Female Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the Minds of Revenge Killers, Sexual Predators, Black Widows and Angels of Death
Dive into the disturbed psyches of some of histories most notorious female serial killers with interviews from the detectives, husbands and victims that saw the horror firsthand.

“Don’t be fooled by me. Don’t be fooled by the face that I wear for I wear a thousand masks; masks that I’m afraid to take off and none of them are me. Pretending is an art that is second nature to me but do not be fooled. For God’s sake don’t be fooled.”
-Judy Buenoano, shortly before her death row execution

“I fell to the ground but the attack continued. I was just waiting for it to stop. There was loads and loads of blood. As I lay there, I thought, this is where I am going to die.”
-John Rogers to a trial jury, describing an attack by Joanna Dennehy

“I’m a good person inside, but when I get drunk, I just don’t know...I’ve got nothing to lose...What am I supposed to do?...It was all their fault and that’s the God’s honest truth.”
-Aileen “Lee” Carol Wuornos, inspiration for the 2003 film Monster

“She said, ‘You’d never believe about some of the things we are doing at the nursing home.’ I knew things were out of control.”
-Ken Wood, estranged husband of “Lethal Lover” Cathy May Wood

“[They] left my mother in such a distorted, dismembered and ashened state that she was identifiable only by her dental record. My life has been ripped apart at the seams...”
-Steve White, son of Virginia Susan Caudill’s murder victim
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Female Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the Minds of Revenge Killers, Sexual Predators, Black Widows and Angels of Death
Dive into the disturbed psyches of some of histories most notorious female serial killers with interviews from the detectives, husbands and victims that saw the horror firsthand.

“Don’t be fooled by me. Don’t be fooled by the face that I wear for I wear a thousand masks; masks that I’m afraid to take off and none of them are me. Pretending is an art that is second nature to me but do not be fooled. For God’s sake don’t be fooled.”
-Judy Buenoano, shortly before her death row execution

“I fell to the ground but the attack continued. I was just waiting for it to stop. There was loads and loads of blood. As I lay there, I thought, this is where I am going to die.”
-John Rogers to a trial jury, describing an attack by Joanna Dennehy

“I’m a good person inside, but when I get drunk, I just don’t know...I’ve got nothing to lose...What am I supposed to do?...It was all their fault and that’s the God’s honest truth.”
-Aileen “Lee” Carol Wuornos, inspiration for the 2003 film Monster

“She said, ‘You’d never believe about some of the things we are doing at the nursing home.’ I knew things were out of control.”
-Ken Wood, estranged husband of “Lethal Lover” Cathy May Wood

“[They] left my mother in such a distorted, dismembered and ashened state that she was identifiable only by her dental record. My life has been ripped apart at the seams...”
-Steve White, son of Virginia Susan Caudill’s murder victim
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Female Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the Minds of Revenge Killers, Sexual Predators, Black Widows and Angels of Death

Female Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the Minds of Revenge Killers, Sexual Predators, Black Widows and Angels of Death

by Christopher Berry-Dee
Female Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the Minds of Revenge Killers, Sexual Predators, Black Widows and Angels of Death

Female Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the Minds of Revenge Killers, Sexual Predators, Black Widows and Angels of Death

by Christopher Berry-Dee

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Dive into the disturbed psyches of some of histories most notorious female serial killers with interviews from the detectives, husbands and victims that saw the horror firsthand.

“Don’t be fooled by me. Don’t be fooled by the face that I wear for I wear a thousand masks; masks that I’m afraid to take off and none of them are me. Pretending is an art that is second nature to me but do not be fooled. For God’s sake don’t be fooled.”
-Judy Buenoano, shortly before her death row execution

“I fell to the ground but the attack continued. I was just waiting for it to stop. There was loads and loads of blood. As I lay there, I thought, this is where I am going to die.”
-John Rogers to a trial jury, describing an attack by Joanna Dennehy

“I’m a good person inside, but when I get drunk, I just don’t know...I’ve got nothing to lose...What am I supposed to do?...It was all their fault and that’s the God’s honest truth.”
-Aileen “Lee” Carol Wuornos, inspiration for the 2003 film Monster

“She said, ‘You’d never believe about some of the things we are doing at the nursing home.’ I knew things were out of control.”
-Ken Wood, estranged husband of “Lethal Lover” Cathy May Wood

“[They] left my mother in such a distorted, dismembered and ashened state that she was identifiable only by her dental record. My life has been ripped apart at the seams...”
-Steve White, son of Virginia Susan Caudill’s murder victim

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781612438979
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Publication date: 04/23/2019
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Christopher Berry-Dee is the editor of The New Criminologist and director of the Criminology Research Centre. He has written numerous books on murderers and serial killers. He was also the researcher and interviewer for a 13-part TV series in the UK entitled The Serial Killers.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Sablino Prison for Women vii

Introduction 1

Getting to Being Dead-Judging Evil 21

Catherine "Cathy" May Wood and Gwendolyn "Gwen" Gail Graham-The Deadly Nurses 24

More Caregivers Who Kill 53

Analyzing the Motives of Female Killers 66

Joanna Christine Dennehy-A Love of Blood 71

Suzanne "Sue" Margaret Basso 88

Patricia "Pat" Wright 106

Killing for Financial Gain 142

Aileen "Lee" Carol Wuornos 152

Alice Mary Crimmins 180

Killers with Accomplices 203

Mary Flora Bell 222

Eva Dugan 245

Tracey Wiggington and Christa Pike 249

Conclusions-Mad, Bad or Sad? 260

Acknowledgments 271

About the Author 273

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