employ, the witness answered that he never noticed a girl in his house; he passed them as he would a dog.

David J. Mott testified that he assisted in digging up a box containing the remains of the child, after the spot had been pointed out by Mrs. Snyder.

The testimony  then closed, and the jury, soon after, rendered the following verdict: --

“That box contains the remains of the body of a female child, born on the 22nd of Feb., 1852, and who was killed by its mother, Pamela Myers, on the day of its birth.”

[‘”The Child Murders.” from Philadelphia Ledger), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (N. Y.), Nov. 13, 1854, p. 2]

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“Frenzied Wails of Murderesses in the Shadow of the Guillotine”: Chivalry Justice in 1929 France

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FULL TEXT: In the historic prison of St. Lazare here I have seen a spectacle more in keeping with the middle ages than with modern ideas of the treatment of prisoners — even when they are under the death sentence for brutal crimes.

Three women under sentence of death by guillotining have lost their reason under the ordeal, and had to be chained to their beds by rust-coated chains and padlocks dug out from the cellars from which they had not been taken even in revolutionary days, because they were deemed too barbarous.

THERE are four women under death sentence in the Paris area at the present time. And that is a record for which one must go back to revolutionary days.

The three in St. Lazare were admittedly guilty of horrible crimes. One, an elderly Madame David, murdered an infant of eight months, to spite its mother, by stuffing a sponge into its throat, and then stood by shedding crocodile tears over the child's sufferings when, if she had told the truth, the doctor could have saved its life.

The youngest and prettiest of the three is a Serbian girl who is known as the ‘Murderess with, the Evil Eye,’ because it is alleged that she hypnotised her victim, a girl of twelve, before strangling her in the Bois due Boulogne. The third is a middle-aged woman named Vabre, who killed her stepson be cause his father declared he was going to leave the woman owing to her ill treatment of the children.

THE FATAL CELL.

The two first named successfully protested against being asked to occupy in turn cell No. 13, which, in addition to being deemed unlucky, has sheltered some of the most tragic figures of revolutionary days, including the poet, Andre Chenier, whose ghost is said bythe superstitious still to haunt the cell and the adjoining corridors, especially when the occupant is fated to die by the guillotine.

After the protest, the two women were allowed to occupy together cell No. 12; but when Madame Vabre arrived, she was forced to take the cell of ill-omen because there was no other.

One night the attendants and occupants of neighboring cells were aroused by terrible shrieks, and Blanche Vabre jumped from her bed under the delusion that the spirit of her victim and the previous occupants of this ghastly cell, were walking in procession to torment her. She broke into a frenzy, tearing the clothes from, her body, and trying to dash her brains out against the wall with the mad idea of ending the torture she was suffering from her delusions.

Finally, five men and six women attendants overcame her, but, to the shame of the French authorities, it has, to be said that the only means they had available for dealing with this demented creature was the mediaeval system of heavy chains attached to the body, so that the unhappy creature cannot rest night or day.

WOMEN FIGHT.

Two nights later new cries were heard, and this time it was the mind of Madame David that had given way under the influence of the distressing scenes next door.

Her delusion was that the executioner, ‘Monsieur Paris,’ as he is grimly known, had entered her cell in the night to take her to death, and she sprung from bed to hurl missiles at him, shrieking meanwhile for assistance against him. Next, she tore her clothing to strips, and then attacked with fury her fellow prisoner.

The two women fought wildly, scratching each other until their faces were little more than bleeding pulp, and when assistance, arrived, both had to be chained like the woman next door.

The President has now announced that the death sentence will not be carried out in the case of the woman Vabre or Mdlle Kures, the young Serbian, but so far he has refused to interfere with the sentence on the woman David.

The cases have excited considerable controversy in Paris, where no woman has been executed for twenty years, no matter how atrocious the crimes imputed them; but a variety of circumstances have moved public opinion against mercy to women murderers.

EQUALITY FOR ALL.

