Youthful Borgias: Girls Who Murder – The Forgotten “Lizzie Bordens”

“Youthful Borgia,”“Young Borgia” were common terms used in the nineteenth century to describe girls who committed or attempted to commit murder.

The vast majority of the cases listed here have failed to attract the interest of criminologists, forensic psychology experts and “gender” studies professors. Those “experts,” like Prof. Michael Kimmel, purveyor of Cultural Marxism-derived theories condemning large swaths of male sex as pathologically violent, those of them not properly feminized (particularly “white” gentile ones), have neither knowledge nor place in their fallacious ideology for such cases as those cited here.

Kimmel asserts: “Seldom do the news reports note that virtually all the violence in the world today is committed by men. Imagine, though, if the phalanxes of violence were composed entirely of women. Would that not be the story, the only issue to be explained? Would not a gender analysis occupy the center of every single story? The fact that these are men seems so natural as to raise no questions, generate no analysis.” [Michael S. Kimmel, The Gendered Society; Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 243]

Almost all? It is not clear what he means by “almost all” or by “violence.” What we can be sure of is that Kimmel has no familiarity with the large body of evidence of female perpetrated violence – evidence which he and his colleagues, because of rigid ideological bias,bend over backwards to ignore. In the fundamentalist "social constructionist" ideology females who are individual agents capable of violence (that is not caused by socially imposed “gender roles”) are supposed to be nonexistent. This type of mentality is akin to magical thinking (as practiced by children and low IQ adults).

Note: This list is still in progress. Included are cases which are included in the collection “Serial Killer Girls.”

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Sample case:

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Of particular interest, of course, are the youngest of the murderesses. Here is a list of those 11 and younger that will be found below:

Age 4 – 1885 – Lizzie Lewis

Age 6 – 1892 – Bottoms Girl
Age 6 – 1899 – Lizzie Cook

Age 7 – 1887 – Virginia Hudson

Age 7 – 1925 – Alsa Thompson

Age 8 – 1867 – Martin Girl

Age 8 – 2001 – Jummai Hassan

Age 9 – 1885 – Mary Cooper
Age 10 – 1897 – Geneva Arnold
Age 10 – 1886 – Jane Walker

Age 11 – 1968 – Mary Bell
Age 11 – 1887 – Blanche Cook

Age 11 – 1899 – Cora Hicks

Age 11 – 1899 – Owens Girl

Age 11 – 1892 – Mattie Ellis

Age 11 – 1906 – Mary Maher

Age 11 – 2015 – Wickliffe Girl

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1844 – Mary Johnson– Lincoln, England – age 12, murdered two brothers at same timeusing poison. (double murder)

1851 – Rachel Clark– Carlisle, Pennsylvania – “young girl”; poisoned to death "several," crippling one. (serial killer)

1852 – Catharine B. Bushler– Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, USA – age 12; murdered sister; cut throat with butcher knife. (Mar. 10)

1860 – Constance Emily Kent – Rode (“Road” in 1860) Wiltshire, England – age 15; murdered half-brother, 4, with razor. (Jun. 29)
1865 – Marie-Françoise Bougaran– Brest & Lesneven, France – age 15; killed 4 children "by forcing them to swallow excrements, and then cutting the veins of the neck with a knife." (serial killer)

1867 – Martin Girl– Cassville, Barry County, South Carolina – age 8; shot brother (4) deliberately, mangled the body. (Jul. 4)
1867 – Elizabeth Wheeldon– Shirland Delves, near Alfreton, Derby, England – age 17 at time of apprehension; She poisoned two children of her at employer on different occasions so that she would have less work to do. (2 murders on separate occasions)
1870 – Catharine Hummel– Douglass Township, Pennsylvania – age 14, nurse girl; cut throat of boy (23-mo) with butcher knife. (Jun. 20)

1871 – Agnes Norman– London, England – age 15; murdered 4 children on different occasions and attempted to murder a fifth; also killed a dog, two cats, six or eight birds (parrots included), and some gold fish. (serial killer)

1872 – Martha Whetstone – St. Louis, Missouri – age 16; murdered four children, including her own sister, in a space of four months. (serial killer)

1874 – Henrietta Weibel– New York, NY – age 15; 1 murder & 1 attempt; she stated she had a mania for burning babies and setting fires.

