Full name: Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

Author: Tori Telfer Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: True crime, Non Fiction, History, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062433732 0062433733

When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are likely Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, and Kate Bender? The narrative we're comfortable with is one where women are the victims of violent crime-not the perpetrators. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally male that, in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared that There are no female serial killers. Inspired by Telfer's Jezebel column of the same name, Lady Killers disputes that claim and offers fourteen gruesome examples as evidence. Although largely forgotten by history, female serial killers rival their male counterparts in cunning, cruelty, and appetite. Each chapter explores the crimes and history of a different female serial killer and then proceeds to unpack her legacy and her portrayal in the media as well as the stereotypes and sexist cliches that inevitably surround her. Similar books: Hell's Princess by Harold Schechter The Cases That Haunt Us by John Douglas The Last Stone by Mark Bowden While They Slept by Kathryn Harrison Norco '80 by Peter Houlahan Skyjack by Geoffrey Gray Psycho USA by Harold Schechter Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen Lost Girls by Robert Kolker Bestial by Harold Schechter Popular Crime by Bill James Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn The Man from the Train by Bill James H. H. Holmes by Adam Selzer Takedown by Rick Cowan Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh Devil's Knot by Mara Leveritt Wicked Beyond Belief by Michael Bilton Low Life by Luc Sante