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Lavinia Fisher (c. 1793 – February 18, 1820) was an American criminal who, according to urban legends, was the first female serial killer in the United States of America. [1] She was married to John Fisher, and both were convicted of highway robbery —a capital offense at the time—not murder .
Amy Duggan "Sister" Archer-Gilligan (October 31, 1873 [1] – April 23, 1962) [2] was a nursing home proprietor and serial killer from Windsor, Connecticut. She murdered at least five people by poisoning them. One of her victims was her second husband, Michael Gilligan; the others were residents of her nursing home.
Margie Velma Barfield (née Bullard; October 29, 1932 – November 2, 1984) was an American serial killer who was convicted of one murder but eventually confessed to six murders in total. Barfield was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment [1] and the first since 1962. [2]
Known as America’s first female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos carried out a string of notorious and brutal murders along the dark highways of Florida in late 1989 and 1990.. A victim of child ...
Here’s a select list of convicted American serial killers and notable open or unsolved cases. Serial murder is defined by the FBI as two or more killings separated by a span of time. Serial ...
Belle Gunness, born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth (November 11, 1859 [3] – possibly April 28, 1908), nicknamed Hell's Belle, [1] was a Norwegian-American serial killer who was active in Illinois and Indiana between 1884 and 1908. [1]
Alcala, born in San Antonio, Texas on Aug. 23, 1943, was a serial killer and sexual predator who committed most of his crimes in California … The True Story Behind ‘The Woman of The Hour ...
It includes serial killers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American female serial killers" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total.