[True Crime - Serial Killers 93] • She Devils Around the World

In this fascinating book author and historian Sylvia Perrini takes us on a journey looking at female serial killers around the world prior to the 20th Century. Although some of these crimes extend into the early part of the 20th century the women were all born prior to this.

Serial Killers have always existed it is only in the last few decades however, that the term has been widely used. And people have always been fascinated and simultaneously horrified by them. They want every last gruesome detail, preferably with accompanying graphics.

But it is the female serial killer who horrifies us most of all. Women are after all meant to be the gentler sex, the nurturers of life. Yet, as we read through the various profiles in this book it becomes very evident that this is not always the case.

Female serial killers rarely torture although as can be seen in the story of ERZSEBET BATHORY, DARYA NIKOLAYEVNA SALTYKOV and ELIZABETH BROWNRIGG that is not always the case. Female serial killers tend to prefer weapons such as poison, or fatal injections or ‘accidents’.

Women serial killers unlike male serial killers, normally attack people that they know such as husbands, children, relatives or neighbors. But again there are always exceptions as in the case of ENRIQUETA MARTI --The Vampire of Barcelona. A truly shocking story.