Female Serial Killers of Australia

1886 – Harriet Ann Stevens– Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia – 2 murders & 1 attempt

1888 – Louisa Collins– Botany, NSW, Australia – 2 husbands plus 1 child suspected

1889 – Ellen Batts – Waverley, NSW, Australia – 3 babies

1892 – Jane Makin– Sydney, NSW, Australia –13 babies died; executed
1894 – Frances Knorr– Brunswick, Victoria, Australia – from 3 to 13 babies; executed
1894 – Martha Needle– Richmond, Victoria, Australia– 5 victims (1 survived)

1898 – Margaret Ann Smith– West Perth, WA, Australia – 3 babies

1905 – Mary Bellears & Thomas Barton– Euora, Victoria, Australia – “wholesale infanticide”

1907 – Alice Mitchell– Perth, Western Australia, Australia – 37 babies
1908 – Madge Clayton – Preston, Victoria, Australia – 6 infants
1909 – Ruth Rendell– Perth, WA, Australia – 4 step-children; executed

1913 – Isabella Newman– Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – 3 babies

1946 – Marjorie Coleman– Camperdown, NSW, Australia – 3 murders suspected

1952 – Yvonne Fletcher– Newton, SA, Australia – (2 husbands)

1952 – Dorothy Hahn– Adelaide, SA, Australia – 3 babies
1953 – Caroline Grills– Gladesville, NSW, Australia – murdered 3 women & 1 man

1969 – Barbara Wilkinson– Wahroonga, NSW, Australia –  6 babies
1980 – Helen Patricia Moore– Fullwood Pl., Claymore, NSW, Australia – 3 chn d., + crippled
1986 – Catherine Birnie – Willagee,WA, Australia – with her husband, she murdered 4 women; their fifth escaped, leading to the criminals’ apprehension.

2003 – Kathleen Folbigg – Mayfield, NSW, Australia – 4 own chn (& 2 others?)

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