History knows examples when women showed cruelty, in comparison with which all the stories about bloody maniacs are just children's fairy tales. Psychologists claim that women, although not as often as men, sometimes become serial killers and then act with particular cruelty and sophistication.
Queen Mary I, 1516-1558 The daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife went down in English history as a monarch who tried to return the country to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church after her father, having quarreled with the Pope, declared himself the head of the new Anglican Church. The restoration took place against the background brutal executions Protestants, persecution and murder of the innocent population, for which the people called the queen Mary the Bloody. Under this name she went down in history.
Myra Hindley 1942-2002 Serial killer, together with her accomplice Ian Bryan, received the nickname “English Bonnie and Clyde.” Over the course of several years, criminals kidnapped, abused and tortured to death five minor children aged 10 to 17 years. The bodies of the victims were later discovered by police in moors near Manchester. To the horror and disgust of the entire country, it turned out that the latter-day Bonnie and Clyde made audio recordings and photographs “for history,” perpetuating their crimes. Having received a life sentence - the death penalty in England was abolished literally within a month of the arrest of the criminal couple, neither Hindley nor Brian ever repented of their deeds. On the day the verdict was announced, Myra calmly ate ice cream while waiting for the hearing to begin. A British court ruled that criminals do not have the right to commit suicide, so Brian, who had begun a hunger strike, was force-fed by injecting saline. Myra Hindley died in a prison hospital from a heart attack, saving herself from further imprisonment and the world from a terrible criminal.
Isabella of Castile, 1451-1504 Isabella of Castile and her husband Ferdinand of Aragon stood at the origins of the unification of Spain and education strong state:
dynastic marriage led to the union and unification of Castile and Aragon into one kingdom - Spain. The Queen is also known for her patronage to the famous traveler Christopher Columbus. Notorious for her cruelty towards non-Catholics: a passionate and devout Catholic, she appointed Tomas Torquemada as the first Grand Inquisitor of the infamous Spanish Inquisition and ushered in an era of religious purges. The Inquisition persecuted heretics, Moors, Maranos, and Moriscos. Left Spain under Isabella of Castile most Jews and Arabs - about 200 thousand people, and those who remained were forced to convert to Christianity, which, however, rarely saved converts from death at the stake.
Beverly Ellit, r. 1968 English nurse children's department, nicknamed the “angel of death,” killed four young hospital patients in 1991 and seriously injured five others. The serial killer injected children with insulin or potassium to induce a severe heart attack and simulate a natural death. The motive for the crime is still unknown.
Bell Gunnes, 1859-1931 An American of Norwegian descent became the most famous female killer in US history. She killed both her husbands, her own daughters, several admirers and lovers. The main goal is to receive payments for life insurance. Over several decades, Gannes killed about 30 people.
Mary Ann Cotton 1832-1873 She poisoned about 20 people with arsenic. The police became interested in her when it turned out that all of her closest relatives were not only constantly dying, but also dying from the same disease - stomach colic. Throughout her life, the criminal killed several husbands, her children and even her own mother. The executioner who supervised her hanging deliberately prolonged her torment by “forgetting” to knock out the stool from under the condemned woman’s feet.
Elsa Koch, 1906-1967 Elsa Koch, better known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", was the wife of the commandant concentration camp. She tortured prisoners, beat them with a whip, mocked them and killed them. What was left behind was a terrible collection: pieces of human skin with tattoos. She committed suicide in prison in 1967.
Irma Griz, 1923-1945 One of the most cruel guards of women's concentration camps Hitler's Germany. When torturing prisoners, she resorted to both physical and psychological violence, beat women to death and had fun shooting prisoners. She starved her dogs so she could set them on victims, and personally selected hundreds of people to be sent to the gas chambers. Grese wore heavy boots and, in addition to a pistol, she always carried a wicker whip. She was sentenced to death by hanging.
Katherine Knight, r. 1956. The first woman in Australian history to be sentenced to life imprisonment. In October 2001, during a family quarrel, she beat her partner with a meat knife, after which she abused dead body so much so that Chikatilo must have vomited.
Erzsebet Bathory, 1560-1614 Hungarian Countess, better known as the Bloody Lady. She tortured and killed maids and peasant women: she brutally beat them, burned their hands, faces and other parts of the body with a hot iron, skinned victims who were still alive, starved them, mocked them and raped them. In 1610 she was placed under house arrest on charges of murder, heresy and witchcraft. During the trial, the castle servants could not name the exact number of victims of the sadist: the countess's confidants, who found themselves in the dock, spoke of four to five dozen killed, the rest of the servants assured that they carried out the corpses in the hundreds. Bathory died of natural causes in 1614, and her name soon became overgrown with legends no less sinister than those about Count Dracula.
Antonina Makarovna Makarova, nicknamed “Tonka the Machine Gunner”, married Ginzburg (1921 - August 11, 1979) - executioner of the Lokot district during the Great Patriotic War, executed in the service of the Germans occupation authorities and Russian collaborators more than 1,500 people.
In 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, being a nurse, she was surrounded and found herself in occupied territory. She voluntarily joined the auxiliary police of the Lokot district of the Lokot district (see Lokot self-government), where she carried out death sentences, executing about 1,500 people (according to official data). For executions she used a Maxim machine gun, given to her by the police at her request.
At the end of the war, Makarova got a fake nurse’s ID and got a job in a hospital, married front-line soldier V.S., who was treated in her hospital. Ginzburg, changed her last name.
Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova, nicknamed Saltychikha(March 11, 1730 - November 27, 1801) - Russian landowner, who went down in history as sophisticated sadist and a serial killer of several dozen serfs under her control. By the decision of the Senate and Empress Catherine II, she was deprived of the dignity of a pillar noblewoman and sentenced to life imprisonment in a monastery prison. Saltychikha's town house in Moscow was located on the corner of Bolshaya Lubyanka and Kuznetsky Most, that is, on the site where buildings that now belong to the Russian FSB were later built. The estate where she, as a rule, committed murders and tortures, was located in the village of Mosrentgen (Trinity Park) near the Moscow Ring Road in the Teply Stan area. Crimes concerning serfs Having been widowed at the age of twenty-six, she received full ownership of about six hundred peasants on estates located in the Moscow, Vologda and Kostroma provinces. The investigator in the case of the widow Saltykova, court councilor Volkov, based on the data from the house books of the suspect herself, compiled a list of 138 names of serfs whose fate was to be clarified. According to official records, 50 people were considered to have “died of disease,” 72 people were “unknown,” and 16 were considered to have “gone to their husbands” or “gone on the run.” According to the testimony of serfs, obtained during “wide searches” in the estate and villages of the landowner, Saltykova killed 75 people, mostly women and girls.
Before the death of her husband, Saltychikha had no particular tendency to violence. But about six months after her widowhood, she began regularly beating the servants. The main reasons for punishment were dishonesty in cleaning floors or doing laundry. The torture began with her striking the offending peasant woman with an object that came to hand (most often it was a log). The guilty one was then flogged by grooms and haiduks, sometimes to death. Saltychikha could pour boiling water over the victim or singe the hair on her head. Saltychikha also used hot curling irons for torture, with which she grabbed the victim by the ears. She often pulled people by the hair and slammed their heads against the wall. long time. Many of those killed by her, according to witnesses, had no hair on their heads; Saltychikha tore her hair with her fingers, which indicates her considerable physical strength.
The victims were starved and tied naked in the cold. Saltychikha did not love and broke up loving couples who were planning to get married in the near future. Crimes concerning nobles In one episode, Saltychikha also suffered a nobleman. Land surveyor Nikolai Tyutchev - the grandfather of the poet Fyodor Tyutchev - was in a love relationship with her for a long time, but then decided to marry the girl Panyutina. Saltykova decided to burn Panyutina’s house and gave her people sulfur, gunpowder and tow. But people were scared. When Tyutchev and Panyutina had already gotten married and were traveling to their Oryol estate, Saltykova ordered her peasants to kill them. But Tyutchev found out about this.
The terrible actions of many of these women horrified the whole world. They resorted to torture, cruelty, committed murder and abused others. In this article, we decided to shed light on the ten most evil and cruel women in the world. Irma Ida Ilze Grese was born on October 7, 1923 in Free State Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, and died December 13, 1945, Hameln, Germany. This woman worked at the Nazi concentration camps Ravensbrück and Auschwitz and was head of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. She was found guilty of crimes against humanity at the Belsen Trial and sentenced to death.
She enjoyed torture using various painful techniques. Her main habit was wearing heavy boots, which also helped her subdue prisoners. To achieve her criminal goals, Irma also always carried a pistol with her and often used it. Executed at 22 years and 67 days old, Grese became the youngest woman to be sentenced to death at trial under English law in the 20th century. She had many nicknames. The most popular: “The Beast of Belsen”, “The Beautiful Beast” and “The Hyena of Auschwitz”.
Born in 1942, Myra Hindley was an English serial killer. In partnership with Ian Brady, she committed the rapes and murders of five young children. Together these two monsters were responsible for the kidnapping, sexual violence, torture and murder of three children under the age of twelve and two teenagers aged 16 and 17 years. Hindley was turned in to the police by her 17-year-old half-brother, but she did not plead guilty to any of the murders. Myra was found guilty of three murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. She never left the prison walls and died in captivity in 2002.
She was born in 1451 and died in 1504. This woman was the queen of Castile and Leon. She and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon brought stability to the kingdom, which became the basis for the unification of Spain. Isabella and Ferdinand famously completed the Reconquista, expelled Muslims and Jews, and financed Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492, which led to the discovery of the "New World." Isabella received the title of Servant of God of the Catholic Church in 1974.
But its cruelty and evil lies in the fact that behind all these achievements there are thousands of non-Catholics burned alive. During the infamous Spanish Inquisition, it ushered in an era of religious purges, and even the adoption of faith did not save the unfortunate from death at the stake!
Beverly Gail Allitt is an English serial killer who was found guilty of murdering four children, attempting to murder three children and causing grievous bodily harm to six more children. The offenses were committed over a 59-day period between February and April 1991 at the children's ward in Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire, where Allitt worked as a nurse. She injected large doses of insulin into at least two victims and a large air bubble was found in the body of another, but police were unable to determine how the attacks were carried out. In May 1993, Nottingham Crown Court sentenced Beverley Allitt to 13 life sentences for all crimes committed. Mr Justice Latham told Allitt at sentencing that she posed a "serious danger" to others and was unlikely to ever be considered sufficiently dangerous to society to be released.
Mary I was born on February 18, 1516 and died on November 17, 1558. She was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her brutal persecution of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the nickname " Bloody Mary" She was the only surviving child of an ill-fated marriage Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Mary is mostly remembered for England's temporary and brutal conversion to Catholicism. Many prominent Protestants in those days were executed for their beliefs. Fearing the gallows, about 800 more Protestants left the country and were unable to return until Bloody Mary's death.
