The Creepiest Female Serial Killers & Quotes

Chronological List of Female Serial Killer Cases

• 1610 – Elizabeth Báthory – Cachtice, Hungary – Sadistic torture and murder of numerous young women.
• 1834 – Honorine Pellois – Bas-Val, Orne, France – Age 10; murdered 2 young girls by drowning, attempted to drown a boy; known for cruelty to children and animals; motive reportedly jealousy over appearance. (2 murders, 1 attempt)
• 1865 – Marie-Françoise Bougaran – Brest & Lesneven, France – Age 15; servant girl; murdered children under her care by force-feeding feces and cutting throat veins. (3 deaths, 2 attempts)
• 1871 – “Dahr-al-Ahmur Serial Killer” – Dahr-al-Ahmur, Lebanon – Kidnapped, poisoned, and dismembered 8 children allegedly for revenge against a “rival in love.”
• 1871 – Agnes Norman – London, England – Age 15; servant; known victims include children, pets; attempted to strangle an 11-year-old boy. (2-3 children murdered)
• 1885 – Rachel Ostrovoskafa – Odessa, Ukraine – Leader of a baby-killing cult.
• 1890 – Marianne Skoublinska – Warsaw, Poland – Professional baby-murderer; fed victims to pigs; apprehended after committing arson for insurance money with children inside.
• 1892 – Ella Holdridge – Tonawanda, New York – Age 14; poisoned children serially due to a fascination with funerals; noted one victim “made the prettiest corpse.”
• 1892 – Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano – Mexico City, Mexico – Sexually tortured and murdered 3 orphan girls, possibly with passive participation from her son.
• 1895 – Gaetana Stimoli (“Stomoli”) – Aderno, Catania, Sicily – Murdered 23 children by luring them with sweets and giving them wine laced with phosphoric acid; motive related to avenging the deaths of her own children, believed to be caused by witchcraft.
• 1895 – Marie Jager – Hodmezovassarhely, Hungary – Poisoner who murdered numerous babies and adults for profit and thrills.
• 1903 – “Cairo Female Cannibal Serial Killer” – Cairo, Egypt – Kidnapped, cooked, and ate children.
• 1903 – Elisabeth Wiese – Hamburg, Germany – “Baby farmer,” abortionist, and murderer of babies (allegedly burning some alive); superstitious, performed magic rites; raised some surviving females as prostitutes.
• 1904 – Jeanne Bonnaud – Chatain, Haute Vienne, France – Age 18; murdered several children, including her sister; caught attempting to drown two others.
• 1905 – “Dubovo Vivisection Ogresses” – Dubovo, Ukraine (Russian Empire) – Two women who kidnapped and murdered children for experimental vivisection; escaped after killing jailers.
• 1906 – Mrs. Gustav Holmen – Stockholm, Sweden – Suspected of murdering up to 1,000 babies (recently rediscovered case).
• 1906 – Ida Schnell – Munich, Bavaria, Germany – Teenage child-care provider with a specific method for murdering babies.
• 1906 – Lillian B. Thornman – York, Pennsylvania, USA – Age 15; servant girl; murdered children by placing them on a stove; concocted stories of accidents. (4 murders)
• 1906 – Mary Maher – Dunkitt, County Kilkenny, Ireland – Age 11; murdered three sisters (ages 1, 3, 4.5) and attempted to murder another (age 8) over three months; committed suicide a week later.
• 1908 – Jeanne Weber – Paris, France – Strangled children, including her own; acquitted twice due to expert defense, allowing her to kill again. (10 murders, 2 attempts)
• 1909 – Olga Ivanova Tamarin – Kurdino village, Novaya Ladoga, Russia – With her daughter and accomplices, robbed, murdered, mutilated, and cannibalized 27 people.
• 1911 – Clementine Barnabet – Lafayette, Louisiana, USA – Axe-murderess claiming to be a voodoo cult leader.
• 1912 – Louise Lindloff – Chicago, Illinois, USA – Clairvoyant who poisoned her family for insurance money; claimed spirits visited her in jail.
• 1912 – Enriqueta Martí – Barcelona, Spain – Occult cannibal pedophile and child-trafficker; forced a child victim to eat remains of another; sold “magic potions” made from victims’ remains.
• 1912 – Maria Reyes – Mexico City, Mexico – Kidnapped and murdered babies and toddlers.
