The killer is not always a terrifying-looking man with an ax and a manic gleam in his eyes. On the contrary, sociologists, psychologists and criminologists say aloud: women are much more cruel and fearless, and history knows a lot of examples of how they dealt with victims in the most sophisticated way. Woman’s Day and the program “I Love The Way You Lie on ID Xtra” features heroines who are incredibly beautiful on the outside, but also incredibly terrible on the inside.
Beauty has always been elevated to the rank of the highest values, and the bloody Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who lived in the XNUMXth century, is an excellent confirmation of this. Unlike modern, less bloodthirsty women who are content with lifting creams, Elizabeth chose radical methods of preserving youth and beauty of her skin: she bathed in the blood of young girls whom she lured to her, promising them a job and a good life.
It is not known how many village beauties a lover of bloody baths killed, but, according to historians, the figure is clearly three-digit – according to various sources, Bathory released blood to 150-650 victims. When the emperor found out about this addiction, Elizabeth was threatened with terrible reprisals, but the county’s relatives chose a different fate for her – they hid the woman in the basement of her own house, where she died three years later at the age of 54.
Ilsa, or, as she was also called, the Buchenwald witch, was so cruel that even her compatriots, not to mention the prisoners, feared and hated her. As the wife of the commandant of one of the largest concentration camps in Germany, she felt like a mistress and mocked the prisoners as best she could. But she had one addiction that more than covered all cruelties – at the Nuremberg trial it turned out that Frau Koch ripped off the skin from the bodies of prisoners and made household items out of it, in particular lampshades for lamps, for which she was immediately nicknamed Frau Lampshade. In terms of choice, Ilsa was a finicky lady – she was attracted only by those prisoners who had tattoos on their bodies.
Unlike the two previous criminals, the Chinese woman Liu Jinfeng killed not for pleasure, but out of despair. For over 20 years, this beautiful girl has gone through so much grief that it will be enough for a whole book. After several years of work on the panel, where Liu moved, realizing that no one was going to support her, she was forced to return home, and her stepfather, who fiercely hated the girl, sold her stepdaughter to a local crime boss.
A wealthy Chinese man, Hu, beat and raped the girl, and when she tried to escape, he broke both of her legs. The cousins, who were left with the bedridden girl while Hu left on his business, did not miss the opportunity to take advantage of her helplessness, and as a result, Liu gave birth to a son from one of them. Upon learning of this, Hu accused Liu of treason and strangled the baby. Only after that did Liu find the strength to take revenge on the tormentor – she opened his skull, and then burned the house where the drunken cousins slept. The Chinese authorities, however, did not consider her act worthy of justification – in 1995, Liu Jinfeng was executed.
Susan went to jail, killing her own children, whose death the woman tried to blame on their father. Smith acted very deliberately – she drowned the car with her sons sitting in the back seat, and then diligently played the grief-stricken mother, but the lie detector test showed a very different picture, and as a result, Susan received a life sentence.
According to the woman, she has been abused by her stepfather since childhood, because of which her picture of the world was distorted, and she simply could not become a full-fledged wife and mother. The court heard her story, but this did not affect the final verdict.
In fairness, it is worth noting that this woman can hardly be called beautiful. Nevertheless, the external unpretentiousness did not prevent her from turning her head to as many as 42 men, whom she eventually killed in an effort to get their money. The realization that you can make good money on someone else’s death came to the Black Widow, as she was popularly called, quite early, and the first victims were her young children, whom Bella poisoned in order to get insurance. Soon after the girls, the first husband of the enterprising Bella went to the other world.
After such success, the woman decided to put the case on stream: she wrote love letters to men and advertised in marriage newspapers, and soon after the wedding, the unexpected happened to her husbands – they died under strange circumstances. Nevertheless, not paying attention to the sad fate of their predecessors, gullible men walked in jambs to the Black Widow, and soon after that Bella buried another lover. One does not dare to call this woman’s life happy, and her death was no less terrible than that of her husbands – the burned and decapitated corpse of the Black Widow was found in the thicket of the forest.