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Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers
Carol Ann Davis profiles fourteen women who used arsenic, manual strangulation, suffocation, lethal injection, multiple gunshots and stabbing to kill their victims. Each killer is the subject of a separate chapter, exploring her childhood, lifestyle and sexuality. There is analysis of the murder, the trial and the subsequent imprisonment of every woman. Ms. Davis comments ...more
Paperback, 421 pages
Published
March 16th 2002
by Allison & Busby
(first published March 16th 2001)
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I wanted to give it 3 stars since I can't unlearn what I read in it and for the emotional trauma it is causing me. It is an intense read about some of the most vile people who have walked the face of the earth. The last chapter is very insightful and closes out the book on a uplifting note.
This was a really informative and supremely interesting book.
It is a must for anybody interested in the female serial killer or, indeed, the female criminal, as it gives lots of insight into the minds and workings of these women, and speculates upon why they may have committed their crimes.
It profiles, in a fair amount of detail, 14 female serial killers. Whilst not giving every detail of their lives, this book does 'break you in' to their story, and provides a great background to...more
It is a must for anybody interested in the female serial killer or, indeed, the female criminal, as it gives lots of insight into the minds and workings of these women, and speculates upon why they may have committed their crimes.
It profiles, in a fair amount of detail, 14 female serial killers. Whilst not giving every detail of their lives, this book does 'break you in' to their story, and provides a great background to...more
Mine has a diff. cover...love this book.
I felt very anxious as I read this.
Illustrates nicely the differences between male and female killing patterns: 80% of women slayers use poison, near 90% are American, and most, if not all, kill people they know, or are in charge of taking care of. Reminds you that women are not necessarily the 'fairer sex' - same as men, they are capable of horrible, and sometimes random, acts of violence.
This book I first got it because of the though that women killers actually exist, and yet we dont hear much about them. THis book foucuses on some of the most notorious female killers, and explains why they did what they did.
Even though my True Crime consumption is way down since my teen years, I'm still quite interested in how USian society treats women who commit crimes. It's a good overview.
OMG! I love this book! I read it in 3 days. After I finished, I read it again.
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