What deadly women or female killer case shook you to your core?

[datcherygrateful]

I'm a fan of true crime and recall one particular episode I watched- I think it was Kate Webster and Leonarda Cianculli.

I steer well away from watching any episodes pertaining to children as I cannot cope but aside from that, cases from Victorian period or early 20th century creep me out.

What are yours?

Lucy Letby. I followed the trial closely and listened to the podcast from the court reporters, it’s absolutely horrific and I can’t quite come to terms with the fact people think she’s innocent

If you didn't know there is a podcast on BBC Sounds by Lucy Worsley called Lady Killers which is very interesting.

Scarlet Blake: for nearly two years the police and the media told the public that a female killer was on the loose in Oxford. When she was finally arrested and brought to trial, this was reported as a woman killing in a very brutal way a young, tall, fit man.

Only Scarlet is, as the Police Commissioner for Thames Valley pointed out, a man

oh is this the don't f with cats thing? @Allthegoodnamesarechosen
I'v been told to not watch it as too grim

Re: Lucy; i can't dig too much into that it gave me absolute nightmares

Rose West. Horrific.

Don't Fuck With Cats was an Italo-American man iirc.

Hindley and Brady. It was the first time I realised that there were people who went hunting children to hurt and kill them.
And when I was a little older I understood how these killers had delusions about themselves.
Hindley, for example, believed
that the reason she was never released
was the famous police photograph which popped up every time she applied for parole.
It wasn't anything to do with the hideous deaths of 6 children. The children were nothing to her so why should they mean anything to anyone else?

Hindley and Rose West. Absolutely horrific women. Also Lucy Letby, just unimaginable horror.

It ‘shakes me to my core’ that people view real murder as entertainment, to be speculated about and compared for thrills and chills.

There are a few but ones that spring to mind are the Canadian Karla Homolka who drugged, raped and killed her own little sister as well as assisted her husband Paul Bernardo in kidnapping and raping young girls.

And something I can't get my head around are the mothers of the victims of so called honour based murder, who assist with the deaths of their own daughters.

Joanna Dennehy. I watched a documentary about her and it was chilling!

It didnt' shake me to my core but I think a lot about the Sylvia Likens case and what exactly went on in that house.

Also Lacey Fletcher, though her father was equally culpable as her mother so not exactly a female case.

Again, Rose West.

Mary Bell

Yep. This one.
The lying in the media about this individual was and still is absolutely breathtaking.

Any of them. They are so incredibly rare.

So why are you here? Just scroll past. It's really not that hard.

Because she wants to give her opinion? It's a discussion forum.

Gotcha. So the next time someone starts a thread asking about a subject I'm not interested in, I'll hop on to "give my opinion".

Um yeah, if you like.

Me too @PaperGloves.

Have you noticed that women are very rarely serial attackers unless it’s in partnership with a man e.g. Hindley, West, Karla etc. Possibly due to a difference in nature / socialisation between the sexes or maybe just because we are generally smaller / weaker?

@CheeryUser Yes, I think most people have noticed that.

The Yorkshire Ripper and how he was caught. Edit: sorry I misread the title of the thread!

The murder of Shanda Sharer. How they are all free now is beyond me.