One is the growing agitation for sex equality in politics, it being urged that if women are to be the equality of men in one realm, they ought to be equal in all, before the guillotine, and most of the ardent Feminists are logical enough to accept this grim reasoning, and refuse to identify themselves with a demand for respite, or, where they do so, they are careful to make clear that it is because they are opposed to capital punishment on principle.

The other reason weighing with public opinion is that there has been a great increased in crimes of violence by women, and it is accompanied by a craze for carrying firearms that are used at the slightest provocation by wives and sweethearts.

This strange fashion has grown to such an extent that up to date hand bags have what is known as the ‘pistol pocket’ in which the fashionable dame secrets the automatic ready to be produced at need.

[“Three Mad Women In Chains Amid The Ghosts Of Lazare – Frenzied Wails of  Murderesses in the Shadow of the Guillotine,” Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW, Australia), Apr. 14, 1929, p. 22]

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Female Serial Killers of Germany

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1803 – Sophie Ursinus– Berlin, Germany
1809 – Anna Zwanziger– Sanspaareil, Bavaria, Germany
1831 – Gesche Gottfried– Bremen, Germany
1835 – Margarete Jäger (Joyer, Jaeyer, Jager) – Mentz, Swabia (Germany)
1873 – Wilhelmina Waltmann– Stade, Germany
1886 – “Silesian Black Widow”– Silesia (Germany)
1892 – “Berlin Baby Farmer”– Berlin, Germany
1892 – “The Limburg Baby Farmer”– Limburg, Germany
1892 – Frau Myer– Bockenheim, Germany
1896 – Hermann Springstein & Auguste Bock– Prenzlau, Germany
1903 – Anna (Caroline) Przygodda– Bobbau, Allenstein, East Prussia (Germany)
1903 – Elizabeth Wiese– St. Pauli, (Hamburg), Germany
1905 – Frau (Ziesig) Manko– Lyck, West Prussia (Germany)
1906 – Ida Schnell– Munich, Bavaria, Germany
1907 – Ernestine Feige– Grunau Hirschberg, Silesia (Germany)
1908 – Grete Beier– Brand, Saxony, Germany
1924 – Marie Krueger– Berlin, Germany
1924 – Erna Warz– Berlin, Germany
1930 – Kathleen Riefer– Saarbrucken, Rhenish Prussia, Germany (exception, 12-y-o)
1943 – Helen Moeller– Berlin, Germany
1945 – Hermine Braunsteiner– Ravensbrück, Germany
1945 – Irma Grese– Auschwitz, Germany
1946 – Sister Liesel Bachor– Kreis, Germany
1946 – Valentina Bilien– Velpke, Germany
1946 – Herta Oberheuser– Germany
1946 – Kathe Pisters– Kreis, Germany
1946 – Ella Schmidt, Liesel Bachor & Kathe Pisters– Kreis, Germany
1946 – Marianne Tuerk (Türk) & Margarethe Heubsch – Germany
1948 – Irmgard Swinka (aka: Kuschinsky) – Hamm (Berlin), Germany
1954 – Christa Lehmann– Mainz, Germany
1977 – Brigitte Mohnhaupt – Fankfurt, Germany
1983 – Maria Velten– Refeld, Germany
1989 – Michaela Roeder (Röder) – Wuppertal, Germany 
1998 – “Keulen Nurse” – Keulen, Germany
1999 – Antje “Sch.” – Mühltroff, Germany
2005 – Doris B. – Straubing, Germany
2005 – Sabine Hilschenz– Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany
2005 – “Tullingen Nurse” – Tullingen, Germany
2007 – Irene Becker – Berlin, Germany
2007 – Monika Halbe – Wenden-Möllmicke, Germany
2007 – Lydia L.– Göttingen,Germany
2011 – Beate Zschäpe– Munich, Germany
2012 – Annika H. – Husum, Germany

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Female Serial Killers of France