With a height of 173 cm and a weight of 91 kg, Gunness was physically strong woman. Belle became one of the most brutal and merciless female serial killers in America. This impressive and powerful woman was of Norwegian origin. It is likely that she killed both of her husbands and all of her children, but it can definitely be argued that she killed most of her suitors, boyfriends, and two daughters: Myrtle and Lucy. The motive was simple greed: life insurance policies, valuables and property stolen or defrauded from her suitors became Gunness's constant source of income.
Most reports of her death toll count more than twenty victims killed over several decades, but some claim the actual death toll is well over a hundred. Some inconsistencies discovered during her post-mortem examination (the corpse was reportedly shorter than Belle) caused Belle to enter criminal American folklore under the nickname " Bluebeard" and she was allegedly seen after her death.
Britain's first serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton, was born in October 1832 in a village in County Durham. Having married William Mowbray at the age of twenty, Mary and her husband settled in Plymouth, Devon, to begin building their own family. The couple had five children, four of whom died of stomach fever and terrible abdominal pain. The series of tragedies did not stop there - three more children born died after illnesses with the same symptoms. And soon the head of the family, William, also followed his offspring, dying from “ intestinal disorder"in January 1865. The British Prudential promptly paid dividends to the widow in the amount of about 35 pounds. Her second husband, George Ward, died of intestinal problems, followed by the same fate for one of her two remaining children.
But the press became the force that exposed Mary Ann. Local newspapers connected all the facts: Mary Ann moved with northern England, lost three husbands, a lover, a friend, her mother and a dozen children, all of whom died from stomach fever. Mary Ann was hanged on March 24, 1873 for murder by arsenic poisoning. The executioner deliberately prolonged her torment, “forgetting” to knock out the stool from under the condemned woman’s feet, so Mary died for a long and painful three minutes.
Born on September 22, 1906, Ilse Koch, known as the "Witch of Buchenwald" or "The Bitch of Buchenwald", was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch. She became one of the first prominent Nazis to be tried by the American military. Intoxicated by her husband's absolute power, she reveled in torture and obscenity. In 1940, Ilse was appointed chief warden among the few female guards at Buchenwald. Her souvenirs made from human skin became notorious; Ilsa ordered the killing of all prisoners with tattoos in order to make crafts out of them later. She beat the prisoners with a whip and set dogs on them. Ilse Koch committed suicide by hanging herself in women's prison September 1, 1967.
Born on October 24, 1955 and continues to serve today life sentence in prison. Catherine Mary Knight became the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Katherine more than once initiated family scandals that led to tragic consequences. Once during a quarrel, in front of her ex-partner cut the throat of an eight-month-old puppy. And during the breakup, Knight knocked out false teeth for another boyfriend. But Katherine's main victim was her partner Price, who decided to leave the woman. He was brutally stabbed to death, suffering at least 37 stab wounds to vital organs. Katherine Knight then dismembered the corpse, skinned it, and hung the “suit” on the door frame in the living room. The woman cut off her partner's head and put it in a soup pot and stewed it with vegetables, baked his buttocks and seasoned it with sauce. Such "roast" and vindictive notes were served on the table for the Price children, but, fortunately, it was all discovered by the police before they arrived home.
The Bloody Countess was born in 1560 in the family mansion in the Hungarian town of Nyirbator and died in 1614. She is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the woman who has accomplished the most large number murders, and is the most famous serial killer in Hungary, although the number of her victims is controversial issue. Elizabeth Bathory killed peasant girls who had to go through severe beatings, torture by fire, and mutilation various parts bodies, ripping off the skin from the face, torture with needles, etc. In the end, the countess was walled up in her own room, where she died.
It is not news that the world sometimes produces terrible and cruel killers, but who would have thought that such monstrous atrocities could be committed by women. Even the most balanced person can involuntarily tremble, because a murder committed by a woman - who gives life according to her destiny - is doubly terrible!
The image of a maniac-killer in the eyes of the public has practically taken shape. Usually people immediately think of Chikatillo or Jack the Ripper. Such a man is often driven by sexual motives, and he commits his crimes with maximum cruelty.
However, criminology knows many cases when the bloody criminal turns out to be... a woman. Experts say that such maniacs can be as cruel as strong men. Let's talk about the ten most famous female killers in history; films were even made based on the actions of some of them.
Bella Sorenson Guinness. This killer was nicknamed the "Black Widow" and had 42 victims. The motives for her actions were greed and money; the woman received perverted pleasure from her actions. Bela was born in Norway, then moved to the USA. Here she became the wife of an entrepreneur from Chicago. Two of her daughters died in strange ways over time. The symptoms resembled colitis, but historians believe it may have been the work of their mother. After all, all the signs pointed to poisoning; the death of the children made it possible for Bella to receive insurance. Soon the husband also died, unexpectedly poisoned by his own medications. The widow received insurance and in this case. The funds received made it possible for Bella to purchase a farm. But her husband’s relatives decided that the death was not accidental, suspecting Bella herself of the crime. She, without wasting any time, meanwhile put the murder of her lovers on stream. She advertised, organizing love correspondence. Middle-aged men came to her house, wanting to meet an interesting widow. Bella easily lured guests into her bed; they had no idea that the pretty woman was a cold-blooded killer. All men have accidents. As a result, the woman was able to bury 42 husbands, eventually accumulating more than a quarter of a million dollars. However, evil could not go unpunished. The Black Widow also ended her life tragically. She simply disappeared, and over time her body was found in the forest. Someone beheaded the woman and then burned her body. True, there were rumors that the body found did not belong to Bella at all, and she herself was able to hide and avoid punishment.
