She launched a murderous campaign aimed at male victims. In March 2013 Dennehy was living in an efficiency apartment owned by her occasional lover, Kevin Lee. This later led to the man with whom she fathered two children taking them away for their safety.
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She ran away from home at 15 and began a series of (often violent) relationships. Like many women with a string of victims behind them, she was motivated by money, but sometimes also motivated by sheer irritation.ĭennehy reportedly came from a decent, middle-class British home, but by her early teens was addicted to drugs. Her weapon of choice was usually arsenic, and she claimed the murders were committed by an alternate personality, “Billy.” She was sentenced to death, with the distinction of being the first woman executed by lethal injection. After he died in a house fire, Barfield cut a swath through her life, killing at least six more, including a boyfriend and her mother. She began abusing drugs like Valium, even as she detested her husband Thomas for being an alcoholic. She had two children whom she treated well, but after a hysterectomy, something changed. She had criminal tendencies from age seven on-mainly stealing money-and her father sexually abused her.Īfter her wedding at age 17, her life seemed relatively normal. Her early life wasn’t that different from many men who go on to kill. Velma Barfield was, like many women who murder multiple victims, a poisoner. Here is a list of five female serials whose names aren’t well-known, of their crimes, and their likely motivations. In her non-sexual motivations, Wuornos was perhaps a classic example of the differences between men and women when it comes to multiple murders. Sometimes robbery was her motivation, though over time an element of humiliation crept into the murders. The name Aileen Wuornos is synonymous with the phrase “female serial killer.” Wuornos’s seven victims were mostly men she met while working as a prostitute. Sometimes male killers have a female partner, but there’s strong evidence that the majority of those women were the more passive members of the relationship, going along with what the dominant killer wanted-admittedly, some of those convinced themselves they were into the act as well. Male serial killers have-historically-murdered out of sadistic, sexual motivations, distinct from spree killers and mass murderers, who kill out of psychopathic, nihilistic rage. What many may not understand is when a woman kills repeatedly, her motivations are often completely different from a man’s. That’s why the number of known female serial killers is so small. Serial murder accounts for only one percent of yearly homicides writes Scott Bonn in Why We Love Serial Killers, and Bonn says women are responsible for 17 percent of that total. In the United States, women are responsible for a mere 10 percent of homicides every year. That said, while women do commit violent crimes, the numbers don’t lie. No matter what creators of shows on Investigation Discovery want viewers to think, it’s not shocking when women kill.
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