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Female Serial Killers: "Black Widows"
Female Serial Killers: "Black Widows"
1. (Before 1600 BC) Queen Ji Xia – China – Victims: 3 husbands & 2 others.
2. (42 BC) Anula of Anuradhapura – Sri Lanka – Victims: 5 husbands.
3. (275 AD) Zenobia – Syria – Victims: “A series of lovers.”
4. (597) Queen Fredegund – Merovingian Kingdom – Victims: husband & multiple lovers.
5. (940) “White-Necked Crow” – China – Victims: 36 husbands.
6. (1196) Mahaut de Bourgogne – France – Victims: 4 husbands.
7. (1324) Alice Kyteler – Ireland – Victims: 4 husbands.
8. (1380) Sultana Khadeejah – Maldives – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
9. (1520) “Samáná Threefold Murderess” – India – Victims: paramour, husband & other.
10. (1613) Dona Catherina – Ceylon – Victims: 5 husbands.
11. (1725) “Frascati Black Widow” – Italy – Victims: 2 husbands.
12. (1814) “Malága Black Widow” – Spain – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
13. (1827) Gesche Margarethe Gottfried – Germany – Victims: 2 husbands & 13 others.
14. (1840) Hanna Hanson Kinney – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
15. (1843) Sarah Dazley – England – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
16. (1846) Elizabeth Van Valkenbugh – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
17. (1850) Madame Segard – France – Victims: 2 husbands & 4 others.
18. (1852) Nancy Hufford – USA – Victims: 3 husbands & other.
19. (1857) Elizabeth Routt – USA – Victims: 6 husbands.
20. (1860) Elizabeth McCraney – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 7 others.
21. (1862) Catherine Wilson – England – Victims: 2 husbands & 4 others.
22. (1869) “Gardiner, Maine Black Widow Serial Killer” – USA – Victims: 4 husbands.
23. (1870) “Detroit Black Widow” – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
24. (1870) Julia von Ebergenyi – Germany – Victims: 2 paramours & other.
25. (1871) Catherine Batchelor – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
26. (1871) Lydia Sherman – USA – Victims: 3 husbands, 7 others.
27. (1873) Mary Ann Cotton – England – Victims: 3 husbands & 12–17 others.
28. (1874) Mrs. Pleasant – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
29. (1875) Brigitte Burckel – France – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
30. (1878) Mrs. David Drake – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 2 others.
31. (1878) Sallie Hardman Gibbs – USA – Victims: 3 husbands.
32. (1879) Takahashi Oden – Japan – Victims: husband & lover.
33. (1881) “Bronco Lou” (Mrs. Yankers) – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
34. (1881) Mrs. Gossau – Switzerland – Victims: 2 husbands.
35. (1882) Kathi Lyukas – Hungary – Victims: 2 husbands & 26 others.
36. (1883) Mrs. Christian – USA – Victims: 3 husbands & 4 others.
37. (1883) Mary Ganole – USA – Victims: 2 paramours & 1 man lynched.
38. (1884) Angenette Haight – USA – Victims: 3 husbands & other.
39. (1884) Anna Stutt – Germany – Victims: 2 husbands.
40. (1884) “Varanda Black Widow” – Hungary – Victims: 3 husbands & 100s of others.
41. (1886) “Silesian Husband Killer”– Poland – Victims: 4 husbands.
42. (1886) Mrs. Stevens – Australia – Victims: 2 husbands & other; 1 survived.
43. (1888) Louisa Collins – Australia – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
44. (1888) Martha Johnson – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
45. (1888) Mara Danilovic Savkaric – Serbia – Victims: husband & “another man.”
46. (1888) Mrs. Johnston – USA – Victims: 3 husbands.
47. (1889) Josephine Carnahan Ramsey Artz – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
48. (1889) Annie Zachoegner – USA – Victims: 3 husbands & other.
49. (1891) Jane Dorsey – USA – Victims: 4 husbands & 4 others.
50. (1891) Caroline Sorgenfrie – USA – Victims: 4 husbands.
51. (1892) Joe Reynolds – USA – Victims: 2 paramours.
52. (1892) Kate Painter – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
53. (1893) Lizzie Halliday – USA – Victims: 3 husbands & 5 others.
54. (1894) Mary Cowan – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 4 others.
55. (1894) Ann Miniver Davis – Australia – Victims: 2 husbands.
56. (1895) Mary E. Hughson – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
57. (1896) Queen AshantehemaaYaa Akyaa – Ashanti Kingdom – Victims: 49 husbands.
58. (1897) Olive Sternaman – Canada – Victims: 2 husbands.