Jane Toppan. This is the first representative of medicine on this list. Jane, as a nurse, attacked her sick and infirm patients. Overweight woman I grew up restless, thanks to my difficult childhood. Her father was insane and refused to look after her. She herself eventually grew up in Boston, in orphanage. Adoptive parents They also turned out to be extremely poor, which only increased her anger towards those around her. When Jane was studying to become a nurse, her teachers noted her strange interest in photographs of dissected bodies. But this behavior did not prevent her from finishing her education and starting working with patients. The patients immediately liked her and called the pleasant nurse “Jolly Jane.” But in the course of her work, the woman discovered that she literally received sexual pleasure from injecting drugs into patients and then putting them on the brink of life and death. Jane took care of many patients. When they were unconscious, she touched them, experiencing sexual arousal. In 1885, Toppan intensified her experiments, transforming them into murders, and she was eventually arrested and convicted of proven 11 deaths. While Jane was in custody, she confessed to committing 31 more murders. The examination proved that "Jolly Jane" could not be found guilty due to her insanity. After the verdict, the killer spent the rest of her life in a mental hospital.
Countess Elizabeth Bathory. The exact number of victims of this " bloody countess" remained unknown, historians talk about 30-650 victims. Legends say that the capricious woman loved to take baths with the blood of her victims, who were certainly young girls. The Countess believed that such bathing could prolong her youth, and even improve skin condition. The woman abused her power in every possible way, leading to the death of many of her subjects. The crimes were characterized by extreme sadism, while the countess herself experienced sexual pleasure. The woman forced her subjects to lick the blood from the bodies of her naked victims. Elizabeth Bathory was included in this addiction to blood. She lured historically reliable vampires to her castle, and then to her dungeon. beautiful girls, promising them a job. The accomplice of the bloody murderer was her husband, Ferenc Nadasdi. He gave his wife a castle so that she could use her wedding gift to carry out bloody torture. Rumors of numerous murders reached the Habsburg court. The emperor ordered to deal with the bloody murderer. However, no high-profile trial took place. Noble relatives chose to hide the countess in the dungeon of her own castle, where she died three years later at the age of 54.
Rosemary West. Only the confirmed number of victims of this killer was 10 people. This woman was a colleague of another serial killer, Fred. Rosemary (or Rose) together with him made up a pair of dangerous criminals, evil and heartless. Fred and Rose pretended to be kind, inviting young girls to their place, promising them help with accommodation and food. But a terrible fate awaited the unfortunate victims. Rosemary herself had eight children, she for a long time worked as a prostitute in her own brothel. Drugs were also sold there. The woman began to receive perverted pleasure from inflicting pain. The couple sadistically tortured the victims, tearing off their fingers and removing their kneecaps. Together with her husband, Rose eventually managed to kill 10 people, including her own daughter Heather. The corpses of the wife were buried in their own garden, operating during the years 1967-1987. The court subsequently found the woman guilty of the murder of her stepdaughter Michelle. Most likely, the number of victims was much higher, because Fred testified that he could be the killer of 20 other girls who went missing at that time. The jury sentenced the killers to life imprisonment. After the trial, all the judges were assigned to a session with a psychotherapist, the picture of the acts that emerged was so terrifying.
Eileen Wuornos. This woman had a very difficult childhood, which was also disfigured by incest on the part of her grandfather. Is it any wonder that in the soul of the growing girl there was nothing but hatred of society and men. Early sexual experience led to looseness. Already at the age of 13, Eileen became pregnant, and at the age of 15 she was kicked out of the house by her own grandfather. The woman had all the signs of personality antisocial disorder. She repeatedly broke the law, robbing stores with a gun in her hands. Eileen even got married, and her 70-year-old husband began to be subjected to physical violence. The elderly husband left his strange wife a month later, accusing her of wasting his money. But she found herself another mate - the woman Tyria Moore. Eileen was forced to work as a prostitute, earning a living for both of them. But such an activity was quite dangerous. One day Eileen killed a man. According to her, he brutally raped her beforehand, so it was an act of self-defense. The feeling of blood took possession of the woman, and soon she killed 6 more people in Florida. All of them were drivers without passengers, middle-aged. They agreed to give the woman a ride and have sexual intercourse with her. The murder weapon was invariably a pistol. The movie "Monster" was made based on Eileen's story. leading role starring Charlize Theron. She received an Oscar for this, and the killer herself received the death penalty in 2002. Psychiatrists were convinced of the sanity of Eileen, who simply hated human life.
Andrea Yates. Often a series of crimes are committed under the influence of severe mental disorders. Schizophrenia can "reward" criminals with a voice that gives them instructions for action. Andrea Yates had just such a situation; it was a serious mental illness that caused the woman to kill her five children by drowning them in the bathtub. Of all the killers on our list, she is the most deranged. The woman was never diagnosed with schizophrenia, but she had serious mental disorders. This includes long-term severe postpartum depression and a suicide attempt. Birth large number children with a minimum interval as a result, the woman was plunged into a psychological hole. Her husband, a computer engineer at NASA, who wanted to have many descendants, can also be blamed for this. True, he later shifted the blame for what happened to the family psychiatrist. The specialist was accused of failing to recognize the gravity of the situation and signal it. As a result, one day a woman decided to achieve a state of peace in a terrible way - within an hour, she methodically, one by one, drowned all her babies in the bathtub. The oldest was only 7 years old, and the youngest was 6 months old. After the crime, the woman called 911 and her husband. While giving an interview, the criminal then admitted that she wanted to kill the children because they were not righteous. Being a devout Catholic, Andrea suddenly realized that her own sins would not allow her children to grow up to be exemplary Christians. In the end, taking their lives seemed like the best solution to her.
