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15 deadliest women serial killers

Throughout history, men represent about 90% of the world鈥檚 murder cases, although it is rare, women too have committed horrific murders that shocked the nation and left their mark in the history pages. These women topped the list of the deadliest women serial killers who showed no guilt in their crimes because they even killed their own innocent children, to other cold-blooded crimes that they committed.

Their various motive for committing murder include mental illness, financial gain and a history of abuse. They committed their murder either by stabbing, strangling, poisoning, use of firearms, and burning them. Their crimes are not dismissed just because their women but they are also exposed to severe punishment by the law. Most victims are given long-term sentences in prison or life sentences in prison as their punishment. Today in this article we are going to look at some of the most horrifying ruthless women serial killers ever and how they committed their unlawful acts to their victims.

1. Aileen Wuornos

A mugshot of Aileen Wuornos by the Florida Department of Correction-

Aileen Wuornos was born on February 29^th 1956 in Rochester, Michigan, United States. Growing up she had a very traumatic childhood; her grandfather abused her and when she was in her teenage years Aileen decided to support herself by working as a prostitute. When she was in her line of work that is where she performed her killings between 1989 and 1990. Wuornos killed seven men who were clients enlisted to her services. She claimed that the clients were violent and raped her or attempted to rape her and therefore, the murders were self-defence. The victims were all shot with a 22-calibre automatic revolver and their personal items.

Wuornos later confessed to the murders and she was arrested in 1991 and sentenced to death for six of the murders. On October 9^th 2002, she was executed by lethal injection. A movie was later released in 2002, titled Monster.

2. Juanna Baraza

Juanna Baraza was born on December 27^th 1957 in Epazoyucan, Mexico. She murdered between 42 and 48 elderly women by beating, strangling them and later stealing their items. She was captured in 2006 and found guilty of 16 murders and burglary in 2008. She was then sentenced to 759 years in prison. It is believed that her alcoholic mother forced her to act in this cold-blooded manner after she traded her to a man for three beers and the same man sexually assaulted her when she was 13 years old.

3. Judy Buenoano

Judy Buenoano also known as 鈥淏lack Widow鈥� was born on April 4^th, 1943 in Quanah, Texas, United States. She was an American serial killer who within a period of 12 years had murdered her husband, son and boyfriends. In 1971 Buenoano killed her husband, James Goodyear whom they had been married to for 8 years by slipping arsenic into his food. A year after Goodyear’s murder Judy met her new boyfriend Bobby Morris whom she also murdered in 1977 by using arsenic. Later on, in 1980 Buenoano used poison on her son and took him out rowing and she overturned the boat leaving his son to drown because he had been weakened by the poison.

It is believed that Buenoano was also involved in the 1974 murder in Alabama and in the death of her boyfriend Gerald Dossett which happened in 1980. Her motive for committing all these murders was to collect the life insurance of her victims. In 1998 she was sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair making history as the first woman to be executed in Florida in 150 years.

4. Nannie Doss

Nannie Doss also known as 鈥淕iggling Granny, 鈥渨as an American serial killer born on November 4^th,1905 in Black Mountain. Between the 1920s and 1950s, Nannie had already committed 11 murders in Alabama, Kansas, North Carolina and Oklahoma. In such true love, Doss killed four of her husbands by using arsenic poison on them. She used lonely hearts ads to trap her new husband. Doss also killed two of her own infant children, her two sisters, her mother-in-law, her grandson and her own mother. She used arsenic poison to murder her victims and she collected the insurance money. Nannie was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1955 after she pleaded guilty. She later died from leukaemia in 1965.   

5. Jane Toppan

Jane Toppan was born on March 31^st 1854 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Her mother died and left her in the hands of her alcoholic father. Her father gave up on taking care of her and they also lived in poverty, leaving Jane with no choice but to be raised in an orphanage. Jane was not stopped by these childhood traumas but she grew up and studied nursing and began working as a nurse in 1885. Her workmates and patients found him really kind-hearted and charming and they nicknamed her “Jolly Jane.” She was mostly left unsupervised and that left her to commit her crimes freely because nobody knew what she was capable of. Jane would fake the medical charts and use drugs to bring her victims out of consciousness and when they died, she would get into bed with them and molest them sexually.

She was finally arrested and convicted of 11 killings but she later confessed that she murdered 31 people and claimed that she wanted to be in history as the person who killed more helpless people. She was not found guilty by reason of insanity and was committed to the Taunton Insane Hospital for life.

6. Dorothea Puente

Dorothea Puente was an American serial killer born on January 9, 1929, in Redlands, California, United States. She ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California. Dorothea was known as the 鈥楧eath House Landlady鈥� because she killed her elderly tenants who were mentally ill or disabled. She would later cash their social security checks and pocket the money and after she was done, she would bury their bodies in the yard at her home. She was apprehended after the police went searching for a disabled man who was missing and his body was found on Puente property. The bodies of seven other victims were found in 1988. Puente was charged with a total of nine murders and was convicted of three and sentenced to two life sentences. She later died in Chowchilla prison in 2011.

