voodoo and
weight problem of Martha
Becker, Marie Alexandrine
Beets, Betty Lou
Beets, Jimmy Don
Behavioral Science Unit (BSU), FBI
Bell, Mary Flora
Bender, John and John Jr.
Bender, Kate
Benites, Brandy
Benites, Nelda
Bennett, Keith
Bernardo, David
Bernardo, Kenneth and Marilyn
Bernardo, Paul. See Homolka, Karla and Paul Bernardo (“the Ken and Barbie Killers”)
Besnard, Kate
beta female killers
Bianchi, Kenneth (“the Hillside Stranglers”)
Bible
biochemical conditions
Birnie, Catherine and David
Black Widows See also Barfield, Margie Velma (“the Death Row Granny”) Blauensteiner, Elfriede
blitz attacks
Block, Lynda Lyon
bludgeoning, weapon of choice
Boadicea, Queen
Bombeck, Cecile
Bonnie and Clyde
Borgia, Lucrezia
Bowlby, John
Brack, Victor
Brady, Ian. See Hindley, Myra and Ian
Brady (“the Moors Murderers”) brain injuries
Brigham, Oramel
Brinvilliers, Marie de
Britannicus (Claudius’s son)
Britt, Joe Freeman
Broomfield, Nick
Brown, Debra Denise
Brown, Jerry
Browning, Christopher
Brownmiller, Susan
Brudos, Jerry
Brunner, Mary Theresa (“Maryoch,” “Mother Mary Manson”)
Bryson, Clifford
BSU (Behavioral Science Unit), FBI
Buenoano, Judias Anna Lou (“Judy”)
Bullard, Lillie
Bullard, Murphy
Bullard, Olive
Bullard, Tyrone
Bundy, Carol and Douglas Clark (“the Sunset Boulevard Killers”)
Air Force career of Douglas
alcohol addiction of Douglas
Angelo Buono (“the Hillside Stranglers”) and Douglas
appearance of Carol
appearance of Douglas
arrests of
childhoods of
confession of Carol
education of Douglas
employment of Douglas
exaggerated stories, Douglas
fantasies of Douglas
first marriage of Douglas
fun, killing as
guns, Carol
heads of victim, keeping
humiliation of Carol by Douglas
Jack Murray and Carol
“kill bag,”
lesbian relationships of Carol
marriage (first) of Carol
mother and Carol
nursing career of Carol
photographing sex by Douglas
physical abuse of Carol
promiscuous sexual behavior by Carol
Richard Geis and Carol
sex with corpses
unattractive women seduced by Douglas
victims of
women’s underwear, wearing by Douglas
Bundy, Chris
Bundy, Grant
Bundy, Ted
Bundym, David
Buono, Angelo (“the Hillside Stranglers”)
Burgess, Ann
burial insurance
Burke, Thomas
Burning Bed/Battered Woman Syndrome
Burress, Eugene (“Troy”)
Butler, David
Cabrera, John
Cage, Mary Emily
Caligula (Emperor of Rome)
Cannon, Patty
Caputi, Jane
“Carnival” (Merchant)
Carpenter, Leona
Carrie (film)
Carskaddon, Charles
Carson, Susan
Carter, Rosalynn
Catherine the Great (Queen of Russia)
“Cease to Exist” (“Never Learn Not to Love”) (Manson)
Charcot, Jean Martin
Chesham, Sarah
Chesler, Phyllis
childhood
“chronic undifferentiated schizophrenic,”
Clark, Douglas. See Bundy, Carol and Douglas Clark (“the Sunset Boulevard Killers”)
classification systems, serial killers
accommodating partners
alpha female killers
amoral personality
angels of death
anger-excitement killers
anger-retaliatory killers
beta female killers
Black Widows
blitz attacks
covertly hostile personality
covertly hostile violent personality
cult disciples
depraved sadistic partners
disorganized serial killers
explosive avengers
FBI classifications
gratification motives
hedonist-comfort killers
hedonist-lust killers
hedonist-thrill killers
inadequate personality
masochistic personality
missionary killers
mixed serial killers
Munchausen syndrome by proxy
omega female killers
organized serial killers
personality types
power-assertive killers
power-control killers
power-reassurance killers
power-seekers
profit-predators
psychotic personality
sexual gratification motive
sexual murderers
victim/offender relationships
visionary killers
See also female aggression, politics of
Claudius (Emperor of Rome)
Claudius the God (Graves)
Clay, Lucius D.
