Killer Women - Nigel Cawthorne (Paperback)
Chilling, Dark And Gripping True Crime Stories Of Women Who Kill
Description
The Disturbing Inside Story of Women Who Are Driven to Kill
Killer Women are the most disturbing yet compelling of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity and subverting the conventional view of women as the weaker sex.
From Elizabeth Bathory, 'The Bloody Countess' whose vampire-like tendencies terrorised sixteenth-century Hungary, to the Moors Murderer Myra Hindley and the Florida Highway Killer Aileen Wuornos, these women transfix us with their extreme ability to commit savage acts of cruelty and depravity.
Most chilling is the fact that many of their victims represent the most vulnerable in society: babies, the ill and infirm, and the elderly. In some cases their methods of disposing of the corpses fall nothing short of ingenious: meet Leonarda Cianciulli, 'The Soap-Maker of Correggio', who used the fat from her victims' bodies to make soap and teacakes to sell to unsuspecting customers. These killers' backgrounds, methods and their crimes are described in forensic and gripping detail.
50 terrifying cases of killer women are brought to life, including:
Elizabeth Bathory 'The Bloody Countess'
Amelia Dyer, The Reading Baby Farmer
Jane Toppan, 'Jolly Jane'
Juana Barraza, The Old Lady Killer
Leonarda Cianciulli, 'The Soap-Maker of Correggio'
Bonnie Parker, 'Bonnie & Clyde'
Rosemary West
Myra Hindley
Aileen Wuornos
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9781786489142
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 21 Jul 2020
- Supply Source
- UK
Book
- Author
- Nigel Cawthorne
- Subtitle
- Chilling, Dark and Gripping True Crime Stories of Women Who Kill
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 224
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 129mm (170g)
Annotation
Summary
The Disturbing Inside Story of Women Who Are Driven to Kill.
From Elizabeth Bathory, 'The Bloody Countess' whose vampire-like tendencies terrorized sixteenth-century Hungary, to the Moors Murderer Myra Hindley and the Florida Highway Killer Aileen Wuornos, these women transfix us with their extreme ability to commit savage acts of cruelty and depravity.
50 terrifying cases of killer women are brought to life, including:
- Elizabeth Bathory 'The Bloody Countess'
- Amelia Dyer, The Reading Baby Farmer
- Jane Toppan, 'Jolly Jane'
- Juana Barraza, The Old Lady Killer
- Leonarda Cianciulli, 'The Soap-Maker of Correggio'
- Bonnie Parker, 'Bonnie & Clyde'
- Rosemary West
- Myra Hindley
- Aileen Wuornos
Non-Fiction
- General Subject
- True Crime
- BISAC Subject 1
- Biography & Autobiography / Historical
- BISAC Subject 2
- Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws
- BISAC Subject 3
- Biography & Autobiography / Women
- BISAC Subject 4
- Psychology / Forensic Psychology
- BISAC Subject 5
- True Crime / Murder / Serial Killers
- BIC Classification 1
- True crime
- BIC Classification 2
- Criminal or forensic psychology
- BIC Classification 3
- True crime
- Dewey Classification
- 364.1523082
- Readership
- Tertiary Education (US: College)