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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by siofra(f): 7:43am On Nov 26, 2021
This list cannot be complete without Gene Jones. That nurse murdered hundreds of innocent babies.
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TeeGentle(m): 7:54am On Nov 26, 2021
wow
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by ashawopikin(m): 8:18am On Nov 26, 2021
Where is chidinma?

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by Orlaoluwayimika(m): 8:50am On Nov 26, 2021
Thesourcerer u shld add this lady that killed her husband by stabbing him in his neck after he had just recovered from the initial stabbing she had stabbed him.

Last night Lowo and his wife Yewande had an argument in their Akobo home in Ibadan, where they reside, over his proposed business trip scheduled for later in the week. Lowo was to travel to Europe for business purposes and then stop over to visit his child (from another woman) who’s also living in Europe with the mother.
“This didn’t go well with Yewande I suppose and the squabble continued into late In the night. In the process Yewande stabbed her husband Lowo on the shoulder missing his heart by just few inches.

Their neighbour-the Landlord intervened in the matter and took Oyelowo to a nearby hospital for treatment as he bled profusely. After treatment he was released to return home and instructed to rest as he had lost a lot of blood. On arriving home, the Landlord’s son offered Lowo his room to pass the night. But he declined the offer stating clearly that ‘all was fine as he trusted his wife and believed she didn’t mean to harm him’.
“Few hours later, a shout was heard again: it was the cry of a man in agony. Oyelowo was battling for his life, blood gushing out of his neck and mouth. His wife Yewande had used a knife to stab him once again, unfortunately it was in the neck, a very delicate part of the body. He was whisked to the hospital where he was certified dead on arrival”.
“Oyelowo Oyediran Ajanaku was 38yrs old when his wife Yewande Oyediran,Nee Fatoki, stabbed him in the neck with a knife which ultimately led to his untimely death.

https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/02/07/inside-story-how-yewande-ibadan-lawyer-killed-her-husband/

Ajumobi later released the woman close to the end of his tenure tho she was initially sentenced to 7 yrs imprisonment & I think she only spent 4 yrs for the murder she committed.


https://punchng.com/why-ajimobi-pardoned-lawyer-jailed-for-killing-husband-ex-ag/

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by lkillbrokehoes: 9:12am On Nov 26, 2021
The future is Fe-mail indeed grin


After those vagina people will be claiming that it's only men that commit atrocious crimes.
cheesy
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by Rickmann: 9:15am On Nov 26, 2021
TheSourcerer:
Female pirates? Murderers? Gangsters? Family annihilators?Conspirators? Yes. Throughout history women have had their share in all of it. Here is a list of ten notorious female criminals of the 17th through early 20th century even earliest 21st century who wreaked havoc on land and sea.
Front rowers
Dominique
Datboredberry
candilady
Fattprince
Peaceful
UndauntedYoca
Monkeygirl
PhenomenalAustin
etrange
MJBOLT
Sinkhole
Starbuck




Starr Belle


A Texas outlaw in the 19th century, Belle Starr (born Myra Belle Shirley) lived a bandit’s life, associating with unsavory folk such as Jesse James. She and her husband, a Cherokee Indian named Sam Starr, were known for housing outlaws on their ranch in the Oklahoma Indian Territory and for preying on travelers and cowboys passing through. She and her husband were convicted of horse stealing in 1883 and served time in a federal penitentiary. She was charged with a handful of other crimes before being shot and killed on her ranch in 1889. The killer was never identified.


A Nigerian woman actually made the list..?
Should I be surprised?
Hmmm..
They say "hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn".

For those calling out chidimma to be added to the list, grin..chidimma is a saint and a learner as far as this list is concerned.

I come in peace.

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by crestedaguiyi: 9:16am On Nov 26, 2021
That sun jianqao should not be in this list.

Her crime was justified
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 9:16am On Nov 26, 2021
Orlaoluwayimika:
Thesourcerer u shld add this lady that killed her husband by stabbing him in his neck after he had just recovered from the initial stabbing she had stabbed him.

