Female Serial Killer Research Paper
Running Head: FEMALE SERIAL KILLERS
Female Serial Killers: Just As Deadly As Male Serial Killers or Not?
MeKayla Juarez
College of Southern Idaho
Abstract
My research argument examined multiple female serial killers and their crimes. Female serial killers have been around for years. The first female serial killer documented was Lavinia Fisher back in 1819 and there were thousands to follow after her. Female serial killers have been around for centuries but there has been little studies done on them. I sought out to prove that female serial killers are just as deadly as male serial killers. I studied female serial killers ways of killing compared to how male serial killers kill. I studied who were the primary victims of female …show more content…
A man named William C. Anderson decided to write a true story on the life of Lady Bluebeard. This book has the complete story of her life and the crimes she committed. Anderson. (1994). Lady Bluebeard was someone that is close to our city of Twin Falls Idaho. She lived most of her life here and is buried in the Twin Falls cemetery. She is best known as Lady Bluebeard or Lyda Trueblood-Dooley-McHaffie-Lewis-Meyer-Southard- Whitlock-Shaw after all of her husbands. Lyda was a woman that was suspected of killing four of her husbands, her brother-in-law, and daughter. She was only convicted of killing her fourth husband Edward Meyer. Lyda was accused of marrying these men and then taking out life insurance policies naming her as the beneficiary. After being married for a while she would poison their food with arsenic from boiling flypaper and make their deaths look like they had mysteriously became ill and died. (p. 11-183) This was a summary of her crimes, where she lived, and how her case played …show more content…
Michael Newton wrote an Encyclopedia of Female Serial killers, which contained 183 cases of female serial killers with all the facts involving their cases. In this encyclopedia he compared these cases with research on male serial killers and compared the two. Newton. (1993). Newton states that when it comes to female serial killers victims 45% of the collected female serial killers preyed on family members. The next largest group, 26% killed friends or acquaintances. Total strangers were preferred by 11% of our killers, while 10.5% murdered patients or other persons left in their care.
Female Serial Killers: Just As Deadly As Male Serial Killers or Not?
MeKayla Juarez
College of Southern Idaho
Abstract
My research argument examined multiple female serial killers and their crimes. Female serial killers have been around for years. The first female serial killer documented was Lavinia Fisher back in 1819 and there were thousands to follow after her. Female serial killers have been around for centuries but there has been little studies done on them. I sought out to prove that female serial killers are just as deadly as male serial killers. I studied female serial killers ways of killing compared to how male serial killers kill. I studied who were the primary victims of female …show more content…
A man named William C. Anderson decided to write a true story on the life of Lady Bluebeard. This book has the complete story of her life and the crimes she committed. Anderson. (1994). Lady Bluebeard was someone that is close to our city of Twin Falls Idaho. She lived most of her life here and is buried in the Twin Falls cemetery. She is best known as Lady Bluebeard or Lyda Trueblood-Dooley-McHaffie-Lewis-Meyer-Southard- Whitlock-Shaw after all of her husbands. Lyda was a woman that was suspected of killing four of her husbands, her brother-in-law, and daughter. She was only convicted of killing her fourth husband Edward Meyer. Lyda was accused of marrying these men and then taking out life insurance policies naming her as the beneficiary. After being married for a while she would poison their food with arsenic from boiling flypaper and make their deaths look like they had mysteriously became ill and died. (p. 11-183) This was a summary of her crimes, where she lived, and how her case played …show more content…
Michael Newton wrote an Encyclopedia of Female Serial killers, which contained 183 cases of female serial killers with all the facts involving their cases. In this encyclopedia he compared these cases with research on male serial killers and compared the two. Newton. (1993). Newton states that when it comes to female serial killers victims 45% of the collected female serial killers preyed on family members. The next largest group, 26% killed friends or acquaintances. Total strangers were preferred by 11% of our killers, while 10.5% murdered patients or other persons left in their care.