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130Schechter, p. 17.

  131Kerry Segrave, Women Serial and Mass Murderers, London: McFarland & Co, 1992, p. 252.

  132Schechter, p. 66.

  133Harland Manchester, “Jane Toppan, Champion Poisoner,” American Mercury, 49: 340–346, March 1940.

  CHAPTER THREE

  134Source: www.queerculturalcenter.org/pages/wuronos/intro.html (obsolete); see also: Tracy L. McKee, Good Girls Do It Too! A Look at the Representation of Women Who Kill in Made-for-TV Movies, MA Thesis, Concordia University, Montreal: 2000, p. 6

  135See photos in Sue Russell, Lethal Intent, New York: Pinnacle Books, 2002.

  136Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus, Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001, pp. 87–88.

  137Aileen Wuornos statement, January 16, 1991.

  138Shipley and Arrigo, pp. 128–129.

  139Schurman-Kauflin, p. 118.

  140Phyllis Chesler, Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness, Monroe Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994. Quoting Andrea Dworkin, back cover.

  141New York Times, January 8, 1992, p. A1.

  142Chesler, pp. 85–160.

  143Chesler, p. 86.

  144Chesler, p. 95.

  145Vronsky, p. 258.

  146Vronsky, p. 276.

  147Chesler, p. 86.

  148Hickey, p. 215.

  149http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/bio.php.

  150Chesler, p. 95.

  151Chesler, p. 103.

  152Chesler, p. 104.

  153Chesler, p. 104.

  154Russell, p. 160, p. 499.

  155Chesler, p. 127.

  156Russell, p. 457.

  157Chesler, p. 127.

  158Chesler, p. 105.

  159Resler, et al, Sexual Homicide, pp. 46–47.

  160Dolores Kennedy with Robert Nolin, On a Killing Day, New York: SPI Books, 1994, p. 251.

  CHAPTER FOUR

  161Chesler, p. 86.

  162Jerry Bledsoe, Death Sentence, New York: Onyx Books, 1998, p. 119.

  163Velma Barfield, Woman on Death Row, Nashville, TN: Oliver-Nelson Books, 1985, p. 89.

  164Barfield, p. 90.

  165Bledsoe, p. 127.

  166Bledsoe, p. 133.

  167Bledsoe, p. 136.

  168Barfield, p. 26.

  169Barfield, p. 28.

  170Barfield, p. 54.

  171Barfield, p. 59.

  172Barfield, p. 69.

  173Barfield, p. 69.

  174Barfield, p. 84.

  175Barfield, p. 86.

  176Daniel J. Blackburn, Human Harvest, New York: Knightsbridge, 1990, p. 153.

  177Blackburn, p. 152.

  178William P. Wood, The Bone Garden, New York: Ibooks, 1994, p. 68.

  179California Department of Corrections (Parole) Probation Report, Dorothea Puente, June 1982.

  180Wood, p. 116.

  181California Department of Corrections (Parole) Probation Report, Dorothea Puente, June 1982.

  182Wood, p. 18.

  183http://www/crimelibrary.com/notoriousmurders/women/puente/4.html.

  CHAPTER FIVE

  184Kelly Moore and Dan Reed, Deadly Medicine, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988, p. 148.

  185Peter Elkind, The Death Shift, New York: Onyx Books, 1989, p. 19.

  186Elkind, pp. 22–23.

  187Elkind, p. 67.

  188New York Times, “Contempt Asked in Baby Deaths Inquiry,” November 4, 1983; New York Times, “Investigators Near End of Inquiry into Deaths of Infants at Hospital,” April 11, 1984.

  189Steven J. Boros, M.D., and Larry C. Brubaker, “Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Case Accounts,” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Washington D.C.: June 1992.

  190Roy Meadow, “Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: The Hinterland of Child Abuse,” Lancet, 2, (1977), pp. 342–345.

  191Roy Meadow, “Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy,” Archives of Disease in Childhood, 57, (1982), pp. 92–98.

  192Roy Meadow, “Management of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy,” Archives of Disease in Childhood, 60, (1985), pp. 385–393.

  193Kathryn A. Hanon, “Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy,” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Washington D.C.: December 1991.

