Evil is an integral part of human existence. Since ancient times, people have learned to fight against it, saving themselves from various misfortunes.
And if you think that evil is just something supernatural and mystical, then you have never faced it. The worst thing is when evil lives in human hearts, turning them into ruthless serial killers, maniacs, political dictators and amateurs mocking at living flesh. And now imagine that all the above-mentioned persons are women! Fearfully!? We will tell you about 25 beauties whose cruelty and sadism "glorified" them all over the world.
1. Gertrude Baniszewski
Gertrude Baniszewski, also known as Gertrude Rhine, is one of the most cruel criminals in the world. In 1965 she, with the help of her neighbor's children, mocked Sylvia Likens for a long time, a girl taken into care. Moreover, Gertrude tortured the poor child to death. She did not just beat Sylvia: Gertrude dipped her in boiling water, burned inscriptions on her body, burned the burns with salt. When in 1966 she was found guilty of premeditated murder, her case was called the worst offense against a person in the history of Indiana. Gertrude was initially sentenced to death, but later it was replaced by life imprisonment. The eldest daughter of Gertrude was also sentenced to life imprisonment, and three sons - from 2-21 years imprisonment
.2. Elizabeth Bathory
Countess Bathory, or the Blood Countess, is famous throughout the world as one of the toughest serial killers. According to the legend, Elizabeth was so carried away by the "elixir of youth" that she was ready to do anything for the sake of beauty. Why is she called one of the most bloodthirsty women? Because she believed that taking blood baths would give her youth and beauty for years to come. For the sake of this in the late 16th - early 17th centuries, she tortured and killed more than 650 young girls in her castle Kakhtice in Slovakia. Thanks to her powerful family, the countess was not brought to trial, but was immured in one of the rooms of the Hungarian castle of Cheyte, where she died four years after imprisonment.
3. Ilze Koch
Known as the witch Buchenwald or Frau Abazhur, Ilze Koch is considered one of the worst villains of the Holocaust. The wife of the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, Karl-Otto Koch, Ilze Koch was a nymphomaniac who tortured prisoners in a concentration camp. She was known for her cruel sadistic inclinations. Ilze beat prisoners, raped, forced to have sex and rip off the skin of those who had tattoos. Tattered skin, she used to cover their own books and handmade souvenirs. After the Second World Frau Koch was convicted for all her atrocities, however, they did not appoint the death penalty, but were only sentenced to jail. She stayed in the cell for about 20 years, and then she hanged herself there.
4. Mother Barker
In the history of America, Mamasha Barker is known as the most incredible gangster. She was a rare woman, who led gangs of thugs, in which, incidentally, her sons were brought up. In the entire history of the existence of American gangs, Ma Barker's gangs were the most sophisticated and elusive. They managed to get rich by killing everyone who came across them on the way. In 1935, she was killed in her refuge in Florida during a shootout with the FBI. At that time, the first director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, called Barker "the most vicious, dangerous and resourceful criminal brain of the last decade".
5. Myra Hindley
Mayra Hindley received the title of "the most evil woman in Britain." Together with his beloved psychotic sadist Ian Brady, they tortured, raped and killed five children aged 10-17 years. For a long time in the 60's. This couple of serial killers terrified Manchester and England as a whole. When they were finally caught, they were accused of their crimes. Mayra was then given two lifelong terms. In 2002, she died in the cell because of respiratory failure at the age of 60 years.
6. Griselda Blanco
Griselda Blanco, nicknamed La Madrid or Black Widow, was a drug baroness and one of Florida's most influential criminal authorities in the late 1970s. Blanco is also known as the mentor of the most famous criminal Pablo Escobar, who later became her enemy. Griselda three times married, but all her husbands died suddenly. For this reason, she was nicknamed the "Black Widow". It is known that she killed her second husband herself with a shot in her mouth. During the investigation it was found that Griselda was involved in more than 200 murders of people during the transport of drugs from Colombia to the United States. Blanco was caught and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Subsequently, the term was extended by another 60 years, but with the help of skillful lawyers, Blanco was released in 2004. She was deported to Colombia, where she was shot in 2012 by a motorcyclist passing by.
7. Maria Tudor
Meet Maria Tudor, the eldest daughter of King Henry VIII, known to all as Bloody Mary. In the history of England, she was remembered as the most bloodthirsty, angry and cruel woman. During his short reign - from 1553-1558 gg. - She executed 297 representatives of elite estates. Also, by its decree, there were mass executions of Protestants, and those who participated in popular uprisings. Maria, her younger sister, Jane Gray, also executed. Bloody Mary died of illness and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
8. Dagmar Oberby
Dagmar Overby worked as a manager in an orphanage and in the period from 1913-1920 she killed 25 children, including one of her children. Since the parents of most babies did not return for their children, no one even kept a record of incoming infants. The children who were killed by Dagmar were strangled, drowned or burned in a stone oven. Unfortunately, Overby was found guilty of only 9 murders, sentencing him to death. Subsequently, the death penalty was replaced by life imprisonment. In 1929 Dagmar died at the age of 42 years. It is noteworthy that this case was included in the history of the Danish trials as the most famous in the Danish history.
