Tag: Deviant Behavior
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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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Women Who Kill: Giggling Granny
“I was searching for the perfect mate… the real romance in life” Nannie Doss was born to a family of farmers in 1905 in Blue Mountain, Alabama. When she was seven years old, she hit her head on a metal bar on the seat in front of her while on a train with her family…
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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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