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Betty Jakim – Suspected Michigan Serial Killer Nurse – 1975
Two Filipino nursers were convicted of murdering patients in July through August 1975 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Following a 13-week trial the two VA nurses...
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Elka Cansfried, New York City Vamp – 1897
FULL TEXT: Elka Canzfried, “The Woman Bluebeard.”The New York woman is said to have been married to eleven men, and it is asserted that she has never procured a divorce from any of them, though none of...
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Katie Horlscher, 16-Year-Old Serial Poisoner – Pennsylvania, 1893
FULL TEXT: A diabolical plot to poison a whole family was unearthed by Detectives Crawford and Geyer yesterday, and Katie Horlscher, sixteen years old, who lived with her uncle and guardian, John...
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Lue Burns, Black Widow Who Shot to Death Two Husbands – 1941, Missouri
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): John Palmer (Jack) Burns, owner of a small jewelry shop in downtown East St. Louis, was shot and killed last night by his wife, Mrs. Lue Burns, following one of the petty...
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Laura Humber, 12-Year-Old Would-Be Mass Murderess – 1900, Wisconsin
FULL TEXT: Chippewa Falls, Wis., May 22. – Laura Humber, 12 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Humber, was brought into court here yesterday charged with attempting to murder her parents and...
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Rachel Hartley, Suspected Serial Killer – 1794, Mississippi
Rachel Hartley, 1794, accused; wife of Jacob Hartley.Suspected victims:Jacob (John, Jr.) Hartley, died Apr. 4, 1774; son of John and Anna Catherine Hartley.John Hartley Sr., died.Betty Hartley, died;...
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Kathleen McCluskey, Methadone Serial Killer – 2001, England
Prosecutors described Kathleen McCluskey, resident in the famous university town of Cambridge, England, as bearing an “ambivalent attitude towards men.” She was charged of murdering four of them...
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Faust Bonino, Suspected Serial Killer Nurse – 2016, Italy
Faust Bonino, a 55-year-old nurse in Piombino, Italy was arrested March 30, 2016 on suspicion of murdering 13 patients between 2014 and 2015. Police named the investigation, which involved several...
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Female Serial Killers & Knives (and Other Blades)
940 – “White-necked Crow” – China – knife1819 – Ane Nielsdatter – Copenhagen, Denmark – hatchet1860 – Mary Jane “Bricktop” Jackson – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – knife1865 – Marie-Françoise Bougaran–...
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Alice Platt, Suspected Missouri Serial Killer – 1896
Some sources (including in Kansas City) use the spelling “Pratt,” but “Platt” is more common and thus is presumably correct.***3 Deaths:Sep. 20, 1896 – Mrs. Ellen J. Torrence (6), mother of Mrs....
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Mrs. Mary Brockwwell, Mom Who Murdered Three Daughters – Kentucky, 1905
FULL TEXT: Paducah, Ky., March 28. – Further sensations are expected to develop to-morrow, when Mrs. Mary Brockwwell, the self-confessed murderer of her three little daughters, and her accused...
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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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“Men Pay Till It Hurts In Alimony Racket” – 1930 USA
FULL TEXT: New York, Aug 15 — All hail America, the land of alimony, and the home of the gold-digger!The spectacle of our harassed millionaires paying out staggering ransoms to free themselves of the...
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“She beats me up too often.” (broke but happy) – 1930 USA
FULL TEXT: Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 11 – Alimony is just another big racket, in the opinion of Justice William Smathers of the domestic relations court here who said today, in denying the application...
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Woman’s “right to fleece a husband” – The Alimony Racket in 1951
FULL TEXT: Justice Kenneth O’Brien, of New York City, has ordered Billy Rose to pay Mrs. Rose temporary alimony of $700 a week.She is the former swimming star, Eleanor Holm. She asked for $1250. Mr....
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What does a female serial killer look like?
Female Serial Killers: An Image Collection is an extraordinary visual tour of over 200 female serial killer cases dating back to the 1500s up to the year 1958, from three dozen countries. Many of the...
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Sexually Sadistic Los Zetas Female Serial Killer – 2016, Mexico
The news reports published so far are scanty but we shall attempt to give an accurate description of this case. The 28-year-old woman named Juana, whose gangland nickname was “La Peque Sicaria”...
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Judias Buenoano, Florida Serial Killer – 1983
Judias “Judy” Buenoano (born Judias Welty, also known as Judias Goodyear, also known as Judias Morris) (April 4, 1943 - March 30, 1998). The name “Buenoano” was concocted by Judias. It is the Spanish...
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Andrea Göppner, Serial Baby-Killing Mom – 2015, Germany
Eight corpses of newborns were discovered in the home of Johann (55) and Andrea (45) Göppner, in Wallenfels, Germany on November 13, 2015. Andrea had been thrown out of the house the previous...
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Poems & Songs About Female Serial Killers
Barfield, Velma – Lumberton, North Carolina, USA – 1978Jonathan Byrd’s song “Velma” from his Wildflowersalbum (2001, Waterbug Records) gives a personal account of the murders and...
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