Last night Lowo and his wife Yewande had an argument in their Akobo home in Ibadan, where they reside, over his proposed business trip scheduled for later in the week. Lowo was to travel to Europe for business purposes and then stop over to visit his child (from another woman) who’s also living in Europe with the mother.
“This didn’t go well with Yewande I suppose and the squabble continued into late In the night. In the process Yewande stabbed her husband Lowo on the shoulder missing his heart by just few inches.

Their neighbour-the Landlord intervened in the matter and took Oyelowo to a nearby hospital for treatment as he bled profusely. After treatment he was released to return home and instructed to rest as he had lost a lot of blood. On arriving home, the Landlord’s son offered Lowo his room to pass the night. But he declined the offer stating clearly that ‘all was fine as he trusted his wife and believed she didn’t mean to harm him’.
“Few hours later, a shout was heard again: it was the cry of a man in agony. Oyelowo was battling for his life, blood gushing out of his neck and mouth. His wife Yewande had used a knife to stab him once again, unfortunately it was in the neck, a very delicate part of the body. He was whisked to the hospital where he was certified dead on arrival”.
“Oyelowo Oyediran Ajanaku was 38yrs old when his wife Yewande Oyediran,Nee Fatoki, stabbed him in the neck with a knife which ultimately led to his untimely death.

https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/02/07/inside-story-how-yewande-ibadan-lawyer-killed-her-husband/

Ajumobi later released the woman close to the end of his tenure tho she was initially sentenced to 7 yrs imprisonment & I think she only spent 4 yrs for the murder she committed.


https://punchng.com/why-ajimobi-pardoned-lawyer-jailed-for-killing-husband-ex-ag/
my question is why just 7 years after all she was convicted and there's clearly evidence.
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 9:24am On Nov 26, 2021
siofra:


I remember the Bonny M song about her

Ma Ma Ma Ma - Ma Baker - she taught her four sons
Ma Ma Ma Ma - Ma Baker - to handle their guns
Ma Ma Ma Ma - Ma Baker - she never could cry
Ma Ma Ma Ma - Ma Baker - but she knew how to die.
Ma Baker Bonny M , ringing now in my head .

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by AbujaCitiBlog: 9:28am On Nov 26, 2021
TheSourcerer:
Rachael Adetsav

A woman in Benue state, Rachael Adetsav killed her husband, three children and then also took her own life. The couple who had been having issues over time and the wife decided to go overboard. The woman was seen with a pestle trying to smash her husband’s car and the neighbors also confirmed that the fights were very frequent.

The Police personnel sent to the house found the man foaming in the mouth, the three kids already dead, and the woman, also dead, was found holding a knife in her hands.

A neighbour of the couple, Sandra Kaso said the mother of three must have first hit the husband on the head with a pestle and, when he was unconscious, cut open his throat before butchering their three children
It happened because the man trusted her with his life.

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 9:36am On Nov 26, 2021
crestedaguiyi:
That sun jianqao should not be in this list.

Her crime was justified
A crime still , Still made her Notorious enough to be mentioned on the list. smiley
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 9:42am On Nov 26, 2021
Other Notable Mentions


Crime: Found guilty of killing six men between the years of 1989-1990

Aileen Wuornos had a tragic childhood, having been abandoned by her mother and raised by her grandparents. Her father, an accused child molester, hung himself in prison. It must've run in the family, because Wuornos claimed her grandfather sexually abused her growing up. At the age of 15, she was thrown out of the house and lived in the woods. She prostituted herself in order to survive. She then hitchhiked to Florida, and at the age of 20, married Lewis Fell, a 69-year-old yacht club owner. The marriage only lasted nine weeks and ended with a restraining order against her. Ten years later she met the love of her life, Tyria Moore, a hotel maid that would become her partner in crime.

Since Wuornos ' meager income was not enough for the couple to survive on, they took to murdering Wuornos' clients and robbing them. She shot her six victims and police found the bodies in various areas in Florida. She also killed another man, but his body was never found. Instead, witnesses identified her and Moore driving the victim's car. His items, found in pawnshops, had fingerprints linking to Wuornos. She was arrested in 1991 and put to death in 2002.I personally admired Wuornos.

Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 9:45am On Nov 26, 2021
Crime: Found guilty of killing two infants, although she possibly killed eleven to forty-six children

Genene Jones was a pediatric nurse in Texas who had a taste for drama. She loved being put in life and death scenarios, where she would save the child and be praised as a hero for her actions. Her involuntary actors would be injected with igoxin, heparin and later succinylcholine to make them gravely ill and unfortunately many of them would not survive long enough for Jones to "save" them. So much so that the first hospital she worked for noticed the alarming death rate of children under her care and forced her to resign. It was at her next job that her crimes would be discovered.

The hospital began noticing a number of children having breathing problems and other strange illnesses, although these weren't fatal. However, when 14-month-old Chelsea McClellan was brought to the hospital for a regular immunization for mumps and measles and died from cardiac arrest, suspicions rose even more. Even the media started to report these mysterious deaths and following the discovery of succinylcholine in McClellan's body, Jones was charged with murder. She was also convicted of attempted murder when heparin was found in another child's system. She now serves 99 years in prison, but is scheduled to receive parole in 2017.

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by Baddestguyp(m): 10:23am On Nov 26, 2021
TheSourcerer:
Anne Bonny


Anne Bonny was an Irish pirate who trolled the Caribbean Sea with pirate John (“Calico Jack”) Rackham in the 18th century. Rackham was wise to go against common thinking that women were bad luck on board a ship. Bonny and the crew had a successful run hijacking and pillaging merchant vessels. When they were captured in 1720, Bonny escaped execution because she was pregnant. When she was released, she went to live in South Carolina, where she proceeded to lead the rest of her life in an uneventful domestic fashion.
so this is the person that inspired the fictional character of Jewelry Bonnie in One Piece...wow

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by fattprince(m): 10:26am On Nov 26, 2021
TheSourcerer:
my question is why just 7 years after all she was convicted and there's clearly evidence.
I mean, isn't that first degree murder and attempted murder. She should be in for at least 30 years without parole. It was premeditated and intentional.
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by Orlaoluwayimika(m): 10:44am On Nov 26, 2021
TheSourcerer:
my question is why just 7 years after all she was convicted and there's clearly evidence.

I think her parents are influential people in Oyo State and she was also working in the Min of Justice in Oyo state

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 11:03am On Nov 26, 2021
Griselda Blanco,

Crime: Trafficked cocaine and was suspected of committing more than two-hundred murders

Griselda Blanco, dubbed such nicknames as "The Godmother," "Queen of Cocaine" and "The Black Widow," was raised by an abusive mother in Colombia and resorted to a life of crime and prostitution at an early age. After the death of her first husband she became involved with a drug trafficker named Alberto Bravo. They moved to New York in the early 70's and ran a successful narcotics trade, where Blanco designed lingerie to smuggle in cocaine. After being indicted with thirty others for what was at the time the biggest cocaine case in history, she and Bravo fled to Colombia. They later returned to the US in the late 70's, with their new base in Miami.

Being involved in the narcotics trade, Blanco was involved in many other crimes. She was a ruthless woman, and was notorious for her drive-by shootings by motorcycle. She is said to have invented this killing method. In 1979, she orchestrated the Dade County Shopping Mall Massacre, where four people were killed. Alberto Bravo met his end when he got into a dispute with Blanco regarding drug money. In turn, she shot him and his six bodyguards dead. She was also not opposed to killing children, and being a bi-sexual, would conduct female orgies where she would sometimes execute the strippers afterwards for her pleasure. Because of her cruelty, the millionaire made many enemies and to avoid the assassination attempts, moved to California. In 1985 she was arrested and eventually deported to Colombia in 2004, where one of her enemies finally got their revenge. In 2012, she was killed while walking out of a butcher shop, ironically, by a motorcycle drive-by shooting.

Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 11:04am On Nov 26, 2021
Orlaoluwayimika:


I think her parents are influential people in Oyo State and she was also working in the Min of Justice in Oyo state
explains the repeated assults .
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 11:08am On Nov 26, 2021
Delphine LaLaurie,



Crime: Tortured and murdered black slaves

For American Horror Story: Coven fans, you may not have known that the vicious female slave owner was actually based on a person in real life. Delphine LaLaurie, often referred to as Madame LaLaurie, was a prominent and wealthy socialite in New Orleans. Like many of the rich, she owned slaves and rumors ran rampant about her cruelty towards them. In one incident, a slave girl jumped to her death after LaLaurie, with a whip in hand, was furious at the slave catching a snag in her hair while combing. An investigation was held and LaLaurie was forced to give up nine slaves, although they were returned by relatives later on. Even her daughters received beatings from her for attempting to feed the slaves.

