Rotten Little Girls

10. Myra Hindley - she began murdering as a young woman in order to win the love of her sadistic first love, Ian Brady.  While it started off with him encouraging her to read the works of Hitler and participating in bank robberies, she soon moved on to sexually torturing and murdering children with her boyfriend in 1960s England.  I know we all get attached to the man we lose our virginity to, but come on, Myra – if a man asks me to do more than show up for dinner, I think it’s about time to end the relationship.

9.  Christine Malevre – joining the ranks of lethal nurses who seem to be contradicting their job purpose, Christine may have honestly believed that she was being compassionate by killing her patients.  Her book “My Confessions” emphasizes her support of euthanasia.  I hate intolerable pain as much as the next person, but I am now somewhat hesitant to hand my life over to hospital staff.  Don’t they have sedatives for a reason?

8.  Belle Gunness - one of the earliest Black Widows, she actually managed to lure men through mail (kind of like a modern day internet serial killer) to come and see her, at which point she murdered them for money. She ended up killing her kids and faking her own death, and Ms. Gunness was never apprehended.  So she wasn’t the greatest wife or mother, but on the other hand she took the phrase “independent woman” to the extreme.

7. Helene Jegado - while working as a domestic servant in France for most of her 19th century life, she killed anywhere from 23-60 people and eventually got the guillotine. Mostly focusing her murders on her employers, she also had a brief stint as a nun – during which she offed some of her peers. Who hasn’t wanted to kill their boss at one time or another? And don’t even get me started on the Christian Church…

6. Aileen Wuornos – Charlize Theron’s role in “Monster” was based on the real life of this prostitute, who justified her vigilante murders with claims of self-defense. She was a tough bitch and a pretty belligerent one as well, but if I was working as a low-class hooker I think I might end up cutting a few dicks off. As far as I am concerned, she was relatively considerate.

5. Katherine Mary Knight - the female equivalent of Hannibal Lecter in Australia, she grew up working in a slaughterhouse where she developed an obsession with “boning” knives. Years later she hacked up her husband and cooked him with some vegetables.  Sometimes men can be like a piece of meat – maybe she just got confused?

4.  Raya & Sakina – From 1919 to 1922, these two Egyptian women were the leaders of a gang that included their husbands and a handful of other men.  Under the guise of running a brothel, they lured women wearing expensive jewelry to their home and murdered them.  Not only were they like mafia bosses to their husbands, but they were also the first women living in British-controlled Egypt to be sentenced to death…and all for some heavy rocks.

3. Rosemary West – alongside her husband Fred, she ran a prostitute and nanny service that served as a cover for her recruitment of women whom they sexually attacked for pleasure.  Not only was she a successful businesswoman, but talk about kinky…

2. Julius Fazekas – as the only midwife in a small Hungarian village, Fazekas and her cohort “Aunt Susi” (a suspected witch) initially started out their health care practices with abortions.  Pretty soon, they were providing the community with arsenic strips.  Used mainly by women against their husbands, it was said that the lady consumers didn’t want to give up the sexual freedom they had gained while their husbands were away at war.  So many people were killed that the town became known as “the Murder District.”  Killing the way to sexual liberation – now how is that for a women’s rights movement?

1. Elizabeth Bathory - nicknamed the “Blood Countess” for her strange bathing habits, this noble lady of 17th century Hungary tortured and killed virginal women because she believed that bathing in their blood would retain her youth.  Hey, delusional psychosis aside, she was just as afraid of getting old as the rest of us.

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*Check out the Crime Library’s archives on famous serial killers – male, female, maybe even intersexual…do intersexual serial killers exist?

*Myra just loved everyone – men, children, and as this article reveals, women too!  At least she was open-minded.

Photos:  Hindley, Malevre, Gunness, Jegado, Wuornos, Knight, Raya & Sakina, West, Fazekas, Bathory