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597 – Fredegund, Queen of Franks– Soissons, France
1196 – Mahaut de Bourgogne– France
1315 – Queen Margaret of Burgundy– France
1673 – “The Cruel French Lady”– Paris, France
1673 – Louise Mabre– Paris, France
1676 –Marquise de Brinvilliers– Paris, France
1679 – Marie Bosse– Paris, France
1679 – Catherine Deshayes– Paris, France
1679 – Madame Vigoreux– Paris, France
17th c – “Lady Guilfort” (“Princess Jabirouska”) – Paris, France
1800s – Mme. Bonhours (Bouhours) – Paris, France
1848 – Rose Theyre– Saint-Victoir-La-Coste, France
1850 – Madame Segard– Nancy, France
1851 – Hélène Jégado– Rennes, France
1854 – Marie Gagey– Arnay-sous-Vitteaux, France
1862 – Marianne Martinet Dumollard– Montluel, Rhône-Alpes,France
1866 – Madame Balouzat– Limanton, France
1867 – Madame Julien– Le Puy, France
1868 – Anne Gaillard Delpech– Montauban, France
1869 – Madame Mizard & Anne Dupin– Bouloire, France
1875 – Marie Bouriant– Ainay-le-Vieil, France
1875 – Brigitte Burckel– Strasbourg, France
1875 – Marguerite Léris Grieumard– Saint-Vincent, France
1875 – Sophie Gautié Bouyon– Cahors, France
1876 – “La Flèche Serial Killer Girl”– La Flèche, France
1879 – Bapistine Philip– Lambec, France
1889 – Marie Doiselet– Bar-sur-Aube, France (age 13, 2 murders)
1893 – Madame Barthian– Rittencourt, Lorraine, France
1897 – Marie Ret– Paris, France (doubtful case)
1904 – Jeanne Bonnaud– Chatain, Haute, Vienne Dept., France
1904 – Rachel Galtie– Auch, France
1906 – “Vivienne Midwife”– Vivienne Quartier, Paris, France
1907 – Marie Vere Goold– Marseilles, France
1908 – Jeanne Gilbert– St.-Amand-Montrond, France
1908 – Jeanne Weber– Paris, France
1925 – Dinorah Galou (suspected) – Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France
1925 – Antoinette Sierri (“Scierri”) – Nimes, France
1929 – Lisa Karl– Rhiems, France
1932 – Camille Tounie– Saint Saveur,France
1946 – Marguerite D’Andurian– France, Syria
1949 – Marie Besnard– Loudon, France
1949 – Marie Jeanbracq– Pyrenees Region, France
1969 – Yvette Lelièvre – Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours, France
1998 – Christine Malèvre – Versailles, France
2003 – Monique Olivier – Ardennes region, France
2007 – Celine Lesage– Valognes, France
2009 – Veronique Courjault – Tours, France
2010 – Dominique Cottrez – Villers-au-Tertre, France
2013 – Audrey C.– Ain, France
2013 – “Césalet Serial Killer Nurse” – Cesalet, France

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Miyoko Sumida, Matriarch of Japan’s Serial-Killer “Piranha Family” - 2012

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Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan – On November 7, 2012, Miyoko Sumida, her common-law husband and six relatives were arrested on suspicion of abandoning the body of Jiro Hashimoto, 53, in a drum filled with concrete. The suspects include Sumida’s sister-in-law, Mieko Sumida, 59, Sumida’s cousin Masanori Sumida, 38, Sumida’s son Yutaro Sumida, 25, and Rui Sumida, 27, Yutaro’s wife.

On December 5, 2012, Miyuko Sumida, 64, was arrested [second arrest] following the a long investigation. Police had received a tip that a number of people who had visited her luxurious penthouse apartment in had subsequently disappeared.

Miyuko Sumida is regarded as the prime suspect in a conspiracy involving six others, relatives, in a scheme to collect insurance after murdering selected victims. The killers received a total of 90 million yen from insurance companies. Sumida was charged with the murder of a 66-year-old woman, Kazuko Oe, whose body was found in November 2012 in a concrete-filled metal drum in a warehouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Yet she committed suicide after only 7 days in jail, on December 12.

