Starting in the s, Barraza knocked on the doors of Mexico City 's elderly women, pretending to be a social worker. Once inside, she grabbed a sock, piece of string or phone cord-whatever was handy-and strangled her victims to death until blood oozed from their ears. Capture: In , after strangling year-old Ana Maria Reyes with a stethoscope, Barraza fled from the scene, only to be captured close by.
Her prints matched those at 10 of approximately 40 crime scenes attributed to La Mataviejitas. It took police a long time to find her because they were unsure if she was a man or a woman-or a man dressed as a woman, or a woman dressed as a man.
Her broad shoulders and the force she used to cause blood to seep from victims' ears made police think she was a man. They believed she murdered as many as Story: In Victorian England, when a single woman found herself in a family way, she searched for a baby farmer, who raised the child.
In the late s, women answered ads placed by Amelia Dyer, a married woman in her 50s who lived with her Christian husband in the Thames Valley region, and would raise the babies no one saw her husband because they were separated. As soon as Dyer returned to her flat, she would strangle the infant. Placing the baby in a bag, she dumped her victim into the Thames. Capture: As bargemen rowed across the river on March 30, , they spotted a package. When they opened it, they discovered a dead infant girl.
As the police examined the paper, they spotted a faintly written address. Fearing the murderer would run, the police organized a sting operation where a female pretended to need Dyer's services. When Dyer opened the door for the woman, she found the police instead. The police found 12 infants in the river, many with the same string around their necks. Her house was full of baby items and as her crimes were publicized more women came forward saying they gave her their babies.
On April 7, Noe rushed her newborn to the hospital-he wasn't breathing. Doctors attributed it to sudden infant death syndrome SIDS. Noe had a second child, Elizabeth, in September In February , Noe returned to the hospital, clutching a dead infant. SIDS again. There weren't any marks on the child, broken bones, or bruises, or signs of neglect. Year after year, Noe had a child and a few months later, she arrived at the hospital with a dead infant.
Nurses noticed Noe never mourned her children. After the birth of one of her sons, a nurse overheard Noe threaten him while trying to feed him, "If you don't take this, I'll kill you.
While giving birth to her last child, Arthur Joseph in , Noe had an emergency hysterectomy. None of her children lived to age 2.
Capture: In , a reporter from Philadelphia magazine wrote a book and said Noe should be investigated because eight children from one family couldn't all possibly die of SIDS. When police interviewed her she admitted to smothering four of her children, but wasn't sure what happened to the other four. Punishment: She pleaded guilty in June She was sentenced to 20 years of probation with the first five years under house arrest.
Story: By the time Aileen Wuornos was in high school in Michigan, she was working as a prostitute. After moving to Florida, she was married and divorced and spent time in jail for grand theft auto before she met Tyria Moore, a year-old motel maid. Moore quit her job and Wuornos supported them by hooking. When Wuornos met with Richard Malloy in , she shot him three times with a. A few weeks later, police discovered another naked man shot to death with a.
In all, police found four more naked men, all murdered with a. Capture: Wuornos and Moore were driving in a victim's car when they were in an accident. The duo refused treatment even though Wuornos was bleeding. After discovering the car belonged to one of the murdered men, the police circulated sketches of the women and began gathering evidence against Wuornos.
Authorities found some of Malloy's possessions in a pawnshop with Wuornos' thumbprints on them, and after a few weeks of surveillance, the police detained Wuornos on an outstanding weapons charge. The investigators tracked down Moore, living with her sister in Pennsylvania. They offered her immunity if she could convince Wuornos to confess, which she did.
Wuornos remained indignant and at her trial, she screamed belligerently. Punishment: The State of Florida sentenced her to six death sentences police never found the body of Peter Siems and didn't charge her for the crime and she was executed by lethal injection on October 9, Story: As a year-old farmhand in Norway during the late s, Belle Gunness learned she was pregnant by the son of the landlord.
Unwilling to marry her, he beat her until she miscarried. He died a year later of an illness that resembled poisoning, and soon Gunness left for America.
Within three years of emigrating, she married Mads Sorenson. A physician suspected strychnine poisoning, but the family doctor claimed he treated Mads for an enlarged heart and that caused his death. Belle took the money and moved to LaPorte, Indiana, where she married Peter Gunness in April and became stepmother to his children.
Soon his young son died mostly likely caused by poisoning while he was alone with Belle. In December , an iron meat grinder fell and cracked open Peter's skull. Soon after, suitors began arriving with money in hand to marry Belle Gunness and pay off her mortgage.
Man after man arrived, always leaving Gunness in the middle of the night. When Gunness secured the money from her potential lovers, she killed them, dismembered them, and buried them in the yard.
It was suspected she might have fed some to the pigs. Capture: None. But overall, the researchers highlighted how the women in their study primarily killed for resources, while their male counterparts kill for sex.
This follows evolutionary theory, Harrison and her co-authors explained, in the sense that men are said to be motivated more by seeking multiple sexual opportunities, while women are motivated to find a committed partner with sufficient resources.
The new analysis points to a worrying trend: a per cent increase in the number of reported cases of female serial killers since This study has obvious limitations, most obviously the reliance on historical records and news reports, and its exclusive focus on US killers. However, it makes a valuable contribution to a neglected topic. Like this: Like Loading Find us on Facebook Twitter Mail Chimp. Maybe you think of Jeffrey Dahmer or the Zodiac Killer. Aileen Wuornos might be among the top five people you come up with, but you're more than likely to name a man before a woman in this hypothetical guessing game.
But, of course, there are women who commit serial homicides — they aren't as common men who do the same, but that hasn't stopped criminologists from developing their own theories and profiles of Wuornos and her ilk.
Ahead, we spoke with Peter Vronsky , author of Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters and the recently released Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present , about what's considered "normal" among female serial killers — and what makes them "overall better" than men at serial homicide.
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