Female maniacs: the most cruel and dangerous

Many believe that women are maniacs - a rarity, because supposedly the fairer sex is less likely to violence than men. However, in history there are many women who are not inferior to them in cruelty. Nevertheless, serial killers among them are really less than among the stronger sex. Probably because you need to plan for this, and women are emotional creatures, and do not really like it. However, not so few of them. After reading the article, you will find that female maniacs in history are not so rare.

Bella (Belle) Sorenson Gannes

The first woman we'll talk about is Bella Sorenson Gunness. In her account, presumably 42 victims. This is a native of Norway, who moved to the US and married a businessman from Chicago. Bella Sorenson Guinness killed for the sake of money and just for the sake of pleasure. Some researchers believe that this woman also killed two of her daughters. She poisoned them in order to get insurance. Officially, the death of Bella's children is considered the result of the illness, however, judging by a number of signs, poisoning could have caused it. In addition, Bella Sorenson Guinness is suspected of burning the family business in order to receive insurance payments. Her husband later died under very strange circumstances. Of course, his wife again got money for it. Perhaps the woman sent her husband to the next world, feeding him special "medicine." Bella was later called a "black widow".

On the proceeds from the murder of her husband, she wanted to purchase a farm, but she did not seem to have the money. Then the woman began to seduce men of elderly and middle age. Bella made love correspondence with them, married, and then husbands died, and the "black widow" received income. A very sophisticated business. According to rumors, 42 bodies are buried in the ground, on the sites belonging to Gunness. And the woman earned about 250 thousand dollars on her "business".

However, someone put an end to the unusual "career" of this woman. Her body was found burned, the head of Ganness was chopped off. Although it still remains an open question whether the corpse really belonged to Belle, or the woman again came out dry from the water. A horrible story, is not it? However, the other most cruel maniacs-women cause no less emotion. We will now talk about one of them.

Jane Toppan

Jane is a nurse who killed weak and sick people. It is known that her father was insane, and the girl spent her childhood in a shelter in Boston. When Jane Toppan grew up, she became physically strong, a big woman. The future criminal learned on the nurse. During the training, the teachers noticed the girl's unhealthy attraction to photos from the autopsy of corpses. However, Jane managed to get an education and find a job. She began to take care of patients who considered her a caring nurse. The woman was even called "cheerful Jane." Toppan after a while realized that bringing patients to the brink of death gives her sexual pleasure. She injected the drug to her victims, then trying to reanimate them in order to repeat the operation again. Jane often went to bed dying. Probably, the woman molested them, while the patients struggled to survive! Toppan began her killer career in 1885 and continued her atrocities until she was arrested. The woman was charged with committing 11 murders. Jane, while in custody, gave shocking testimony. She confessed that she killed 31 people. Toppan wanted to become a "record-holder", the woman who committed the most killings. Jane was recognized as crazy. She spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital for criminals, like many other serial female maniacs.

Rosemary West

Our next heroine is Rosemary West. This woman, along with her husband, deceived the young naive girls. They picked up future victims on the street, offered them food and shelter. Rosemary had 8 own children. She earned a living by prostitution and was also a sadist. Her husband Fred was just as perverted. On account of this couple - 10 murders, among the victims - his own daughter Heather. In addition, Rose was found guilty of the death of Chermeyn, her stepdaughter. Both Fred and Rose experienced a difficult childhood, and both were sociopaths. Fred hinted that on their account - the death of more than 20 people!

Female maniacs, murderers often acted on a couple with their husbands or lovers. With one of them you will get acquainted if you read this article to the end.

Eileen Vuernos

Eileen Vuernos is one of the most famous serial killers today. This woman worked as a prostitute, she was a lesbian. She had known sin in her childhood: Eileen had become pregnant at the age of 13. After 2 years she was kicked out of the house. It is known that a woman committed armed robbery. In addition, she managed to marry a 70-year-old man who later complained that his wife was beating him. The arrests, drunken fights and so on helped the old man in court to ensure that Vuernos was forbidden to approach him.

