A TO Z OF FEMALE KILLERS

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AL-ENEZI, Nasra Yussef Mohammed
Classification Mass Murderer
Number of Victims 58
Date of Murders 15 August 2009
Method of Murder Fire
Location Al Jahra, Kuwait
Status Sentenced to death 30 March 2010

AL-ENEZI took revenge on her husbands second marriage by pouring petrol on the tent where women and children were celebrating and set it on fire.

de BRINVILLIERS, The Marquise
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 54+/-
Date of Murders 1664-1673
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Paris, France
Status Beheaded and her body burned in Paris 16 July 1676

De BRINVILLIERS poisoned 50 hospital patients as “practise” to kill her father, brothers and lover.

COTTON, Mary Ann
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 1-21+
Date of Murders 1857-1872
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location North East England, England, United Kingdom
Status Executed by hanging, 24 March 1873

COTTON was suspected of the murders of 14 people but 21 people to her died.
Eight of her own children, seven step children, her mother, three husbands, a lover and a friend

DEVI, Phoolan
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 20+
Date of Murders: 30 January 1981
Method of Murder Shooting
Location Behmai, District of Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh, India
Status Shot dead by three masked gunman

DEVI was gang-raped by some members of her village then authorised the killing of 22 upper-caste villagers in 1981

EUBANKS, Susan Dianne
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 4
Date of Murders 27 October 1996
Method of Murder Shooting
Location San Marcos, San Diego County, California, USA
Status Sentenced to death, 13 October 1999

EUBANKS murdered her 4 children aged 4,6,7 and 14 because she was angry their fathers and the boyfriend had all chose to leave her

FALUDI, Timea
Classification Homicide
Number of Victims 30+
Date of Murders 2000-2001
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Budapest, Hungary
Status Sentenced to 9 years in prisoner

FALUDI confessed to killing approximately 40 elderly patients “for mercy” although during the trial she withdrew her confession and evidence was unavailable due to the fact the victims had all been cremated.

GONZALEZ, Delfina and Maria de Jesus
Classification Serial Killers
Number of Victims 91+
Date of Murders 1950s-1963
Method of Murder Unknown
Location San Francisco del Rincon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Status Delfina died in prison, Maria served her time and disappeared

GONZALEZ sisters ran a bordello where they would recruit prostitutes and force feed them heroin and cocaine. They would then kill them when they became too ill, damaged by repeated sexual activity, lost their looks or stopped pleasing the customers. They would also kill customers who had large amounts of cash. When police searched their property they found the bodies of 11 men, 80 women and several fetuses.

HILSCHENZ, Sabrine
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 9
Date of Murders 1988-1998
Method of Murder Abandonment
Location Brieskow-Finkenheerd, Brandenburg, Germany
Status Sentenced to 15 years in prison

HILSCHENZ was convicted of infanticide, the bodies of her babies were found buried in a fish tank and in buckets and flower pots in her parents' garden

ISHIKAWA, Miyuki
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 103-169
Date of Murders 1944-1948
Method of Murder Neglect
Location Tokyo, Japan
Status Sentenced to 4 years in prisoner

ISHIKAWA worked at a maternity hospital she believed that the parents of many of these infants were poor and unable to raise their children properly without financial struggle and she was unable to help the infants because of a lack of social and charitable services, so she chose to neglect numerous infants many of whom died as a result.

JONES, Genene Anne
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 11+
Date of Murders 1977-1982
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location San Antonio, Texas, USA
Status Sentenced to 60 years in prisoner

JONES injected babies with life threatening drugs so she could play hero when they pulled through, although many didn't.

KALINA, Michele
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 5
Date of Murders 1996-2010
Method of Murder Asphyxia, poisoning or neglect
Location Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Status Sentenced to a maximum of 20-40 years in prison

KALINA said she gave birth to five babies in her bath tub and hid the bodies in a closet. She thought four were stillborn and denied doing anything malicious.
She pleaded guilty to five counts of abuse of a corpse and concealing a child’s death.

