Female Serial Killers

The notion of female serial killers often appears as the minority of cases in the history of serial murder and serial killers. It's as if there is a part of society that refuses to believe that women are just as capable of mass murder as some of the more horrific murderers of our time. Still, while we may not, off the top of our head, be able to list as many female serial killers as we can male ones, it is but a myth that female serial killers are far and few between.

History is riddled with stories of female temptresses and murderers, like the legendary Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who murdered women for fun, then bathed in their blood to retain her beauty. There is also the story of the Black Widows of Liverpool; a group of women in 1884 who were deemed by the Home...
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