Women Serial Killers

Women are the more sensitive of the two genders and they let their emotions become an influence when committing a violent act. That is why the most common women offenders are in situation with domestic violence because they bottled up multiple negative emotions and therefore kill. Females are not necessary less aggressive, but they do show their aggression in less physical ways and often more verbal. Although women let their emotions affect them more than men, women are still good at reasoning considering women’s homicide rates are lower than men’s. Instead of attacking and killing someone without a second thought, they put consideration into the situations. Whereas men sometimes just do rather than think, hence the reason more men kill strangers.

Aileen Wuornos was abused as a child who later became a sex worker for a career. Later she was found guilty of killing six men and then was executed in a Florida prison. This shows that a person’s early childhood has a large effect on them afterwards in their life. Another famous murderer is Myra Hindley born in 1942 and died in 2002. She was a serial killer of small children; her partner in crime was her boyfriend Ian Brady. Many women work together with their boyfriends/husbands when committing crimes. Myra committed rape and murder five small children. Brady’s cousin witnessed one of their murders and he called the police on them. Myra and her husband were jailed for life. Although, there is usually a reason a women offender to kill based off her emotions, sometimes they can also kill just for the thrill just like men. Jane Toppan was a serial killer, born in 1857.She was a nurse who gave lethal injections of morphine to 31 hospital patients. She was also suspected of having killed another 70 patients during her entire career. Her goal was “ to have killed more people — helpless people — than any other man or woman who ever lived..." (Blanco, Radford University). Her method of murder was poisoning hospital patients and relatives. In the end, she was found not guilty for reason of insanity but she saw committed for life in the Taunton Insane