Women - Serial Killers: How and Why They Become Monsters

Who among us is even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters, or grandmothers as brutal killers? For centuries, we have been conditioned to think of serial killers and psychopathic predators as men, while women have been low on... our paranoid radar. Perhaps that is why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have become victims of the 'female monster'... From the earliest recorded cases of women committing murders to Irma Grese, the Nazi beast from Belsen, from the infamous British child killer Myra Hindley to the Honeymoon Killer Martha Beck, from the Woman Dracula Countess Elizabeth Báthory to the notorious cult Aileen Wuornos - the first female serial killer to become a celebrity. Peter Vronsky explores the phenomenon of female killers, challenging not only our usual standards of good and evil but also our fundamental accepted notions of gender roles and identity.