5 Female Serial Killers From Around The World.
1.Beverley Allitt: Beverley Allitt was born in 1968 and started working as a pediatric nurse in 1991. During a period of 58 days, she murdered four children and attacked another nine, who were lucky enough to survive. From an early age, she showed signs of Münchausen syndrome and later Münchausen by proxy, which may explain her actions. Münchausen is a mental disorder in which a person feigns illness or trauma to attract attention. She was finally arrested and tried at Nottingham Crown Court in 1993, pleading not guilty. She received 13 life sentences for murder and attempted murder.
2.Raya And Sakina: Sisters Raya and Sakina ran a drug and prostitution ring (along with their spouses) in Alexandria. Being business women, they saw great financial opportunity in killing and robbing women. Their victims were known to wear gold jewelry and carry large amounts of money
3.Martha Needle: Born in 1863 in Morgan, South Australia, Martha Charles grew up in a poor and abusive family and showed signs of instability from an early age. In 1882, she married Henry Needle and had three children: Mabel, Elsie, and May. By 1891, she poisoned all four of her family members, one by one. She then collected the insurance money, most of which she used for a family grave that she often visited.
4.Jeanne Weber:Jeanne Weber was born in 1874 and had three children, two of whom died in 1905. In March of that year, she murdered four children by strangulation, including her third (and last) son and two nieces.Weber was ultimately declared insane and spent two years in an asylum before hanging herself in 1910.
5.Juana Barraza:Juana Barraza was born in 1956. Her mother was an alcoholic who traded her own daughter to a man for three beers. That man repeatedly raped Barraza, who gave birth to four of his children. Experts believe that Barraza began her killings sometime around 1990. Her victims were always women over 60—typically ones who lived alone. Posing as a government official, she would gain access to the victims’ houses and then murder and rob them.