59. (1898) Mrs. Camfield – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
60. (1899) Lulu Johnson – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
61. (1899) Marie Nikodem – Hungary – Victims: 2 husbands.
62. (1899) Lisa Triku – Hungary – Victims: 4 husbands.
63. (1899) Jerinia Zsimcsa – Hungary – Victims: 2 husbands.
64. (1900) Sultana Pangyan Inchi Jamela – Philippines – Victims: 2 husbands & 4 others.
65. (1900) Molly Foxwater – USA – Victims: 4 husbands.
66. (1902) Jennie O. Guild – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 2 others.
67. (1902) Belle Witwer – USA – Victims: 4 husbands & 14 others.
68. (1903) Caroline Collins – USA – Victims: husband, paramour and 2 others.
69. (1903) Minnie Cummings – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
70. (1903) Mary McKnight – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 9 others.
71. (1903) Anna (Caroline) Pryzgodda – Germany – Victims: 5 husbands; 1 survived.
72. (1904) “Harbin, Manchuria Serial Black Widow” – Russia – Victims: 3 husbands.
73. (1905) Frau (Ziesig) Manko – West Prussia – Victims: 3+ husbands.
74. (1905) Malvina Roester – Hungary – Victims: 4 “lovers.”
75. (1906) “Knez Four-Time Black Widow” – Hungary – Victims: 4 husbands.
76. (1907) Marie Vere Goold – France – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
77. (1908) Alice Watford – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
78. (1908) Belle Gunness – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & dozens of fiancés.
79. (1908) Dowager Empress Cixi (Tsi Si) – China – Victims: multiple paramours.
80. (1911) Jane Taylor Quinn – USA – Victims: 2+ husbands.
81. (1911) Louise Vermilya – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 7 others.
82. (1912) Mary T. Godau – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
83. (1912) Louisa Lindloff – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 3 others.
84. (1912) Frau Kapruczan – Hungary – Victims: 4 husbands & 5 others.
85. (1912) Frieda Trost – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 3 others.
86. (1914) Minnie Walkup-Ketcham – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & paramour.
87. (1914) Gertie Kidd-Williams – USA – Victims: 3 husbands.
88. (1915) Frona McMahon – USA – Victims: 3 husbands.
89. (1916) Amy Archer-Gilligan – USA – Victims: multiple husbands & others.
90. (1917) Annie Monahan – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 2 others.
91. (1918) Taytu Betul – Abyssinia – Victims: 10 husbands.
92. (1920s) “Inuit Black Widow” – Canada – Victims: 2 husbands.
93. (1920) Ann Tomaskiewicz – USA – Victims: 4 husbands.
94. (1920) Marie-Louise Victorine Bessarabo – France – Victims: 2 husbands & 2 others.
95. (1921) Frau Buchmann – Switzerland – Victims: 2 husbands & 2 “lovers”; 1 survived.
96. (1921) Clara Carl – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
97. (1921) Lyda Trueblood Southard – USA – Victims: 4 husbands.
98. (1921) Madame Pitiot – France – Victims: 2 husbands.
99. (1922) Edith Murray “Cleveland Black Widow” – USA – Victims: 3 husbands & 2 others.
100. (1923) Tillie Klimek – USA – Victims: 4 husbands & 9 others; 6 survived.
101. (1923) Marie Torosian & Elize Potegian – Armenia – Victims: 6 husbands.
102. (1924) Annie Hauptrief – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 4 others; 1 survived.
103. (1924) Euphemia Mondich – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & boyfriend.
104. (1924) Marie Krueger – Germany – Victims: 3 husbands.
105. (1924) Erna Warz – Germany – Victims: 2 husbands & 2 others.
106. (1924) Annora Yeoman – USA – Victims: 2 husbands; 1 survived.
107. (1925) Vera Renczi – Czechoslovakia – Victims: 2 husbands & 33 others.
108. (1926) Georgia Brown – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
109. (1926) Laura Christy – USA – Victims: 2 husbands; 1 survived.
110. (1926) Elsie Bible Malinsky – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 2 others; 1 survived.
111. (1926) Josefa Szanyi (Josephine Tzany) – Hungary – Victims: 8 paramours.
112. (1927) Alma McClaney (Theede) – USA – Victims: 3 husbands.
113. (1927) Sophia Safarine – Russia – Victims: 3 husbands & 55 others.
114. (1928) Nora Edwards – USA – Victims: 3 husbands & other.
115. (1928) Stana Ludushka – Serbia – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
116. (1928) Mme. Tamara – Greece – Victims: 3+ husbands.
117. (1929) Brazilian Black Widow – Brazil – Victims: 3 husbands.
