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Female Serial Killers: Weapons, Poisons & Methods

This checklist is still in progress. The study of female aggression is still in its infancy. Criminologists largely overlooked violence by women as a serious subject of study until the 1950s. Yet the...

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The Alimony Racket – Checklist of Posts

The illustration above is taken from a 1931 newspaper article about the Alimony Racket. Are you surprised that such a sentiment would have been publicly stated back in the days when, as you have been...

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The Alimony Racket: Quotations

Here is an example of a contemporary alimony reform writer who has accepted the fake history of the American family perpetuated by the universities. The history of the family is an academic subject...

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Dear Diary, I’m a female serial killer!

Female serial killers who kept diaries. Some discuss their murders and some merely discuss “relationships” and “feelings.”***1610 – Elizabeth Bathory– Csejte, Kingdom of Hungary (today Čachtice,...

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Chisako Kakehi, Suspected Champion Black Widow Serial Killer – Japan, 2014

On November 19, 2004, a 69-year-old Chisako Kakehi widow and retired bank employee was arrested in Kyoto, Japan on suspicion of murdering her fourth husband. She is additionally suspected of murdering...

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Romania – Female Serial Killers & Husband Killing Syndicates

The sources used in this preliminary research are all English language. As such the reports contain many variants in transliteration of place names and personal names. During the period in question the...

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Emma Hepperman, The Potato Soup Black Widow Serial Killer – Missouri, 1940

Emma Hepperman was suspected to have murdered up to six husbands, a mother-in-law, possibly a daughter, and to have poisoned a step-daughter, who survived due to diagnosis following her father’s...

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Relics of Female Serial Killers

1808 – Mary Bateman– Yorkshire, EnglandAfter her execution, her body was put on public display with strips of her skin being sold as magic charm to ward off evil spirits. Bateman's skeleton is on...

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Mary Runkle, New York State Suspected Serial Killer, Hanged in 1847

5 suspected victims:1831 – peddlar1831 – Mary Margaret Runkle, age 6, drowned1831 – Cornelius Runkle, age 3,  drownedYear? (between 1831-1847) – son (age?)1847? – John Runkle, husband***FULL TEXT: Mrs....

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“La Flèche Serial Killer Girl” – 12-Years-Old – France, 1876

FULL TEXT: A little girl twelve years of age has just been tried in the South of France [error, should be Sarthe dept.], for havingsmothered two children confided to her care.One of the victims was...

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Sophie Gautié Bouyon, “Pins & Needles” Serial Killer of Her Own Children –...

Sophie Gautié Bouyon, 44 years old, Cahors, France, was executed January 4, 1876 by guillotine.On June 22, 1875, her eldest son, M. Colomb, died of tuberculosis, and two hours later, the little Elisa,...

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Jozefina Pasnik, Polish Serial Killer (Along With Her Husband) of Women - 1922

FULL TEXT: The last known woman executed in Poland for ordinary crimes was 40 year old Józefina Paśnik. She was accused of complicity in the murder of least seven women with her serial killer husband...

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Ane Cathrine Andersdatter, Danish Serial Baby-Killing Mother - 1861

Victims:1853 – Infant daughter, drowned, Vigerslev Mark (born: Jan. 8, 1853).1855 – infant son, Barfredshøj in Ramsø.Mar. 1861 – infant son, drowned, Damhussøen.***On Saturday, December 21, 1861 at8 in...

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Tamara Ivanyutina, Ukranian Serial Killer & Her Serial Killer Family - 1987...

Serial Killer Tamara Ivanyutina was the last woman to be executed in the Soviet Union (in Ukraine). Her parents and older sister were also repeat killers who operated from 1976 through 1987, employing...

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“Copenhagen Baby Farm Couple” - 1860

Two different obverse images of broadside ballads have been placed online which refer to a couple from Copenhagen who murdered 23 babies. The perpetrators’ names are not given. Library markings...

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Joe Reynolds, Black Widow Tennessee Prostitute -1892

FULL TEXT: Memphis, Tenn., June 4. – The body of Melvin Kennedy was found floating in the Bayou Gayoso some time age, and it was suspected that he was the victim of foul pay. Friday Joe Reynolds, a...

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“Detroit Black Widow Serial Killer” - 1870

Thus far, this brief report is all that has been located on this case. Further research will undoubtedly turn up the details.***FULL TEXT: A woman has been arrested in Detroit, charged with attempting...

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Mrs. Johnston, Iowa Black Widow Serial Killer - 1888

FULL TEXT: He married his mother-in-law. He is dead. She is in Jail. He died from poison, and she is charged with giving it to him. The parties lived at Villisca, in this county. The name of the dead...

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The Dirty Dozen: 12 Female Serial Killers Executed in the USA – 1945-2002

Of the twelve American serial killers (3 or more victims) who have been executed between 1816 and 2002 only six have had their biographies published (nine if we count two rare pamphlets –  one about...

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Mollie Foxwater, Black Widow Serial Killer – Oklahoma, 1900

Note: This story was reprinted in many different newspapers in 1901 and 1902 as a current event report. Thus the story must be considered problematic. Further research may perhaps confirm or deny the...

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