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A Spanish Ogress Named Rulo – Peraleda, 1896
FULL TEXT: A shocking series of child murders is reported to have taken place at the village of Peraleda in Spain, where a single woman named Rulo enticed over a dozen young children into her house,...
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Honora Dunn, Australian Serial Killer, & Her “Fatal Nursery” - 1881
FULL TEXT: The case of the woman Honora Dunn, who, at the Criminal Sittings on Thurs day last, was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour for causing the...
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Russian 14-year-old Child Care Provider Murdered 17 Children - Novgorod, 1894
FULL TEXT: A terrible confession has been made by a 14-year-old nursegirl at Novgorod, in Russia, one revealing quite a phenomenal and cold-blooded development of a passion to murder on the part of a...
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Dana Sue Gray, Californian Lady-Killing Lady Serial Killer – 1994
Dana Sue Gray likes nice things. She likes to shop. She had a Cadillac when she was arrested. Now she has no transportation at all. She is serving a life term without patrol in California Women’s...
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The McCrary Crime Family & 2 Female Serial Killers Who Preyed Upon Women –...
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): Santa Barbara, Calif. (AP) A Texas woman being questioned by authorities about a cross-country crime wave says she will fight extradition to Texas to face armed robbery...
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Lyudmila Spesivtseva, Cannibal Serial Killer Mom – Siberia, Russia 1996
Novokuznetsk, Siberia – Lyudmila Spesivtseva, an employee of a Soviet government school, was sentenced to life in prison (or 13 years according to some accounts) for luring teenage girls for the...
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Franz & Rosalie Schneider, Austrian Serial Killer Couple - 1891
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 4): Vienna, August 12. – The woman Schneider, who was arrested with her husband for decoying and murdering servant girls, attempted to commit suicide. Her recovery is hopeless....
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“Viennese Dissection Serial Killer Couple” - 1896
This is a tentative listing. At the moment, only one reference to this case has been located. The source suggests that this is a serial killer case. Until further information surfaces the case will be...
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Mexican Serial Assassin, Nancy Manriquez Quintanar (“La Flaca”) - 2011
FULL TEXT: Nancy Manriquez Quintanar “La Flaca,” 25-year-old arrested in the municipality of Ecatepec, is linked to at least nine violent murders committed in the eastern state of Mexico, as part of...
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The Forgotten Serial Killers: Child Care Providers (“Baby Farmers”) Who...
Most of the baby farmers listed her were serial killers. Several notable cases involving murder and abuse by baby farmers that are not serial killer cases.***Abbott, Evelyn (USA), 1891 – scores of...
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Philippa Mdluli, Swaziland Cannibal Cook – 1983
Philippa Mdluli, a 48-year-old restaurant owner in Swaziland was hanged on July 2nd, 1983 for the crime of murder. She had convinced one of her employees to provide a subject for a ritual of human...
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The Tene-Bimbo “Gypsy Sweetheart Scam,” Husband-Killing Syndicate - 1995
It was known to many the “Gypsy Sweetheart Scam,” by its many victims, all defrauded, but not all murdered. But between 1983 and 1995, after a group of five deaths came to be linked to a Gypsy family’s...
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Female Serial Killers – COLLECTIONS
These are links to specialized lists of Female Serial Killer cases which include links to posts on individual cases. Some of the collections contain synopses of cases.***1) Baby-Sitter Serial...
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Maria Teresa Quintana, High Priestess of Mexican Serial Killer Cult - 1989
The name of Sara María Aldrete Villareal is much better known than Maria Teresa Quintana. It was she who cooperated with police and led to the destruction of the cult in which she was a high priestess....
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Ghanan Serial Poisoner Named Bahagee - 1948
Zakariah Ali’s self-published memoir (2012) tells of the murder of his mother in a small village near the Gold Coast of Africa by a serial poisoner, an old woman named Balagee.The author was only four...
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Nancy Farrer, Ohio Serial Killer - 1851
This was a very famous case in the 19th century which established a major precedent in the insanity defense. It was the first important case to be tried by the future President of the United States,...
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La Toffania’s Husband-Killing Syndicate – Naples, early 1600s
EXCERPT: This dangerous art appears to have been carried to the greatest height in Italy, in the 17th century. The most infamous practicer of it was the celebrated Toffania, who first resided at...
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Husband-Killing Syndicates in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1882-1889
In the period dealt with here, “Hungary” was commonly used to refer to any region within the Austro-Hungarian Empire outside Austria proper. The husband-killing syndicates collected by The Unknown...
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Husband-Killing Syndicates
HUSBAND-KILLING SYNDICATES: The vast majority of victims of these conspiracies were husbands, yet some were wives or other family members, including children.Among the cases listed below you will find...
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The Origin of Widow Self-Immolation (Sati, or, Suttee) in India & Its...
It has been 2,000 years that the origin of the Indian practice of Sati (or Suttee) was first reported in Western scholarly writings as having arisen to institute a disincentive for husbandicide, in...
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