As few as one in six known serial killers are women, but the number of known female serial killers has increased significantly since the 1950s. What has also changed, in line with the changes in ...
Female serial killers represent one example where we break out of the assumptions we have about women who kill. Female serial killers are typically educated, have been married, and have a ...
A female “serial killer” has been sentenced to death after “poisoning 14 friends who lent her money”. Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, 36, has been nicknamed “Ms Cyanide” after being sentenced ...
Yet scientific inquiry, criminal profiling, and public interest have focused more on their better-known male counterparts. As a result, female serial killers have been misunderstood, overlooked, and ...
It’s certainly the case with Aileen Wuornos, who killed seven men and is regarded as America’s first female serial killer. Her childhood was dominated by the violent sexual abuse she ...