Author: Nick Katt
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 3757543688
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Over 40 crime cases featuring female killers. Includes, among many others: Kim Edwards - the disturbed fourteen year-old English schoolgirl who conspired with her boyfriend to brutally murder her mother and younger sister. Maria Rossi and Christina Molloy, two evil teenage girls who tortured and murdered the pensioner who lived next door in South Wales. Irina Gaidamachuk, a seemingly ordinary Russian housewife who was in secret a barbaric serial killer. Sarah Marie Johnson, an ordinary American teenager who shot her own parents to death because they didn't like her choice of boyfriend. Yolanda Saldívar, the woman who ran the official fan club for the pop star Selena Quintanilla and tragically ended up murdering the singer. Jeanne Weber, the prolific strangler who became known as The Ogress of the Goutte-d'Or Street. You can read about all of these cases and many more in Women Who Kill - Deadly Female Murderers.
Women Who Kill - Deadly Female Murderers
Author: Nick Katt
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 3757543688
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Over 40 crime cases featuring female killers. Includes, among many others: Kim Edwards - the disturbed fourteen year-old English schoolgirl who conspired with her boyfriend to brutally murder her mother and younger sister. Maria Rossi and Christina Molloy, two evil teenage girls who tortured and murdered the pensioner who lived next door in South Wales. Irina Gaidamachuk, a seemingly ordinary Russian housewife who was in secret a barbaric serial killer. Sarah Marie Johnson, an ordinary American teenager who shot her own parents to death because they didn't like her choice of boyfriend. Yolanda Saldívar, the woman who ran the official fan club for the pop star Selena Quintanilla and tragically ended up murdering the singer. Jeanne Weber, the prolific strangler who became known as The Ogress of the Goutte-d'Or Street. You can read about all of these cases and many more in Women Who Kill - Deadly Female Murderers.
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 3757543688
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Over 40 crime cases featuring female killers. Includes, among many others: Kim Edwards - the disturbed fourteen year-old English schoolgirl who conspired with her boyfriend to brutally murder her mother and younger sister. Maria Rossi and Christina Molloy, two evil teenage girls who tortured and murdered the pensioner who lived next door in South Wales. Irina Gaidamachuk, a seemingly ordinary Russian housewife who was in secret a barbaric serial killer. Sarah Marie Johnson, an ordinary American teenager who shot her own parents to death because they didn't like her choice of boyfriend. Yolanda Saldívar, the woman who ran the official fan club for the pop star Selena Quintanilla and tragically ended up murdering the singer. Jeanne Weber, the prolific strangler who became known as The Ogress of the Goutte-d'Or Street. You can read about all of these cases and many more in Women Who Kill - Deadly Female Murderers.
When Women Kill
Author: Coramae Richey Mann
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791428122
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A fascinating profile of female homicide offenders emerges from this analysis of the characteristics of women murderers in six cities in the United States, including the circumstances of the murders, the role of the victims, the role of the perpetrators, and their fates in court.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791428122
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A fascinating profile of female homicide offenders emerges from this analysis of the characteristics of women murderers in six cities in the United States, including the circumstances of the murders, the role of the victims, the role of the perpetrators, and their fates in court.
Female Serial Killers
Author: Peter Vronsky
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425213902
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill—and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim. How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as men—with women registering low on our paranoia radar. Perhaps that’s why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to “the female monster.” From history’s earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain’s notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to ‘Honeymoon Killer’ Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournos—the first female serial killer-as-celebrity—to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425213902
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill—and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim. How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as men—with women registering low on our paranoia radar. Perhaps that’s why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to “the female monster.” From history’s earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain’s notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to ‘Honeymoon Killer’ Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournos—the first female serial killer-as-celebrity—to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine
Author: M. William Phelps
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786035048
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The true-crime story of a Massachusetts nurse with a dark secret, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Left Behind. At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse. Yet so many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred under Kristen's watch that others jokingly called her the “Angel of Death.” No one suspected the horrifying truth: that over the course of six months, Gilbert had caused the deaths of as many as forty patients. With new insight into the sociopathic mindset of nurses who kill, and the latest details on Gilbert's ongoing prison sentence, M. William Phelps exposes how one person's good intentions went so chillingly, killingly wrong . . . Praise for Perfect Poison “True crime at its best—compelling, gripping, an edge-of-the-seat thriller. Phelps packs wallops of delight with his skillful ability to narrate a suspenseful story.” —Harvey Rachlin, award-winning author of Song and System “A compelling account of terror . . . the author dedicates himself to unmasking the psychopath with facts, insight, and the other proven methods of journalistic leg work.” —Lowell Cauffiel, New York Times bestselling author of House of Secrets Includes sixteen pages of dramatic photos
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786035048
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The true-crime story of a Massachusetts nurse with a dark secret, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Left Behind. At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse. Yet so many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred under Kristen's watch that others jokingly called her the “Angel of Death.” No one suspected the horrifying truth: that over the course of six months, Gilbert had caused the deaths of as many as forty patients. With new insight into the sociopathic mindset of nurses who kill, and the latest details on Gilbert's ongoing prison sentence, M. William Phelps exposes how one person's good intentions went so chillingly, killingly wrong . . . Praise for Perfect Poison “True crime at its best—compelling, gripping, an edge-of-the-seat thriller. Phelps packs wallops of delight with his skillful ability to narrate a suspenseful story.” —Harvey Rachlin, award-winning author of Song and System “A compelling account of terror . . . the author dedicates himself to unmasking the psychopath with facts, insight, and the other proven methods of journalistic leg work.” —Lowell Cauffiel, New York Times bestselling author of House of Secrets Includes sixteen pages of dramatic photos
