When the subject of murderers and serial killers comes up, it’s usually men who are mentioned- Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dauhmer – but few people can mention more than one or two notorious female killers. Some killed for love, some for money, but most were just absolutely insane and sadistic. Interestingly, a few have either been set free or will be soon. In the interest of equality, here’s a list of 25 Infamous Female Murderers Throughout History.
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Lady Elizabeth Bathory
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Have you ever heard the phrase, “Bathing in the blood of virgins”? Elizabeth Bathory is where we get that phrase. It is estimated she killed as many as 650 servant and local young women before she was caught, and she had a special torture chamber built for her by her husband.
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Belle Gunness
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Belle was an immigrant from Norway to the US who killed her husbands for insurance payouts before starting to lure single wealthy men to her farm. When the farm burned in 1908, more than 40 bodies were found in shallow graves.
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Dagmar Overbye
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Overbye ran an orphanage in the late 1920’s. She’d take in newborns from desperate mothers for a one time fee, promising they’d be placed in loving homes. Instead, she killed them and cremated the bodies in her stove. She confessed to killing between sixty and eighty children, but estimates are as high as 180.
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Mary Ann Cotton
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Mary Ann Cotton was a serial killer in Victorian England. She is suspected of killing up to 21 people with arsenic, but she was only convicted of killing her stepson which led to her hanging in 1873.
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Ameila Dyer
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Dyer was known as the Baby Farmer and is suspected of killing over 200 infants in Victorian England. Again, she’d take babies in from desperate mothers for a fee with a promise to have them adopted, and then murder the children. When she was apprehended by police, Dyer told them, “You’ll know all mine by the tape around their necks.” She was hung for her crimes in 1869.
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Ilse Kotch
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Ilse joined the Nazi party in Germany in 1932, and she earned the reputation of “Bitch of Buchenwald” at the concentration camp she oversaw with her husband, Karl Otto Kotch. Ilse liked to make household objects out of the skin of prisoners she tortured and had a particular affinity for making skin with tattoos into lampshades. She committed suicide in prison in 1967.
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Delfina and Maria de Jesus Gonzales
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These ladies ran a prostitution ring in centeral Mexico in the 1950’s and 60’s, largely staffed with girls they’d kidnapped. When the girls would become to ill or ugly from being force fed drugs, the sisters would kill them. The sisters also killed several clients and infants. Delfina died while serving out the sentence for her crimes, and Maria disappeared after her release.
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Christiana Edmunds
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Christiana Edmunds, born in 1828 in England, had a weird hobby. She would buy chocolates from a shop, poison them with strychnine, and then return them to the shop. Other people would buy them and become ill. In 1871, a 4 year old boy died from eating one of the chocolates she had poisoned. She died in a psychiatric hospital in 1907.
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Jane Toppoan
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Toppoan was a nurse in New England who injected her patients with morphine until they died. She claimed her goal in life was to, “have killed more people – helpless people – than any other man or woman who ever lived,” and confessed to killing over 100.
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Rosemary West
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Rosemary is currently serving out a life sentence in Durham, England, for her part in torturing and killing at least ten women, along with her husband Fred West, in the 1970’s and 80’s. One of the last murders the two committed was their 16 year old daughter, Heather in 1987.
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