1876 – “La Flèche Serial Killer Girl”– La Flèche, France – age 12; smothered two children on different occasions; removed to the hospital of La Flèche, and there felt impelled by some unnatural force to assassinate the patients. (serial killer)

1880 – Agnes Criddle– Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – age 14; oxalic acid in coffee, poisoning female employer and two men; all survived. (Aug. 17)

1881 – Margaret Messenger– Cumberland, England – age 13 at time of first murder, 14 when arrested; murdered two children by drowning. (2 murders on separate occasions)

1885 – Mary Cooper– Scottsville, Albermarle Cty., Virginia – age 9; killed boy cousin (7), by hanging him with rope and beating head with shovel. (ca. Mar. 18)
1885 – Lizzie Lewis– Port Jefferson (Long Island), New York – age 4; stabbed sister (6 mo) in the eye and repeatedly slashed her face with a knife. (May 20)

1885 – Rebecca Samuels– Barnesville, S. C. – age 12; soaked child in pot of lye, killing it; a previous crime “of this sort” occurred about 2 years earlier. (2 murders on separate occasions)

1886 – Mary & Jennie Green– Frederiksburg, Virginia – age 18, 13?; murdered foster family (man, 65, and his sister) beating them with clubs so as to steal $350. (Jun. 11)
1886 – Jane Walker – Millbrook Township, South Carolina – age 10; administered lye to the child of a near relative, causing death (May)

1887 – Axey Cherry– Allendale, South Carolina – age 11; nurse girl; murdered baby by putting lye in its mouth; sentenced to be hanged; reprieved. (Jul. or earlier)
1887 – Blanche Cook – Baltimore, Md. – age 11; 2 attempts to murder a family, first by poisoning the water, then by turning on gas to asphyxiate the residents (Jun. 29)
1887 – Virginia Hudson– Granville, South Carolina – age 7; hit 1-y-o on head with board and threw it in well, killing the child. (Jul. 23)

1888 – Minnie Kratzenburg– Chicago, Illinois – age 13; attempted to murder family with rat poison. (Sep. 28)

1888 – Mary Sowards– La Porte, Indiana – age 12; poisoned with arsenic her father, who died, and 2 children (siblings) who survived. (Nov.)

1889 – Marie Doiselet– Bar-sur-Aube – age 15; smothered to death two children aged 6-months and the other 2 ½ years, a month apart. (2 deaths)

1890 – Annie Banks– Clarksburg, West Virginia – 14; poisoned a family with rat poison (all survived?). (Dec.)

1890 – Sadie McMullen– Akron, New York – 17; threw two girls (aged 4 and 6) off bridge; the 4-y-o died. (Oct. 31)
1890 – Mary Metzdorf– Baltimore, Maryland – age 16; murdered 3 with poison “just for fun”; brother (6), mother, another woman. (Aug.) (triple murder)

1890 – Mary Stewart– McKeesport, Pennsylvania – age 16; brother (4) died of poisoning; 3 other family members survived. (Apr. 18)

1892 – Bottoms Girl– Atoka, Kentucky – age 6; murdered sister (18-mo) after planning long in advance; “she mashed the poor little innocent’s finger and toe-nails off with a hatchet” 10 days before bludgeoning the child to death; after apprehension she expressed desire to murder more babies. (serial ideation)

1892 – Millie Brown – Gaffney, South Carolina –age 15; poisoned a girl (10) to death with carbolic acid (ca. Jun. 10); executed at Spartansburg for the murder. (ca. Oct. 8, 1892)

1892 – Mattie Ellis– Barton, Texas – age 11; stabbed 11-y-o boy to death with butcher knife(Jul. 19)

1892 – Ella Holdridge– Tonawanda, New York – age 14; murdered one child and made several other attempts to murder children; she was obsessed with attending funerals, this being her apparent motivation for murder. (serial killer)

1892 – Laura Smith – Easton, Maryland, USA – age 15; poisoned father & brother; the father died. (Jan. 11?)

1893 – Ada Urry– Eastney, England – age 14; murdered 5-y-o girl, thrown into well, drowned. (Apr. 30)

1893 – Mary Yusta – Deadwood, South Dakota – 17; shot a young woman to death. (Dec. 17)

1894 – Lizzie Daniels– Scottsdale, Pennsylvania – age 14; shot to death 16-y-o girl with a revolver, bullet to the eye. (Aug. 8)

1894 – “Novgorod Teenage Serial Killer Nurse”– age 14; confessed to murdering 17 babies “because they bothered her, and she disliked the trouble of attending to them.” (serial killer)

1894 – Lou Paris – Henderson County, North Carolina – 16; stabbed young man in heart with a penknife, died. (before Jun.)

1895 – Anna Bell ("Annabell") – Fairfield County, South Carolina – age 14 at time of apprehension; At the age of 11 she murdered a baby. At the age of 14 she murdered and dismembered another then tortured a 6-year-old boy in an effort to force him to confess to the crime she had committed. (2 murders)
1895 – May Pierce – Grand Haven, Michigan – age 13; murdered her mother (Jul. 8)

1896 – Anna Isaac– Wisacky, South Carolina – age 14; murdered girl (13) cousin by splitting head open with axe. (Nov. 27)
1896 – Lavinia Jones – Suffolk, Virginia – age 13; poisoned family of 6 with rat poison, killing one (Apr.)

