No Doubt About It, Women Make Ace Killers

Gosh, there are a lot of evil women. Gruesome murder, once exclusively a man's game, is now the province of horrifying ladies.

There's Casey Anthony, whose alleged murder of her daughter, Caylee, is as gruesome as it comes. There's the accused California Sunday School murderer, Melissa Huckaby, now facing the death penalty for acts that we did not even think a woman could technically commit. There's the Florida mom, Marie Moore, who, in order to send her son to heaven and herself to hell, shot him, and then herself. In New York, there's dentist mom Mazoltuv Borukhova, who had her husband gunned down in a playground in front of their daughter. And in Italy, there's college girl Amanda Knox, on trial now for the alleged sex murder of her roommate on her junior year abroad.

This is, as the profilers will tell you, aberrational. Writing about Huckaby, the San Francisco Chronicle notes that "instances of women committing crimes such as the ones Huckaby is accused of are so uncommon that criminologists...struggled to come up with similar examples." Women kill out of desperation and fear and occasionally avarice, but not sadism and perversity. That's guy stuff. And when women do ghastly things, it's usually because they fall under the influence of a rotten man. But not this crew--these women are on their own.

True, there are not a lot of random killings here, which is what the male sadists usually like. All of these women knew or were related to their victims. Still, given the level of planning and viciousness in each of these instances, their prior relationships make them even more bloodthirsty.

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Comments

[jojojo]

A BBC study showed that most child abuse was committed by women, though some of this is attributable to the fact that women do most of the caregiving to kids. And there are the female teacher/rapists, don't forget them. Our culture goes to great lengths to excuse these women, because we just don't want to admit women can be monsters too. also see menweb.org for female domestic violence.

[Vickster]

The most prolific serial killer may be Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian countess who killed several hundred girls so she could drink and bathe in their blood. It has also been suggested that Bathory was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's "Dracula", although Stoker used the clan name of Vlad The Impaler because he thought a male vampire would be a more convincing monster.

[ruthinking]

two words: lizzie borden.

[chrisincalif]

Let's apply the logic that President Obama and some (too many) other Democrats have used when it comes to possible crimes, including war crimes, including using prosecutors to jail political opponents, etc. by the prior Administration: "we just want to move forward."

If their statements make any real sense at all, then......­should Ms Huckaby, or indeed, any of these women, be given the option to say "oh I'm so sorry that I did that. I won't do it again. Can I go home now? I just want to move forward."

I defy any Democrat in Congress to explain the difference here. A lot more people are dead based on lies and crimes by the previous administration actions.

[cylindar]

There have been a lot of gruesome murders committed by woman. People for some reason like to hide them. Yknow our society cannot fathom it because they are in denial. Women are just as good or as bad as men.

[Yathinkreally]

I'll bet she was molested as a child by either her dad or pastor - grandfather.

[jojojo]

or her mother, aunt or female teacher

[M1]

This is news worthy? For goodness sakes most women are more vicious then men (women know this) but they usually don't act on it...hence the rarity of this crime.

[jhNY]

It is possible that the author has been so busy authoring that he has no time for television or popular movies, both of which regularly feature evil women bent on murder at a rate that is about 20 times the actual, as this seems to be popular among viewers, many of whom are pudgy man-boys who live with Mama and hundreds of channels of digital cable.

[helpontheway]

good point