Beverly Allitt. And this serial killer was a nurse. The Englishwoman abused her position to satisfy her secret fantasies. Beverly did not attack elderly people, but defenseless children. She injected them with potassium chloride or insulin, causing cardiac arrest. As with other serial killers, the thirst for new crimes increased. In her ward, a nurse abused 13 children, killing four of them. All this happened over the course of just two months. The victims were children aged from two months to five years. In the case of two-month-old Becky Phillips, the parents were so grateful to Beverly for caring for the baby that they asked to become her godmother. But it was the nurse’s injections that caused subsequent paralysis and brain damage. Only after last case with one and a half year old Claire, the hospital administration called the police, suspecting something was wrong with such frequent cardiac arrest in children. It turned out that Beverly was on duty in all cases. After the nurse's arrest, psychiatrists spoke with her, who discovered that Beverly had a disorder known as Munchausen syndrome. Allitt was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special clinic that houses the criminally mentally ill. Should she be released - after all, the families of the murdered children are threatening her with physical harm?
Karla Homolka. This Canadian girl of Czech origin became addicted to Satanism in her youth. At one time she worked part-time in veterinary clinics, killing animals. Soon, 17-year-old Carla met 23-year-old Paul. He was interested in the sophisticated fantasies and sadistic orgies of his girlfriend. Having tried out their ideas on themselves, the couple decided to move on to “live material”. Carla lured young girls into her house, creating a real prison for them there. The sexual atrocities carried out by the couple surpassed anything ever known. The victims eventually became three girls aged 13-15 years. Paul forced them to beg him for sex, raping him and filming it all. His girlfriend also took an active part in the action. After her arrest, Carla gave testimony that allowed her to be sentenced to only 12 years. But Paul will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Carla avoided responsibility, shifting it all to her partner. He acted as the executor of the plans of his director friend. Psychologists have proven that the girl is practically healthy, although some deviations could provoke such a wave of cruelty.
Susan Smith. This woman also suffered from a personality disorder, which caused the death of her two sons, Alex and Michael. The woman had an unhappy childhood, having experienced sexual abuse and incest. She claimed that her stepfather raped her, and when the relationship was discovered, her mother blamed her for everything. This became the impetus for Susan's narcissistic illusions. A young mother strapped her children into the back seat of her car, allowing the car to roll off a boat dock and into the lake. At the same time, Susan has long argued that the children were kidnapped by a black man. The woman appealed for help on television, and the case received great publicity. But Susan failed a lie detector test when asked if she knew the whereabouts of her children. As a result, her guilt was proven. The motive for the crime was love for a rich admirer who did not want to see other people's children around him. The woman received a life sentence, having already entered prison sexual relations with at least two guards.
Diana Downs. In 1984, this female killer was convicted. The court proved her guilt in causing severe physical injuries to three of her children, one of whom subsequently died. Diana replaced her love for children with a passion for a strange man. Her lover, Liu, once made it clear to her what his plans were life together other people's children are not included. Then Diana began to cold-bloodedly destroy the “obstacles” to her happiness. It was late at night when the woman put the children in the car and took them to a deserted place. There she killed 7-year-old Cheryl with a pistol, wounding Christy and Danny. Until the last moment, the unfortunate people did not understand what their own mother was doing to him. Three-year-old Danny, as a result of being shot at point-blank range, was paralyzed from the waist down, and eight-year-old Christie suffered from speech failure and paralysis of half her body. In court, Christie had difficulty explaining to the jury what happened. Child killer Diana Downs is currently serving a prison sentence. Her vile nature manifested itself here too - she began to conduct frank correspondence with the serial killer and maniac Randy Woodfield.
9 November 2010, 18:30Queen Mary I, 1516-1558 The daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife went down in English history as a monarch who tried to return the country to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church after her father, having quarreled with the Pope, declared himself the head of the new Anglican Church. The restoration took place against the backdrop of brutal executions of Protestants, persecution and murder of the innocent population, for which the people called the queen Mary the Bloody. Under this name she went down in history. 
