Their owner died a lot of people.
When we talk about a serial killer, it is likely that mean man. This is not surprising because the vast majority of homicidal maniacs — representatives of a strong half of mankind. However, it would be a mistake to suppose that among these people there are no women. They, of course, not so much, but the crimes that they committed are particularly cruel.
10. Beverly Allitt.
Country: United Kingdom.
Number of victims: 4 (killed), 9 (the assassination).
Punishment: 13 life sentences.
Beverly Allitt was born in 1968 and in 1991 started to work as a pediatric nurse. Still don’t understand why the man with diagnosed mental illness allowed to work with children. The fact that at an early age Beverly showed signs of Munchausen’s, and then the signs of Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy. As found by the investigators, it is these deviations that prompted her to commit crimes. In a very short time, less than two months, Beverly Allitt had committed violent acts over 13 children from her chamber. All the children were aged from seven weeks to five years. Four of them died, the rest miraculously managed to survive. Crazy nurse did the children injections of potassium chloride or insulin to cause cardiac arrest. At trial, Beverly completely denied his guilt. Nevertheless, in 1993, she was sentenced by aggregate of crimes, to 13 life sentences.
9. Eileen Wuornos.
Country: US.
Number of victims: 7.
Punishment: the Death penalty.
From Eileen had a difficult childhood, she grew up in a poor and dysfunctional family. When the girl was 4 years old her mother gave her along with his elder brother on the education of their parents. At age 14, Aileen was kicked out of the house, and in 15 years she has wandered and worked as a prostitute. The fate of her was difficult, she was tried for robbing a store, and then for stealing weapons. In 1989-1990 Wuornos Aileen killed seven men in Florida. All the victims were alone (without passengers) drivers, male and middle-aged (the last victim is even old). Agreed to give a lift to Eileen and was going to join her in a sexual relationship (or already entered). That is, it killed their potential or established clients. The victims ‘ cars remained in the forest. The murder weapon — a .22 pistol, which was made at least two shots into the victim, usually more. In some cases, the killer tried to hide the evidence.
8. Tamara Ivanyutin.
Country: USSR.
Number of victims: 9.
Punishment: the Death penalty.
Tamara Ivanyutin was born in a large family (one of six children) in which parents always instilled in children, what is important in life — material security. On 17 and 18 March 1987, several students and staff of school No. 16 Podolsk district of Kiev was in the hospital with symptoms of food poisoning. Two children and two adults died almost immediately, the other 9 people were in intensive care. Doctors initially suspected victims have the flu or an intestinal infection, but some time later, the victims began to fall the hair, which is unusual for such diseases. The investigation revealed that the food in the cafeteria has poisoned Tamara Ivanyutin, who worked there as a dishwasher. The reason for the crime, according to the Ivanyutin, was that sixth graders, had dinner in the dining room, refused to place tables and chairs, and she “decided to punish them.”
As it turned out, Ivanyutin and her family members (sister, parents) over 11 years, used thallium to commit a poisoning; and that poisoning was accomplished with an ax to grind, and in terms of people who just for some reason didn’t like members of the family. Only it was proved 40 episodes of poisoning committed by that family, 13 of them fatal. The greatest number of fatal poisonings (9) and attempted murder (20) was committed personally by Tamara of Ivanyutin.
7. Rosemary West.
Country: US.
Number of victims: 10.
Punishment: imprisonment for Life.
Along with her husband Fred West had gained the trust of young girls, lured them to his home supposedly as a babysitter for their children, and then raped and killed them. Rosemary, a mother of eight children, was a prostitute and a depraved sexual sadist, who derived pleasure from inflicting pain. Along with her husband, she committed ten murders, including the murder of his own child, a daughter named Heather.
6. Maria Polackova.
Country: Czech Republic.
Number of victims: 2 (proven), more than 10 (total).
Punishment: the Death penalty.
Mary was born in 1936 in the Czech Republic. She grew up in a poor and extremely dysfunctional family. Own marriage girls, too, failed. Maria worked as a nurse at the hospital was a midwife. But in 1960 she was taken into custody on charges of murder of the newborn. During the investigation, she confessed to killing at least 10 newborns. It turned out that since 1957, she began to beat their victims on the head, with the result that they died within a few hours or days. The motive which committed these horrific crimes has remained unknown. The court managed to prove only two murders, but it was enough to give her the death penalty. At the time of enforcement of the sentence Mary was only 24 years old.