118. (1929) Júlia Fazekas – Hungary – Victims: 2 husbands & dozens of others.
119. (1929) Rosa Holybe – Hungary – Victims: 2 husbands.
120. (1929) Suzi Olah – Hungary – Victims: 2 husbands & dozens of others.
121. (1930s) Grace Sims – USA – Victims: multiple victims.
122. (1930) Agnes Bittner – Czechoslovakia – Victims: 2 husbands & 5 lovers.
123. (1930) Maria Aszendi – Hungary – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
124. (1930) Maria Joljart – Hungary – Victims: husband and paramour.
125. (1930) Maria Varga – Hungary – Victims: 2 husbands & 5 others.
126. (1931) Margaret Summers – USA – Victims: 5 husbands & 14 others.
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128. (1932) Daisy Louisa De Melker – South Africa – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
129. (1932) Elizabeth Ziolkowski – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
130. (1936) Marie Becker – Belgium – Victims: 2 husbands & 9 others; 5 survived.
131. (1938) Florence Peters – USA – Victims: 2 husbands; 1 survived.
132. (1939) Rose Carina – USA – Victims: 3 husbands.
133. (1939) Victoria Lefebvre – USA – Victims: 3 husbands.
134. (1939) Anna Louise Sullivan – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & other; 1 survived.
135. (1940) Emma Hepperman – USA – Victims: 5 husbands & others.
136. (1943) Helen Moeller – Germany – Victims: 3 husbands 2 others.
137. (1946) Marguerite D’Andurian – France & Syria – Victims: 2 husbands & 2 others.
138. (1948) Josefa Idler – Germany – Victims: 2 husbands.
139. (1949) Marie Besnard – France – Victims: 2 husbands & 11 others.
140. (1949) Marie Jeanbracq – France – Victims: 2 husbands & 3 others.
141. (1950) Bessie Lee Cunningham – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
142. (1950) Willie May Dincken – USA – Victims: husband & other.
143. (1951) Lala Wanh – India – Victims: 17 husbands.
144. (1952) Roberta Elder – USA – Victims: 3 husbands & 9 others.
145. (1952) Yvonne Fletcher – Australia – Victims: 2 husbands.
146. (1952) Margie Jerry Zeglen – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
147. (1954) Daisy “Nannie” Doss – USA – Victims: 4 husbands & 7 others.
148. (1956) Rhonda Belle Martin – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 4 others.
149. (1957) Daisy Scott Lott – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
150. (1957) Mary Elizabeth Wilson – England – Victims: 3 husbands & other.
151. (1958) Anjette Lyles – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 2 others.
152. (1962) Bessie Folse Toups – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
153. (1962) Mae Ella Lee – USA – Victims: husband & boyfriend.
154. (1962) Sienna Engelbredht – South Africa – Victims: 3 husbands.
155. (1966) Irena Cubirkova (Čubírková) – Czechoslovakia – Victims: husband & boyfriend.
156. (1967) Betsy Reese – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 7 children.
157. (1975) Mrs. Emily Stone Conyers – USA – Victims: 2 husbands; 3 others survived.
158. (1975) Doretta Kirksey – USA – Victims: 3 husbands.
159. (1975) Kathy Tyree Viets Dean – USA – Victims: 2 husbands; 1 survived.
160. (1975) Caroline Snoddy – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
161. (1978) Velma Barfield – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 4 others.
162. (1979) Laverne O’Bryan – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
163. (1979) Alma Wittenmyer – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
164. (1980s) Margaret “Maggie” MacDonald – Canada – Victims: 2 husbands.
165. (1980s) “Disabled Veteran-Targeting Black Widow” – USA – Victims: 4 husbands.
166. (1982) Shirley Elizabeth Allen (Goude) – USA – Victims: 3 husbands; 1 survived.
167. (1982) Pauline Rogers – USA – Victims: 2 husbands; 1 survived.
168. (1983) Maria Velten – Germany – Victims: 2 husbands, 3 others.
169. (1983) Judias Welty Buenoano – USA – Victims: 4 husbands & other; 1 survived.
170. (1984) Emily Bell – USA – Victims: 3 husbands; 1 survived.
171. (1984) Betty Joe Green – USA – Victims: husband & other; 1 survived.
172. (1985) Griselda Blanco – USA – Victims: 3 husbands & 200 others.
173. (1985) Betty Lou Beets – USA – Victims: 5 husbands.
174. (1987) Anne Gates – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
175. (1987) Tamara Ivanyutina – Ukraine – Victims: 2 husbands & 7 others.
