Female Perpetrator

East St. Louis Teen, Charged in Killing of Five Family Members Over Several Days

East St. Louis Family Homicides

Five relatives dead, two survivors wounded, a severed thumb used to unlock a phone. Ja'ymier Davis, 16, and his 15-year-old girlfriend face murder charges in a targeted family attack across three East St. Louis locations.…
Historical photo of women in a tense confrontation, highlighting human cruelty.

Leonarda Cianciulli

Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer convicted in 1946 for murdering three women between 1939 and 1940. She employed sophisticated fraud to lure victims into her home, promising marriage or employment. The crimes involved…
Mary Ann Cotton

Mary Ann Cotton

Britain's first infamous female serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton poisoned her way through three husbands, a lover, and up to eleven of her own children in Victorian County Durham, collecting life insurance payouts along the…
women serial killers

Women Serial Killers: Rare Offenders, Common Victims

Serial killers are overwhelmingly male. Victims, however? Mostly not. Across multiple datasets and criminological studies, women show up in a strange, brutal double role: That imbalance is not an accident. It sits at the intersection…

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Violent music-related murders and tragedies in history.

When Music Turns Deadly

Major homicide cases within the music industry are indexed by legal status, categorizing musicians as victims, perpetrators, or witnesses. Spanning sixty years…

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