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.