Category: Abnormity
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Women Who Kill: Andrea Yates
According to Andrea, she killed her children to save them from Satan and her own evil maternal influences… Andrea Yates’ life became a case study for the rare occurrence of postpartum psychosis, demonstrating the severe implications of untreated mental illness. From the re-telling of her story, we will see a woman whose hormonal shifts gave…
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Abnormal Psychology of Rosemary West
Historically, there’s been a struggle to comprehend the origins of female violence, with research painting female serial killers as reluctant sidekicks or psychotic femme fatales. Most research on serial killers suggest that only male serial killers murder out of sadistic, sexual motivations; and that when paired with a female partner, the woman is usually the…
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Women Who Kill: Gloucester House of Horror
Hello Spooky Season For twenty-five years, Rosemary West appeared as an unassuming British mother. Until a search of the inside of her home revealed a woman involved in brutal incest, beatings, sexual torture and the murder and dismemberment of numerous young women – including her own daughter. Her horrendous doing backed by her husband, established the…
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