This collection includes only female serial killers who were baby-sitters. It does not include Baby Farmers (child care providers who were responsible for infants on a 24 hour basis), with the exception of nanny Gladys Parks.
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1906 – Ida Schnell– Munich, Germany – teenage child-care provider who had a special technique for murdering babies, “plunging a hairpin into the lower part of the back of their heads till they ceased to cry.”
1908 – Jeanne Weber– Paris, France – She was obsessed with strangling children of various ages, and murdered at least ten. Among her victims were three children of her own; the rest were mostly the children of relatives. She was caught in the act several times, but got away with murder with the help of the brilliant men who defended her in court until the day she was caught in such a flagrant act of violent strangling of a boy she had just murdered even the “experts” would not be able to employ their sophisticated theories to save her. After being declared insane and sent to prison, Jeanne strangled herself to death.
1929 – Gladys Parks– New Jersey – A father of six, found himself a widower, so he made arrangements with his wife’s cousin to care for two of the children temporarily. The nanny, however, had taken the kids to use as pawns in a get-rich-quick scheme, in which she would tell wealthy men - former lovers - that these children were the result of their affairs. When she no longer found the arrangement she brutally murdered the children and hid the bodies.
1956 – Virginia Jaspers– New Haven, Connecticut – A retired head pediatric nurse killed three babies by shaking them to death because “children sometimes get on her nerves.” She broke the leg of another child and cause a head injury to yet another.
1980 – Helen Patricia Moore– Claymore, NSW, Australia – smothered 3 children and. 3 additional children survived her abuse.
1982 – Christine Laverne Falling– Calhoun & Taylor Counties, Florida – She murdered at least children. According to her testimony, she had heard voices that ordered her to kill the babies by placing a blanket over their faces.
1984 – Lise Jane Turner– Christchurch, New Zealand – 2 own babies, one other baby; attempted to kill four other babies
1986 – Sandra K. Pankow– Appleton, Wisconsin – Accused of murdering three babies, she was convicted of murdering two.
1989 – Amy Lynn Scott– Phoenix, Arizona – She murdered three babies in 1989. The parents of the victims were all met by the baby-sitter murderess at the same church. She was not convicted until; 2007.
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See The Forgotten Serial Killers for a huge number of other serial child murderers who were paid child care providers.
