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Bertha Lankford, Double Black Widow Murderess – 1899, Texas
FULL TEXT: Dallas, Tex., Dec. 23. – When Mrs. Bertha Lankford killed Dr. George A. Lankford in their home in Harrisburg he was the third husband of the woman accused of unfaithfulness and the second...
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Florence “Flossie” Hartman, Schemining Double Black Widow – 1938, Pennsylvania
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 4): Cleveland, Jan. 19. – Mrs. Flossie Hartman, 32, found her estranged husband five times killing him, said Detective Anthony Kosicki.“Please get me out of here,” Kosicki...
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Marie-Louise Victorine Bessarabo (Hera Mirtel), Double Black Widow – France,...
Marie-Louise Victorine Bessarabo was a novelist who was known by her pen name, Hera Mirtel (or, Hera Myrtel, in other English language sources).***EXCERPT (Article 1 of 2): Hera Mirtel’s early...
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The Baby Burners: Female Serial Killers Who Burned Babies Alive
Most of these cases involve "baby farmers."***1829 – Martha "Patty" Cannon – Johnson's Corners, Maryland, USAOn one occasion one of the negro women had a little child about five years old sometimes...
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Rose Barron, Suspected Detroit Serial Killer – 1905, Michigan
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 5): Detroit. Jan. 25. – Evidence was brought to light to-day which convinces the police that Mrs. Rose Barron is one of the most heartless monomaniacs ever arrested. It is...
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Female Serial Killers of the Jazz Age: 1920s USA
Perhaps seven of the female serial killer cases appearing in this collection may be found in the most complete lists of female serial killers that have been published in the print media (Creighton,...
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Mary L. Bowsher, Ohio Serial Killer Mom - 1868
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 6): We are informed that our neighboring town, Upper Sandusky, was thrown into a state great excitement on Tuesday last [Jan. 7], by the arrest of a mother upon the charge of...
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Leila Banks, Serial Baby-Killer in Harlem (NYC) – 1925
NOTE: This is the only report on this African-American case so far accessible. The story appears in an out-of town African-American paper, so we can be sure that eventually more details will become...
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Julia Calahan, Serial Baby-Killer – Massachusetts, 1871
FULL TEXT: Boston, August 11. - Three infants, said to have been farmed out to an old woman, Julia Calahan, in East Cambridge, died recently. The woman is under arrest on suspicion of killing them with...
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Nancy Lyman, Double Black Widow – New York state, 1868
FULL TEXT: A woman named Nancy Lymans [sic] has been arrested at Jordanville, Herkimer County on the charge of having in February last murdered a former husband, Ephriam Garner. She has had three...
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Minnie Taylor, Tennessee Serial Killer Prostitute - 1875
FULL TEXT: On the 9th day of February, 1874, L. R. Lane, a citizen of this county, living at Woodruff station, on the L., P. & S. W. Railroad, left his home and went to Paducah with a considerable...
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Frona McMahan’s Hobby Was Marrying & Murdering Men – North Carolina, 1915
3 deaths:Jun. 12, 1898 – Thomas Meadows, husband No. 1, died.Circa 1906 – William Gregory, husband No. 3, married 1900; died circa 1906.Aug. 6, 1915 – Dove McMahan – husband No. 6, died.[Note: Some...
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Dessie Keyes, Suspected Texas Serial Killer – 1921
Deaths:Aug. 6, 1921 – Leslie Keyes, diedJuky – Maud Aven, diedFannie Elbert Aven, 5-m-o, died.***FULL TEXT: W. I. Keyes of Winnsboro, Texas, is in Kinney today. He is the father of Leslie Keyes, the...
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Melissa Margarita Calderón Ojeda ("La China"), Mexican Serial Assassin - 2015
Her nickname, “La China,” means “minion” (or “handmaiden”). Melissa Margarita Calderón Ojeda, 30, was arrested at Bellavista, Baja California Sur, Mexico on June 16, 2015. She is leader of a gang...
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Her nickname, “La China,” means “Minion” (or “handmaiden”). Melissa Margarita Calderón Ojeda, 30, was arrested at Bellavista, Baja California Sur, Mexico on June 16, 2015. She is leader of a gang...
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Emma LeDoux, American Black Widow Serial Killer - 1906
Emma LeDoux, born Emma Head in 1871, tall and beautiful, was a Vamp – a sexual predator. She married five men during her matrimonial career. Four of them died (according to one source). The first she...
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Carol Campbell, California Serial Killer Bandit, 1974
3 deaths:Jun. 25, 1974 – Richard Pipes, Santa Cruz, Ca.Jul. 12, 1974 – Louis McNamara, Hillsborough, Ca.Jul. 17, 1974 – Stephen Russell, Idaho.***FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 4): With a nervous smile and a...
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“La Degolladora,” Mysterious Mexican Female Serial Killer - 2015
They call her “La Degolladora” (the throat-slitter). She attacks strangers on the streets of Chimalhuacán, a suburb of Mexico City with a population of 850,000. Survivors describe her as in her early...
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The Forgotten Serial Killers: Child Care Providers (“Baby Farmers”) Who...
baby farm– 1.) aplacethathousesandtakescareofbabiesforafee.2.) aresidenceforunwedpregnantgirlsorwomenthatalsoarrangesadoptions.Most of the baby farmers listed her were serial killers. Several notable...
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Virginia Doyle, Detroit of Serial Killer - 1870
This case involves one attempted murder plus two earlier suspected murders.*** FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): A colored Lucretia Borgia, named Virginia Doyle, was arraigned at the Police Court in Detroit,...
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