Myra Hindley, 1942-2002 Serial killer, together with her accomplice Ian Bryan, received the nickname “English Bonnie and Clyde.” Over the course of several years, criminals kidnapped, abused and tortured to death five minor children aged 10 to 17 years. The bodies of the victims were later discovered by police in moors near Manchester. To the horror and disgust of the entire country, it turned out that the latter-day Bonnie and Clyde made audio recordings and photographs “for history,” perpetuating their crimes. Having received a life sentence (the death penalty in England was abolished literally within a month of the arrest of the criminal couple), neither Hindley nor Brian ever repented of their deeds. On the day the verdict was announced, Myra calmly ate ice cream while waiting for the hearing to begin. A British court ruled that criminals do not have the right to commit suicide, so Brian, who had begun a hunger strike, was force-fed by injecting saline. Myra Hindley died in a prison hospital from a heart attack, saving herself from further imprisonment and the world from a terrible criminal. Isabella of Castile, 1451-1504 Isabella of Castile and her husband Ferdinand of Aragon stood at the origins of the unification of Spain and the formation of a strong state: a dynastic marriage led to the union and unification of Castile and Aragon into one kingdom - Spain. The Queen is also known for her patronage of the famous explorer Christopher Columbus. Notorious for her cruelty towards non-Catholics: a passionate and devout Catholic, she appointed Tomas Torquemada as the first Grand Inquisitor of the infamous Spanish Inquisition and ushered in an era of religious purges. The Inquisition persecuted heretics, Moors, Maranos, and Moriscos. Under Isabella of Castile, most of the Jews and Arabs - about 200 thousand people - left Spain, and those who remained were forced to convert to Christianity, which, however, rarely saved converts from death at the stake. Beverly Allitt, b. 1968 An English pediatric nurse, nicknamed the “angel of death,” killed four young hospital patients in 1991 and caused serious harm to the health of five others. The serial killer injected children with insulin or potassium to induce a severe heart attack and simulate a natural death. The motive for the crime is still unknown. Bell Gunnes, 1859-1931 An American of Norwegian descent became the most famous female killer in US history. She killed both her husbands, her own daughters, several admirers and lovers. The main goal is to receive payments for life insurance. Over several decades, Gannes killed about 30 people. Mary Ann Cotton,1832-1873 She poisoned about 20 people with arsenic. The police became interested in her when it turned out that all of her closest relatives were not only constantly dying, but also dying from the same disease - stomach colic. Throughout her life, the criminal killed several husbands, her children and even her own mother. The executioner who supervised her hanging deliberately prolonged her torment by “forgetting” to knock out the stool from under the condemned woman’s feet. Elsa Koch, 1906-1967 Elsa Koch, better known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", was the wife of the concentration camp commandant. She tortured prisoners, beat them with a whip, mocked them and killed them. What was left behind was a terrible collection: pieces of human skin with tattoos. She committed suicide in prison in 1967. Irma Grizz, 1923-1945 One of the most cruel guards of the women's concentration camps of Hitler's Germany. While torturing prisoners, she resorted to both physical and psychological violence, beating women to death and amusing herself by shooting prisoners. She starved her dogs so she could set them on victims, and personally selected hundreds of people to be sent to the gas chambers. Grese wore heavy boots and, in addition to a pistol, she always carried a wicker whip. She was sentenced to death by hanging. Catherine Knight, b. 1956 The first woman in Australian history to be sentenced to life imprisonment. In October 2001, during a family quarrel, she beat her partner with a meat knife, after which she abused the dead body in such a way that Chikatilo must have vomited. Erzsebet Bathory, 1560-1614 Hungarian Countess, better known as the Bloody Lady. She tortured and killed maids and peasant women: she brutally beat them, burned their hands, faces and other parts of the body with a hot iron, skinned victims who were still alive, starved them, mocked them and raped them. In 1610 she was placed under house arrest on charges of murder, heresy and witchcraft. During the trial, the castle servants could not name the exact number of victims of the sadist: the countess's confidants, who found themselves in the dock, spoke of four to five dozen killed, the rest of the servants assured that they carried out the corpses in the hundreds. Bathory died of natural causes in 1614, and her name soon became overgrown with legends no less sinister than those about Count Dracula.
17. Vera Renzi. 1903 - 1948
16. The Gonzalez sisters
15. Eileen Wuornos. 1956 - …
14. Rosemary West
12. Bella Sorenson Guinness
7. Beverly Allitt, 1968-…
6. Bell Gunnes, 1859-1931
5. Mary Ann Cotton, 1832-1873
4. Elsa Koch, 1906-1967
3. Irma Griz, 1923-1945
2. Katherine Knight, 1956-…
20. Antonina Makarovna Makarova. 1921 - 1979
Antonina Makarovna Makarova, nicknamed “Tonka the Machine Gunner,” was the executioner of the Lokot District during the Great Patriotic War, who shot more than 1,500 people in the service of the German occupation authorities and Russian collaborators.
In 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, as a nurse, she was surrounded and found herself in occupied territory. She voluntarily joined the auxiliary police of the Lokot region, where she carried out death sentences, executing about 1,500 people (according to official data). For executions she used a Maxim machine gun, given to her by the police at her request.
At the end of the war, Makarova got a fake nurse's ID and got a job in a hospital, married front-line soldier V.S. Ginzburg, and changed her last name.
For a long time, the KGB could not find her due to the fact that she was born Parfenova, but was mistakenly recorded as Makarova. She was arrested in the summer of 1978 in Lepel (Belarus), convicted as war criminal and according to the verdict of Bryansky regional court dated November 20, 1978, sentenced to to the highest degree punishments - death penalty(becoming the only woman, sentenced to death in the USSR after a period Stalin's repressions). On August 11, 1979, the sentence was carried out.
19. Marquise de Brenvilliers. 1630 - 1676
She poisoned her father, husband, children, two brothers and sisters with the help of her lover, cavalry captain Gaudin de Sainte-Croix, who was fond of alchemy. There were rumors of other poisonings of her - in particular of her servants and many of the poor people she visited in Parisian hospitals. Gaudin de Sainte-Croix betrayed the poisoner, but he himself died unexpectedly in 1672 for unknown reasons. The Marquise fled and hid in London, Holland and Flanders, but was found in a Liege monastery and taken to France in 1676.
Her attempt to commit suicide failed, and after a long time trial(April 29 - July 16, 1676), during which the criminal first completely denied her guilt, and then, out of fear of torture, confessed to all the atrocities, the Marquise de Brenvilliers was tortured by drinking, beheaded and burned.
18. Petrova Maria Alexandrovna. 1978 - …
Petrova, Maria Alexandrovna (“Zyuzinsky maniac”) - Russian serial killer who hunted in Moscow.
Maria Petrova has been swimming since childhood. She was uncommunicative and withdrawn. I was raped once. The rapist was a young man. After Petrova was harassed at work by an elderly colleague, she began to hate all men.