Fatal Females
Author: Micki Pistorius
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143526898
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In Fatal Females, investigative psychologist and former police profiler Micki Pistorius examines the minds and motives of women who kill. Throughout history the view seems to have prevailed that it is not in women's nature to commit violent crime, but Pistorius shows that this is not in fact the case. Women, givers of life, are indeed capable of ruthlessly taking life. She examines more than fifty documented cases of South African female killers, categorised according to the nature of the crime - for example, infanticide, spree killings, stalkers, poisoners - and she presents her new hypothesis to explain the psychology of that rare individual, the female serial killer.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143526898
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In Fatal Females, investigative psychologist and former police profiler Micki Pistorius examines the minds and motives of women who kill. Throughout history the view seems to have prevailed that it is not in women's nature to commit violent crime, but Pistorius shows that this is not in fact the case. Women, givers of life, are indeed capable of ruthlessly taking life. She examines more than fifty documented cases of South African female killers, categorised according to the nature of the crime - for example, infanticide, spree killings, stalkers, poisoners - and she presents her new hypothesis to explain the psychology of that rare individual, the female serial killer.
Dangerous Women
Author: Larry A. Morris
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615921915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Though men are still most often the perpetrators of violent assault and child molestation, more girls and women are becoming dangerous criminals. Blending humanity with scientific rigor, this book draws readers into the direct experiences of this alarming new demographic.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615921915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Though men are still most often the perpetrators of violent assault and child molestation, more girls and women are becoming dangerous criminals. Blending humanity with scientific rigor, this book draws readers into the direct experiences of this alarming new demographic.
Monster
Author: Aileen Wuornos & Christopher Berry-Dee
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1843586940
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida, on the 9th of October, 2002 at the age of 46. She was the 10th woman to be sentenced to death in the USA since the death penalty resumed in 1976. Convicted for the murder of six men, in a two month period, Aileen claimed she acted in self defence however the investigation into these claims was poor and she later retracted her statement announcing to the Supreme Court, "I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again." All-too-often female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - the killings of Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos were the inverse of this. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, which led straight into a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs with both men and women. Her metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. Following a renewed interest in this woman after the film "Monster", this is her story in her own words.
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1843586940
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida, on the 9th of October, 2002 at the age of 46. She was the 10th woman to be sentenced to death in the USA since the death penalty resumed in 1976. Convicted for the murder of six men, in a two month period, Aileen claimed she acted in self defence however the investigation into these claims was poor and she later retracted her statement announcing to the Supreme Court, "I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again." All-too-often female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - the killings of Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos were the inverse of this. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, which led straight into a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs with both men and women. Her metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. Following a renewed interest in this woman after the film "Monster", this is her story in her own words.
When She was Bad
Author: Patricia Pearson
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
While national crime rates have recently fallen, crimes committed by women have risen 200 percent, yet we continue to transform female violence into victimhood by citing PMS, battered wife syndrome, and postpartum depression as sources of women?s actions. When She Was Bad convincingly overturns these perceptions by telling the stories of such women as Karla Faye Tucker, who was recently executed for having killed two people with a pickax; Dorothea Puente, who murdered several elderly tenants in her boarding house; and Aileen Wuornos, a Florida woman who shot seven men. Patricia Pearson marshals a vast amount of research and statistical support from criminologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, and includes many revealing interviews with dozens of men and women in the criminal justice system who have firsthand experience with violent women. When She Was Bad is a fearless and superbly written call to reframe our ideas about female violence and, by extension, female power.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
While national crime rates have recently fallen, crimes committed by women have risen 200 percent, yet we continue to transform female violence into victimhood by citing PMS, battered wife syndrome, and postpartum depression as sources of women?s actions. When She Was Bad convincingly overturns these perceptions by telling the stories of such women as Karla Faye Tucker, who was recently executed for having killed two people with a pickax; Dorothea Puente, who murdered several elderly tenants in her boarding house; and Aileen Wuornos, a Florida woman who shot seven men. Patricia Pearson marshals a vast amount of research and statistical support from criminologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, and includes many revealing interviews with dozens of men and women in the criminal justice system who have firsthand experience with violent women. When She Was Bad is a fearless and superbly written call to reframe our ideas about female violence and, by extension, female power.
The Five
Author: Hallie Rubenhold
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 1328663817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 1328663817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.
Women who Kill
Author: Ann Jones
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807067758
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A study of women murderers in America from precolonial times to the present reveals a social history of the United States in terms of the women who murdered and their crimes.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807067758
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A study of women murderers in America from precolonial times to the present reveals a social history of the United States in terms of the women who murdered and their crimes.