Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Cycle of Death: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong’s Pattern of Violence

2 In Rare Company: Female Serial Killers in History

3 Killing Like a Man: Angels of Death, Black Widows, and Damsels of Doom

4 A Cluttered Mind: Marjorie Diehl’s Hoarding and Other Obsessions

5 Dictionary of Disorder: Defining Mental Illness

6 Death of a Boyfriend: A Fatal Shooting, a Suicide, and a Question of Stability

7 “A Madman or a Natural Fool”: Determining Mental Competency

8 “Scared to Death”: Marjorie Diehl’s First Homicide Trial

9 Flight of Ideas: The Burdens of Bipolar Disorder

10 “Freezer Queen”: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong Kills Again

11 The Fractured Intellectuals: The Pizza Bomber Plot Unravels

12 Psyche on Trial: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong’s Final Verdict

Afterword

Notes

Selected Bibliography

About the Authors