Cleckley, Hervey
Coffman, Cynthia and James Marlow
Cole, Eddie
“Collector” fantasy
Colley, Sandra
Compulsion (Levin)
congenital genetic abnormalities
Cooking With a Serial Killer (Montalvo)
“cooling off” periods
Copeland, Faye
Cottingham, Richard
Cotton, Mary Ann
Court TV
covertly hostile personality
crematoria gas chambers
Crimean War
Criminal Law (film)
Cross, Theresa
cults
Cunningham, Anna
Dahmer, Jeffrey
Daily News
Dante’s Inferno (film)
Dateline (TV show)
Davis, Jackie
Davis, Jeffrey
Davis family
daydreaming
Dazely, Sarah
Deadly Innocence (Bernardo)
Dean, Jerry Lynn
Dean, Minnie
Death of Feminism, The (Chesler)
death row, females on
“decency” killing, Nazi
defensive homicides
DeLany, Jimmy
depraved sadistic partners
Deshayes, Catherine
diagnosing serial killers (male and female)
See also female serial killers, psychopathology of; male serial killers; serial killers (male and female)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—Edition IV (DSM-IV)
Dillinger, John
discipline required for serial killing
Discovery Channel
disorganized serial killers
Dolenz, Mickey
“domestic violence,”
dominance and accomplices
Doricza (Báthory’s victim)
Doss, Nancy Hazel (“Nannie”)
“Double Standard for Murder, A?” (
Chesler)
Downey, Lesley Ann
Downing, Delphine and Rainelle
Dracula (Stoker)
drowning, weapon of choice
drug addiction
Drusilla (Roman noblewoman)
Duncan, Elizabeth
Dunham, Israel and Lovey
Dyer, Amelia
Eccles, Elizabeth
education
Edwards, Dollie and Montgomery
Elizabeth the First (Queen of England)
Ellard, Kelly Marie
Ellis, Bret Easton
emotion, absence of
employment
England, Lynndie Rana
Enriqueta, Marti
Esalen Institute
Etheridge, Ellen
Evans, Edward
Evans, Jacob and Lydia
executed women
explosive avengers
expressive violence
facilitators of fantasies
Falling, Christine Laverne Slaughter (“the Killer Babysitter”)
Falling, Jennifer
family life
family members as victims
fantasies
Fay, Janet
Fazekas, Susanna
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Behavioral Science Unit (BSU)
classification, serial killers
Fell, Lewis Gratz
female aggression, politics of
“cooling off” periods
death row, females on
defensive homicides
definitions of female serial killer
depravity of serial killers
executed women
expressive violence
family members as victims
feminism
gender-neutral language
general characteristics of
growth of female serial killers
home as place of murder
instrumental violence
liberation hypothesis
longevity of female serial killers
monikers given to female serial killers
number, female serial killers
“patriarchal” institutions, victimizing women
power, replicated through murder
“quiet killers,”
relationships with victims
“serial homicide,” politicized
solo female serial killers
spartacism and
study of
victims, female killers portrayed as
violence (female), nature of
work as place of murder
See also female serial killers, psychopathology of
female serial killers, psychopathology of
“affective aggression,”
age of
aggression in girls
alcohol addiction
antisocial personality disorder (ASPD)
childhood and
deadlier than males
discipline required for
drug addiction
education
emotion, absence of
employment
family life of
fantasies
father relationship
financial gain motive of
handwriting
Histronic Personality Disorder (HPD)
indirect (“masked”) aggression
infant bonding (disrupted)
local female serial killers
loneliness in childhood
Macdonald triad (animal cruelty, arson, bed-wetting)
“masked criminality,”
menopause and
migratory female serial killers
modus operandi (MO, how)
mother relationship
motives of
Munchausen syndrome by proxy
murder signature
female serial killers
murder site
parental history and
passive-aggressive manner of
percentage of serial murders committed by
predatory aggression
profiling female serial killers
race, killing within their
self-worth, inflated
sexual abuse in childhood
signature (why)
singular murderers vs.