  194M. Sigal, I. Carmel, D. Atmark, and P. Silfen, “Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: A Psychodynamic Analysis,” Medicine and Law, 7 (1988), pp. 49–56.

  195K. Feldman, D. Christopher, and K. Opheim, “Munchausen Syndrome/Bulimia by Proxy: Ipecac as a Toxin in Child Abuse,” Child Abuse and Neglect, 13, (1989), pp. 257–261.

  196K. Ravenscroft, Jr., and J. Hochheiser, Factitious hematuria in a six-year-old girl: A case example of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, Chicago, 1980.

  197Joyce Egginton, From Cradle to Grave, New York: Jove Books, 1990, p. 340.

  CHAPTER SIX

  198Hickey, p. 213.

  199Kelleher and Kelleher, p. 107.

  200Kelleher and Kelleher, p. 108; Hickey, p. 216.

  201Janet I. Warren and Robert R. Hazelwood, “Relational Patterns Associated With Sexual Sadism: A Study of 20 Wives and Girlfriends,” Journal of Family Violence, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 75–89.

  202Warren and Hazelwood, p. 79.

  203Warren and Hazelwood, p. 87.

  204Emlyn Williams, Beyond Belief, London: Pan Books, 1967, p. 119.

  205Emlyn Williams, p. 120.

  206Vronsky, pp. 165–185.

  207Colin Wilson and Donald Seamen, The Serial Killers, Virgin Publishing, London: 1992, p. 238.

  208For the definitive account of both Bundy’s and Clark’s childhoods, see Louise Farr, The Sunset Murders, New York: Pocket Books, 1992.

  209Jennifer Furio, Team Killers: A Comparative Study of Collaborative Criminals, New York: Algora, 2001, p. 105; Globe and Mail, March 3, 1993, page A6.

  210According to the testimony of Karla Homolka as to what Paul Bernardo told her of the encounter.

  211Stephen Williams, Karla: A Pact with the Devil, Toronto: Seal Books, 2003, p. 85.

  212Patrick Wilson, Murderess: A Study of Women Executed in Britain Since 1843, London: Michael Joseph, 1971, p. 94.

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  213bold>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0831471/bio.

  214Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (2nd Edition), New York: HarperPerennial, 1998, p. 48.

  215Rachel MacNair, “Psychological Reverberations for the Killers: Preliminary Historical Evidence for Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2001, pp. 273–282.

  216“Information on the Infamous Concentration Camp at Buchenwald,” February 14 1945, in US vs. Josias Prince zu Waldeck, et al., War Crimes Case No. 12–390 (The Buchenwald Case), War Crimes Office, National Archives and Records Service, 1976, Record Group 153, Records of the Judge Advocate General, National Archives (Washington, D.C.) [cited as Buchenwald Case].

  217Vronsky, pp. 185–186.

  218Alexandra Przyrembel, “Transfixed by an Image: Ilse Koch, the ‘Kommandeuse of Buchenwald,’” German History, Vol. 19, No. 3. (2001), pp. 369–399.

  219Michael Kater, The Nazi Party, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1983, pp. 148ff and 254.

  220http://yad-vashem.org.il/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206088.pdf.

  221See Christopher Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–March 1942, Lincoln, Nebraska/Jerusalem: University of Nebraska Press/Yad Vashem, 2004.

  222Przyrembel, p. 376 and pp. 386–387.

  223Yehoshua R. Buchler, “‘Unworthy Behavior’: The Case of SS Officer Max Taubner,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, Winter 2003, pp. 409–429.

  224Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Volker Riess, “Those Were the Days”: The Holocaust as Seen by the Perpetrators and Bystanders, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991, p. 197.

  225PS-1919, International Military Tribunal, Vol. 29, 1948, p. 145.

  226Przyrembel, pp. 383–384.

  227
K. Sitte, Letter to the Editor, New York Times, October 18, 1948, p. 22.

  228“Clay Stands Firm in Ilse Koch Case,” New York Times, October 22, 1948.

  229George C. Marshall Research Foundation, Virginia. Videotaped interview with General Lucius Clay, cited by http://www.nizkor.org/features/tech niques of denial/clay-koch-03.html.

  230Daniel Patrick Brown, The Beautiful Beast, Ventura, CA: Golden West Historical Publications, 1996, p. 25.

  231Brown, p. 27.

