First female serial killer in the world

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Toppan was a nurse who killed dozens of patients, according to NBC. She would kill the victims with different combinations of medicine and chemicals and even climb into bed with them after administering the dose. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to the Taunton Insane Hospital for life. Gottfried was a German serial killer who was the last person publicly executed in the city of Bremen. She killed 15 people using arsenic, probably between the years and Dyer is only convicted of one murder, but her name is attached to the murder of hundreds of infants and children.

She was tried for murder in and convicted and hanged. Gilbert was a nurse who was convicted of four murders and two attempted murders of patients admitted to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Massachusetts. She would inject patients with massive doses of epinephrine, which is an untraceable heart stimulant.

This would cause cardiac arrest, and she would respond to the coded emergency herself. She was convicted in Doss killed 11 people between the s and , including four of her husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson, and a mother-in-law. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. She died in Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered her elderly and mentally disabled boarders.

She would then cash in their Social Security checks. Puente was convicted of three and sentenced to two life sentences. She died in in a prison in Chowchilla at the age of Ishikawa was a Japanese midwife. She murdered infants with the help of accomplices during the s, reports New York Daily News. Estimates suggest the she murdered between 85 and people, but the general estimate is She sought payments for the murders, since many of her victims were deserted children, and she said her services cost less than raising an unwanted child.

Meanwhile, the first recorded serial killer in America wreaked havoc on the city of Chicago some 1, years after Locusta and Aspernas had murdered hundreds of Romans. Holmes , who has been portrayed in film, television, and books, was a notorious killer who used his extensive medical knowledge to not only torture his victims and collect on their life insurance policies, but to extensively dissect their bodies then subsequently sell them to medical schools.

Holmes conducted his killings in a three story hotel that he'd had built. The building included shops as well as elaborate methods of escape like trap doors and secret passageways. Many features of the structure were used to help facilitate Holmes' murders. According to legend, Holmes had as many as victims die at his hands while staying at the makeshift hotel he'd built. It was not until suspicion grew around Holmes' collecting of life insurance policies that his crimes were discovered.

Around the same time, the body of an office tenant and former business associate, B. Pitzel, was discovered in the serial killer's hotel , further damning Holmes.