• 1913 – Madame Kusnezowa – Archangel, Russia – Child care provider charged with murdering over 1,000 children.
• 1917 – Leopoldine Kasparek – Vienna, Austria – Committed robberies and murders, targeting wealthy elderly women; one victim was burned to death. (4-5 murders, ~14 attempts/robberies)
• 1924 – Anastasia Permiakova – Perm, Russia – Retired gang leader turned fortune teller; lured young women and murdered them with an axe under the guise of fortune telling.
• 1925 – Dinorah Galou – Agen, France – Suspected serial killer of children; confirmed child trafficker involved in renting out tortured babies to street beggars.
• 1928 – Anujka de Poshtonja (Baba Anujka) – Panchova, Banat district, Serbia – “The Witch of Vladimirovac”; sold poison (claimed as “love potion”) to wives to murder husbands; prosecuted at age 90.
• 1928 – Axenia Varlan (Maria Varlane) – Fundul Galbenei, Hîncesti District, Moldova – Murdered and dismembered at least 9 people (including family members); kept body parts as “memories”; declared a classic sadist.
• 1933 – Viktoria Rieger – Szeged, Hungary – Passed as a man (“Smoking Peter”); devised a method for wives to murder husbands disguised as suicide by hanging.
• 1938 – Moulay Hassen (Oum el Hassen) – Fez, Morocco – Former dancer turned madame; kidnapped, tortured, and murdered young women and boys; fed human flesh to cats; evaded severe punishment due to political connections.
• 1941 – Felicitas Sanchez Aguillon – Mexico City, Mexico – Baby farmer who tortured and mutilated babies intended for adoption.
• 1941 – Leonarda Cianciulli – Reggio Emilia, Italy – Murdered women, boiled down their remains to make soap and teacakes.
• 1944 – Carmen Matamoros de Tejeda – Panzacola, Tehuantepec Dist, Oaxaca, Mexico – Involved in witchcraft/black magic; discovered after freeing a tortured girl; bones/bodies of babies found.
• 1950 – Georgia Tann – Memphis, Tennessee, USA – Kidnapped and sold babies, murdering many considered “unsalable”; accomplice was Juvenile Court judge Camille Kelly.
• 1950 – Miriam Soulakiotis – Keratea, Greece – Cult leader; tortured and murdered young women.
• 1954 – Piroska Jancsó Ladányi – Törökszentmiklós, Hungary – With her mother, strangled 5 girls (ages 11-17); mother sought clothing, Piroska engaged in necrophilia; hanged at age 20.
• 1963 – Magdalena Solis – Villagran, Mexico – “The High Priestess of Blood”; member of a cult that extorted money/sex; participated in murders and drinking victims’ blood. (Convicted of 8 murders)
• 1964 – Delfina, Maria, Carmen & Maria Luisa de Jesús González – San Francisco del Rincon, Mexico – Ran a cult prostitution ring involving murder.
• 1968 – Mary Bell – Scotswood, Newcastle, England – Age 11; murdered two young boys (ages 4, 5); previous attempted murders.
• 1980 – Charlene Gallego – Sacramento, California, USA – Sadistic partner in a couple that raped and murdered teenage girls.
• 1982 – Judith Neelley – Fort Payne, Alabama, USA – Sadistic dominant partner in a serial killer couple; tortured young female victims.
• 1989 – Sara María Aldrete – Matamoros, Mexico – Cult leader involved in human sacrifice; cooked body parts in a pot (“nganga”).
• 1989 – Tammy Eveans Corbett – Brighton, Illinois, USA – Murdered 3 of her own babies; showed no remorse.
• 1993 – Karla Homolka – St Catharines, Ontario, Canada – With her husband, sadistically raped and murdered young women, including her sister; received a light sentence due to perceived victim status.
• 1994 – Rosemary West – Gloucester, England – With husband Frederick, murdered and sexually abused 11 females, including her daughter and step-daughter.
• 1996 – Ludmilla (Lyudmila) Spesivtsev – Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia – With son Sasha, killed an estimated 32 teenage girls; son raped them, mother dismembered and cooked them.
• 2000 – Credonia Mwerinde – Kanungu, Uganda – Cult leader suspected of murdering brothers; confirmed instigator of arson mass murder of over 700 cult members.
