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Wild Wild West & Wives With Sex-Shooters: Chivalry in 1906
FULL TEXT: A wave of husband-killing is sweeping over the West. Within the past few months many women have put their husbands to death, in several instances so that they might wed others. Even the...
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Zhang Zongqin, Chinese Female Serial Killer - 2006
Chongqing, China – In April 2006, in Chongqing’s Fuling District, villagers noticed that, Yang Renyou,a man who died of what was considered a mysterious disease that had long plagued the area had marks...
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The Verdict That Shocked Paris: Jeanne Fabre-Bulle - 1930
FULL TEXT: Paris, Dec. 12 – After two score women slayers have gone free or escaped with very light sentences in the Paris courts on the plea of “crime of passion” during the past few months, a jury of...
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Clarissa, South Carolina Serial Killer – 1855
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): The Columbia (S. C.) Times, of Saturday, publishes the following extract: from a letter, from a “perfectly reliable source,” in relation to Clarissa, who is sentenced to be...
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“Samáná Threefold Murderess” – India, Circa 1520
~ A HINDUSTANI FEMALE FIEND. ~FULL TEXT: In the days of Sultan Ibrahim [reigned 1517-1526], when there was abundance in the land of Hind [synonym of “India”], a tradesman of the town of Samana chanced...
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Sofie Johannesdotter, Norweigan Serial Killer - 1875
Sofie Johannesdotter was arrested following the buring down of the Stang house where Sofie was employed as a house servant, though the master, a prosperous lumber merchant and his wife had in the...
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Charlotte, 17-Year-Old Slave Girl & Serial Killer – Louisiana 1853
FULL TEXT: We understand that a mulatto-girl named Charlotte, aged about 17 years, who was purchased a few weeks ago by Mr. LAFARGUE, of Avoyelles, for the sum of $1050 cash, has been brought to this...
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Mae Ella Lee Killed Two Inconvenient Men - Texas 1962
FULL TEXT: San Antonio, Tx. – Mrs. Mae Ella Lee told police yesterday she killed her boy friend last month by poisoning his drinking water at a hospital where he was recovering from an earlier attempt...
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Julia Ebergenyi, Aristocratic Black Widow Vamp - 1870
Note: Julia Ebergenyi is included her based upon her (possibly only accessory) role in the death of Countess Chorinsky on Nov. 21, 1867, for which she was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison....
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“Epidemic of Cruelty”: Violence by Women in Global History (discussed in 1893)
FULL TEXT: Spencer says that among savage nations the women are as perverse as the men, and if they do not work so much evil it is because they are less able to do so. This is not entirely true;...
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Clara Sterling, Sadistic Orphanage Matron – Ohio, 1908
FULL TEXT: New Philadelphia, Ohio, February 19. – Trustees of the Tuscarawas County Children’s home today briefly investigated the charges against Miss Clara Sterling, who drove a tack through...
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Grace Sims, Tennessee Lonely Hearts Black Widow Serial Killer – 1930s
Grace Sims (born September 21, 1886), Brickel Ridge, Tennessee.***EXCERPT (Article 1 of 3): “Mowery’s family is astonishing in several ways. Not only was her grandmother incredibly resourceful and...
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Marie Bleirs, Fanatically Vengeful Austrian Serial Killer - 1879
Note: This amazing case was discovered by this editor doing key-word searches on newly digitized sources on February 5, 2015. It is the 840-somethingth Female Serial Killer case to be put on the list....
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Mary Ganole, Kentucky Prostitute & Serial Killer - 1883
Note: Mary Ganole murdered two men and deliberately allowed the lynching of an innocent man, executed for the murder that she herself had committed. Thus in this collection of cases, we give her credit...
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Mme. Bougaran, French Complulsive Baby-Killer Girl - 1865
FULL TEXT: The Brest journals give an account of the arrest of a servant girl named Bougaran, charged with the murder of three infants, the children of Mr. R—, Professor in the College of that place,...
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Anne Dupin & Her Two Serial Killer Careers – France, 1869
A separate post has been made for Augustine Miard (Janvier). Her name is sometimes misspelled as “Mizard” in English language sources).*** FULL TEXT: By the arrival of a steamer from Europe on Saturday...
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Raya & Sekina Aly Hammam, Egyptian Serial Killing Sisters - 1920
NOTE: There are a variety of transliterations of the names to be found in English language accounts (“Rayya”; “Sakina”; “Ali Hammam”).***OVERVIEW: The sisters Raya and Sakina were convicted, along with...
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Jane Morris, New York City Serial Baby-Killer for Profit - 1898
FULL TEXT: The horrors of baby-farming, as it was formerly carried on indiscriminately and without fear of the law, has been reduced to a minimum, through legislative enactments rigidly enforced by the...
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Elizabeth Wheeldon, 17-Year-Old with a Habit of Murdering Babies – England, 1867
This case involves two murders on separate occasions. Because of her young age, Elizabeth Wheeldon has been included in this collection which is normally restricted to three or more separate...
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Annie Piard, Philadelphia Serial Baby-Starving Baby Farmer - 1883
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): The police yesterday entered the house 927 South Fifth street, occupied by Mrs. Annie Piard, who was on Wednesday night arrested for abandoning a baby near Twenty - third...
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