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When you think of infamous female serial killers, names like Aileen Wuornos usually come to mind, but many terrifying women have slipped under the radar. These lesser-known killers spun chilling tales of murder and deceit, from poisoners and nurses to twisted witches. Join us as we reveal the dark stories of women whose crimes have haunted history but remained largely forgotten.
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00:00The real Eileen Wuornos is not a serial killer. I was so lost that I turned into one.
00:05When you think of female serial killers, the endlessly serialized Eileen Wuornos probably
00:11comes to mind. In fact, a new Netflix documentary about her life just released. But countless other
00:17notorious women have committed equally heinous crimes with far less coverage.
00:21Welcome to Ms. Mojo. And today, we're discussing lesser-known female serial killers whose stories
00:27will haunt you. The judge called her a monster that no one sees coming as he sentenced her
00:32to life in prison on all seven counts consecutively. Leonardo Cianciulli, a.k.a. the soap maker
00:41of Correggio. From 1939 to 1940, the Italian village of Correggio lost three residents to
00:48serial killer Leonardo Cianciulli. The popular shop owner believed that in order to keep her son
00:53safe while he served in the Royal Italian Army during World War II, she needed to make
00:58human sacrifices.
01:09Her first victim, Faustina Setti, was someone she advised about finding a husband. She lured
01:14in her second and third victims, Francesca Suavi and Virginia Cacioppo, by claiming she
01:20was helping them find jobs.
01:34All three women consumed a substance-laced drink and were killed with an axe. Cianciulli
01:38confessed to using their remains to make soap and tea cakes, which she shared with neighbors
01:43and family. Cianciulli was given a 30-year prison sentence with three years in a criminal
01:48asylum.
01:57Dana Sue Gray
01:59Between February and March 1994, former nurse Dana Sue Gray took the lives of three elderly
02:05women in California and went on shopping sprees with their money, beginning with Norma Davis
02:10on February 14th.
02:12She appeared to just be sitting in her chair as if she were perhaps reading or watching
02:17TV. It didn't appear that she had made much of a struggle or had attempted to get up from
02:23that chair.
02:24Police officers discovered her body two days later, and on February 28th, they found June
02:30Roberts deceased. Both were strangled in their Canyon Lake homes, a gated residence where Gray
02:35owned a house. On March 10th, Gray attacked Dorinda Hawkins at an area antique shop. Fortunately,
02:41Hawkins survived and provided authorities with crucial details.
02:45She told investigators that a blonde woman came into her antique shop to ask about framing.
02:54When she led the customer into the back to show her some samples, the woman suddenly attacked
02:58her from behind.
02:59Police apprehended Gray on March 17th, unaware that she'd already killed another victim,
03:04Dora Beebe, just hours before. Gray pleaded guilty in 1998 and was sentenced to life with
03:10no possibility of parole.
03:12When I think of Dana Sue Gray, the first thing that comes to mind, for me anyway, is evil.
03:18It's just evil.
03:19Velma Barfield
03:20In 1949, North Carolina native Margie Velma Bullard left her troubled home life to wed Thomas
03:26Burke, with whom she had two children. After he died in a house fire in April 1969, the widow
03:33married Jennings Barfield in 1970, barely a year before he died in March 1971.
03:39No one pays very much attention. He had been ill for a long time, it was obviously natural causes,
03:46and Velma is just now a widow. In fact, now twice widowed. Using arsenic and rat poison,
03:53Velma murdered two elderly patients in her care, Dolly Edwards and John Henry Lee, in 1977.
04:00Barfield preys on the weak and the old and the innocent, and this tells me that she is a predator.
04:07She looks out for people's vulnerabilities and she exploits them. Despite confessing to killing
04:12Edwards Ann Lee in 1977 and her mother in 1974, she was only charged with the 1978 murder of her
04:20boyfriend, Roland Stewart Taylor. At age 52, Velma Barfield, by then dubbed the Death Row Granny,
04:27died by lethal injection in 1984.
04:29Today, if it were possible, I wish that I could take every bit of hurt on myself.
04:38Enriqueta Marti, aka the Vampire of Barcelona. For over 20 years,
04:44Barcelona, Spain had a prolific serial killer claiming the lives of at least 12 youths,
04:50though more are suspected. Enriqueta Marti worked as a nanny and witch doctor and owned a brothel
04:55catering to wealthy clients. She lured and kidnapped young victims, forcing them into sex work,
05:01and using their remains to create remedies for incurable diseases and elixirs to extend one's life.
05:07Marti's reign of terror ended in February 1912, after she abducted Teresita Guitart Congost,
05:14and a neighbor alerted police. After her arrest, they discovered blood-stained clothing and human
05:19remains on her various properties. In May 1913, Marti was killed by other inmates at the
05:25Reina Amalia prison. She never went to trial for her crimes.
05:38Vicky Dawn Jackson. In a span of three months, from December 2000 to February 2001,
05:44No Kona General Hospital in Texas had an alarming number of elderly patients die under its care.