• 2003 – Jaroslava Fabianova – Decin, Czech Republic – Prostitute who murdered elderly men with a meat cleaver or hammer; repeatedly paroled, reoffended each time.
• 2007 – Antonie Stašková (Staskova) – Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic – Chronic child abuser.
• 2013 – Joanna Dennehy – Bifield, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England – Age 31; stabbed men randomly for “fun.” (3 deaths, 2 serious injuries)
• 2015 – Elena Lobacheva – Moscow, Russia – Age 25; sexual sadist inspired by “Bride of Chucky”; with male accomplice, stabbed 12 men to death randomly, photographed mutilated bodies.
• 2015 – Tamara Samsonova – St. Petersburg, Russia – “Granny Ripper”; kept diary of deeds; suspected of up to 14 murders involving dismemberment and possible cannibalism (esp. lungs).
• 2016 – Juana, “La Peque Sicaria” – Baja California, Mexico – Age 28; executioner for Los Zetas cartel; involved in decapitations; claimed sexual excitement from blood/body parts.
• 2016 – Cecilia Steyn – Krugersdorp, South Africa – Leader of “Electus Per Deus” cult. (11 murders)
• 2016 – Miranda Steyn (error, likely Marinda Steyn) – Krugersdorp, South Africa – Member of “Electus Per Deus” cult. (11 murders)
• 2017 – Anna Young – Micanopy, Alachua County, Florida – Leader of “House of Prayer” cult; punished children to death; husband’s death suspicious; ordered a member’s castration.

Alphabetical List of Quotes Attributed to Female Serial Killers

(Note: Location and identification year added where available from the case list or quote context)

• Mariam Abiola – Ilasamaja, Lagos, Nigeria (2018) – Contract killer for cult.
  • “Charms make me see human beings as flies.”
  • “I do not feel bad after killing anyone because I see it as a job I paid to do.”
• Anna Allas – Munhall, Pennsylvania (1932) – Part of insurance murder team.
  • (In response to fortune teller Gizella Young saying her stepson would die): “Thank God!”
  • “If they take him out of the ground twenty different times, American doctors cannot discover that.” (Referring to poison)
  • (Response to suggestion to get a doctor for stepson): “We don’t need a doctor. The undertaker will take care of things.”
• Sakina Aly Hammam – Alexandria, Egypt (1920) – Murdered women with her sister.
  • “I myself have cut the throats of six women. My first victim was called Hanem. I leaned over Hanem as if to whisper in her ear. Soon after death had passed.”
• Elisabeth Ashmead – New York/Philadelphia/New Jersey (1910) – Baby farmer/murderer.
  • (As reported by Dr. Joseph H. King): “Mrs. Ashmead said to me: ‘We wrapped the babies up in a newspaper and laid them aside until they died, when we either threw them into the heater or out on the dump.’”
• Susan Atkins – Los Angeles, California (1969) – Member of Manson “Family”.
  • “Wow. What a trip! I thought, ‘To taste death, and yet give life.’ Have you ever tasted blood? It’s warm and sticky and nice.” (V, 400)
  • “They didn’t even look like people… I didn’t relate to Sharon Tate as being anything but a store mannequin… [Tate] sounded just like an IBM machine… She kept begging and pleading and pleading and begging [for the life of her unborn child], and I got sick of listening to her, so I stabbed her.”
• Clementine Barnabet – Lafayette, Louisiana (1911/1912) – Axe-murderess, alleged voodoo cult leader.
  • “I killed them all, men, women and babies, and I hugged the babies to my breast. But I am not guilty of murder.”
  • “We weren’t afraid of being arrested because I carried a ‘voodoo,’ which protected us from all punishment.”
• Suzan Carson Barnes – California (1983) – Cult member who murdered men for perceived “sexual assault.”
  • “You kill that demon or I will.”
• Mary Flora Bell – Scotswood, England (1968) – Child killer (age 10/11).
  • “I like hurting people.”
  • “Brian Howe had no mother, so he won’t be missed.”
  • “If I was a judge and I had an eleven-year-old who’d done this, I’d give her eighteen months. Murder isn’t that bad, we all die sometime anyway.”
  • (As reported by friend Norma): “I squeezed his neck and pushed up his lungs that’s how you kill them. Keep your nose dry and don’t tell anybody.”
• Taitu Betul – Abyssinia (Ethiopia) (1914) – Dowager Empress, murdered husbands.
  • “If you would gain a throne and hold it, fear not to make of human skulls thy stepping stones.”
• Elfriede Blauensteiner – Vienna, Austria (1996) – Lonely hearts killer.
  • “I wash my hands of it.”
  • “If there’s a vampire among you, he will turn you to a heap of ashes.”
  • “I pity no man when he dies.” (“Es ist um keinen Mann schade, wenn er stirbt”).
• Cynthia Buffom – Little Valley, N.Y. (1913) – Killed husband and children.
  • “I loved Ernest Frahm so much more than I did my husband that I would have done anything, everything for him. He told me to kill my husband and poison my children. I did what he told me to do — but it was he, he, he who made me do it.”
• Mary Chalfa – Munhall, Pennsylvania (1932) – Part of insurance murder team.
  • (To Dr. John Zock, trying to buy poison): “for my husband, because he’s a drunkard.”
• Leonarda Cianciulli – Reggio Emilia, Italy (1941) – Murdered and cooked victims.
  • “I threw the pieces into a pot, added seven kilos of caustic soda… stirred the whole mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick, dark mush that I poured into several buckets and emptied in a nearby septic tank. As for the blood… I waited until it had coagulated, dried it in the oven, ground it and mixed it… I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Giuseppe and I also ate them.”
  • (About victim Virginia Cacioppo): “ended up in the pot… her flesh was fat and white, when it had melted I added a bottle of cologne… I was able to make some most acceptable creamy soap. I gave bars to neighbours and acquaintances. The cakes, too, were better: that woman was really sweet.”
  • “While my victim was drinking an elixir I had prepared, I got an axe… struck the back of her neck – a rattle, nothing else. … It was a master stroke that almost beheaded her.”
• Tammy Eveans Corbett – Brighton, Illinois, USA (1989) – Murdered her three children.
  • (According to testimony regarding Richard): told him “that she knew what she was doing when she killed each child and that she could have stopped herself.” Adding she “had looked into their son’s eyes while she held her hand over his mouth . . . telling him “His eyes were saying, ‘Help me mommy.’”
  • (Witness testimony, Gina Eveans): heard Corbett say over baby Robert’s crib, “Don’t worry, baby, I got even.”
  • (When smothering son Robert): “This is for you Ricky [husband Richard Eveans Sr.].”
  • (Stepson testimony): moments before smothering 3-year-old, said something like “You’re going to die,” or “I hope you die.”
• Anna Cunningham – Crown Point, Indiana (1925) – Murdered husband and children.
  • “Something told me… I had to get rid of them. I thought that I was going to die and wanted to take them with me. I only poisoned the ones I loved best… because I wanted them with me.”
• Lillie May Curtis – Center Texas (1938) – Shot husband, later murdered six children.
  • “I was able to care for them, that is, not physically able and not able in the way of money… I was thinking kinda about killing them when I went to bed. I knew it was wrong to kill these children. I did not kill the oldest one (James Travis) because he is big enough to work for himself.”
• Joanna Dennehy – Peterborough, England (2013) – Stabbed men for “fun.”
  • “I want my fun. I need you to get my fun.” (To friend asked to provide transport for victim hunt)
  • “Oh, look, you’re bleeding. I’d better do some more.” (To a surviving victim after stabbing him)
• “La Diabla of Medellin” – Medellin, Colombia (2019) – Hitwoman.
  • “I love the madness… from the age of 15 I’ve loved seeing things fall down around me.”
  • “We chopped him up, put him in a bag, and threw him in the river and goodbye… I will carry on until I get killed… There’s no turning back.”
• Amelia Dyer – Caversham, England (1896) – Baby-killer for hire.
  • “After I got a baby something seemed to say in my ears, ‘Get rid of it.’”
• Christine Falling – Perry, Florida (1982) – Babysitter who killed children.
  • “I love young ‘uns. I don’t know why I done what I done … The way I done it, I seen it done on TV shows… Simple and easy… I pulled a blanket over the face… A voice would say to me, ‘Kill the baby,’ over and over …very slow, and then I would come to and realize what happened.” (V, 287)
• Marie Fikackova – Susice, Czechoslovakia (1960) – Nurse who murdered babies.
  • “When I was pressing little Prosserová’s head, I could feel my fingers sinking into it… I was just pressing the little head and my fingers got deeper and deeper. My anger faded away after a while and I could continue working.”
• Julia Fortemyer – St. Louis, Missouri (1875) – Baby farmer/murderer.
  • (Overheard muttering in cell): “Ashes tell no tales.”
• Winnie Ola Freeman (Winona Green) – Little Rock, Arkansas (1954) – Long career of murder and fraud.
  • “Who ever heard of a woman being electrocuted or hanged in Arkansas?” (Regarding potential penalty)
  • “I’m not sorry for my deeds… I planned both murders… Now that I have admitted everything, I am willing to meet whatever fate awaits me.” (Quoted in 1924)
• Irina Gaidamachuk – Yekaterinburg, Russia (2012) – Robbed and murdered elderly women.
  • “I did it for money. I just wanted to be a normal mum, but I had a craving for drink. My husband Yury wouldn’t give me money for vodka.”
  • “I hate old women!”
• Helen Geisen-Volk – New York, N. Y. (1925) – Abusive child care provider/trafficker.
  • “Babies and animals should be disciplined all the same. When they become unruly, I hold them under water or push them in closets or bang them. I’ve trained children for 20 years that way.”
  • (In response to question about 53 infant deaths): “No. There were only twelve or fourteen deaths.”
• “Hadfield’s Maid” – Florence, Italy (c 1763) – Murdered children under her care.
  • (To a child): “Pretty little creature, I have sent four to heaven I hope to send you also.”
• Lizzie Halliday – Burlingham, New York (1893 / 1906) – Vicious killer, arsonist.
  • (After murdering nurse Miss Wickes): “She won’t leave me now.” (laughed)
  • (When asked why she committed the murder): “She tried to leave me.”
• Sabine Hilschenz – Brieskow-Finkenheerd, Germany (2005) – Murdered nine newborns.
  • “I would sit on the balcony and talk to them in the flowerpots.” (Referring to babies buried there)
• Ella Holdridge – Tonawanda, New York (1892) – Age 14, poisoned children.
  • (Regarding victim Louisa Stormer): she “made the prettiest corpse ever put under New York soil.”
  • (Observing reaction to a death): “I guess she’s dead now… She’s dead, she’s dead, I knew it!” (danced off)
  • (Asked how she knew poison would kill): “If it killed rats and mice it would kill children.”
• Karla Homolka – St. Catharines, Canada (1992/1993) – Tortured/raped/murdered with boyfriend.
  • “Dr Arnold was right. I did kill somebody. I killed my sister. How can anyone ever be forgiven for that? I think about what I did every day. I really do.”
  • “I hope they let me do my hair in jail. I would just die if my hair went to hell.” (V, 363)
• Martha Ann Johnson – Clayton County, Georgia (1989) – Murdered her children.
  • (Confession tape): ‘…I was just in a rage. I was mad. It hurt.’
  • (Confession tape regarding suffocation): ‘I took Jennyann to bed with me and laid on her so she could not breathe. When she stopped moving I knew it was over with.’
  • (Confession tape): ‘I hated him (Earl Bowen) so much for what he put me through.’
• Juana, “La Peque Sicaria” – Baja California, Mexico (2016) – Cartel executioner.
  • “[I felt] excited by it [blood], rubbing myself in it and bathing in it after killing a victim and I even drank it when it was still warm.”
• Maria Kardos – Hungary (1929) – Co-conspirator in husband-killing syndicate.
  • (Testimony about poisoning her son): “I gave him some more poison… Suddenly remembered how splendidly my boy used to sing in church, so I said, ‘Sing, my boy! Sing my favorite song!’ He sang it… then suddenly he cried out, gripped his stomach, gasped, and was dead.”
  • (Confession): “We cooked a nice supper and put poison in it. I paid Fezekas [midwife Susan Fazekas] ₤2. My son died. It took three doses of poison to kill my husband. The poison was put in his food.”
• Sharon Kinne – Independence, Missouri (1964) – Murdered 3 people.
  • “I’ve shot men before and managed to get out of it.”
• Tillie Klimek (Gburek) – Chicago, Illinois (1923) – Murdered estimated 20 people.
  • (When asked when her fourth husband died, while buying funeral dress fabric): “Ten days from now.”
  • “It’s too bad that I have such bad luck with husbands. I hope the next one lasts longer.”
• Piroska Jancsó Ladányi – Törökszentmiklós, Hungary (1954) – Rape-murder of 5 girls.
  • “Initially, I gave different stories because I was ashamed to reveal the real reason for my act… I was ashamed to admit that I killed the girls because of my perverted sexual desires. I’m still very ashamed of that.”
• Elena Lobacheva – Moscow, Russia (2015) – Sexual sadist, random stabbing murders.
  • “Randomly stabbing the body of a dying human brought me pleasure comparable to sexual pleasure.”
• Margaret McCloskey – New York, N. Y. (1876) – Abusive child care provider.
  • (Reported statement after striking a baby): “Let it die; it’s paid for.”
• Mary McKnight – Michigan (1903) – Suspected of 11 murders.
  • (Confession attempting self-justification): “The baby woke up and cried… I mixed up a little strychnine… and gave a spoonful to the baby. I didn’t mean to harm the little thing at all… When Gertrude came home and found the baby dead she got awfully nervous… I really didn’t think that it would hurt her if I gave her one of the capsules… Then John seemed to feel so badly about it… I often thought after Gertie died that it would be better if he were to go, too… I told him to go and get one of them [capsules]… I didn’t mean to hurt him… I thought that. It would be for the best if he were to go, anyway.”
• Eva Micsik – Csoka, Hungary (1888) – Murdered her 8 children.
  • “I have had eight children and have killed them all… I did not want any children. My husband knew nothing of what I had done. I lived on bad terms with him, and wanted to vex him.”
• Robin Murphy – Fall River, Massachusetts, USA (1980) – Participated in murder of prostitutes with pimp.
  • (Testimony about participating in Karen Marsden’s murder): “I wouldn’t do anything like that to Karen. I loved her. I did it, yes, but not because I wanted to.”
  • (After the murder): went home where she “ate some chicken, drank a beer and smoked a joint.”
• Marie Noe – Philadelphia (1998) – Murdered 8 of her children.
  • (Overheard threatening infant son): “If you don’t take this, I’ll kill you.”
• Lydia Olah – Nagyrev, Hungary (1929) – Co-conspirator in husband-killing syndicate.
  • “We are not assassins! We did not stab our husbands. We did not hang them or drown them either! They died from poison and this was a pleasant death for them!” (N, 159)
• Agnes Pandy – Brussels, Belgium (1997) – Incestuous cannibal killer with father.
  • “It was my task to take out the organs while Pandy [father] was cutting up the remains. I just used a kitchen knife. You have to exercise strength. It’s not that that easy.” (S, 79)
• Mrs. Perkins – Bratford, Canada (1865) – Murdered 6 people.
  • (Indirect quote): “She said she had a mania to destroy human life, and it was by the greatest self-denial that she could restrain herself from secretly poisoning all persons with whom she was on terms of friendship.”
• Martha Petromany – Knees, Romania (“Hungary”) (1906) – Poisoner.
  • (To potential client): “I know that you live unhappily with your husband. If you pay me, I’ll bring you poison. If you give this to your husband, he will die in a few days and you are rid of him!”
• Brittany Pilkington – Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA (2015) – Murdered her three sons.
  • (Prosecutor reporting motive): jealous that husband paid more attention to sons than daughter.
• Isabel Cristina Pires da Silveira – Garanhuns, Brazil (2012) – Cannibal cult killer.
  • (To police officer during videotaped statement): “I even sold one [empanada made with human flesh] to you.”
  • (Trial testimony about victim Jessica): “Bruna took the knife out of my hand and handed it to Jorge so he could kill her. I was holding the small child [Jessica’s daughter)]. I was very nervous… She said she ate the meat of Jessica grilled with rice. The child also ate.”
• Anujka de Poshtonja (Baba Anujka) – Vladimirovac, Yugoslavia (Serbia) (1928) – Sold poison for murders.
  • (To police sergeant): “I work with the devil, young man. If you imprison me you’ll remember it to your dying day. Don’t play with the forces of evil.”
  • “If it [the poison she sold] was good enough to kill Gaja Marinkov it will do for anyone.”
• Marie Emilie Raymond – Galan, France (1952) – Serial killer nurse.
  • “I love looking at dying people. The last smile on a dying face gives me a great thrill.”
  • (Regarding her rake): “I love raking freshly filled graves.”
