These women are proof that women can also be very cruel. Some of the killers on this list had mainly financial motives, some were seriously sick and some were probably just insane.
See the list of 11 of the worst female killers in history.
See the list of 11 of the worst female killers in history.
Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova (1730-1801), commonly known as Saltychikha was the torturess and murderess. According to the forensic detectives, over the period of six to seven years she murdered by various methods 139 people, among whom there were mainly women (only 3 of her victims were men), including young girls of 10-12 years of age.
Queen Mary I (1516-1558), Queen of England was unpleasantly remembered as "the Bloody Mary" for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Catholicism in England. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife.
Queen Mary I
Myra Hindley (1942-2002) was one of the most notorious serial killers in British history since Jack the Ripper. Hindley and her lover Ian Brady tortured, sexually abused and killed five children in the 1960s, burying their bodies in the bleak moors near the northern English city of Manchester.
Myra Hindley
Isabella I (1451–1504) was a Queen of Castile and León. She became famous for her cruelty toward non-Catholics. About 200 thousand people were forced to accept Christianity. She instituted the Tribunal of the Inquisition in Spain, which had murdered Jewish and Protestant victims in the name of religion, some of which were in a most gruesome manner, that of being strangled and/or burned-sometimes burned while alive.
Isabella I
Beverley Gail Allitt (born 4 October 1968), dubbed "the Angel of Death", is an English serial killer who murdered four children and injured nine others while working as a State Enrolled Nurse, on the children's ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire. Her main method of murder was to inject the child with potassium chloride (to cause cardiac arrest), or with insulin (to induce lethal hypoglycemia).
Beverley Gail Allitt
Mary Ann Cotton was an English Serial Killer and had killed more than 20 people, including her own children, by using arsenic and then collected their insurance money. She was hanged on the 24th of March, 1873 at the Durham County Jail.
Mary Ann Cotton
Belle Gunness (1859-1931) was responsible for the killings of more than 20 suitors and all of her children. Belle was also famous for burning down houses and collecting insurance money for the property and for her dead husbands. Later on, she progressed to placing an advertisement for a husband in a newspaper and luring prospective suitors to her home and killing them. She would bury the bodies in her farm and hog pen.
Belle Gunness
Ilse Koch, born Ilse Köhler (1906-1967), was the wife of Karl Koch, the first prominent Nazis to be tried by the US military.
After the trial was remitted under worldwide media attention, survivor accounts of her resulted in other authors describing her abuse of prisoners as "sadistic"; a shadow image as "concentration camp murderess" transfixed itself to post-war German society. She was accused of taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. She was known as "The Witch of Buchenwald" by the inmates because of her alleged cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners.
Ilse Koch, born Ilse Köhler
Irma Grese (1923-1945) was employed at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and was a warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen.
She was tried over the first period of the trials and was represented by Major L. Cranfield. The accusations against her centred on her ill-treatment and murder of those imprisoned at the camps, including setting dogs on inmates, shootings and sadistic beatings with a whip.
Irma Grese
Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family. Although in modern times she has been labeled the most prolific female serial killer in history, evidence of her alleged crimes is scant and her guilt is debated. Nevertheless, she is remembered as the "Blood Countess" and as the "Bloody Lady of Čachtice", after the castle near Trenčín in the Slovakia (Kingdom of Hungary in past), where she spent most of her adult life.
Erzsébet Báthory
After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and young women, with one witness attributing to them over 600 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted. In 1610, however, she was imprisoned in the Čachtice Castle, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.
Katherine Knight (born 1955) was the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. She was convicted of the murder of her partner, John Charles Thomas Price in October 2001, and is currently detained in Mulawa Correctional Centre now known as Silverwater women's prison.
Katherine Knight
She had stabbed Price with a butcher's knife while he was sleeping. According to the blood evidence, he awoke and tried to turn the light on before attempting to escape while Knight chased him through the house, he managed to open the front door and get outside but either stumbled back inside or was dragged back into the hallway where he finally died after bleeding out. Later, Knight went into Aberdeen and withdrew $1,000 from Price's ATM account. Price's autopsy revealed that he had been stabbed at least 37 times, in both the front and back of his body with many of the wounds extending into vital organs. Several hours after Price had died, Knight skinned him and hung the skin from a meat hook on the architrave of a door to the lounge room. She then decapitated him and cooked parts of his body, serving up the meat with baked potato, pumpkin, zucchini, cabbage, yellow squash and gravy in two settings at the dinner table, along with notes beside each plate, each having the name of one of Price's children on it; she was preparing to serve his body parts to his children. A third meal was thrown on the back lawn for unknown reasons and it is speculated Knight had attempted to eat it but could not and this has been put forward in support of her claim that she has no memory of the crime. Price's head was found in a pot with vegetables.
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