1896 – Fanny Scovell (“Scofield”) – Oswego, New York – age 13; poisoned two children, killing them. (2 murders on separate occasions)

1896 – Minnie Swanger – Altoona, Pennsylvania – age 13; poisoned 4 with rat poison; one died (Jan. 21)

1896 – Gertrude Taylor– Craig, Missouri – age 13; poisoned parents, brothers, sisters; adult brother died. (Mar. 10)
1897 – Geneva Arnold– Sedalia, Kansas –10; paid $5 by her mother for the deed, she beat baby sister to death. (Mar. 16)

1899 – Marie Anderson – Des Moines, Iowa – age 15; poisoned foster parents, who barely survived. (Feb. 9)
1899 – Lizzie Cook– Tuscaloosa, Alabama – age 6; burned to death her brother (2) (Feb. 26)

1899 – Cora Hicks – Durham, North Carolina – age 11; burned baby to death throwing into a fire with hot coals. (Feb. 21)
1899 – Owens Girl – Gloucester, Ohio – age 11; fired musket into a group of children, fatally wounding a boy. (Oct. 31)

1899 – Carrie Sampson– Tallahassee, Florida, USA – age 13, nursemaid; cut boy baby’s ear, and other cuts; on different occasion roasted the child to death. (Aug. 12).

1901 – “Mysore Girl” – Mysore, India – age 11; killed 2 small boys after robbing them, pushing them into a well. (Dec. ?)
1903 – Gertrude Mary Chalmers– Cooktown, Australia – age 14; burned niece (4) to death. (Oct. 27, charged)

1904 – Sis Bates– Salisbury, North Carolina – age 12; beat and pushed blind girl (10) into creek, drowning her. (Nov. 11)

1904 – Jeanne Bonnaud– Chatain, Haute Vienne, France – age 18 at time of apprehension; murdered 4 children (including her sister) using various methods; attempted 2 other murders. (serial killer)
1904 – Okato Take– Sasebo, Japan – age 15; planned to murder 4 children as human sacrifices to fulfill a superstitious belief; murdered a boy (4), and attempted to murder two 7-year old girls, all by drowning. (Mar. 4, murder of boy)

1906 – Jennie Ruth Burch– Carmel, New York – age 14; nurse girl; poisoned 3-y-o boy, killing him. (Sep. 21)
1906 – Susie Hannon – Concord, North Carolina – age 12; shot to death boy, 18 (Feb. 17)

1906 – Mary Maher– Dunkitt, County Kilkenny, Ireland – age 11; During a three-month period, Mary Maher murdered three sisters (aged 1, 3, 4 ½), attempted to murder another sister, aged 8, and then, a week later, committed suicide. (serial killer)

1906 – Lillian B. Thornman– York, Pennsylvania – age 15; murdered one child by roasting it on a stove; injured and tortured 3 other children. (serial killer)

1910 – Catherine Manz - Massilon, Ohio - age 16; poisoned sister (19) with strychnine, jealous of her dresses. (Mar. 17)
1910 – Ebby Shepherd –Newkirk, Oklahoma – age 13; murdered father & uncle by battering heads with axe. (Sep. 16)

1907 – Ida Schnell– Munich, Germany – age 13; murdered 8 or 9 babies by sticking a hairpin into the skull. (serial killer)

1911 – Clementine Barnabet (Bernebet) – Lafayette, Louisiana –age 18; cult priestess who confessed to personally murdering 17 persons and leading many other murders; the killings were human sacrifices and always involved decimation of entire families; she used an axe and mutilated the corpses. (serial killer)

1912 – Ivanova Tamarin– “Kurdio,” or “Kulda,” Estonia (?) – age 17 at time of apprehension; A mother and her daughter and accomplices she robbed, murdered, mutilated and cannibalized 27 persons. (serial killer)

1913 – Kathleen Oka Simmon– Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada – age 13; murdered playmate girl (9) with shovel, pounding her face until it was unrecognizable. (Jul. 21)
1915 – Inez Burk – Noblesville, Indiana – age 16; murdered mother striking with an axe twice and then slashing her with a paring knife; said mother had threatened to kill her. (Jul. 4)
1919 – Frances Sulinski – Brooklyn, New York, N. Y. – age 13; killed 14-month-old baby boy by giving her Lysol; attempted to kill 70-y-o woman by same method. (Aug. 1)

1921 – Ineigo Kaneiko– Kumakura, Japan – age 18 at time of apprehension; presumably 16 or 17 at time of the first murder; with husband, killed with poison 18 people whose lives she had insured in her favor. (serial killer)

1925 – Alsa Thompson– Los Angeles, California – age 7 (serial killer, or, attempted serial killer)

1926 – Kaethe Hagedorn– Duisberg, Germany – age 18; murdered a boy (9) and a girl (6) out of “mania.”