On October 14and 15, 2012, police discovered the partly mummified remains of three corpses (Mitsue Ando, 71, Mariko Nakashima, 29; Takashi Tanimoto, 68) wrapped in blankets and hidden beneath floorboards at the the home of the 88-year-old grandmother of Mrs Sumida’s daughter-in-law, Rui Sumida, 27.


~ Organized Crime Family ~

The source who had intitially tipped off investigators described a highly organized crime family in which there was a designated treasurer, Mieko Sumida (59-year-old sister-in-law), a bodyguard, Masanori Sumida (38-year-old-cousin), as well as a chosen successor in leadership Rui Sumida (27-year-iold daughter-in-law).

According to the informant, “Miyoko and her minions were so intimidating that they forced family members of one victim to participate in her death.”

Included among the other five suspects are the 42-year-old husband of Mariko Nakashima’s and Masanori Ri, 38, Miyoko Sumida’s cousin who is serving a prison sentence in the death of Kazuko Oe.

A complex flow chart has been produced by a Japanese news source showing the interrelations of perpetrators and victims.


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Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan – On November 7, 2012, Miyoko Sumida, her common-law husband and six relatives were arrested on suspicion of abandoning the body of Jiro Hashimoto, 53, in a drum filled with concrete. The suspects include Sumida’s sister-in-law, Mieko Sumida, 59, Sumida’s cousin Masanori Sumida, 38, Sumida’s son Yutaro Sumida, 25, and Rui Sumida, 27, Yutaro’s wife.

On December 5, 2012, Miyuko Sumida, 64, was arrested [second arrest] following the a long investigation. Police had received a tip that a number of people who had visited her luxurious penthouse apartment in had subsequently disappeared.

Miyuko Sumida is regarded as the prime suspect in a conspiracy involving six others, relatives, in a scheme to collect insurance after murdering selected victims. The killers received a total of 90 million yen from insurance companies. Sumida was charged with the murder of a 66-year-old woman, Kazuko Oe, whose body was found in November 2012 in a concrete-filled metal drum in a warehouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Yet she committed suicide after only 7 days in jail, on December 12.

On October 14and 15, 2012, police discovered the partly mummified remains of three corpses (Mitsue Ando, 71, Mariko Nakashima, 29; Takashi Tanimoto, 68) wrapped in blankets and hidden beneath floorboards at the the home of the 88-year-old grandmother of Mrs Sumida’s daughter-in-law, Rui Sumida, 27. 

~ Organized Crime Family ~

The source who had intitially tipped off investigators described a highly organized crime family in which there was a designated treasurer, Mieko Sumida (59-year-old sister-in-law), a bodyguard, Masanori Sumida (38-year-old-cousin), as well as a chosen successor in leadership Rui Sumida (27-year-iold daughter-in-law).

According to the informant, “Miyoko and her minions were so intimidating that they forced family members of one victim to participate in her death.”

Included among the other five suspects are the 42-year-old husband of Mariko Nakashima’s and Masanori Ri, 38, Miyoko Sumida’s cousin who is serving a prison sentence in the death of Kazuko Oe.

A complex flow chart has been produced by a Japanese news source showing the interrelations of perpetrators and victims.

~ Reign of Terror ~

In the two-month period leading up to the arrest of  Miyuko Sumida six other people – including her sister-in-law and daughter-in-law – who were connected to the series of murders involving her. The news media dubbed the group “The Piranha Family.”

An unnamed police source claimed that the victims were confined in a storage shed at a condominium owned by Sumida, and were given limited quantities of water to drink and fed only once a day on dehydrated noodles and other instant food.