  232Germain Tillion, Ravensbrück, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975, pp. 69–70.

  233See for example, Yehoshua R. Buchler, “‘Unworthy Behavior’: The Case of SS Officer Max Taubner,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, Winter 2003, pp. 409–429.

  234See Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, New York: HarperCollins, 1986.

  235Lifton, p. 208.

  236Raymond Phillips, Trial of Joseph Kramer and Forty-four Others (The Belsen Trial), London: William Hodge and Company, 1949, p. 706.

  237Theodor Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality, New York: Harper & Row, 1950.

  238Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

  239John M. Steiner, “The SS Yesterday and Today: A Sociopsychological View,” in Joel E. Dimsdale (ed), Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust, Washington D.C.: 1980.

  240Ervin Staub, The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence, Cambridge: University of Harvard Press, 1989, p. 18.

  241Church of Scientology, GS-C Comm; GS-G; D/G Intell U.S., Compliance Report Re: Manson, Bruce Davis, 22 June 1970—see: http://bernie.cnc family.com/sc/Manson_Scientology.htm.

  242Ed Sanders, The Family, [Revised and Updated Edition], New York: Signet Books, 1989, p. 22; and also see Joel Norris, pp. 162–163.

  243John Gilmore and Ron Kenner, The Garbage People, AMOK Books, Los Angeles: 1995, pp. 23–24.

  244John Cashman, The LSD Story, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1966, p. 31.

  245Paper presented by Dr. Robert L. Bergman, Head of U.S. Public Health Service for Navajos, Annual Conference of the American Psychiatric Association: 1971.

  246Dr. Sidney Cohen quoted in Edward M. Brecher, Licit and Illicit Drugs, Little Brown and Company, Boston: 1972, p. 350.

  247Interview with SECONDS, http://www.sni.net/central/manson/man/ interview1.html, December 19, 1997.

  248Jess Bravin, Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme, New York: St. Martin’s Griffith, 1998, p. 46.

  249Lawrence Schiller, The Killing of Sharon Tate, New York: New American Library, 1970, p. 70.

  250Lawrence Schiller, p. 82.

  251Susan Atkins (cowritten by Bob Slosser), Child of Satan, Child of God, Logos International: 1977.

  252Life Term Parole Consideration Hearing of Charles Manson, 1992.

  253Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, New York: Bantam Books, 1975, p. 374.

  254Clara Livsey, The Manson Women, New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1980, pp. 204–206.

  255Bill Trent, “The Girl Who Was Involved in One of North America’s Most Bizarre Mass Murders,” Weekend Magazine, St Thomas Times Journal, Ontario, Canada, July 24, 1971.

  256http://www.cielodrive.com/.

  257Quoted in Vincent Bugliosi, pp. 222–223.

  258Los Angeles County case number A-252156, Statement of Charles Manson, November 19, 1970.

  CONCLUSION

  259http://www.trialrun.com.

  260Kim Iannetta, e-mail to author, March 24, 2006.

  261See J. Reid Maloy, The Psychopathic Mind: Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment (2nd Edition), Northvale, NJ: Aronson, 1992.

  AFTERWORD

  262http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATWA.

  INDEX

  Abu Ghraib prison

  accommodating partners

  accomplice to serial killer, female as

  age of

  alcohol addiction

  Catherine and David Birnie

  Charlene and Gerald Gallego (“the Sex Slave Killers”)

  childhood and

  “Collector” fantasy

  criminal record of

  cults

  Cynthia Coffman and James

  Marlow

  dominance impact on

  drug addiction

  education of

  employment of

  family life of

  high-dominance women

  “imprinting” by male partner

  Judith Ann and Alvin Neelley

  low-dominance women

  male-dominated

  medium-dominance women

  number of

  relationship with accomplice

  Rosemary and Fred West

  sentence (lighter) for female

  sexually sadistic serial murders

  studies on

  suicide attempts

  See also Beck, Martha and Raymond Fernandez (“the Honeymoon Killers,” “Lonely Hearts Killers”); Bundy, Carol and Douglas Clark (“the Sunset Boulevard Killers”); Hindley, Myra and Ian Brady (“the Moors Murderers”); Homolka, Karla and Paul Bernardo (“the Ken and Barbie Killers”)