176. (1987) Mary Lou Martin – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
177. (1988) Hazel Allison – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
178. (1988) Sharon Lynn Nelson (Harrelson) – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
179. (1988) Barbara Stager – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
180. (1988) Sandra Bridewell – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
181. (1989) Blanche Taylor Moore – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & 4+ others.
182. (1989) Geraldine Parrish – USA – Victims: multiple husbands & others.
183. (1992) Frances Beasley Truesdale – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
184. (1992) Sylvia Ipock-White – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
185. (1993) Jill Coit – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
186. (1995) Mary Tene Steiner – USA – Victims: 2+ husbands.
187. (1996) Terri Gilbert – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
188. (1996) Della Sutorius – USA – Victims: 2 husbands; 1 survived.
189. (1998) Cynthia Phillips – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & boyfriend.
190. (1999) Carrie E. Allen – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
191. (2001) Linda Lou Charbonneau – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
192. (2001) Josephine Gray – USA – Victims: 3 husbands.
193. (2001) Li Huijie – China – Victims: 4 husbands.
194. (2001) Dena Thompson – England – Victims: 2 husbands; 1 survived.
195. (2002) Jamila Belkacem – France – Victims: husband & paramour.
196. (2002) Natthakan Anaman – Thailand – Victims: 2 husbands.
197. (2003) Raynella Dossett Leath – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
198. (2006) Sonia Rios – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
199. (2007) Beatriz Perez – USA – Victims: 2 husbands; 1 survived.
200. (2007) Stacy Castor – USA – Victims: 2 husbands; 1 survived.
201. (2007) Lydia L. – Germany – Victims: husband & 3 boyfriends.
202. (2007) Julia Lynn Turner – USA – Victims: 2 husbands & other.
203. (2008) Ulisa Chavers – USA – Victims: husband & boyfriend.
204. (2008) Betty Neumar – USA – Victims: 5 husbands.
205. (2009) Miriam Helmick – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
206. (2009) Karina Rybalkina – Siberia – Victims: 3 husbands.
207. (2009) Kanae Kijima – Japan – Victims: 7 “personals.”
208. (2009) Miyuko Ueti – Japan – Victims: 5 “dates” and fiancé.
209. (2010) Antoinette Van Dungey – England – Victims: “partner” & “friend.”
210. (2011) Goidsargi Estibaliz ‘Esti’ Carranza – Austria – Victims: husband & boyfriend.
211. (2011) Emilsen Yulima Nataly Rojas – Columbia – Victims: multiple husbands.
212. (2011) Sandra Nataly Giraldo – Colombia – Victims: 2 husbands.
213. (2012) Amy Herrera – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
214. (2012) Catherine Symanowski – USA – Victims: husband; survived.
215. (2013) Esneda Ruiz Cataño – Colombia – Victims: 3 husbands.
216. (2012) Melissa Friedrich (Weeks) – Canada – Victims: 2 husbands; 2 survived.
217. (2013) Bogumila Wojtas – Austria – Victims: 2 boyfriends.
218. (2013) Coleen Ann Harris – USA – Victims: 2 husbands.
219. (2013) Patricia D. – France – Victims: 2 paramours & multiple others.
220. (2014) Pornchanok Chaiyapa – Thailand – Victims: husband & others.
221. (2014) Chisako Kakehi – Japan – Victims: 7 husbands & paramours.
222. (2014) Mrs. Lee – Korea – Victims: husband & paramour.
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CrisisCast | Crisis Management Roleplay Actors and Film Makers
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CrisisCast | Crisis Management Roleplay Actors and Film Makers
We dramatise events for emerging security needs in the UK, Middle East and worldwide. Our specialist roleplay actors - many with security clearance - are trained by behavioural psychologists and rigorously rehearsed in criminal and victim behaviour to help police, the army and the emergency services, hospitals, schools, local authorities, government, private security firms, shopping centres, airports, big business, criminal justice departments, media and the military to simulate incident environments for life saving procedures.
We use state of the art British film industry techniques, props and special effects to help trainers deliver essential, hands-on, high octane crisis response and disaster management training. We also work with trainee doctors, psychologists and care professionals.
CrisisCast | Crisis Management Roleplay Actors and Film Makers
We dramatise events for emerging security needs in the UK, Middle East and worldwide. Our specialist roleplay actors - many with security clearance - are trained by behavioural psychologists and rigorously rehearsed in criminal and victim behaviour to help police, the army and the emergency services, hospitals, schools, local authorities, government, private security firms, shopping centres, airports, big business, criminal justice departments, media and the military to simulate incident environments for life saving procedures.
We use state of the art British film industry techniques, props and special effects to help trainers deliver essential, hands-on, high octane crisis response and disaster management training. We also work with trainee doctors, psychologists and care professionals.
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