05:50They and their staff are there to help people, and the idea that they would have somebody in their ranks
05:55killing somebody I think was the very last thing they thought of. At the same time, administrators
05:59noted several missing vials of the paralytic Mivacron. During their investigation into over 20 deaths,
06:06authorities soon zeroed in on Vicky Dawn Jackson because she was often the last nurse reported to
06:11be in the victim's rooms. They were my husband's patients. All of them? All of them. When police
06:17searched her home, they found a discarded syringe in her trash, which was positive for Mivacron.
06:22Facing 10 capital murder charges, Jackson entered a plea of no contest and was sentenced to life in
06:28prison. Things may have turned out very differently for Vicky had she maintained a therapeutic relationship
06:37with the health care provider and taken medication. Jeanne Weber, aka the Ogress of Goutte d'Or.
06:44In 1906, French serial killer Jeanne Weber, who earned the nickname of the Ogress of Goutte d'Or,
06:50was accused of the murders of eight children, including three of her own, and several nieces
06:55and nephews. But because she was so influential, because she was rubbing elbows with all the upper
06:59echelon, she was given a mere slap on the wrist, a mere $300 fine. Despite visible bruising on their
07:06necks, medical professionals attributed the deaths to natural causes. She was ultimately acquitted of
07:12these crimes. Just a year later, Weber, using a different name, was apprehended and released
07:18again after another youth perished under her care. In October 1908, she claimed her 10th and final
07:24victim, the son of an innkeeper. One thing, more than anything else, made her secret slayings possible.
07:33Power. Months later, Weber was declared insane. She lived out the rest of her days in a psychiatric
07:39hospital until passing away in 1918. Daria Nikolaevna Saltikova, a.k.a. the Saltichija.
07:47Often compared to Hungary's notorious blood countess Erzhebet Bathory, Daria Nikolaevna Saltikova was
07:53suspected of committing up to 138 murders. The Russian noblewoman regularly subjected her predominantly
08:00female servants to physical abuse, which ended in their demise.
08:04And that would still make her one of the most prolific serial killers in the history.
08:09of the world. After years of getting away with murder, Saltikova was finally arrested in 1762
08:15and later convicted of killing 38 serfs. Her many accomplices were also punished. Under the rule of
08:22Empress Catherine II, a.k.a. Catherine the Great, Saltikova was publicly humiliated in 1768. She was
08:29sent to serve her life sentence in Moscow's Ivanovsky convent until she died in 1801.
08:35Those stories tell us who we are as people and what our dark side is.
08:41Rita Mays. In July 2017, U.S. Army veteran Rita Mays began working as a nursing assistant on Ward 3A of
08:49the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Medical Center in West Virginia. From then until June 2018, over 100 patients
08:57died. Many suffering a sudden hypoglycemic event beforehand. Some of the medical doctors found it
09:03unusual, first of all, that there were multiple non-diabetic patients that were dying of these severely low blood sugars.
09:11Mays injected lethal doses of insulin, most of whom were not diabetic. Mays was fired in June 2018,
09:18but wasn't apprehended until July 2020. While there was a large number of deceased patients, she was only charged
09:25with seven murders. Although we did not get the verbal answers and and the confessions that we were
09:32looking for, just to be able to tap into the mindset of Rita was just as important. She pleaded guilty to all
09:40counts of second degree murder and one count of attempted murder. In 2021, Mays received seven
09:46consecutive life sentences with an additional 20 years. We heard from the VA's inspector general
09:52who says that medical center committed serious failures that allowed the killings to go on undetected.
10:01Helen Patricia Moore. In 1978, Helen Patricia Moore lost her younger half-brother Andrew to sudden
10:07infant death syndrome or SIDS. Two months later, the Australian babysitter was watching her little
10:12cousin Suzanne when she too died from the disease. In the face of a second crib death, the stoic teenager
10:20impresses family and friends by doing the unexpected. While on another babysitting job, Moore attempted to
10:29kill a boy named Aaron, who survived but was left maimed and died later. In 1980, her mother,
10:35Jesse discovered her son Peter was unresponsive. Moore then confessed to killing her young stepbrother.
10:41Helen repeatedly smothered these children to death or attempted to. It made her feel good. It made her
10:52feel powerful. That's why she did it. The juvenile offender was charged with the murders of Suzanne,
10:58Aaron and Peter and two attempted murders, earning her three life sentences plus 10 more years. However,
11:04Moore only spent 13 years behind bars before she was released in 1993.
11:09Helen Moore gave birth to her own daughter.
11:16The court had no choice but to place her under 24-hour surveillance with a baby for the next 10 years.
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11:35your phone, make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications. Lydia Sherman aka the Derby
11:42Poisoner. Lydia Sherman aka the Derby Poisoner murdered several victims using arsenic beginning in 1864 with
11:49her first husband, