Aileen Carol Wuornos (/ˈwɔːrnoʊs/; born Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. In 1989–1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients.
Aileen Wuornos, 46, was executed by lethal injection on Oct. 9, 2002, for the deaths of six men along Central Florida highways in 1989 and 1990. She was known as America's first female serial killer.
Ricardo Silvio Caputo (1949 – October 1, 1997) was an Argentine American serial killer during the 1970s who was known as "The Lady Killer". Caputo was born in 1949 in Mendoza, Argentina. In 1970, he moved to the United States and settled in New York City.
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993) Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
She was sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure; effectively an indefinite sentence of imprisonment. At the time of Bell's manslaughter convictions, she was aged 11 years and six months, making her Britain's youngest female killer; a statistic which remains to the present day.
In 2007, India earned a world record for having the Youngest Serial Killer. It was never a record to be proud of. Unlike other serial killers, Amarjeet Sada was only seven years old when he committed three brutal murders. Amarjeet's poor parents were happy when they were blessed with a son.
Although they comprise less than 15 percent of all serial killers, females are very effective in their work and they typically use quieter and less messy methods to kill than their male counterparts.
Charles Albright, the Texas Eyeball Killer, was dressed as a girl by his mother and given dolls to play with, later using these toys as a model for the murdered women he surgically manipulated.
Ivan Milat, John Bunting, David Birnie. Their names are synonymous with evil and evoke feelings of revulsion and horror throughout the world. They are just three Australian serial killers who reigned terror on communities as they went on murder sprees that ranged in length from weeks to years.
But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people—easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.
For females, the most common is financial gain, whereas for men it's often sexual gain. The ways in which they kill also differ. Women's primary means are poison, and men's are asphyxiation.
Ted Bundy
Bundy is considered to be the most charming serial killer in history.
It's true that there are far fewer female serial murderers than there are males (although percentage-wise, there are more female serial murderers (15 percent in comparison to 85 percent males) than there are one-time killers (90 percent men; 10 percent women).
Researchers have identified certain characteristics of female serial killers, finding they tend to be white, married at least once, of at least average intelligence, and are more likely to be employed in healthcare professions.
For starters, there have been studies done to prove that serial killers were in fact made and not born, some of which were successful and provided detailed evidence. The first study stated, “Part of the reason may be childhood abuse, which can create killers by causing physical damage to the brain.
Murder Accountability Project founder Thomas Hargroves estimates the number of serial killers in the US at 2,000 to 4,000, with only 50 being active at any given time. At 0.000015% of the population, this means that the chance that you will meet an active serial killer is vanishingly small.
Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer who murdered a total of 10 people. Kemper notably murdered a 15-year-old girl, as well as his own mother and her best friend, from May 1972 to April 1973.
Amelia Elizabeth Dyer (née Hobley; 1836 – 10 June 1896) was an English serial killer who murdered infants in her care over a thirty-year period during the Victorian era of the United Kingdom.