![]() There’s debate if she actually committed the crimes, though her last words before her hanging seem to be very telling: “If you have a message you want to send to Hell, give it to me I’ll carry it.” They were never even charged with the two bodies due to lack of evidence murder actually occurred. There was no trap door, and the hundreds of bodies was more like two. The story was also blown completely out of proportion at the time with details saying there was a custom room with a trap door leading to the cellar where hundreds of bodies were stored. Once asleep, her husband would take the guest’s valuables, stab them to death, then cut their bodies to easily dump in their cellar.īeing there’s no proof Fisher committed murders herself, some say her execution wasn’t justified (though she was charged with highway robbery - a capital offense at the time - not murder). ![]() That special blend happened to contain oleander, a plant deadly enough to either kill or send someone into a deep sleep. If they were, Fisher would utilize her looks to convince the men to go to bed early, promising to give a special blend of tea to them. Known for her beauty and charm, she’d greet weary travelers and ask about their lives in the parlor of Six Mile Wayfarer House, which was about six miles outside of Charleston, North Carolina.Īs polite as those questions may have seemed, Fisher and her husband would use them to determine what possessions to steal off the guest and if they were really worth killing. Some historians argue some aspects of the character Dracula was based on her, which wouldn’t be surprising since it’s believed she killed at least 600 women before dying in her castle that became her own prison once her cruelty was exposed.įisher is considered the first female serial killer of the United States… yet she wasn’t, really. Lastly, there’s the famous depictions of her bathing in virgin blood as to appear more youthful however, rumors of that formed a century after her death, and none of the 289 witness accounts mentioned it.īathory’s legend lives on. Bathory was also prone to biting at she tortured women, insinuating the possibility of her being a lesbian. She’s probably most famous for forcing needles into fingertips, whipping them, and cutting off different body parts. Various accounts say she’d create ice baths during the coldest days of the year and force women to bathe naked in them, and she’d even have some covered in honey and watched as insects slowly ate away at the victim. She targeted young female peasants, servants and eventually noblewomen. She seemed to have gotten a kick out of the torture more than the kill itself. While it was mentioned most women don’t torture, Bathory is the exception. Her husband was often out fighting in wars, which resulted in his death in 1604 - the year Bathory began her murder spree. This Hungarian “ Blood Countess” was one of the most powerful and richest women in Eastern Europe at her time, to the point where her husband took her last name due to her outranking him. In recent years, people seem to just now realize that while they’re rare, female serial killers are just as deadly and cruel as males. Another significant difference is that women are more likely to kill for money unlike many men who’ve murdered for some form of pleasure. ![]() They’re even considered a little more subtle in their kills whereas men don’t plan where to kill. Interestingly enough, women usually don’t engage in torturing their victims as men do, and about 50 percent of women kill by smothering or poisoning. Perhaps that’s why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to “the female monster.”įrom history’s earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain’s notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to ‘Honeymoon Killer’ Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournos-the first female serial killer-as-celebrity-to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity.The most infamous serial killers tend to be male, and in 2014, only about 20 percent of serial killings in the US are committed by women. How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as men-with women registering low on our paranoia radar. In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill-and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim.
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