site of murder
social isolation in childhood
socioeconomic class of
strangers as victims, growth of
surviving an attack
talking about crimes, reluctance
“unknown suspect,”
victim fantasy, lack of
victims, number of
victim selection
warning signs
weapon of choice
weight problems
See also accomplice to serial killer, female as; classification systems, serial killers; female aggression, politics of; friends and intimates, murdering; history of female serial killers; loving us to death killers; male serial killers; missionary cult killers; serial killers (male and female); Wuornos, Aileen
feminism
Aileen Wuornos and
female aggression, politics of
Ilse Koch (“Bitch of Buchenwald”) and
Fernandez, Raymond. See Beck, Martha and Raymond Fernandez (“the Honeymoon Killers,” “Lonely Hearts Killers”)
“fight or flight” instinct
financial gain motive
Fink, Benjamin
Finland
first “real” female serial killer See also Báthory, Elizabeth (“Blood Countess,” “female Dracula”) Fisher, Constance
Flannagan, Catherine
Flannagan, John
Florescu, Radu
Florez, Ismael
Folger, Abigail Anne
folie à deux
folie impossée/simultanée
Ford, Gerald (President)
Fornuto, Debbie
Freeman, Charles
Freeman, Elizabeth and Thomas
Freeman, Prince Arthur
Freeman, Sarah
French, Kristen
friends and intimates, murdering
Belle Gunness
Nancy Hazel Doss (“Nannie”)
See also Barfield, Margie Velma (“the Death Row Granny”); Montalvo, Dorothea Puente Fromme, Helen and William
Fromme, Lynette Alice (“Squeaky”)
Frykowski, Voytek
Fugate, Caril
Fuzekos (Fazekas), Mrs. Julius
Gacy, John Wayne
Gallego, Charlene Williams and Gerald (“the Sex Slave Killers”)
Gallop, James
Garcia, Gabriel
gas chambers
Gates of Janus, The (Brady)
Gates, Trudy Mae
Gbrurek, Tillie
Gein, Ed
Geis, Richard
gender stereotyping
Ghost (film)
Giannini, Giancarlo
Gibbs, Janie Lou
Gibbs, Minnie
Gilbert, Kristen
Gilligan, Amy
Gillmouth, Everson
Gladiator (film)
Glazer, Ilsa
Golay, Helen
Gonzales, Delfina
Gonzales, Maria de Jesus
Gottfried, Gesina
Graham, Gwendolyn
gratification motives
Graves, Robert
Gray, Dorothea Helen See also Montalvo, Dorothea Puente
Gray, Jesse James
Green, Ann
Green, Ricky and Sharon
Green River Killer
Grese, Alfred and Berte
Grese, Irma (“Beast of Belsen”)
appearance of
Auschwitz-Birkenau
breasts (large), focus on
bullying of
childhood of
employment of
execution of
guard training of
Josef Mengele (“Angel of Death”) and
lesbian affairs with inmates
missionary cult serial killer
nursing ambitions of
racial theory indoctrination of
Ravensbrück
“sporting” killings
SS-Helferinnenkorps
supervisor of camp
trial of
victims of
See also Nazi Germany
Grills, Caroline
growth of female serial killers
Gruber, Maria
Guinness Book of World Records
Gunness, Belle
Hahn, Anna Marie
handwriting
Hanon, Kathryn A.
Harczy, Ilona
Hare, Robert
Harker, Jonathan
Hart, Captain
Hart, Lynda
Hart, Nancy
Harvard
Hazelwood, Ron
Hazelwood, Roy
hedonist-comfort killers
hedonist-lust killers
hedonist-thrill killers
Heide, K.
Herod, King
Hickey, Eric
Higgins, Margaret
high-dominance women
Hilley, Audrey Marie
Hinckley, John
Hindley, Myra and Ian Brady (“the Moors Murderers”)
animal cruelty by Ian
Catholic faith and Myra
childhoods of
Compulsion (Levin) and Ian
criminal record of Ian
death of childhood friend and Myra
education of Myra
Edward Evans murder
employment by
first date
folie à deux
Hindley, Myra and Ian Brady
Gates of Janus, The (Brady)
intelligence of Ian
John Kilbride murder
Keith Bennett murder
Lesley Ann Downey murder
Nazi fascination by Ian
obsession with Ian
Pauline Reade murder
perfect murder, proof of superiority
pornography
release of Myra, campaign
sentence
serial sex killers
“shared psychotic disorder,”
trial
victims of
virginity, losing to Ian
Hinman, Gary
Hiroshima, Japan
history of female serial killers
alienists
arsenic
“baby farming/sweating,”
burial insurance and
crack cocaine and
domestic female work
executions (public), minor crimes
Hungry ’40s
imperial serial killers
mass media and
modern female serial killers, birth
nineteenth-century U.S.
nurses
poor and living conditions in cities
pregnancies of domestic servants
preindustrial age
Roman Empire and
Sale of Arsenic Act
true-crime literature and
See also Báthory, Elizabeth (“Blood Countess,” “female Dracula”); female aggression, politics of; female serial killers, psychopathology of; Toppan, Jane (Honora A. Kelly, “Jolly Jane”)
Histronic Personality Disorder (HPD)
Hitler, Adolf
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