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From the femme fatale’s with countless victims to the bohemian body counts that rival any
Ted Bundy, we count down the top 10 deadliest female serial killers.
#10: Delphine LaLaurie - Perhaps the real inspiration for American Horror Story season
three, Delphine LaLaurie inspired her slaves to commit suicide. The reason? They were trying
to get away from her lucid torture schemes. LaLaurie would keep droves of slaves on the
brink of death and starvation, seemingly for her own enjoyment. Sadly, LaLaurie was never
arrested, and although rumors of her atrocities run rampant throughout New Orleans, she never
suffered the same way she treated those around her.
#9: Belle Sorensen Gunness - No—it’s probably not because gun is in her name, or the fact
that her children look terrified in every family photo. In what can only be described
as ‘gold digging pioneering’, Belle would murder family members for money. After murdering
her husband and two of her very own children and cashing in on their life insurance, she
moved to Indiana. There, she dropped a meat grinder on her next husband’s head—and
then advertised in the paper that she was looking for yet another husband. In gold digging
irony, suitors rushed to the ever increasingly wealthy Belle, who murdered them all. Eventually,
her whole estate burned to the ground, killing her children and revealing dozens of corpses
for police to find. The weird part was, her teeth were found in the ashes—but her body
wasn’t.
#8: Amy Archer’s Murder House - Amy Archer-Gilligan murdered the elderly for fun. It’s horrible
to hear out loud, but listen to this: in the early 1900’s Archer’s Connecticut home
for the Elderly and Infirm saw 60 deaths, not including the deaths of several husbands.
Eventually, family and friends of the deceased elderly caught on that Archer was feeding
poison to her patients and was sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder. She
died in 1962 in an insane asylum. Asylum sounds too nice for someone like that.
#7: Lavinia Fisher - Notoriously famed as the first American serial killer, and perhaps
the inspiration for American Horror Story season five, Lavinia Fisher and her husband
ran a hotel that—can you guess?—made fun out of murdering guests. What started as murder
and robbery turned into an all-out killing spree. It took local police years to nail
Lavinia and her husband for their crimes, and the two were eventually sentenced to death
in 1820.
#6: Jane Toppan - The further we get down this list, the more we see several things.
First, women seem to have bored of serial killing as time has gone on, and second, if
a woman is a nurse or part of a medical environment, buyer beware! Jane Toppan was no exception.
She is famous for casually experiment on her own patients for her own enjoyment. Now, take
that sentence seriously, because this next statement might gross you out. She later told
authorities that she felt sexual pleasure in watching her victims die. After killing
close friends, her landlord, and her sister, time finally caught up with Toppan and she
was sent to Taunton Insane Hospital, where she likely Taunted the world for being foolish
enough to send her to a place that would give her another 30 years of life.
#5: Bertha Gifford, the ‘Textbook’ Case - Falling in line with the majority of serial
killers—both male and female—Gifford fits the typical profile of, ‘Oh, she was nice
and gentle’. Her murderous rampage is a complete surprise’. Gifford was a quiet
and unassuming person who apparently was feeding arsenic to patients. No wonder American folklore
is drenched in the blood of terrifying hospitals, insane asylums and medical wards. It seems
like one in three had a vicious murderer traipsing around in it. Gifford’s body count made
it to almost 20 before she was caught.
#4: Dorothea Puente and the modern era of female serial killers. - If you’re in the
shipping industry, it’s usually a bit taboo to open packages. Well, in 1985, a handyman
failed to open a box given to him by Dorothea Puente to dump—and it was a good thing he
didn’t open it, as it contained a decomposing human body. Luckily, fisherman found the body
days later and reported it to police. After searches began to plague her premises, Puente
suffered a devastating blow when police found seven dead bodies buried under her boarding
house—where she had been doing most of her killing. She died in 2011.
#3: Nannie Doss - Wait a minute. There’s a female serial killer with eleven bodies
to her name and her first name is the word we use to describe a profession that takes
care of children? Wow. Who okay’d that one? Nannie Doss married at sixteen, and then murdered
two of that marriages four children. Unlike virtually every other husband on this list,
that guy ran, but the Doss wasn’t done. Doss used this marriage to murder her grandchildren
for insurance money. As if she were pissed about the first one getting away, husbands
two, three, four, and five were all murdered. Husband five seemed to be the straw that broke
the camel’s back, because the police finally nabbed her. Could you imagine husband number
one—living his life in fear hearing about all these other guys dying. Who was husband
five, by the way? What insane kind of deathwish did he have?
#2: Dynamic Duo of Death - Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood, two serial killers with 80’s
skin-flick names, murdered elderly patients for sexual pleasure in the 1980’s. You can’t
make that up if you want to. Others thought they were however, when Gwen and Cathy bragged
about how awesome they were at killing and no one believed them. In 1989, after Cathy’s
ex-husband demanded that the police follow up on them, Cathy threw Gwen under the bus
and struck a plea deal, resulting in Gwen serving five life sentences while Cathy only
got slapped with 20-40 years. The scariest part—she may be released some day.
#1: Some People Just Want to Watch The World Burn - Aileen Wuornos lands at number one.
Unlike most of the women on this list, she didn’t use poison. Unlike most of the women
on this list, she wasn’t after money. No—Aileen Wuornos wore her heart on her sleeve and her
trigger finger itched. What’s insane about Aileen is that her motive, although completely
different thab most of the people on this list, is almost all the more insane. For all
seven of her victims that she shot in cold blood, she claimed self-defense—because,
as she put it—they were trying to rape her. Wuornos claimed self-defense in the face of
rape for years—all while she openly plead guilty to the actual murders. With seven counts
under her belt, she was sentenced to death in 2002 by lethal injection.
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