Wikipedia states that in what has been called the Amagasaki Serial Murder Incident“several family households were tortured continuously for more than 25 years. These crimes were committed mainly in Amagasaki, and also in six prefectures, Hyogo, Kochi, Kagawa, Okayama, Shiga and Kyoto. Many people were abused and imprisoned; at least 8 people were killed.” Two of the recovered corpses, those of Jiro Hashimoto, 54-year-old man, and Kazuko Oe, a 66-year-old woman, were then dismembered and placed in large metal drums, which were filled with concrete.

~ Husband murdered ~

Following the death of Hisayoshi Sumida, 51-year-old husband of Mieko, assumed at the time to have been accidental, which took place during a sightseeing trip to Cape Manza in Okinawa in 2005, payouts of 90 million yen for insurance policies and a home mortgage exemption were made to “the junior Sumida” [Masanori Sumida, adopted son (?)].

[Robert St. Estephe, based on various news sources]

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Victims:

1987 – Miyoko Sumida’s mother, missing since 1987.
Oct. 2005 – Hisayoshi Sumida, 51, husband, Okinawa.
Oct. 14-15, 2012 (discovery) – Mitsue Ando, 71, body found beneath floorboards; the partner of Mrs Sumida’s older brother.
Oct. 14-15, 2012 (discovery) – Mariko Nakashima, 29, body found beneath floorboards; older sister of Mrs Sumida’s daughter-in-law.
Oct. 14-15, 2012 (discovery) – Takashi Tanimoto, 68, body found beneath floorboards; whose elder brother was a friend of Mrs Sumida.
Oct. 30, 2012 – Jiro Hashimoto, 54, body found in barrel, Hinase Harbor in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, brother of Mieko Sumida’s husband.
Nov. 2012 – Kazuko Oe (female), 66, body found in barrel.

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Suspects:

Mieko Sumida, 59-year-old, Sumida’s sister-in-law
Rui Sumida, 27, daughter-in-law, Yutaro Sumida’s wife.
Masanori Ri, 38, Miyoko Sumida’s cousin.
Mr. Nakashima, husband of victim Mariko Nakashima, 29.
Yutaro Azumayori, 62 – Miyoko Sumida’s common-law husband, implicated, although his complicity in the crimes is unclear.

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Sources:

[“Japan in shock over woman’s ‘reign of terror,’” The Asahi Shimbun, Nov. 9, 2012]
[“Victims found at Amagasaki house were imprisoned  on apartment balcony before death,” Japan Today, Oct. 29, 2012]

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Serial Killers Clans

January 3, 2015, 3:59 pm
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This list includes family groups of three serial killers or more in which one or more women were serial killers.

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1873 – Kate Bender (“Bloody Benders”)– Cherry Vale, Kansas, USA

1897 – Nancy Staffleback& 2 sons, Ed, George – Galena, Kansas, USA

1964 – Carmen, Delfina& María de Jesús González– San Francisco del Rincón, Mexico

1972 – Elizabeth McCrary, Carolyn & Sherman– Santa Barbara, Ca., USA (etc.)

1987 – Tamara Ivanyutina– Kiev, Ukraine (Soviet Union)

1991 – Ruiz Villeda, Anna Maria & Rudolfo Infante Jimenez – Matamoros, Mexico

1996 – Anjanabai & daughters: Renuka Kiran Shinde, SeemaMohan Gavit– Pune, Kolhapur & Nashik, Maharashtra, India

2012 –  Isabel Cristina Pires & Jorge Negromonte da Silveira– Garanhuns, Brazil

2012 – Miyoko Sumida (“Piranha Family”) – Amagasaki, Japan

2013 – Inessa Tarverdiyeva& Roman Podkopayev (with other relations) – Stavropol, Russia

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http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2013/06/female-serial-killers-collections.html

SEE MORE: Female Serial Killer Collections

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The “Kuttenberg Baby-Killers” and their Prosperous Business - Bohemia, 1893

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Note: Kuttenberg is the German name for Kutná Hora, Bohemia, which, at the time of these events was part of the Austrian Empire. Some English language sources offer misspellings of  “Kuttlebelerg” or  “Ruttenburg.”

