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Male serial killers and criminals get a lot of the attention out there, but, trust me, there are plenty of wicked and vile women out there as well who have a place on the list of the most notorious murderers in history.
Take a look at these women and explore their extremely creepy Wikipedia pages if you’re looking to be shocked.
These responses come from the Buzzfeed Community.
1. Leonarda Ciabciulli
“She killed three women around her local Italian village and turned them into soap and gave them to other people in the neighborhood.”
2. Elizabeth Báthory
“She was a Hungarian noblewoman who has been described as the most vicious female serial killer in all recorded history. She tortured and murdered hundreds of young women in the 16th and 17th centuries. She believed that drinking the blood of young girls would preserve her youthfulness and her looks. Oh, and also to bathe in their blood.”
3. Myra Hindley
“She recorded the torture of children with her husband. Thank god she ignored her lawyer’s advice, because she had the opportunity to plead down to being an accessory. She would only have served 8 years.”
4. Belle Gunness
“I first read her Wiki over a decade ago and still think about it to this day.”
5. Dorothea Puente
“She was an elderly woman who took in boarders and then drugged and dismembered them.”
6. Tillie Klimek
“She claimed to be a psychic and predicted deaths of neighborhood dogs with shocking accuracy (yikes). She poisoned and killed three husbands and three neighborhood children. She ‘psychically predicted’ each of their deaths.”
7. Nannie Doss
“Every time she talked about murdering her husbands she would giggle earning her the nickname ‘The Giggling Nanny’.”
8. Amelia Dyer
“She was also known as ‘The Reading Baby Farmer’. There is no way of knowing how many innocent babies she strangled and dumped in a river.”
9. Karla Homolka
“Karla participated in the rape and murder of several girls, including her little sister.”
10. Linda Hazzard
“She opened a sanitarium to lure in victims with the promise of curing their ailments and then starved them to death!”
11. Rosemary West
“Fred and Rosemary West were sexual sadists who killed a confirmed 12 women including one of their daughters and then threatened the other kids with the same fate.”
12. Beverley Allitt
“She was an English nurse who murdered a number of toddlers for attention.”
13. Joanne Dennehy
“Other female serial killers tend to target the vulnerable type (children, the elderly or the sick) or people they know well. This wasn’t the case for Dennehy as she purposely set out to kill men, apparently for a laugh.”
14. Blanche Taylor Moore
“She poisoned her husbands by slipping arsenic into her famed peanut butter milkshakes. She got the dosage wrong on her last attempted murder, and he wound up not dead but in the hospital, where they found he had arsenic in his bloodstream. She’s awaiting execution on death row in North Carolina.”
15. Judith Neelley
“She and her husband Alvin kidnapped, raped, tortured then killed two women. They injected Drano and Liquid Plumber into them.”