The woman entered into a lesbian relationship. Her chosen one was a girl named Tyria. In order to feed herself and her, Eileen began to engage in prostitution. She killed 8 clients. Eileen swore shortly before her death that she committed the first murder in self-defense. Unlike many other female assassins, Vuernos was not afraid of the sight of blood. She killed her victims with gun shots. By the way, in 2003 the film "Monster" with Charlize Theron appeared in the role of Eileen. The actress received for this role the Golden Globe and Oscar awards.

Andrea Yates

Maniacs of the world, women and men, often suffer from mental disorders. And Andrea Yates probably suffered from schizophrenia. Although she was not officially diagnosed, the presence of serious emotional disorders in women is obvious. Andrea killed 5 of her children, drowning them all in the bathroom. Rusty, her domineering husband, wanted to have many children, and his wife had constant depression, which even reached suicide attempts. The additional psychological burden associated with the upbringing of children turned out to be fatal.

Her husband knew that Andrea had problems with his head (although later he blamed all the psychiatrists that happened), so he usually asked someone to stay with the children and with his wife during his absence. But one day the woman was left alone. She took advantage of this to drown her children. Rusty said that he wanted to leave his wife for a while alone, so that she did not get used to the help of others. Andrea had hours to kill all five children in turn. Then the woman called the rescue service and told about what she had done.

Andrea felt that for both her and children, their death would be the best way out. The fact is that the woman was a religious fanatic. She called her children "unrighteous" and believed that her own sins would not allow them to grow up as worthy Christians.

Beverly Ellitt

The story of the next woman, Beverly Ellitt, is also related to the killing of children. She was nicknamed "the angel of death." The woman was a registered nurse. She killed children by injecting insulin or potassium chloride into their blood to cause heart failure. Total on the account of this woman 4 committed murders and 9 more attempts. At the same time, all 13 attempts at killing children occurred in a very short time, within two weeks! The oldest victim of Beverly was 5 years old, and the youngest was not even two months old. Psychiatrists who studied the case of this woman, came to the conclusion that she suffered a very unusual mental disorder - Munchausen syndrome. The motive for her killing and inflicting pain on others is drawing attention to herself. Ellitt had loved to pretend to be seriously ill when she was a child. Beverly was sent to a hospital for mentally ill criminals. A woman was sentenced to life imprisonment for 13 years. Relatives of the children killed by her threaten to kill her if the woman is once released.

Carla Homolka

Our next heroine is Carla Homolka from Canada, a beautiful blonde who loved Paul Bernardo, a serial killer known as the "rapist from Scarborough." Feelings for the lover spodvigli help him in his crimes. Together, they abducted, raped and murdered 3 young women. At the same time one of them was Carla's sister! The niece begged Homolka to let her go, and she took pity, and even gave her cousin a teddy bear. After the arrest, Karla concluded a deal with the authorities to mitigate the punishment, told about the murders her husband committed. Paul, however, assured me that it was she who killed everyone. The detected videotapes indicate that this woman was not at least a victim that the spouse was forcing to commit criminal acts.

Susan Smith

Susan Smith, unlike many other female murderers, was not insane. In her right mind, she killed two sons, Alex and Michael. The woman tried to expose herself insane, assuring herself that she committed murders on religious grounds. However, the facts show another. Tom, the beloved of this woman, just before the tragedy was over, abandoned her. After that, Smith brought her children to the river, removed the car from the handbrake and pushed it into the water. The woman stood and watched as the car with two of her children plunged into the water, and then called the police and reported that this crime was committed by some kind of dark-skinned man.

Susan claimed that her stepfather raped her as a child. Growing up, the girl began to dream of an ideal love, while experiencing the need for regular sex. Behind the bars, she managed to sleep with two guards. One of them awarded Susan syphilis.