  • “The dying, they’re so inspiring.”
• Vera Renczi – Bekerekul, Yugoslavia (1925) – Murdered husband, son, 33 paramours.
  • (Asked why she killed the men): “They were men. I could not endure the thought that they would ever put their arms around another woman after they had embraced me.”
  • (Asked about murdering her son): “He had threatened to betray me. He was a man, too. Soon he would have held another woman in his arms.”
• Tamara Samsonova – St. Petersburg, Russia (2015) – “Granny Ripper,” dismembered victims.
  • “I came home and put the whole pack of Phenazepamum – 50 pills – into her Olivier salad… I woke up after 2am and she was lying on the floor. So I started cutting her to pieces.”
• Amy Lynn Scott – Florida (1989) – Babysitter who murdered babies.
  • (Remembered statement by victim’s mother): ‘I had seen a lot of death in my life and that I feel that I am an instrument to help people, spirits, go to the next life.’
• Dr. Virginia Helena Soaresde Souza – Brazil (2013) – Doctor suspected of murdering patients.
  • (Wiretap recording): “I want to clear the intensive care unit. It’s making me itch.”
• Della Sorenson – Dannenborg, Nebraska (1925) – Murdered 8 relatives.
  • “They bothered me, so I decided to kill them.”
  • “Every time I gave poison to one of Mrs. Cooper’s children, I said to myself, “Now I’m going to get even with you (Mrs. Cooper) for what you have said about me.”
  • “After the death of my little daughter, Minnie… I had a feeling of elation and happiness… I had the same feeling after the death of every one of those I poisoned.”
  • (About husband Joe): “We had a quarrel… I had it in for him. After he died and I came to, I was sorry for what I had done…”
  • “I had feelings which would steal over me at times forcing me to destroy and kill. I felt funny and happy. I like to attend funerals.”
  • “Mrs. Cooper was always running down my reputation and to get even with her, I decided to kill three of her children.”
  • “I put strychnine in some chocolate candy and gave it to the Knott children because their father stole my wine and I felt like I wanted to get even with him.” (Signed confession)
• Cecilia Steyn – Krugersdorp, South Africa (2016) – Cult leader.
  • (Testimony Hannelie Scheepers): “It was like… she really liked the term ‘serial killer.’… she said to me the he [another killer] made her look like a tart, because he killed forty people, she only killed eleven.”
  • (Threatening message to Ria Grunewald): “Wherever I go they fall like flies.”
• Miranda Steyn (Marinda Steyn) – Krugersdorp, South Africa (2016) – Cult member.
  • (Court testimony): “I told her pray, I am going to kill you now. Then she started praying and then I killed her.”
  • (To daughter Marcel in prison): “Witches will kill you.”
  • (To son Le Roux): “Kill her or I’ll shoot you!”
• Irmgard Swinka (Kuschenski) – Hamm, Germany (1948) – Murdered women with poisoned cigarettes.
  • “I have dedicated myself to Satan!”
• Josefa Szanyi (Josephine Tzany) – Budapest, Hungary (1926) – (DISCREDITED CASE) Alleged misandrist killer.
  • “I am an enemy of the male sex… Years ago a man wronged me… I vowed to be revenged on him and his sex… I have enjoyed every pang they suffered… My one regret is that I was not able to strike directly at the man who wronged me.”
• Alsa Thompson – Hollywood, California (1925) – Age 7, poisoned family members.
  • “I guess I was just mean and liked to see them suffer.”
  • (Regarding sister’s death): “she was so pretty – I was sorry I had given her anything.”
  • “It’s all true; I did it because I enjoyed watching them suffer.”
• Lillian B. Thornman – York, Pennsylvania (1906) – Age 15, murdered children on stove.
  • (Confession): “I am a devil and I will burn them.”
• Marybeth Tinning – Schenectady, New York (1985) – Murdered her 9 children.
  • “I smothered them with a pillow because I’m not a good mother.”
• Jane Toppan – Lowell, Massachusetts (1901) – Nurse who poisoned patients.
