Table Of ContentThe Mamoth Book of…
Women Who Kill.
Edited by Richard Glyn Jones.
Back Cover.
True Crimes that prove the female of the species can be as deadly as the male.
From the Florida roadside prostitute and first convicted female serial killer,
Aileen Carol Wuornos, to Agrippina, infamous poisoner of Ancient Rome, this
newly revised and expanded anthology is the biggest history ever of the world’s
most dangerous women.
Cases from all over the world, including:
Ruth Snyder, the last woman to go to the chair.
The Australian teenagers who bludgened to death the mother of one of them,
after a row.
The English multiple murderess who chopped up the bodies of children and
scattered them from a plane.
Countess Bathory, also called “Countess Dracula”, who bathed in the blood of
her victims.
Myra Hindley, murderess of the Yorkshire Moores.
The young woman who poisoned her boyfriend rather than split up with him.
Rosemary West, who with her husband Fred, turned a quiet suburban home into
a house of horrors.
This wide-ranging and eye-opening collection lays to rest any idea that women
are not capable of the most extreme kind of violent crime.
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WOMEN WHO KILL
Edited by Richard Glyn Jones
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First published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable Robinson Ltd
2002
Arrangement and introduction copyright by Richard Glyn Jones 1993, 2002.
“Rosemary West:
Keeping It in the Family”, first published in this edition, copyright Richard Glyn
Jones 2002
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Contents
Introduction The Contributors
1. AGRIPPINA Poison in Ancient Rome
2. MA BARKER Matriarch with a Machine Gun
3. ELVIRA BARNEY Laugh. Baby, Laugh
4. ADELAIDE BARTLETT Corsets and Chloroform
5. ELISABETH, COUNTESS BATHORY Countess Dracula
6. MARTHA BECK Trail of the Lonesome Hearts
7. KATE BENDER Bumps in the Night
8. LIZZIE BORDEN Far from the Old Folks at Home
9. CORDELIA BOTKIN The Poisoned Chocolate Case
10. MRS BRAVO Was it Accident or Suicide?
11. ELIZABETH BROWNRIGG A Cruel Mistress
12. MADAME de BRINVILLIERS The Age of Arsenic
13. CHARLOTTE BRYANT Poison in the West Country
14. CHARLOTTE CORDAY The Angel of the Assassination
15. MARY ANN COTTON Britain’s Mass Murderess
16. MRS DONALD The Aberdeen Child Murderer
17. CHRISTIANA EDMUNDS A Mad Woman in Love
18. RUTH ELLIS Jealous Woman with a Gun
19. MADAME FAHMY La Crime Passionel
20. MRS FAZEKAS The Power of Poison 223 21.IRMAGRESE “We Have No
Pity” 228
22. BELLE GUNNESS Love with an Axe 232
23. MYRA HINDLEY Suffer Little Children 239
24. HELENE JEGADO Mass Murder in Brittany 253
25. WINNIE RUTH JUDD Trunks for Two 256
26. ILSE KOCH “Merely a Housewife” 276
27. MADAME La FARGE A Cake as Large as a Plate 281
28. MARIA MANNING The Fashion in Black satin 287
29. MRS MAYBRICK Cruelly Wronged 292
30. SARAH METYARD “The Blood of Innocence” 300
31. THE PAPIN SISTERS The Housemaid’s Revenge 307
32. PAULINE PARKER and JULIET HULME
“Let’s Kill Mother” 316
33. MRS PEARCEY Strong Nerves . 337
34. LOUISE PEETE Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde 343
35. ALMA RATTENBURY Old Enough to be
His Mother 356
36. VERA RENCZI The Crypt of Dead Lovers-363
37. MADELEINE SMITH Having Her Own Way 372
38. RUTH SNYDER The -Iron Widow 382
39. MAGDALENA SOLIS The Cult of Human
Sacrifice 392
40. EDITH THOMPSON Incitement to Murder? 399 41-LaTOFFANA
“Manna of Saint Nicholas” 413
42. MRS VERMILYA The Deadly Pepper Pot 417
43. LaVOISIN Black Mass and Murder 430
44. DOROTHEA WADDINGHAM The Nightmare
Nurse 445
45. JEANNE WEBER A Killer of Children 459
46. KATE WEBSTER Dead Woman’s Shoes 468
47. ROSEMARY WEST Keeping It in the Family 476
48. DR ZEO ZOE WILKINS The Vampire of Kansas
City 526
49. AILEEN CAROL WUORNOS “Digging Up
Bones” . 538
Sources and Acknowledgements 544