1929 – Erna Janaschek – Oakland, California – age 17; strangled 1-y-o to death to get revenge on mother. (Jun. 26)

1930 – Katherine Riefer– Saarbrucken, Rhenish Prussia – age 12; confessed to the killing of a four-year-old infant, and to inflicting savage injuries on fourothers.” (serial killer)

1954 – Juliet Marion Hulme & Pauline Yvonne Parker – Christschurch, New Zealand – age 15 & age 16; beat to death, with a brick in a stocking, Pauline’s mother. (Jun. 22)

1968 – Mary Bell– Scotswood, England– age 11; murdered 2 small boys by strangling, seriously injured another, pushing him from an elevation; several attempts to strangle female playmates to death. (serial killer)

1975 – Toby Jackson – Sarasota, Florida – age 15; shot mother to death. (Aug. 22)

1980 – Helen Patricia Moore– Claymore, Australia – age 18 when apprehended, first murder when 17; murdered five children aged from one to seven years, and crippled another, aged 2. (serial killer)

1985 – Paula Cooper – Gary, Indiana – age 15; stabbed to death a 78-y-o woman, stabbing her33 times. (May 14)
1992 – Melinda Loveless (16) Mary Laurine (Laurie) Tackett (17), Toni Lawrence (16), Hope A. Rippey (16) –tortured and burned to death a 12-y-o girl. (Jan. 11)

2001 – Jummai Hassan– Maiduguri, Nigeria – age 13 at time of apprehension, first murder at age 8; confessed to participating in 51 human sacrifice cult killings using “a powder” to kill them. (serial killer)

2003 – Sarah Johnson – Bellevue, Idaho – age 16; shot parents to death. (Sep. 2)
2004 – “Girl A” – Japan – 12; murdered classmate, Satomi Mitarai. (12) (Jun. 1)
2004 – Courtney Schulhoff – Altamonte Springs, Florida – age 16; bludgeoned to death her father (Feb. 10)
2005 – “Shizuoka Girl” – Shizuoka, Japan – age 17; poisoned mother multiple times; keeping detailed diary of her suffering.

2005 – Holly Sweeney & Stephanie Quesnoy – Lakeview, Oregon – ages 13 & 12; put rat poison in milk of two girls who survived. (Sep. 19)

2006 – Jasmine Richardson – Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada – age 12; with boyfriend, stabbed to death parents and brother (8). (Apr. 23)
2009 – Alyssa Bustamante – Cole County, Missouri – age 15; murdered neighbor girl (9), by stabbing, slashing throat and wrists and strangling. (Oct. 21)

2009 – “Sao Paulo Girl”– São José do Rio Preto, Brazil – age 17 at time of apprehension; first murder at age 15; confessed to stabbing 30 men to death. (serial killer)

2010 – Tasmiyah & Jasmiyah Whitehead – Conyers, Georgia – age 16 (twins); bludgeoned and stabbed mother to death, severing her spine. (Jan. 13)

2011 – “La Perris” (alias) – Medellin, Colombia – age 17 at time of apprehension; assassination for a drug gang; multiple adult deaths presumed; 1 child death; 2 attempts, both with serious injury. (serial killer)

2012 – Tyaisa Jackson – De Kalb, Georgia – age 13; stabbed 2-y-o half-sister to death, stabbed her in heart 7 times and threw body off balcony. (Nov. 19)

2012 – Shelia Eddy & Rachel Shoaf – Monongalia County, West Va. – each 16 y-o; stabbed 16-y-o female friend to death. (Jul. 6)
2014 – Lisa Borch – Kvissel, Denmark – age 15; inspired by Islamist terrorism, she stabbed mother 20 times with kitchen knife, killing her. (Oct.)

2014 – Morgan Geyser & Anissa Weir – Waukesha,Wisconsin – each aged 12 – stabbed girl (12) 19 times with a 5 inch blade, “1 millimeter from certain death,” survived. (May 31)

2014 – “Sasebo girl” – Sasabo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan – age 16; murdered and dismembered girl classmate. (Jul. 26)

2014 – “Vinod daughter” – Manjalpur, India – age 16 – with boyfriend (Sapan Purane), drugged then stabbed parents (Srihari Vinod, Sneha), to death. (Aug.)
2015 – Misty Kornegay (15) & Sister (11) – White Springs, Florida – shot to death brother. (16) (Jan. 12)

2015 – Jamie Silvonek – Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania – age 14 – plotted with boyfriend to murder parents; mother stabbed to death. (Mar. 15)
2015 – “Wickliffe Girl” – Wickliffe, Ohio – age 11; beat girl (2) to death. (Feb. 6)

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