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Hilda Nilsson, Swedish Serial Baby-Killer – 1917
Wikipedia: Hilda Nilsson (1876 – 10 August 1917) was a Swedish serial killer from Helsingborg who became known as “the angel maker on Bruksgatan Street.” In 1917 she was imprisoned for murdering eight...
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Female Serial Killers Who Also Killed Animals
1676 – Brinvilliers, Marquise de – Paris, France.“The Marquise de Brinvilliers and Gaudin experimented upon dogs and then upon patients in hospitals, whom she sought under the guise of charity.”...
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Nora Barrett, 16-Year-Old Murderess, Delaware, 1899
FULL TEXT: Dover, Del., June 22. – Nora Barrett, colored, aged 16, years,s arrested last night by Detectives McVey and Witall, charged with having burned to death 18-months old James W. Lafferty, of...
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Gladys Dillon, 14-Year-Old Mass Poisoner – West Virginia, 1936
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): Huntington, W. Va. Feb. 25. – Ellsworth Payne, 15-year-old Cabell county youth, was arrested by Deputies Bill Thompson and Luther Foulks of Lincoln county in a remote...
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“Berlin Girl,” Sadistic Young Murderess – Germany, 1878
FULL TEXT: The killing of the Berlin baby that was dragged about in a bag was not from so inoffensive a motive as at first supposed. It seems that the sister in whose charge the child was left became...
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Lilly White, 17-Year-Old Murderess – Kentucky, 1891
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): Lexington, Ky., Jan. 11. – Lilly White, the mulatto girl, 17 years old, who poisoned and killed her aunt and her uncle, and came near killing her father, Peter White, and...
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Flora Rohr, 16-Year-Old Murderess – Missouri, 1889
FULL TEXT: St. Louis, Jan. 19. – A special from Fayette says: This morning, about 10 o’clock, Flora Rohr, aged 16 years, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. E. J. Johnson, and then committed suicided by...
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Chicago’s Women Who Got Away With Murder – 1935 Report
Cases discussed or mentioned: Dorothy Pollak, Beulah Mary Annan, Belva Gaertner, Cora Orthwein, Catherine Cassler, Sabelle Nitti Crudelle, Maggie Titter, Mrs. Tillie Klimek, Mrs. Kittie Malm, Mts....
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“Wife Murders Child Of Eleven Years Because She Kissed Father Too Much." - 1915
CHRONOLOGY:Apr. 21 – Mrs. Steele murders Evelina.Apr. 22 – body found; fake story about Evelina being pregnant and the attempt to perform abortion told to police.Apr. 23 – Arraignment in circuit court....
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Marie Breysse Martin, Serial Killer Robber – France 1831
It must be noted that there have been challenges to the guilt of the parties made by scholars in recent years.***Wikipedia EXCERPTS: L’auberge rouge (The Red Inn) is an inn, originally named L’Auberge...
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Celia Rose, 24-Year-Old Triple Murderess - Ohio, 1896
CHRONOLOGY: Newville, Ohio.Jun. 24, 1896 – First poisoning by Celia; victims: father, mother, brother; arsenic laced schmierkaese (“smear case;” cream cheese).Jun. 30, 1896 – David Rose, father, 69,...
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“Rouge Husband-Poisoners” – Austro-Hungarian Empire 1900
The village that is here spelled “Zlifet” has not yet been identified on any map. Although the article gives the nation as “Hungary,” it was common during the period in question to refer to any region...
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The Weeks Girl, 17-Year-Old Murderess – 1889, Georgia
FULL TEXT: Columbus, Ga., Jan. 21. – A special to the Enquirer-Sun from Mechanicsville, Ala., says: A seventeen year old daughter of Joe Weeks, colored, forced four of her younger sisters to eat rough...
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Beatrice Farmer, 13-Year-Old Would-Be Murderess – 1901, Australia
FULL TEXT: Beatrice Farmer, 13 years of age, was called upon at the Melbourne General Sessions on Tuesday to answer a charge of an unusual nature. The charge was that she did cause Henry Stanton...
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Mary Kabal, Young Would-Be Mass Murderess – 1873, Minnesota
FULL TEXT: A little Bohemian girl named Mary Kabal, age not given, was arrested Monday last at Winona, Minn., on the charge of attempting to poison the household of a Mr. Robert Duncan, Superintendent...
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Sarah Reeves, 10-Year-Old Would-Be Murderess – 1874, New Jersey
FULL TEXT: New York, June 26. – Sarah Reeves a colored girl, ten years old, was arrested at Elizabeth, N. J., for attempting to poison the family of John R. Miller, of Crawford, by putting creosote in...
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Destiny Garcia, 15-Year-Old Double Murderess – New York, 2015
Note: If you are curious about young murderesses you might be interested in looking at Youthful Borgias: Girls Who Murder, which offers an index of cases with links plus a fascinating,...
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Abigall Hill, Serial Killer Baby Farmer – England, 1658
EXCERPT: This woman Abigall Hill, was looked upon by all her neighbours, for a woman inclined to much compassion, she seemed much to pity young children, that were in distress, and according to her...
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Chivalry Justice in 1907 USA
FULL TEXT: Is there a “dementia Americana” for women murderers?Are women who kill men protected from capital punishment by an “unwritten law” which, says they shall not be hanged?The plea of the...
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Charlotte Howell, Suspected Serial Kiiller – Pennsylvania 1895
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): Wellsborough, Penn., Aug. 10. – Mrs. Charlotte Howell of Tioga, a good-looking woman of about twenty-seven years of age. was lodged in jail here last eight, charged with the...
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