Worst Female Serial Killers

The Top Ten
1 Elizabeth Báthory Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Her purpose for killing innocent girls and women is gruesome and cruel, she bathed in their blood because she thought it would retain her youth. She started off with small animals, then continued slowly to larger animals. She went from mice to racoons to deer to horses. Then humans. The younger the better, she thought. She even kept her future victims tied up in the basement.

2 Mary Ann Cotton Mary Ann Cotton was an English murderer, convicted and hanged for killing three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies.
3 Belle Gunness Belle Sorenson Gunness — born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth — was a Norwegian-American serial killer.
4 Jane Toppan
5 Aileen Wuornos Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Wuornos claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute, and that all of the homicides were committed in self-defense.
6 Waltraud Wagner
7 Rosemary West
8 Karla Homolka

She helped her first husband rape & kill her own kid sister, & then went on to help him rape more girls, & kill at least 2. She only had to serve a maximum of 12 years for her crimes, & is now remarried & the mother of 3 children: Exactly the same number of girls whom she had killed!

9 Nannie Doss
10 Delphine LaLaurie
The Contenders
11 Charlene Gallego
12 Amelia Dyer Amelia Elizabeth Dyer was one of the most prolific serial-killers in history, murdering infants in her care over a 20 year period in Victorian Britain.
13 Ilse Koch
14 Myra Hindley
15 Dagmar Overbye
16 Irene Leidolf
17 Leslie Van Houten
18 Bonnie Parker
19 Mariam Soulakiotis
20 Kate Bender
21 Lin Yu-ju
22 Beverley Allitt
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