On March 1, 2002, Petrova killed a 20-year-old guy with two knife blows. Subsequently, she explained this by harassment on his part, but witnesses did not see this. The murder took place at the Shalom Theater stop near the Varshavskaya metro station.
Subsequently, Petrova committed 4 more attacks with the intent to kill, but all of her victims survived. All attacks were carried out with the same pattern - stab wounds to the abdomen and neck.
Petrova was absolutely not afraid of being caught. She committed crimes in front of dozens of people and in the same area. The arrest was made on the night of April 23, 2002.
Petrova soon confessed everything. She was charged with murder of 2 and attempted murder of 4 people. A forensic psychiatric examination found Petrova insane and sent her for compulsory treatment.
17. Vera Renzi. 1903 - 1948
Vera was born in rich family, who came from the Hungarian nobility. She was an uncontrollable child, already at the age of fifteen she often ran away from home with her friends, many of whom were much older than her. She had obsessive desire be friends with men. By nature, Vera was very jealous and suspicious. The first time she married a rich businessman from Bucharest, many years older than her. They had a son, Lorenzo. Vera began to suspect her husband of cheating and one day, in anger, she poured arsenic into his wine. She told family and friends that her husband had abandoned her son. A year later, she announced that she had heard rumors that her estranged husband had died in a car accident. Soon she remarried. This time her chosen one was a man close in age. However, they often quarreled, and Vera tormented herself with suspicions about her husband’s infidelity. A month later, her husband disappeared and she again told family and friends that he had left her. A year later, Vera stated that she received a letter from him, where he said that he would never return home.
Vera never married again, but entered into relationships with men, including married ones. Her lovers were people different layers and miscellaneous social status. And they all disappeared months, weeks, or even a few days after the start of the novel. Vera always made up stories that men were unfaithful and abandoned her. One day, the deceived wife of one of her lovers followed her unfaithful husband. When the man disappeared, she called the police, Vera’s house was searched and 32 zinc coffins were found in the wine cellar, each of which contained a male corpse in various stages of decomposition. Vera was arrested and confessed that she poisoned these 32 men with arsenic when they cheated on her or lost interest in her. She also said that she liked to sit in a chair among the coffins of her former fans. Vera also confessed to the murder of two husbands and a son. She said that one day her son came to visit her and accidentally saw coffins in the basement. He began to blackmail her, and she poisoned him and disposed of the body.
16. The Gonzalez sisters
The Gonzalez sisters are Mexican serial killers.
Sisters Delphine and Maria ran a brothel. The sisters hired prostitutes through advertisements. When they got sick or stopped being liked by their clients, they killed them. The sisters also killed clients if they saw that they were carrying large sums of money. In total, police found 80 female and 11 male bodies. In 1964, the Gonzalez sisters were sentenced to forty years in prison. In prison, Delphine died due to an accident. Maria disappeared from sight after her release.
There were several sisters in the Gonzalez family. Carmen and Maria Luisa helped Maria and Delphine commit crimes. Carmen died in prison from cancer; Marie Louise went crazy, afraid of revenge.
15. Eileen Wuornos. 1956 - …
Many experts call her “the first female maniac in the USA”
Eileen Wuornos's psyche was disfigured even in childhood: her parents were teenagers who very soon separated, her mother fled in an unknown direction, and her father went to prison for molesting minors, where he hanged himself. Baby Eileen was placed in the care of her father's parent.
She lived with her grandparents until she was 13 years old. According to her own statements, she was raped by her grandfather, although psychiatrists later questioned this fact. At the age of 14 she was kicked out of home, and at the age of 15 she was already a vagrant and engaged in prostitution.
Over the years, her anger and anger towards men grew.
She had all the hallmarks of an antisocial personality disorder, Eileen broke the law, robbed gun stores, and even married a 70-year-old man whom she physically abused. As a result, her elderly husband left her.
Shortly after the divorce, Eileen met a woman named Tyra, with whom she began a whirlwind romance. To support herself and her friend, Eileen went to work at the panel. Working on the roads selling your body was a dangerous job. And one day she killed a man. Eileen stated that she was brutally raped and killed her rapist in self-defense. However, she soon killed seven more people in Florida.
14. Rosemary West
Rosemary (also known as Rose) was the very embodiment of evil and soullessness. Rosemary and her husband Fred met young girls (most often students) on the street and invited them to visit, promising food, housing and compassion. The fate that awaited these unfortunate girls and young women was truly terrible.
Rosemary, a mother of eight children, was a prostitute and sexual sadist who took pleasure in inflicting pain on others. Together with her husband, she committed ten brutal murders, including murder own child, a daughter named Heather. Rosemary was also found guilty of murdering her stepdaughter Michelle. Many other victims may have also been harmed and tortured and killed by this couple, as Fred made it clear that more than 20 of the missing girls may have been killed by him.
"Kill as much as possible more people- helpless people than any other man or woman who has ever lived...” - this is how she explained the motives for her crimes.
Jane Toppan is a nurse, maniac and sociopath who has suffered from obesity all her life.
In 1885, Toppan began training to become a nurse. During the training, one of the professors noticed an unhealthy interest in the student in looking at photographs from autopsies of bodies, but no one took this into account. of great importance and Jane Toppan completed her training with honors and began caring for patients who found her pleasant and nicknamed her “Jolly Jane.”