LUMBRERA, Diana
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 4-7
Date of Murders 1976-1990
Method of Murder Suffocation, Strangulation
Location Texas/Kansas, USA
Status Sentenced to life in prison

LUMBRERA suffocated 6 of her children, she would rush them to the hospital saying they had stopped breathing and then blamed the medical staff for not resuscitating the child.

MALEVRE, Christine
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 6-30+
Date of Murders 1997-1998
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Paris, France
Status Sentenced to 12 years in prisoner

MALEVRE admitted helping about 30 terminally ill patients to die

NAGATA, Hiroko
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 14
Date of Murders 1972
Method of Murder By beating or by forced exposure to frigid weather
Location Gunma prefecture, Japan
Status Sentenced to death

NAGATA was convicted of murdering or participating in the murder of fellow members of the United Red Army during a group purge in February 1972

OVERBYE, Dagmar
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 9-25
Date of Murders 1913-1920
Method of Murder Strangulation, Drowning, Burning
Location Norrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark
Status Sentenced to life in prison

OVERBYE was working as a professional child caretaker who murdered her charges. She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her masonry heater. She was only charged with 9 murders as there was no proof of the others

POPOVA, Madame
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 300?
Date of Murders 1879-1909
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Russia
Status Executed by firing squad

POPOVA operated a murder for hire service in Russia the specialised in liberating married women from cruel husbands. Russian police were tipped off when one of the liberated women had a moment of remorse.

QUDIRI, Mahin
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 5
Date of Murders 2008-2009
Method of Murder Suffocation, Beating with an iron bar
Location Qazvin, Qazvin Province, Iran
Status Executed by hanging

QUADIRI was convicted of killing five middle aged women in a prison. She said she got the idea from Agatha Christie novels

REY, Florence
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 4
Date of Murders 4 October 1994
Method of Murder Shooting
Location Paris France
Status Sentenced to 20 years in prison

REY was involved in a shoot out following a high speed car chase

SALTYKOVA, Darya Nikolajevna
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 38-139
Date of Murders 1757-1764
Method of Murder Beating and torturing to death
Location Moscow, Russia
Status Sentenced to life in prison

SALTYKOVA was a Russian noble women who was accused of torturing and murdering at least 100 of her servants most of whom were children and young girls

TOPPAN, Jane
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 31+
Date of Murders 1887-1901
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Massachusetts, USA
Status Found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to an asylum

TOPPAN was a nurse who gave lethal injections of morphine to 31 hospital patients but was suspected to have killed an additional 70. When apprehended she said she wanted to kill more people than anyone who has ever lived before.

URSINUS, Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 1-3
Date of Murders 1798-1801
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Berlin, Germany
Status Sentenced to life in prison then pardoned

URSINUS is believed to have been responsible for poisoning her husband, aunt and lover and of attempting to poison her servant. Her trial led to a method of identifying arsenic poisoning

VAN, Le Thanh
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 13
Date of Murders 1998-2001
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Binh Duong province, Vietnam
Status Sentenced to death

VAN poisoned 13 people with cyanide to steal money and goods

WEST, Rosemary Pauline
Classification Serial Killer
Number of Victims 10
Date of Murders 1971-1987
Method of Murder Strangulation, Suffocation
Location Gloucestershire, England
Status Sentenced to life in prison

WEST was convicted of 10 murders, her husband Fred is believed to have collaborated with her in the torture and murders of these women.

YATES, Andrea Pia
Classification Homicide
Number of Victims 5
Date of Murders 20 June 2001
Method of Murder Drowning in a bath tub
Location Houston, Texas, USA
Status Found not guilty be reason of insanity

YATES had been suffering for awhile from post-partum depression and post-partum psychosis drowned her children in the bath tub in her house.

ZWANZIGER, Anna Margaretha
Classification Murderer
Number of Victims 3+
Date of Murders 1808-1809
Method of Murder Poisoning
Location Bavaria, Germany
Status Executed by sword

ZWANZIGER was employed as a housekeeper at the home of several judges she would poison her employers with arsenic and nurse them back to health to gain their favor.