All of LaLaurie's evil deeds came into light in 1834, when a fire broke out in the kitchen of her home. Authorities found a suicidal slave chained to the stove, deciding she'd rather take her own life than be taken to the uppermost room to be punished. Bystanders broke open the door to the slave quarters and found seven horribly mutilated slaves, still alive, all suspended from their necks with limbs that appeared to have been stretched. Subsequently, an angry mob broke into the house destroyed everything in sight. The mutilated slaves were taken to jail, where it was estimated over four-thousand people visited to bear witness to their sufferings. Bodies were also uncovered in the backyard. LaLaurie fled to Paris where she later died.

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by dominique(f): 12:25pm On Nov 26, 2021
TheSourcerer:
Crime: Found guilty of killing two infants, although she possibly killed eleven to forty-six children

Genene Jones was a pediatric nurse in Texas who had a taste for drama. She loved being put in life and death scenarios, where she would save the child and be praised as a hero for her actions. Her involuntary actors would be injected with igoxin, heparin and later succinylcholine to make them gravely ill and unfortunately many of them would not survive long enough for Jones to "save" them. So much so that the first hospital she worked for noticed the alarming death rate of children under her care and forced her to resign. It was at her next job that her crimes would be discovered.

The hospital began noticing a number of children having breathing problems and other strange illnesses, although these weren't fatal. However, when 14-month-old Chelsea McClellan was brought to the hospital for a regular immunization for mumps and measles and died from cardiac arrest, suspicions rose even more. Even the media started to report these mysterious deaths and following the discovery of succinylcholine in McClellan's body, Jones was charged with murder. She was also convicted of attempted murder when heparin was found in another child's system. She now serves 99 years in prison, but is scheduled to receive parole in 2017.

I was expecting to see this woman on the list. She was nicknamed the serial nurse in the documentary I watched. I've completely forgotten her name but I remember her story very well. Just because of the "thrill" of trying to save a life like the way we watch in ER and other medical series, she injected little children with dangerous medications and overdose. She always changed hospitals before anybody suspected her. She was able to get away with it for that long because she did her experiments on already sick kids on admission. But the particular one that exposed her was a perfectly healthy little girl who came for routine vaccination in the small town clinic suddenly developed complications and eventually died. According to autopsy reports, the little girl was injected with about ×100 of the regular dosage of the medication that should not even have been administered in the first place. This couldn't have been in error cos she wasn't scheduled to take the injection. Apart from the doctor in the clinic, she was the only other medic on duty so the police didn't have to look far.

So even with her confession, they still gave her prison sentence with possiblity of parole? Someone that should have been put on death row.

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by dominique(f): 12:36pm On Nov 26, 2021
TheSourcerer:
my question is why just 7 years after all she was convicted and there's clearly evidence.

She was a lawyer working for the state ministry of justice, her mother was a member of the judiciary or something like that. The murder would have been swept under the rug if the deceased's family hadn't cried out to the media that the woman's influential family are using all their power to squash the case. She was eventually sentenced to a miserable 7 years in jail by her colleagues of which she she spent less than 3 years and has since been released. She walks freely amongst us today.
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by Magnoliaa(f): 1:51pm On Nov 26, 2021
Moll Cutpurse


The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith

Okayy. This takes the crown. WOW.

Crime: Found guilty of killing two infants, although she possibly killed eleven to forty-six children

Ohh. I've read about this woman. Having some sort of god complex or so.
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by StubbornGENIUS: 4:17pm On Nov 26, 2021
TheSourcerer:
Other Notable Mentions


Crime: Found guilty of killing six men between the years of 1989-1990

Aileen Wuornos had a tragic childhood, having been abandoned by her mother and raised by her grandparents. Her father, an accused child molester, hung himself in prison. It must've run in the family, because Wuornos claimed her grandfather sexually abused her growing up. At the age of 15, she was thrown out of the house and lived in the woods. She prostituted herself in order to survive. She then hitchhiked to Florida, and at the age of 20, married Lewis Fell, a 69-year-old yacht club owner. The marriage only lasted nine weeks and ended with a restraining order against her. Ten years later she met the love of her life, Tyria Moore, a hotel maid that would become her partner in crime.