5. Irina Gaydaychuk.
Country: Russia.
Number of victims: 17.
Penalty: 20 years imprisonment.
Today Irina Gaydamack is considered the most popular female serial killer of our time. For the first eight years of his criminal activity from 2002 to 2010, she killed 17 pensioners aged 61 to 86 years old. Did the intruder prudent and bludgeoned his victims with a hammer, after which she changed her look and covered their tracks of crime. For this and received their nicknames: krasnoufimskiy wolf” and “Raskolnikov in a skirt”. During the preliminary investigation, Haydamack confessed, a forensic psychiatric examination found her sane. For their actions, it could get more time, but in accordance with the criminal code life imprisonment is not appointed to women. 20 years was for her the maximum penalty. Freedom Irina Gaydamack should be out in 2030 at the age of 58 years.
4. Jane Toppan.
Country: US.
Number of victims: 31.
Punishment: Imprisonment in a psychiatric hospital.
Jane was raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, into a poor family, among whose members were people with mental illness. In 1863 father gave her and sister in the Boston shelter, which then gave them to the family as servants-disciples. Jane came to Ann Toppan. All the years that she spent in this family, the girl bitterly resented his adoptive mother who abused her, and her own daughter-the darling Elizabeth. In 1885 Toppan began training for a nurse. She used her patients as Guinea pigs in experiments with morphine and atropine, changing a scheduled dosage of the medication and observing how this affects their nervous system. She touched in unconscious patients and received sexual satisfaction. In 1899 Jane killed his half-sister Elizabeth with a dose of strychnine.
In 1901 Jane was caring for the elderly Alden Davis after the death of his wife (which it killed). Within a few weeks she killed Davis and two of his daughters. Then she returned to his hometown and began to care for her husband his dead foster sister. By this time the surviving members of the Davis family demanded a Toxicological examination for the youngest deceased daughter Alden Davie. It was established that she was poisoned. 26 Oct 1901 Jane Toppan arrested for murder. First, she confessed to 11 murders, and then and in all 31. The court found her not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to be put in an asylum, where she remained until her death.
3. Belle Gunness.
Country: US.
Number of victims: more than 40.
Punishment is Not incurred.
For their crimes, Belle Gunness was nicknamed “Hell’s Belle” and “Black widow.” It was a large and physically strong woman: my height 183 cm, weighing 90 kg. She killed most of her friends Boyfriends, and his two daughters, Myrtle and Lucy. It may also involved in the death of both her husbands and all children. The motive of the crimes of Gunness was taking the insurance money and other valuables, besides the elimination of witnesses. The death of the “Black widow” is still shrouded in mystery: once a criminal has disappeared, and after some time the police found her headless, charred corpse. The affiliation of these remains a criminal and remains unproven today, because at the time of examination of the DNA material was not enough to fully prove or disprove the findings of the police.
2. Jenin Jones.
Country: US.
The number of victims from 11 to 46.
The sentence: 99 years in prison.
In the period from 1971 to 1984, Janine Jones, who was then working as a nurse, killed on different data from 11 to 46 children who were under her supervision. It was administered to children of injection to cause them to have seizures, and then she treated them, hoping thus to receive praise for good work. But many children after this just did not survive. The exact number of murders remains unknown, since reports of the actions of the nurses Jones, stored at the hospital were destroyed to prevent further litigation after her first conviction. In 1985, Jones was sentenced to 99 years in prison. However, according to local laws, due to prison overcrowding she will be released in 2017 after serving one third of the term.
1. Dolphin and Maria de Jesus Gonzalez.
Country: Mexico.
The number of casualties: 110.
Punishment: 40 years in prison.
In San Francisco del rincón, which is 200 kilometers from Mexico city, sister Gonzales was keeping the ranch in the nation was referred to as “Hell’s brothel.” The ad with the requirement of the waitresses they were looking for girls, then kidnapped them and forced into prostitution, serving customers almost around the clock. The girls were kept in terrible conditions for a long time, given little food, which prostitutes often ill. Some are forcibly drugged with cocaine or heroin and beaten. When prostitutes were ill or for some other reason could no longer serve customers, sisters get rid of them. In addition, Gonzalez was killed clients with good money. To kill the sisters helped the other two girls, Carmen and Maria Luisa. They were inconspicuous, and nobody suspected. When police on a tip arrived at the ranch sisters they found there a dozen prostitutes with serious diseases, the bodies 80 of girls and 11 clients, and a lot of dead premature infants.
