Tag: Deviant Behavior
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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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Dangerous Women: Some Known and Suspected Female Serial Killers
Some do it for love. Like Karla Homolka, who allowed her boyfriend to rape her younger 15-year-old sister so violently that she died from the brutality (and even participated in videotaping the event) – as a ‘wedding gift’. Or Carol Bundy, who would sit in the backseat of a car as her boyfriend would pick up…
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LADY KILLERS: The Psychology Behind the Female Serial Killer
When asked to name a famous serial killer, the majority of the names that come to mind are male. Most immediately think of those with terrifying nicknames, like ‘Jack the Ripper’ or ‘The Zodiac Killer’, or the ones that are most talked about, such as Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer. However, about one in six…
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