Since Wuornos ' meager income was not enough for the couple to survive on, they took to murdering Wuornos' clients and robbing them. She shot her six victims and police found the bodies in various areas in Florida. She also killed another man, but his body was never found. Instead, witnesses identified her and Moore driving the victim's car. His items, found in pawnshops, had fingerprints linking to Wuornos. She was arrested in 1991 and put to death in 2002.I personally admired Wuornos.
Another notable mention
Phoolan Devi aka Bandit Queen
Committed a number of crimes including murder, arson and kidnapping.

Phoolan Devi was once considered one of the most dangerous and feared women in India. The day she surrendered in 1983 she was charged with 48 crimes which included a number of murders, plunder, arson and kidnapping for ransom. The most notorious one of them was when she lined up 22 Rajput men in the village she was gang-raped in and shot and killed them all. After 11 years of pending trial, she was withdrawn from all the charges and was elected as an MP twice. The National Award winning film, Bandit Queen, starring Seema Biswas is based on her life

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by siofra(f): 4:26pm On Nov 26, 2021
There's also Johanne Dennehy who killed full grown men for "fun" and Sharon Carr, well Sharon Carr was a girl not a woman when she was convicted.

There's also Rosemary West who preyed on young women. She and her husband Fred, preyed on young women and forced them into prostitution.
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by Candidlady: 4:37pm On Nov 26, 2021
icame late ~better late than never
¤kabiru kindly hand me that my fav chair¤

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 4:58pm On Nov 26, 2021
dominique:


I was expecting to see this woman on the list. She was nicknamed the serial nurse in the documentary I watched. I've completely forgotten her name but I remember her story very well. Just because of the "thrill" of trying to save a life like the way we watch in ER and other medical series, she injected little children with dangerous medications and overdose. She always changed hospitals before anybody suspected her. She was able to get away with it for that long because she did her experiments on already sick kids on admission. But the particular one that exposed her was a perfectly healthy little girl who came for routine vaccination in the small town clinic suddenly developed complications and eventually died. According to autopsy reports, the little girl was injected with about ×100 of the regular dosage of the medication that should not even have been administered in the first place. This couldn't have been in error cos she wasn't scheduled to take the injection. Apart from the doctor in the clinic, she was the only other medic on duty so the police didn't have to look far.

So even with her confession, they still gave her prison sentence with possiblity of parole? Someone that should have been put on death row.
Of course its you Dominique .❤❤
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by Candidlady: 5:20pm On Nov 26, 2021
TheSourcerer:
Charlene Gallego

Charlene was the sidekick to her serial killing husband, Gerald Gallego. The duo is responsible for terrorizing Sacramento, California for years, between 1978 and 1980.

They killed a total of 10 victims together, and it didn't just stop at that. Each of their victims were kept as sex slaves, as well as tortured before being brutally murdered. This included shooting their victims execution-style at a point-blank range.

It has been said that Charlene came from a supportive home, and she was a bright and shy child.

However, her horrific change is attested to drugs and Alcohol



@bolded ~the drugs/alcohol goes IN the alter ego comes OUT~

#SAYNO2DRUGS

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 9:38pm On Nov 26, 2021
Candidlady:


@bolded ~the drugs/alcohol goes IN the alter ego comes OUT~

#SAYNO2DRUGS
I believe the she devil was within the entire time , drugs is a easy way to 'loose yourself' , blaming the drugs.
Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by peacefull(f): 12:37am On Nov 27, 2021
Thank you for sharing! I appreciate you!

I still have not finished reading other your topic. I will read one by one.
I have more things to look foward!
Thank you so much!!

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by IrepChrist: 12:48am On Nov 27, 2021
Interesting.
I Guess no gender based crime afterall

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Re: 10 Notorious Criminal Women in history by TheSourcerer: 12:53pm On Nov 28, 2021
Candidlady:


@bolded ~the drugs/alcohol goes IN the alter ego comes OUT~

#SAYNO2DRUGS
You are one of those

Et tu Candid , Et tu?

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