Author: kfwilliams
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Women Who Kill: The Soap-Maker of Correggio
Born in 1894 in Montella, Italy, Leonarda Cianciulli was by all accounts a superstitious woman. Not much is known about Cianciulli prior to the killings but it’s believed that the events that occurred when she was an adolescent attributed to the type of monster, she’d grow up to become. Cianciulli was suicidal for most of…
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The Abnormal Psychology of Elizabeth Bathory
Elizabeth Bathory is special in that she is the only known female sexual sadistic serial killer without a dominant male partner – to this day, more than four hundred years later. She started on her own with her husband away at war, learned additional battlefield torture techniques from him when he was home visiting, and…
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Women Who Kill: The Blood Countess
She’s considered the first “real” female serial killer– one who killed for sadistic, sexual, hedonistic lust instead of political or personal power. She’s been memorialized, sexualized and vampirized since the discovery of her trial records in the 1720s; and has inspired ten bloody horror films, eight black metal band names, and numerous legends and folklores. An…
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