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Queen Eadburgh, Saxon Serial Killer – England, 800
Eadburh (Old English: Ēadburh), also spelled Eadburg, (flourished 789-802) was the daughter of King Offa of Mercia and Queen Cynethryth. She was the wife of King Beorhtric of Wessex, and according to...
View ArticleJoanna Dennehy, English Serial Killer of Male Strangers “For Fun”: 2013
On November 18, Joanna Dennehy, 31, of Bifield, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire surprised her own defense attorney by pleading guilty to three murders, two attempted murders and three counts of preventing...
View ArticleBritish Branch of International Men’s Rights Organization – 1929
Following are newspaper articles discussing the British branch of the international men’s rights organization founded in (April?) 1926 and whose headquarters were located in Vienna: Aequitas Weltbund...
View ArticleInessa Tarverdiyeva, Russian Serial Killer Family Matriarch – 2013
On September 17, 2013, Russian law enforcement officers were involved in a shootout in Stavropol with a middle-class family, killing the only man present, Roman Podkopaev (35), a dentist. His wife...
View ArticleKatherine Riefer, 12-year-old Sadistic German Murderess - Saarbrucken, 1930
Note: Cases such as this one, in which a child is the perpetrator of but one actual murder, yet shows an inclination to commit further murders, are included in our inventory, not to inflate the...
View ArticleHenrietta Weibel, aged 15, "The Baby Burner" - New York, 1874
Note: Cases such as this one, in which a child is the perpetrator of but one actual murder, yet shows an inclination to commit further murders, are included in our inventory, not to inflate the...
View ArticleQueen Mother Nyirauhi V Kanjogera, Serial Killer - Rwanda, 1890s
EXCERPT: King Msinga, the only remaining potentate in Central Africa. While Msinga is the nominal king the ruler of the kingdom is said to be his mother whose chief claim to fame is the fact that she...
View ArticlePrincess Laodice of Cappadocia, Serial Killer - 1st Century BC
Laodice of Cappadocia, flourished second half of 2nd century BC and first half of 1st century BC) was a Princess from the Kingdom of Pontus.After Aristonicus was taken prisoner, the people of Massilia...
View ArticleMarie Bouriant, French Serial Baby-Killing Mom - 1875
Marie Bouriant, 35, murdered five babies between 1864 et 1874, either by neglect, battery or suffocation. Her husband, François Pierre was a farrier. In addition to the killings of children after live...
View ArticleMarguerite Léris Grieumard, French Serial Killer - 1875
Marguerite Léris Grieumard, of Saint-Vincent, France, poisoned five family members, killing four of them in quick succession. She began poising her victims, using arsenic and phosphorous scraped from...
View ArticleSally Story, New Jersey Serial Killer – 1882
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 4): Mrs. Sarah Story, an old woman living at Little Falls, Passaic County, N. J., was arrested yesterday on a charge of poisoning the wife of Joseph Feest, a neighbor. According...
View ArticleMrs. Perkins’ “mania for destroying human life” – Canada, 1865
FULL TEXT: The Brantford correspondent of the Hamilton Spectator gives currency to the following story, which is true, approaches nearer to the Burke and Hare murders than anything we have heard of....
View ArticleAnnie Wagner, A “Sympathetic” Indiana Serial Killer Who Got Away With Murder...
Note: Annie Wagner was acquitted. The impression made by this result in light of the evidence was that “not guilty” was a nullification verdict due to juror’s sympathy for Aniie’s claim of...
View ArticleChen Kao Lien-yen, Taiwanese Ogress Murdered 7 Children - 1987
FULL TEXT: Taipei – A district court in southern Taiwan sentenced a woman to death yesterday for murdering seven children with cyanide pills. Court officials said Chen Kao Lien-yen, 36, and poisoned...
View ArticleNellie Sturmer Koulik & the Chicago “Arsenic Murder Trust” 1922
FULL TEXT: Chicago, Ill., Nov. 11. – The most amazing poison death plot in recent criminal history, involving recent criminal history, involving nearly a score of wives whose circumstances, is being...
View ArticleH. D. Zarin, Latvian Female Serial Killer - 1956
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): Moscow – Passion and potassium cyanide have combined to make a ‘Soviet Borgia’ worthy of the famous Italian prisoners of the Middle Ages — worthy, that is, until she was...
View ArticleMiyko Mikami, Japanese Serial-Baby Killing Mom – 10 Corpses Found
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): Tokyo, Friday: –“The news papers and TV claimed that the whole place stank terribly,” the landlord of the small apartment building said. “But there was no smell at all. In...
View ArticleDiana Lumbrera, Texas Serial Child-Killing Mom - 1990
Between 1976 and 1990 Diana Lumbrera murdered seven children, all but one of them her own (Ages: 6 weeks, 2 ½ months, 5 ½ months, 3 years, 3 years, 4 years) in order to collect insurance payments. All...
View ArticleJanie Lou Gibbs, Serial Child-Killing Mom – Georgia, USA, 1967
Wikipedia with additions: Janie Lou Gibbs (December 25, 1932 – February 7, 2010) was an American serial killer from Cordele, Georgia, who killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband, by...
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