9. Christiana Edmunds
Christian Edmunds was a murderer and a mentally ill woman with a strange hobby - she poisoned people with chocolate sweets. It is noteworthy that it all began with sympathy for his neighbor, who unfortunately was married. When she arrived, Christiana treated his wife to a poisoned candy, and after a while the woman felt unwell. The beloved accused of the illness of his wife Christian, who, in order to relieve herself of suspicion, began to buy sweets all over the city and poison them. People bought them and fell ill. In 1871, a 4-year-old boy died of chocolate candy, but the investigation did not reveal anything criminal in this case. And if it were not for Christian's mistake, half of the city, or even a large part of it, would have died of chocolate poison. The woman was arrested and found guilty, sentenced to death. But she was sent to a madhouse where she spent the rest of her days and died at the age of 78.
10. Ranavaluna I
Known as the Mad Monarch of Madagascar, Ranavaluna is considered one of the most cruel women politicians in history. Ranavaluna ruled the island of Madagascar for 33 years. All the years of government were full of terror, fear and murder. From the country, European missionaries were expelled, Christians were persecuted. Thousands of people died because of her cruel laws and rules. Moreover, according to the legend, Ranavaluna executed all her attendants, if they appeared to her in a dream.
11. Irma Greze
A nice girl with a beautiful appearance, behind which was hidden the terrible essence of a cruel woman. Irma - the most famous, the youngest and most cruel of all Nazi prisoners of concentration camps. Because of the angelic appearance, the prisoners called her "Angel of Death", "Beautiful Monster", "Blonde Devil", "Hyena of Auschwitz". For 22 years in concentration camps, she tortured so many people that male supervisors were amazed at her cruelty and inhumanity. In 1943, under the control of Irma, there were about 30,000 women prisoners. The sadist wore heavy boots, a whip, which in turn scored her "wards". And she also liked to play Russian roulette: lining up women, getting a gun and shooting at each of them, watching the poor women faint. She also starved the dogs, which then released into the crowd of women. She personally participated in the formation of groups for gas chambers. According to the survivors, Irma experienced real sexual satisfaction from her tortures. After falling into British captivity, Irmu was tried and sentenced to death. In 1945, she was hanged at the age of 22.
12. Amelia Dyer
Born in 1837 in the United Kingdom, Amelia Dyer is known as a serial killer of Victorian Britain. Dyer, as well as Overby, took care of the kids left by their mothers. For 30 years of work, she killed about 300 babies (although according to other sources the number of dead was 400 people). As an instrument for murder, she used a tape that choked babies. At that time, the problem of infanticide was acute in Britain, but no one paid due attention to this issue. "Business" Amelia flourished even after she was sentenced to forced labor. And it was only after the Thames had fished out the body of a tiny baby, and then searched her house, that she was sentenced to death.
13. Bella Guinness
"The Black Widow," as the people called Bella Guinness, for a long time kept in fear all of America. Serial killer - a woman of large build (height 1.83 m, weight 200 kg) for her whole life killed more than 40 people, including her husbands, suitors, daughters. One day, one of her secret admirers was so bored with Bella that she decided to burn her house with him. And it happened. In the basement of the house were found burnt human bones and a decapitated corpse - supposedly the corpse of Bella herself. But as the examination acknowledged, it was the corpse of the housekeeper. The surviving fan told the police the whole truth about Bella and her murders. He was given 20 years for arson at home, and she was officially officially deceased. Although it is not known exactly what happened to it.
14. Clara Mauerova
Look at the photo and tell me, can you imagine this woman as a member of an ominous ritual cult that for eight months ate its sons, torturing them and torturing them? Moreover, this involved all of her family. The children were kept in cellars in cages, scoffed, beaten, raped, put out cigarette butts and cut off pieces of meat from them, which they ate later. About that occurs in the next house, inhabitants of the Czech small town long time did not guess, while someone from them has not bought a baby monitor for own child. Then the nurse purely accidentally caught the image from the cameras installed in the basement of the house Mauerova. And now the most terrible thing is that the entire gang of sadistic cannibals was found guilty and sentenced to a short term - from 5 to 9 years in prison in 2007.
15. Carla Homolka
In the early 90's, Carla Homolka and her husband Paul Bernardo kidnapped and raped at least three girls. The first victim of the serial couple was the younger sister of Carla - 15-year-old Tammy. The most disgusting of these is that Paul, who went crazy with sympathy for the girl, asked her about the corruption of her younger sister. They put her spaghetti and valium down, and then Paul raped the girl. After a while, they again put the girl to sleep and, together with Carla, raped her in the basement. But the girl because of poisoning choked vomit masses and died. Soon the criminals were caught and convicted, but Karla promised to testify against her husband, and she was released. Now she lives on the island of Guadeloupe under a different name with a new husband and three children.
16. Mireille Moreno Carreon
Mireya is known as the most famous woman among drug dealers. She was one of the first to become involved in drugs Los Zetas. She was in charge of all sales outlets in Mexico. It is noteworthy that she began as a police officer, but then moved to the "dark side" and soon became the main boss of the drug cartel. A year later she was arrested while driving a stolen car.