7. Kristen Gilbert

Kristen Gilbert was born on November 13^th, 1967 in Fall River, United States. She worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Massachusetts. It was at this medical centre that Kristen performed her unlawful acts that are injecting patients with massive doses of epinephrine, which is an untraceable heart stimulant. These doses would cause cardiac arrest, and she was the one who would respond to the coded emergency. In 1998, Kristen was convicted of four murders and two attempted murders of patients. She is serving a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.

8. Amelia Dyer

Amelia Dyer was born in 1837 in Bristol, United Kingdom. Dyer was trained as a nurse and she learned from a midwife the existence of baby farmers which was a home opened to young women pregnant out of wedlock who then promised to find adoptive homes for their babies at a fee. Dyer turned to a baby farmer and she would take these babies and starve them to death. She pocketed the fees for her supposed care work. She was only discovered in 1896 after the body of a missing baby was found wrapped in parcel paper and it bore her address. Although she was convicted of one murder, her name is attached to the murder of hundreds of infants and children and it is also suspected that she killed over 400 infants. Dyer was tried for murder in 1896 and convicted and hanged for her crimes.

9. Amy Archer-Gilligan

Amy Archer-Gillian was born on October 31, 1873, in Milton, Connecticut. Gillian opened up her nursing care home in 1901 in Windsor, Connecticut. She was termed as an angel of death since she used her medical role to kill off elderly women and men who were under her care just for financial gains because a number of the patients had designated her as the beneficiary of their insurance plans. The police discovered that Amy had conducted 48 deaths in her nursing home. She used arsenic to kill her victims. She also had married five men who died mysteriously after they had been married to her. She was convicted in 1917 but was later sent to a mental health centre where she passed in 1962.

10. Miyuki Ishikawa

Miyuki Ishikawa was born on February 5, 1897, in Japan. She was working at the Kotobuki maternity hospital as a midwife before she became the director. Due to financial reasons, many parents were giving their infants to the hospital. Ishikawa, so it best to kill the deserted infants because she believed her services cost less than raising an unwanted baby. She had sought payment for the murders. Miyuki was apprehended and received a four-year sentence for killing about more than 100 infants in 1948.

11. Rosemary West

Rosemary West was born on November 29, 1953, in the Northern, United Kingdom. Rosemary together with her husband Fred killed young girls and women who were na茂ve by picking them off the street with the promise of food and lodging. Their home was a den of domestic violence. torture, incest and murder until they later ran what was known as the House of Horrors. They were discovered after the death of Rosemary鈥檚 daughter whom they also killed. The police invaded their home and they found nine sets of human remains in the West鈥檚 Garden. The police also searched the West鈥檚 previous home where they found the body of Fred鈥檚 stepdaughter. They were both detained in 1994 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Rosemary who still denies her connection to the murders is still in prison while her husband committed suicide.

12. Myra Hindley

Myra was born on July 23, 1942, in Crumpsall, United Kingdom. Myra together with her husband Ian Brady, abducted and killed a total of five children between 1963 and 1965. The children were either stabbed, strangled or sexually assaulted before they died. Later the couple will bury them on the Manchester moors where they would return to the burial site to pose for pictures. They were caught and found with a ton of evidence because the couple kept records of their victims鈥� voices and images. They were both sentenced to life imprisonment. Myra, later on, passed away in 2002 from a brain aneurysm while she was still serving her sentence. 

13. Elizabeth Bathory

Elizabeth Bathory also known as The Blood Countess was born on August 7, 1560, in Nyirbator, Kingdom. She was a noblewoman who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary. Elizabeth misused her servants by sending them to bring local peasants’ girls to her castle where she will torture them to death. Elizabeth would bite pieces of flesh from the girls’ faces and bodies, damage their genitals, stick needles under their fingernails and cut their fingers off. Sometimes Bathory would enjoy bathing in the blood of her victims because she thought it will retain her youth and improve her complexion.

Unsatisfied with the peasant girls, Bathory started commanding her servants to abduct the daughters of the nobles. It was at this time she was discovered because the parents of the noble daughters were unable to ignore her activities. In 1610, the police raided her castle and the servants confessed that she had killed around 200 to 600 girls. Elizabeth died a few years under house arrest.

14. Susan Smith

Susan Smith was born on September 26^, 1971, in Union, South Carolina.  She murdered her two sons, Michael and Alex by drowning them in the South Carolina Lake. Susan committed this unlawful act because she believed that disconnecting herself from her kids would heal a relationship that had ended pretty badly. Growing up she experienced sexual abuse and incest which might be the reason she acted that way. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.

15. Beverly Allitt

Beverly Allit also known as the Angel of death worked as a nurse who misused her position to commit her unlawful acts. She killed four children between the age of seven weeks old to five years old mercilessly by injecting potassium chloride or insulin into their bodies, in order to cause cardiac arrest. After she was arrested, the psychiatrists who examined her said that she was suffering from a strange mental disorder known as Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, which caused her to kill the children so that she could get attention. Currently, she serves 13 life sentences at the Rampton Maximum Security Hospital.