Lady killers
Subtitle: deadly women throughout history
By: Tori Telfer ; illustrations by Dame Darcy
Contributors: Darcy, Dame, 1971- illustrator
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780062433732
Subjects: Serial murderers; Biography; Women serial murderers
Description: "In 1998, an FBI profiler infamously declared in a homicide conference, 'There are no female serial killers'--but Lady Killers offers fourteen creepy examples to the contrary."--Page 4 of cover.

Serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, "There are no female serial killers." Telfer delves into the reality of female aggression and predation with this compendium of female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.
Notes: Includes interview, Q &A and other extra material.

Various printings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The elusive population; title: The blood countess: Erzsébet Báthory; title: The giggling grandma: Nannie Doss; title: The worst woman on earth: Lizzie Halliday; title: Devil in the shape of a saint: Elizabeth Ridgeway; title: Vipers: Raya and Sakina; title: The wretched woman: Mary Ann Cotton; title: The tormentor: Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova; title: Iceberg Anna: Anna Marie Hahn; title: The nightingale: Oum-El-Hassen; title: High priestess of the Bluebeard clique: Tillie Klimek; title: Sorceress of Kilkenny: Alice Kyteler; title: Beautiful throat cutter: Kate Bender; title: The angel makers of Nagyrév; title: Queen of poisoners: Marie-Madeleine, the Marquise de Brinvilliers.