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Craziest Female Killers
Poisoners, partners and spree killers from the TDSH archive. Vote them up or down. Every entry links to its full dossier.
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Katherine Knight
Stabbed her de facto husband John Price at least 37 times in Aberdeen, NSW, in February 2000; sentenced to life without parole.
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Aileen Wuornos
Killed seven men along Florida highways in 1989 and 1990; six death sentences, executed in 2002.
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Mary Ann Cotton
Hanged at Durham County Gaol in 1873 for poisoning her stepson with arsenic; historians link her to 11 to 21 deaths.
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Amy Archer-Gilligan
Ran a Windsor, Connecticut care home the press called the "Murder Factory"; convicted of first-degree murder in 1917.
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Rose West
Convicted on all ten counts in 1995 over the bodies found at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester; whole life order.
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Myra Hindley
With Ian Brady, carried out the Moors Murders between 1963 and 1965, burying victims on Saddleworth Moor.
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Karla Homolka
Struck her 1993 plea bargain before the videotapes surfaced; Paul Bernardo was convicted of first-degree murder.
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Christa Pike
Sentenced to death for the January 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, 19, on a University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.
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Joanna Dennehy
Killed three men around Peterborough and wounded two more in Hereford over ten days in March 2013.
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