![]() ![]() Myra Hindley met Ian Brady in 1961 in Manchester, England, and soon became his girlfriend. Photo shows Myra Hindley (blonde, right), and her sister Maureen Smith. In 1964, the sisters were each sentenced to 40 years in prison. Police searched the sisters’ property and found the bodies of 11 men, 80 women and several foetuses, though they are suspected of having murdered many more. The sisters would murder the sex workers as soon as they became too ill, lost their looks or stopped pleasing the customers. They then force-fed the girls cocaine or heroin. There, they would recruit sex workers through advertisements for a housekeeper. ![]() Until the mid-1960s, the sisters ran ‘Rancho El Ángel’, called the ‘bordello from hell’ in San Francisco del Rincón. Known as ‘Las Poquianchis’, sisters Delfina and Maria de Jesus Gonzalez were from the Mexican state of Guanajuato, 200 miles north of Mexico City. Delfina and Maria de Jesus Gonzalez (1912-1990) She was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 3 in a criminal asylum. This earned her the nickname ‘the soap-maker of Correggio’. In her court testimony, she talked about turning the women’s remains into soap and cakes which she gave to neighbours and friends. She was finally captured and put on trial in 1946. Over the course of a year from 1939-1940 in Correggio, Italy, she killed three women with an axe, dismembered their bodies and used caustic soda to disintegrate them. Leonarda became obsessed with their safety and was convinced that she had to sacrifice other people to save them. Of the 14 who were born alive, only 4 survived beyond a young age. Leonarda Cianciulli (1894-1970)īorn in Avellino, Italy, Leonarda Cianciulli married a registry office clerk in 1917 and fell pregnant 17 times during her marriage. Her horrific deeds were eventually discovered when the remains of a baby were recovered from the water. Instead, Dyer began starving the babies she took in, or drugging them with an opiate known as ‘Mother’s Friend’.Īfter some time she began to make her killings more efficient, strangling the babies with white cord and throwing their remains in the River Thames. Trained as a nurse but widowed in 1869, Dyer turned to baby farming to support her family. Photograph of Amelia Dyer upon entry to Wells Asylum, 1893.Īmelia Dyer is credited as being one of the most prolific murderers in British history, having killed more than 400 infants. Tofana, her daughter and her three assistants were all executed in 1659. However, so many people believed that her actions were charitable that she was briefly granted sanctuary in a church before being forcibly removed by the police. Her business boomed, and she eventually relocated to Rome and hired her daughter and three assistants to help her. Tofana sold the poison to women who were trapped in abusive marriages as a way of allowing them to kill their husbands. Growing up, she spent a lot of time in apothecaries, and it was there that she apparently perfected her own brand of poison: Aqua Tofana, a slow-acting poison with no colour or taste, with effects that could easily be mistaken for other illnesses. Born in Palermo in 1620, when she was young her mother was executed for killing her father with poison. Though not a direct killer herself, Giulia Tofana provided poison that killed hundreds of men in 17th-century Italy. ‘The Love Potion’ by Evelyn De Morgan, 1903. Since her death, Báthory has become a prominent figure in folklore, literature and music, and has been labelled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer in history. Even though servants around her were executed for being involved, Báthory was imprisoned, rather than executed. The stories of Báthory’s murders were further verified by physical evidence of mutilated, dying or dead victims at the time of her arrest. Over 300 witnesses and survivors testified. In 1610, King Matthias investigated the claims. There had been earlier accounts of peasant women being murdered, but it was not until 1609 that rumours that she had killed noblewomen attracted attention. ‘The Blood Countess’, Elizabeth Báthory (1560-1614)Ĭountess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and reputed serial killer of hundreds of young women in the 16th and 17th centuries. Many people will recognise the names of modern female serial killers, such as Myra Hindley, but the history books are filled with accounts of countless other fearsome female killers.įrom murderers who have been compared to Vlad the Impaler to a woman who made her victims into soap, here are some of the most notorious female serial killers in history. However, when killers commit crimes over a longer, sustained and more calculated period, it can cause a public sensation and widespread social panic. Female murderers have long been morbidly fascinating figures. ![]()
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