Diana Downes

As you can see, many female maniacs have killed their children. Our next heroine, Diana Downes, is no exception. When Lew, her lover, told her that the children were not part of his plans, the woman decided ... to kill her children! Diana from the previous marriage had 3 children - Danny, Cheryl and Christie. In order to get rid of them, she took the children to the desert area. Here, the woman cold-bloodedly killed Cheryl, his 7-year-old daughter. She also shot Danny and Christie, but they managed to survive, although the 3-year-old Danny was paralyzed below the belt, and Christie was partially paralyzed. The latter was able to testify and told the court what her mother had done.

Lyudmila Spesivtseva

Our list so far consists only of foreign names. But there are Russian female murderers. One of them is Lyudmila Yakovlevna Spesivtseva. Although she did not kill herself, she was actively helped by the cannibal Alexander Spesivtsev, his crazy son. For some time an elderly woman-maniac worked as an assistant to a blind lawyer in court. She often brought home photographs of dead people and showed them to Alexander. Is it any wonder that he grew mentally ill, turned into a sociopath? Alexander was in the hospital for the mentally ill, but after a while he was released. He returned to his mother and soon began to kill, and the woman not only did not interfere with him, but also began to help! Ludmila lured the girls to the cannibal, carried the remains of the victims from the house. One of the victims managed to survive long enough to give a testimony (the exhausted child died after a while). The camera forever recorded the horrifying words of the girl, who told that Lyudmila fed her and the other captives with the meat of their murdered girlfriend! It is also supposed, though not officially confirmed, that she cooked the meat of the victims and sold it on the market. A family of maniacs killed at least 20 people. However, the victims are probably even more - photos of minors were found in the apartment of Spesivtsev, as well as clothes that could belong to 82 people! There is a suggestion that Alexandra was helped not only by Lyudmila, but also by his sister.

Saltykova Darya Nikolaevna

Women-maniacs in Russia, it turns out, is not a new phenomenon. Daria Saltykova was born in 1730, and died in 1801. Russian landowner Saltychikha (such a nickname received Daria) went down in history as a sadist and murderer of several dozen serfs, subject to it. By the decision of Empress Catherine II and the Senate, she was deprived of the title of a pillar noblewoman. The woman was sentenced to life imprisonment and placed in a monastery prison, in which she died at the age of 71 years. At the age of 26, Darya was widowed, having received at her disposal about 600 peasants. The investigator on her case on the basis of house books Saltykova compiled a list of 138 serfs, the fate of which had to be clarified. 50 people, according to the records, "died of the disease," 72 "missing", and another 16 were considered "gone on the run" or "left for the husband." According to the testimony of the peasants, 75 people, mainly girls and women, were killed in the villages and the estate of the landlord. Saltykova spent 33 years in prison and died in 1801. She was buried together with all her relatives in the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery, the tomb was preserved.

Amelia Elizabeth Dyer

Another example from the story is Amelia Elizabeth Dyer. This woman was born in 1837, and executed - in 1896. The criminal from England is considered the most mass in the history of a child killer. At the age of 24, in 1861, the girl married George Thomas, who was 59 years old by the time of the wedding. It is known that the groom has reduced 10 years during the wedding, and the bride added that there should not be such a frightening difference in age between them. She committed her crimes in the Victorian era and was a baby farmer by her occupation. This woman is executed by hanging for one murder, but it is believed that she is responsible for the deaths of other children, of whom there are perhaps more than four hundred.

The trial of Dyer began in 1896, on May 22. The death sentence was carried out in the Newgate prison on June 10, 1896. The last words of Amelia were: "I have nothing to say."

Women-killers, as you see, are not so rare. Who is to blame for this? Are they themselves alone? Probably, our society itself is unhealthy, if so many socially dangerous elements continue to appear in it. In no way, without justifying the criminals themselves, it should be noted that famous female maniacs are phenomena that make you think a lot.