  • “I could have worked for years longer at poisoning if I hadn’t killed four people in one family almost all at once. That was the greatest mistake of my life.” [Harold Schechter, Fatal, p. 278]
  • “I went to the funeral and felt as jolly as could be. And nobody suspected me in the least.” [Harold Schechter, Fatal, p. 135]
  • “This my ambition: to have killed more people, more helpless people, than any man or woman has ever killed.” (P. 146)
  • “I had to dose the patients slowly, a little at a time. It took days, sometimes weeks to kill them.” (Nash, 367)
  • (When asked why she was worrying): “Because I have no remorse for murdering all those people.” (Nash, 367)
• Lise Jane Turner – Christchurch, New Zealand (1984) – Murdered babies.
  • “I thought, okay. I never got caught for [the first baby’s] death, I don’t want this child, how am I gonna get rid of it… so I smothered her the same way as I did with [the first baby].”
• Frieda Trost – Philadelphia, Pa. (1912) – Murdered husbands and children.
  • “I want his soul,” (referring to second husband before murdering him).
• Maria Varlane (Axenia Varlan) – Fundul Galbenei, Moldova (1931) – Murdered and dismembered family/others.
  • “I loved the smell of burnt flesh among the scent of fir trees!”
• Waltraud Wagner (“Lainz Angels of Death”) – Vienna, Austria (1989) – Leader of serial killer nurse group.
  • “The ones who got on my nerves were dispatched directly to a free bed with the good Lord.”
  • “Of course the patients resisted, but we were stronger. We could decide whether these old fogies lived or died. Their ticket to God was long overdue in any case.” [Michael Newton, Bad Girls Do It!, pp. 8-9]
• Jeanne Weber – Paris, France (1908) – Strangled children.
  • “I am neither lunatic nor criminal.” (“Je suis ne folle ni criminelle.”)
• Elisabeth Wiese – Hamburg, Germany (1903) – Baby farmer/murderer.
  • “Children’s blood and the blood of white doves brings good luck.”
  • “The carbon residue resulting from the burning of a placenta brings good luck.”
• Mary Elizabeth Wilson – Jarrow on Tyne, England (1957) – Murdered husbands and boarder.
  • (At registrar’s office): “There should be a discount for me.”
  • (At third wedding reception, regarding leftover food): “Keep them for the funeral.”
  • (During trial): “Men like me, and I like men.”
• Lillie Winter – Fairfield, Illinois (1948) – Suspected murderer.
  • (To granddaughter Marjorie who survived poisoning): “Grandma told me… that sometimes ‘God tells us to do certain things. We can’t understand why but we just have to do them.”
• Martha Wise – Hardscrabble Valley, Ohio (1925) – Murdered 3 people.
  • “I liked their funerals. I could get dressed up and see folks and talk to them. I didn’t miss a funeral in twenty years. The only fun I ever had was after I kilt people.”
• Ada Wittenmyer – Nashville, Tennessee (1984) – Poisoned men met through ads.
  • (To cellmate): Said she enjoyed seeing men in pain from poison and planned to continue finding wealthy men via lonely hearts ads to poison.
• Aileen Wuornos – Volusia County, Florida (1990) – Murdered 7 men.
  • “I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I’ve hated humans for a long time.”
• Gizella Young – Munhall, Pa. (1932) – Fortune teller, part of insurance murder team.
  • (To husband about frequent visits from Mary Chalfa): “Oh, that’s all right. I just told her fortune.”
  • (When asked what fortune was): “Well, she’s having a lot of trouble with her husband. so I told her to insure him and he would die in three months.”
  • (When asked how she knew he’d die): “I’ll give her something to give him.”
• Lila Gladys Young – Fairfax, Nova Scotia, Canada (1936) – Baby farmer/murderer.
  • (Quote from employee Glen Shatford): “We buried them [babies] in rows, so it was easy to see how many there were.” (Admitted burying 100-125 babies) [Michael Newman, Bad Girls Do It!, p. 190]
• Maria Zwanziger – Bavaria, Germany (1809) – Poisoner.
  • “Yes, I killed them all and would have killed more if I had the chance.” (Referred to arsenic as her “truest friend.”)
  • (Before execution): “It is perhaps better for the community that I should die, as it would be impossible for me to give up the practice of poisoning people.” ¹  
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Source Notation Key

• N: Nash, Robert Jay, Look for the Woman… (1981)
• P: Patricia Pearson, When She Was Bad… (1997)
• S: Harold Schechter, The Serial Killer Files… (2004)
• V: Peter Vronsky, Female Serial Killers... (2007)

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