Women Serial Killers and Their Motives

All around the world people who are interested in serial killers have heard of Richard Ramirez, John Wayne Gacy, Gary Ridgway, and numerous others who have put the fear of God into their victims and those who live in the areas that they picked for their wrath. Most of the time serial killers are men, however, every so often there comes a serial killer who is a woman, being just as cold-blooded and ruthless as the male serial killer. Unfortunately, female psychopathy is a very understudied subject, that needs to be brought out into the open.

I have picked three women throughout the course of time that have been some of the most horrifying killers of all time. Take a seat and learn about Aileen Wuornos, Rosemary West, and Elizabeth Bathory. Three women who became vicious killers all in very different ways and all for different reasons. Aileen Wuornos who killed out of supposed self-defense for men who she thought were going to rape her, Rosemary West who killed for the sheer sexual enjoyment of torture, and Elizabeth Bathory who killed thinking it would make her younger. Although women serial killers are few and far between, these three women will make you see just how vicious murder can truly be.