Women Serial Killers of the 20th Century
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Nurse Beverly Allitt then began to take an interest in two little twin baby girls, Katie and Becky Phillips. They were two-months-old and had been born prematurely and were being kept in the hospital for observation. After being allowed home, Becky Phillips was brought to Ward 4, on April 1st, 1991, suffering from gastroenteritis. On April 3rd, Nurse Beverly Allitt told doctors that she thought Becky was hypoglycemic and cold to the touch. On examination, the doctors found no ailment. Becky Phillips was discharged and sent home with her mother Sue Phillips.
That night, baby Becky cried out with what her parents thought was pain. A doctor visited the house and thought it was a case of colic. The parents slept that night with Becky in their bed where she died during the night. An autopsy was performed, but the pathologists found no obvious cause of death.
Katie Phillips, the surviving twin, was then admitted to Ward 4 as a precaution. Nurse Beverly Allitt assured the distraught mother that she would keep an extra special eye on Katie. Left alone with Beverly, baby Katie stopped breathing. The emergency team were called and managed to revive Katie. Sue Phillips attributed Katie’s life being saved to Beverly. In gratitude, she asked Beverly to be Katie's godmother. Nurse Beverly Allitt graciously accepted the honor, as if she had been a hero.
Two days later, baby Katie suffered another attack which caused her lungs to collapse, and it was with considerable difficulty that the emergency team managed to revive her. Once revived, she was sent to Nottingham hospital. Here, the doctors on examining her discovered that five of her ribs were broken and that she had suffered severe brain damage due to oxygen deprivation.
Four more young victims followed but, fortunately, all were saved by being transferred to Nottingham hospital. The doctors at Nottingham's hospital were beginning to suspect that something was not entirely right at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital.
When a little girl, Claire Peck, a fifteen-month-old asthmatic patient who needed a breathing tube was alone with Nurse Beverly Allitt, she suffered a cardiac arrest. The emergency team managed to revive her. When left alone again with Beverly, she suffered another heart attack from which she died on April 22, 1991.
The autopsy examination showed that Claire Peck had died from natural causes. However, Dr. Nelson Porter, a consultant at the hospital was most unhappy at the high number of heart cases which had occurred over the past eight weeks on Ward 4 and began an investigation. At first, he thought that maybe it was caused by a virus in the ventilation system, but tests proved negative. Dr. Nelson Porter then called for more tests to be carried out on baby Claire. These tests showed abnormally high levels of potassium in the baby’s blood and in her tissues there were traces of Lignocaine, a drug used to treat adults suffering from cardiac arrest and one that is never given to babies. The hospital called in the police.
Superintendent Stuart Clifton was put in charge of the investigation, and it didn’t take too long to find the common thread in all the cases: Nurse Beverly Allitt. Within 3 weeks of starting the investigation, Superintendent Clifton arrested Nurse Beverly Allitt. Beverly strenuously denied any knowledge of the attacks. She said all she did was try and save lives. Sue Phillips, the twin’s mother, so believed in Beverly that she hired a private investigator to clear Beverly’s name; a decision she must now seriously regret. After several court hearings, Beverly was charged with eleven counts of causing grievous bodily harm, eleven counts of attempted murder, and four counts of murder. Beverly lost a large amount of weight and developed anorexia nervosa while in prison awaiting her trial. She was also examined by psychiatrists sent by the prosecution and defense teams.
Both sets of psychiatrists diagnosed Beverly as suffering from Munchausen syndrome: a form of severe factitious disorder where the sufferer makes up physical symptoms that are either false or self-induced. Sufferers are not malingering; they just want to play the patient role for attention. They also found her to be suffering from Munchausen by Proxy syndrome. This is when the sufferer harms others to gain attention for themselves.
After several delays caused by Beverly’s “illnesses”, Beverly Allitt’s trial started on February 15th, 1993, at Nottingham’s Crown Court. The trial lasted nearly two months and during it, Beverly only attended sixteen days due to her “illnesses”. Beverly was found guilty of all charges. In May of 1993, Beverly was sentenced to thirteen life sentences. The judge, Mr. Justice Latham, told Beverly Allitt that he considered her "a serious danger" to others. He ordered her to be incarcerated at Rampton Hospital, a secure hospital in Nottinghamshire which houses among others those deemed criminally insane. Beverly Allitt has, since her detention, admitted to three of the infant murders and six of the assaults. Her earliest possible parole date is 2032 when she will be sixty-four.
CONCLUSION
As of now, we are only thirteen years into the 21st century and already according to the website The Unknown History of MISANDRY, thirty women serial killers around the world have already been listed.
The Black Widow in the 21st century has changed little. She still manipulates as she smiles in your face and adds poison to your wine, tea, or coffee. The caring nurse and caregiver still enjoys her power of life and death. Even more horrifying is the supposedly loving mother still murders her children.
A former FBI profiler has said that the serial killer's greatest defense is that he/she is virtually unrecognizable by sight, as they tend to look so normal: the kind granny, the devoted nurse, the loyal wife, the devoted mother, or the friendly helpful neighbor. They look like you and I. The other thing that sets them apart is that they are usually not insane but are fully aware of the difference between right and wrong, and that’s what makes them so scary.
Yet, despite the number of women serial killers in history, very little research has been done on them, even to this day and because of this lack of research I feel that many of these female predators will never be caught and will continue to get away with their crimes.
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