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Kristin Hannah's The Women is available on Nooks at the Maury Loontjens Memorial Library in Narragansett

1) Lady killers: deadly women throughout history

Author

Telfer, Tori

Language

English

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"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

2) The angel makers: arsenic, a midwife, and modern history's most astonishing murder ring

Author

McCracken, Patti

Language

English

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"Tells the story of a 1920s midwife in rural Hungary who may have been the century's most prolific killer, leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred sixty men."--

3) Murder most rare: the female serial killer

Author

Kelleher, Michael D

Publisher

Praeger

Pub. Date

1998.

Language

English

4) The burn farm

Author

Benson, Michael

Language

English

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Draws on victim recordings and perpetrator statements to trace the story of serial murderer Sheila LaBarre, describing how she sexually tormented troubled young men before brutally murdering them at her remote farmhouse.

5) The devil's rooming house: the true story of America's deadliest female serial killer

Author

Phelps, M. William

Publisher

Lyons Press

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

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Acclaimed crime writer M. William Phelps tells the true story of a turn-of-the-century, Bible-thumping caretaker and entrepreneur of the nursing home industry who became one of history's most evil female serial killers.

6) Female serial killers: how and why women become monsters

Author

Vronsky, Peter

Publisher

Berkley Books

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

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Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill-and the political, economic, social, and sexual implications. From 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, from the sensational murder-spree...

7) Women who kill: profiles of female serial killers

Author

Davis, Carol Anne

Publisher

Allison & Busby

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

8) Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: inside the mind of a female serial killer

Author

Clark, Jerry

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

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Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, was "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's strangest cases: the Pizza Bomber case, in which a pizza deliveryman died when a bomb locked to his neck exploded...

9) Hell's princess: the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

Author

Schechter, Harold

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

English

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"The shocking true story of one of the twentieth century's most prolific female serial killers." -- book jacket.

10) Female serial killers

Author

Rauf, Don

Series

Psychology of Serial Killers

Publisher

Enslow Publishing

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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"From Lady Elizabeth Bathory to Bell Gunness to Aileen Wuornos, this book takes an in-depth approach to evaluating the life and crimes of some of the worlds most vicious women, who are grouped into chapters by psychological type. Readers can also take a personality disorder self-assessment quiz to learn more about psychopathythe most common psychological condition for serial killers." --

11) America's femme fatale: the story of serial killer Belle Gunness

Author

Ammeson, Jane Simon

Publisher

Red Lightning Books

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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"How does a Norwegian farm girl become an infamous American serial killer, responsible for upward of 40 murders? Born in rural Norway in 1859, "Belle" Storset Sorenson Gunness was constantly dealt bad hands in life-so she decided to take life into her own hands. In America's Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness, Jane Simon Ammeson traces Gunness's path from a poor teenager rejected by a wealthy lover; to a new wife in Chicago, desperate...

12) Aileen: life and death of a serial killer

Publisher

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

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Nick Broomfield explores the life of Aileen Wuornos, the prostitute executed in Florida for killing six men. Includes examinations of her childhood, testimony at her trial by Broomfield, and a chilling speech by Wuornos herself.