History’s most notorious female serial killers revealed… and the chilling reasons why they turned to murder
Among the group of notorious killers are caregivers who slaughtered dozens of infants, bored housewives and twisted lovers who made up one half of a murderous couple
MYRA Hindley, Rosemary West and Aileen Wuornos - these women are considered some of the most evil people to ever walk the Earth.
This is because they are all members of a small but notorious group - that of the female serial killer.
Among this group are caregivers who slaughtered dozens of infants helping usher in laws on medical abortions and bored housewives who knocked off their husbands.
Others such as Hindley and West are the twisted lovers who made up one half of a murdering couple.
Following the news that notorious Canadian killer Karla Homolka is now free and helping volunteer at a primary school, we take a look below at some of history's worst female serial killers.
Nannie Doss
Nannie Doss was an American serial killer who killed 11 people over several decades beginning in the 1920s.
"There's no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I'd kill again. I have hate crawling through my system."
She was born in 1857 to an alcoholic father who many in the community believed to be a "crackpot". When she was just six, he abandoned her and her sister when he handed them over to an orphanage and disappeared.
Her sentence was eventually commuted to life imprisonment and she died in jail in 1929 at the age of 42.
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