2 April 2001.
ISBN: 978-0-74900535-1 (HB)
I don't know what I expected when I
opened the covers of this book, but what I discovered was an incredible work
profiling female serial killer though the ages.
There are thirteen serial killers profiled starting with Anna Marie Zwanziger
born in Nuremberg in 1760 and ending with Karla Homolka born 1970. In between
we have Jeanne Weber, who killed her own children, and it seems as many of her friends’
children as she could get her hands on. Genene Jones who qualified with basic
nursing skills, gained employment in a hospital and attempted the murder of
several children in her care, not thankfully killing all of them. Martha Ann
Johnson, who also killed her own children, Charlene Gallego, who was a shy
quiet child with a talent for the violin, but who eventually lured teenage
virgins to their death. Judith Neelley, who committed armed robbery at age 16,
Catherine Birnie, who had seven children, and yet assisted her husband in his
quest for young sex slaves, Gwen Graham & Catherine Wood, Carol Bundy,
Aileen Wuornos and the more familiar names of Myra Hindley and Rose West.
Before reading
this book, I thought that Myra Hindley was possibly the most evil woman that I
had come across, but not so by a long way. This work was an eye opener.
Not only does the
author present the reader with these profiles, but the book goes further,
classifying female serial killers and then presenting theories about why women
kill.
This is an awesome
work that delves into the darkest recesses of the abused female, as it appears
most of these women were, and provides a macabre account of their journeys
through life.
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Reviewer:
Lizzie Hayes
Carol Anne Davis was born
in 1961 in Dundee. She went to Dundee University and gained a Master of the
Arts degree in English and Social Administration. The latter included
criminology which complimented her obsession with true crime. After graduation,
Carol started working with battered and emotionally abused women. This was a
year-long post and at the end of it did a postgraduate diploma in Adult &
Community Education at Edinburgh University. Carol is the author of seventeen
books.
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