And Jolly Jane, in turn, used her patients as guinea pigs in experiments with morphine and atropine, changing the prescribed dosages of drugs and observing how it affected them. nervous system. She touched unconscious patients and received sexual satisfaction. In 1899, Jane killed her adopted sister Elizabeth with a dose of strychnine.
In 1901, Jane cared for the elderly Alden Davis after the death of his wife (whom she had killed). Within weeks, she killed Davis himself and two of his daughters. After this, with a sense of accomplishment, she returned to hometown and began caring for her late adoptive sister's husband. By this time, surviving members of the Davis family requested a toxicology test for Alden Davie's youngest daughter to die. It was determined that she had been poisoned.
On October 26, 1901, Jane Toppan was arrested for the murder of Alden Davy's daughter. But during the first interrogation, “Jolly Jane” pouted and stated that she had killed 31 people.
The court found her not guilty due to insanity and sentenced her to a mental hospital, where she remained until her death.
12. Bella Sorenson Guinness
Bella Sorenson Guinness is a female serial killer who kills for pleasure and greed. She killed 42 people for profit.
Guinness was born in Norway, at the age of 21 she moved to the USA, where she married a businessman from Chicago and gave birth to two daughters, whom, a few years later, she herself poisoned in order to receive insurance. Her husband later died in strange circumstances from the medications he was treated with and again, for the death of his husband, Guinness received money from the insurance company. Bella bought a farm with the proceeds.
Her husband's relatives suspected something was wrong and blamed her for her husband's premature death. Soon, “Black Widow” put the matter on stream. Her scheme was extremely simple: seduce a man, marry him, persuade the chosen one to insure his life, and then poison him and receive the insurance money. She easily managed to lure men into her bed and they did not even imagine that a cold-blooded killer was hiding behind the mask of a pretty woman. It became known that she buried 42 husbands and accumulated more than a quarter of a million dollars. The “Black Widow” also ended her life tragically; her body was found in the forest, beheaded and burned. However, evil tongues claim that the body found does not belong to the Black Widow.
11. Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova (“Saltychikha”), 1730-1801
A Russian landowner who went down in history as the most sophisticated sadist and murderer of 139 serfs under her control, mostly women and girls.
10. Queen Mary I, 1516-1558
Daughter English king Henry VIII and his first wife went down in history as the monarch who tried to return the country to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church after her father, having fallen out with the Pope, declared himself head of the new Church of England. The “restoration” of the country took place against the backdrop of brutal executions of Protestants, persecution and murder of the innocent population, for which the people called the queen Mary the Bloody.
A serial killer who carried out her atrocities with her accomplice Ian Bryan. They received the nickname “English Bonnie and Clyde.”
Over the course of several years, criminals kidnapped, abused and tortured to death five minor children aged 10 to 17 years.
8. Isabella of Castile, 1451-1504
Isabella of Castile became famous for her cruelty towards non-Catholics: a passionate and devout Catholic, she appointed Thomas Torquemada as the first Grand Inquisitor and ushered in an era of religious purges. Under Isabella of Castile, most of the Jews and Arabs left Spain - more than 200 thousand people, and those who remained were forced to convert to Christianity, which, however, rarely saved converts from death at the stake.
7. Beverly Allitt, 1968-…
An English nurse, nicknamed the “angel of death,” killed four young hospital patients in 1991 and caused serious harm to the health of five others. She injected children with insulin or potassium to induce a severe heart attack and simulate natural death. The motive for the crime is still unknown.
6. Bell Gunnes, 1859-1931
This American woman became the most famous female killer in US history after she killed both of her husbands, her own daughters, and several admirers and lovers. The main goal is to receive payments for life insurance. In total she killed 30 people.
5. Mary Ann Cotton, 1832-1873
She poisoned about 20 people with arsenic. Throughout her life, the criminal killed several husbands, her children and even her own mother. For this she was sentenced to death by hanging. The executioner who supervised her execution deliberately prolonged her torment by “forgetting” to knock out the stool from under the condemned woman’s feet.
4. Elsa Koch, 1906-1967
Elsa Koch, the “Witch of Buchenwald,” was the wife of the concentration camp commandant. She tortured prisoners, beat them with a whip, mocked them and killed them. She committed suicide in prison in 1967.
3. Irma Griz, 1923-1945
One of the most cruel guards women's camps deaths of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in Hitler's Germany. The prisoners gave her the nickname - Blonde Devil. While torturing prisoners, she resorted to both physical and psychological violence, beating women to death and amusing herself by shooting prisoners. She starved her dogs so that she could later set them on victims.
2. Katherine Knight, 1956-…
The first woman in Australian history to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. In October 2001, during a family quarrel, she killed her 44-year-old partner. She stabbed him about 30 times with a butcher knife and violated her body ex-friend, after which she removed the skin from the corpse.
To top it all off, Katherine Knight dismembered the corpse and stewed the severed head along with vegetables. The motive for the crime is a banal insult. As investigators found out, Knight’s partner decided to break up with her, kick her out of the house and deprive her of her inheritance.
1. Elizabeth Batory, 1560-1614
Hungarian Countess, better known as the “Bloody Lady”. She tortured and killed maidservants and peasant women: she brutally beat them, burned their hands, breasts, genitals, faces and other parts of the body with a hot iron, skinned victims who were still alive, starved them, mocked and raped them. In 1610 she was placed under house arrest on charges of murder, heresy and witchcraft. During the trial, the castle servants were unable to name the exact number of the sadist’s victims: the countess’s associates, who found themselves in the dock, spoke of four to five dozen killed, the rest of the servants claimed that they carried out the corpses in the hundreds. Batory died of natural causes in 1614.