17. Tilly Clymek
Tilly Clymek was an American serial killer in the first half of the 20th century. For a long time she pretended to be a psychic and a visionary, predicting the death of people with astonishing accuracy. Four of her husband died in a strange way, and, of course, Tili wrote down everything for her bad luck. The method of punishment was simple enough - it poisoned people with arsenic. According to some reports, she managed to kill 20 people. Her fifth husband miraculously survived, so Tilly was detained. In 1923, Tilly was sentenced to life imprisonment, where she died at the age of 60 years.
18. Charlene Gallego
The couple Charlene and Gerald Gallego, between 1978 and 1980, tortured, raped and killed 9 girls, one of whom was pregnant. All victims, except one, were teenagers or young girls. And, perhaps, the couple would be able to hide, if they had not attacked a young couple. The guy was shot and the girl was raped and killed. The acquaintances managed to see the kidnapping, recorded the number of the car and handed over the maniacs to the police. In 1984, Charlize testified against her husband and was given only 16 years in prison. Gerald was sentenced to death, but he died in prison from cancer of the rectum. Charlize was released in 1997.
19. Catherine de 'Medici
One of the most powerful, but also bloodthirsty and cruel women-rulers of medieval Europe, Catherine de Medici was a noblewoman of Italian descent and queen of France from 1547-1559. In history, her name is directly connected with Bartholomew's Night. The massacre of the Huguenots was organized precisely by the order of Catherine de Medici, in order to retain their power in the political arena. According to some estimates, that night more than 30,000 people died.
20. Delphine Lalori
Known as Madame Blank, Delphine Lalori was once a wealthy socialite in New Orleans. Although she became known for her sadistic inclinations. Madame Lalori adored mocking black slaves, so her clothes were filled with a real atmosphere of horror and pain. Once, in her house there was a fire, arranged by two negroes, tied to the stove. Firefighters who arrived on the spot found an entire torture chamber in the attic: in the cells there were twisted and mutilated bodies of people, on which experiments were conducted. Residents of New Orleans wanted to execute Dolphin, but she managed to escape to France, where, according to unconfirmed reports, she died while hunting a boar.
21. Daria Saltykova
Daria Saltykova - Russian noblewoman XVIII and serial killer, known by the nickname Saltychikha. Through torture she tortured and killed more than 140 serfs. She slaughtered the serfs with whips, buried them in the ground alive, and absolutely everything suffered: children, teenagers, pregnant girls, old men, men. For boundless cruelty, Saltychikha is compared to Countess Bathory, who had similar sadistic features. Saltychikha was sentenced to deprivation of the noble rank and was taken away from her husband's surname. And also she was tied to a pillar with an inscription above her head "The torturer and the murderer." After this, she was exiled to a monastery for a life sentence, where she died after 30 years imprisonment at the age of 71 years.
22. Leonard Chiancully
Leonard Chianciulli is a well-known Italian woman-killer, who in the period from 1939-1940. killed three women. It began with the fact that her eldest son was drafted into the army, and she decided that for his salvation, victims were needed. She enticed the girls to her, treated him to wine with a drug, finished off with an ax. Then dismembered corpse, she dissolved caustic soda and cooked this soap. For what later she received the nickname "Soap from Correggio". The blood of the victims she added to cakes and syrups, which then treated her friends and neighbors. Leonard believed that this way could remove the curse from her family. For her misdeeds, she received 30 years in prison and 3 years in a psychiatric hospital.
23. Juan Barras
Juan Barras was born in 1957 in a dysfunctional family and became one of the most bloodthirsty serial killers in the history of Mexico. Between 1998 and 2006 she killed approximately 46-48 elderly women, which is why she was nicknamed "The Killer of the Old Women". Elderly women she scored with a club, strangled and robbed. For a long time, the police suspected a man of murders. And only in 2006 Barass managed to catch when she tried to escape from the crime scene. She was convicted on 16 charges and sentenced to 759 years in prison.
24. Eileen Warnos
Eileen Warnos is considered one of the most beautiful female maniacs in the world. Early leaving her parents' home, she began to engage in prostitution on the Florida highways. And in 1989 she killed her first victim - a man who was stabbed with a knife. After that, Warnos killed about 5 men before she was able to catch. She was convicted and put on death row. Although her sanity was questionable, Eileen was sentenced to death by injection in 2002. Hollywood blockbuster "Monster" with Charlize Theron in the title role is based on this story.
25. Miyuki Ishikawa
In Japan, Miyuki Ishikawa ranks first in the history of serial criminals. Known as "Demon midwife." Miyuki worked as a midwife and in her lifetime, according to some estimates, killed between 85 and 169 babies. She believed that she helped poor and indigent families, thus solving their problems. During the trial she denied her guilt, arguing that it was parents who were to blame for the death of these abandoned children. And her defense was really successful. Miyuki was sentenced to only 8 years in prison. After the appeal, the term was reduced by half.