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Maria Tressa, Jealousy-Inspired Serial Killer – Trieste, 1898
EXCERPT: At Trieste a schoolmistress named Mary Tressa fell in love with a married man with a wife and three children. She contrived to poison his wife and the children, in the hope that she would...
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Marie Hochreiter, Hypnotic Serial Killer – Bohemia, 1919
FULL TEXT (translated from German): After several days of negotiations before the District Court Leitineritz the verdict against the high school teacher widow Marie Hochreiter because of three...
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Josefa Leitner, Double Black Widow – Austria, 1892
One husband died under suspicious circumstances, the other survived poisoning.***FULL TEXT (translated from German): On Sunday night, the 74-year-old, married house owner Josefa Leitner was in...
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The Widow Madaszar and Her Eight Dead Husbands – 1918, Hungary
FULL TEXT (translated from German): Hodmezö-Vasarhely telegraphs us from the 31st of August: The 70-year-old landowner Georg Madaszar was killed today by his wife with an iron pestle. Madaszar was the...
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Juliette Claire Bruzi, Serial Husband-Killer – 1927, France
FULL TEXT (translated from English): Paris, 24.—At Aïnay-sous-Bois, a small town in the Seine, arrested 39-year-old Juliette Claire Bruzi a few days ago on suspicion of poisoning her late husband. In...
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Johanna Biedermann, Triple Black Widow – Austria, 1933
FULL TEXT (translated from German): The aged woman who stands before the Kremse jury today is accused of having committed a single, albeit terrible, murder of her stepson twelve years ago.The woman...
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The Widow Thuri, Serial Killer Black Widow – Silesia, 1899
FULL TEXT: Aus Budapest, 23. d. M., wird telegraphirt: In Sobotka wurde gestern die Witwe des reformirten Predigers Ludwig Thuri auf Grund anonymer Anzeigen unter dem Ver dachte verhaftet, daß sie ihre...
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Cannibal Murderesses
1610 – Elizabeth Bathory– Hungary – sadistically murdered a large number of girls, perhaps hundreds, torturing them and biting off parts of their bodies. The legend that she bathed in the blood to...
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“The Paraiba Serial Child-Eater” - Brazil, 1932
FULL TEXT (translated from German): Forest Pastor Hans Frehnerau, from Rio Grande do Sul, reported a very peculiar case of cannibalism that took place in Parahyba. There was arrested an old shrew who...
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Anna Weikert, Serial Killer – Bohemia, 1877
FULL TEXT: (translated from German): From Neichenberg is reported: In the winter of last year the 70-year-old cottager Vinzenz Weikert from Gabel suddenly went missing; there has been no trace of him...
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Voracious Cannibal Female Serial Killer, Gordeeva Dmitriev-Andryunin-Plaksin...
EXCERPT (Translated from Russian): The first recorded fact of cannibalism dates back to the 1940s.Then, in the village of Tokmok in Kyrgyzstan, a certain Gordeeva Dmitriev Andryunin Plaksin(known...
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Angela Lazzaro, Suspected Black Widow - 1940, Argentina
FULL TEXT (translated from German): Angela Lazzaro from Alcorta is only 32 years old currently living in at Rosario in the Argentine province of Santa Fe, but she has already poisoned three husbands....
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Prison Weddings – Female Serial Killers
1929 – “Brazilian Black Widow” – Fernando Noronha Island, Brazil1946 – Bertha Gossett Hill – Rome, Georgia, USA2009 – Kanae Kijima – Tokyo, JapanAfter conviction and sentence of death, Kanae Kijima has...
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Katharina Hoerl (Hörl), Serial Baby-Killer – Austria, 1874
FULL TEXT (translated from German): About Veranlastung the Gemeindevortehung to Enzersdorf vorgetern the local resident Katharina Hörl was arrested on suspicion of multiple infanticide. The poisoned...
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Cora Werntz Rendall, Serial Killer – Indiana, 1936
Some sources spell the names, Rendall and Werntz as “Rendell” and “Kizer.”ARTICLE IN PROGRESS (many more entries to add). ***Nov. 30, 1932 – Schuyler Colfax Werntz dies. Bother-in-law.Mar. 27, 1933 –...
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Katharina Hoerl (Hörl), Serial Baby-Killer – Austria, 1874
FULL TEXT (translated from German): About Veranlastung the Gemeindevortehung to Enzersdorf vorgetern the local resident Katharina Hörl was arrested on suspicion of multiple infanticide. The poisoned...
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Ellen Roberts, Serial Baby-Killer, New York, 1873
More than 30 infants died.***FULL TEXT: Sergeant Phillips, of the Yorkville police Court squad, yesterday arrested Mrs. Ellen Roberts, a middle-aged, intelligent woman, living in the tenement No. 212...
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Margaret Thomsen: Why she killed the kids – 1938, New York
NOTE: Some sources give the name as "Margaret," some "Marguerite."*** FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): For two days a 25-year-old mother sulked because her husband refused to take her to the movie, “Snow...
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“Spanish Belle” Belle Rogers – Serial Killer Riot – Idaho, 1889
FULL TEXT: TheElmore Bulletin, published atRocky Bar. Idaho, announces the death of "Spanish Belle,"one of the most desperate womenwho ever lived on this coast. She resided InEureka about six or seven...
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Mary Oberly, Serial Baby-Killer – New York, 1887
FULL TEXT: New York, July 23. – Mary Oberly, a middle aged French woman, was arraigned in the police court this morning charged with keeping a baby farm. Her apartments were in a basement reeking with...
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