  Adler, Freda

  Adorno, Theodor

  A&E

  “affective aggression,”

  Against Our Will (Brownmiller)

  age, serial killers

  aggression in girls

  Agrippina the Younger (“Empress of Poison,” “she-wolf”)

  Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (documentary)

  Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial

  Killer (documentary)

  alcohol addiction

  Aldrete, Sara

  Aldridge, Ferris

  alienists

  Allen, Wanda Jean

  Allitt, Beverly

  alpha female killers

  American Civil Liberties Union

  American Indians

  American Justice (TV show)

  American Psychiatric Association

  American Psycho (Ellis)

  America’s Most Wanted (TV show)

  Amnesty International

  amoral personality

  Anderson, Terri

  angels of death See also loving us to death Anger, Kenneth

  anger-excitement killers

  anger-retaliatory killers

  animal cruelty, arson, bed-wetting (Macdonald triad)

  antisocial personality disorder (ASPD)

  Antonio, Walter Jeno

  Archer-Gilligan, Amy

  Arrigo, Bruce

  arsenic, history

  Articles on Philosophical Anthropology (Wagener)

  “artificial psychopathy,” state induced

  Asher, Richard

  ASPD (antisocial personality disorder)

  Atkins, Susan (“Sexy Sadie Mae Glutz”)

  Atkinson, Kathleen

  Atlanta Child Murders

  attachment disorder–triggered psychopathy

  attachment theory

  ATWA (air trees water animals)

  Augustus (Emperor of Rome)

  Auschwitz-Birkenau

  “Authoritarian Personality Type,”

  “baby farming/sweating,”

  Baillee, Cindy

  Bannister, Edna

  Barfield, Jennings

  Barfield, Kim

  Barfield, Margie Velma (“the Death Row Granny”)

  Al Smith murder

  antisocial personality disorder (ASPD)

  arsenic poisoning by

  break-in incidents

  check stealing and forging by

  childhood of

  Christian woman

  criminal record

  “dead” photo of Stuart Taylor

  disintegration of

  Dollie and Montgomery Edwards murders

  drinking not tolerated by

  drug addiction

  education of

  execution of


  fires in house

  forgery arrest

  home-care work

  hysterectomy

  Jennings Barfield (Velma’s second husband) murder

  John Henry and Record Lee murders

  loan in mother’s name

  mother resented by

  motive of

  Munchausen syndrome by proxy

  nursing home work

  overdoses by

  physical abuse of

  prescription forging by

  serial killer

  sexual abuse of

  social isolation of

  Stuart Taylor murder

  theft by

  Thomas Burke (Velma’s first husband) murder

  trial and sentencing

  victims of

  Barfield, Nancy

  Barker, Doyle Wayne

  Bataan Death March, Japan

  Báthory, Elizabeth (“Blood Countess,” “female Dracula”)

  aristocratic girls murders

  arrest of

  bathing in blood

  beauty of

  childhood of

  death of

  era of

  Ferenc Nadasdy (husband)

  first “real” female serial killer

  hedonist-lust killer

  pregnancy of

  premodern serial killer

  sentence

  testimony of

  trial of

  unanswered questions

  victims of

  Battered Wives (Martin)

  Battered Woman, The (Walker)

  Battered Woman Syndrome

  Bauman, Zygmunt

  Beach Boys

  Beal, Andy

  Beane, Sawney

  Beardsley, Dr.

  Beatles

  Beausoleil, Bobby

  Beck, Alfred

  Beck, Martha and Raymond Fernandez (“the Honeymoon Killers,” “Lonely Hearts Killers”)

  abandoning children by

  brain damage to Raymond

  childhoods of

  children of Martha

  correspondence between

  criminal record of Raymond

  Delphine and Rainelle Downing murders

  education of Martha

  execution of

  family of Raymond

  fantasies

  funeral home work by Martha

  Honeymoon Killers, The (film)

  Jane Lucilla Thompson murder

  Janet Fay murder

  lonely hearts clubs

  loyalty at trial

  Myrtle Young murder

  nursing work by Martha

  personality change in Raymond

  profit-motivated killers

  promiscuous sexual behavior by

  Martha

  sexual abuse of Martha

  trial of

  victims of

 

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