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FULL TEXT: Vienna, September 14. – A sensation has been caused in this city by the arrest of two women, living in separate villages in the district of Kuttenberg, Bohemia, which recalls the terrible tragedies enacted last year in a similarly horrible style. The two women it seems were engaged in systematically in the business of murdering children whose parents desired to have them out of the way either because of deformities or because the parents were too poor or too heartless to take care of their children, or because the children were illegitimate and a source of reproach for their parents. These heartless women, it is added, not only did a thriving trade in murdering helpless babes, but also contracted to dispose of their bodies most effectually, and guaranteed secrecy and an effectual disappearance for stated sums of money.

The price usually charged for the murder of a child was 5 florins. The two women seemed to have done a large trade, and are reported to have saved up considerable sums of money as the fruit of their inhuman work.

The discovery of this wholesale system of baby murdering was brought about by accident, or the women might have continued their prosperous business for for years to come. So safe did they feel themselves from detection that one of them kept regular ledgers, in which was inscribed the sums received, the person the money was received from, the age and description of the child, and the date it was disposed of. But the help of this horrible record of crimes the authorities anticipate not only convicting and effectually disposing of these two female friends, but they also anticipate being able to make a large number of arrests and bring numbers of others to the bar of justice.

[“Babies Butchered For Five Florins. – Horrible Business of Two Old Female Fiends. – Who Kept a Ledger in Which Their Crimes and Their Prices Were Recorded.” The Cincinnati Enquirer (Oh.), Sep. 15, 189, p. 1]

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Queen Nzinga of Ndongo (Angola), Reputed Serial Killer - 1663

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EXCERPT: (Wikipedia): Queen Anna Nzinga (c. 1583 – December 17, 1663), also known as Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande, was a 17th-century queen (muchino a muhatu) of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in Angola.

According to the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir, Nzinga was a woman who "immolated her lovers." De Sade's reference for this comes from History of Zangua, Queen of Angola. It claims that after becoming queen, she obtained a large, all male harem at her disposal. Her men fought to the death in order to spend the night with her and, after a single night of lovemaking, were put to death. It is also said that Nzinga made her male servants dress as women. In 1633, Nzinga's oldest brother died of cancer, which some attribute to her.

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EXCERPT: It has been suggested that Queen Nzinga was a cannibal, Cannibalism was part of the lifestyle and dietary practices of the Imbangala tribe of Africa. Stories about Imbangala cannibalism were reported by African witnesses like the kings of Kongo who complained about it.

She declared herself an Imbangala immediately after she fled from her homeland at the suggestion of the Portuguese. Nzinga introduced her people to a ritualistic cannibalism. There seems little doubt that Queen Nzinga was a cannibal and encouraged the practice among her people.

Very little is known about the serial murders themselves. It is known that Queen Nzinga’s brother Mbande died from poisoning, and rumors abounded that Nzinga had poisoned him. Her lovers were reportedly executed, but the manner of execution remains unknown.

Queen Nzinga “engaged in the indiscriminate killing of her subjects,” it was contended. There were two definite murders, and after that little reliably unknown. The number of her one-night-stand lovers who were murdered is unknown, and there is no information about the murder of women who were killed because they violated the “vulgi-vaguability” statute [“On pain of death women were to make themselves available at all times for sex.” (K. Ramsland) The existence of this law is regarded as some as a “myth.”]

The time frame of these crimes is uncertain, but we can narrow it down to a relatively manageable estimate. An early seventeenth-century time frame was suggested. Queen Nzinga killed between 1823 and 1663, it was also estimated. A 30-year duration of the serial crimes was reported.

[Di Dirk C. Gibson, Legends, Monsters, Or Serial Murderers?: The Real Story Behind an Ancient Crime, 2002, ABC-CLIO, p. 107]

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More cases: Women in Power: Aristocratic Female Serial Killers

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For more cases see: Cannibal Murderesses

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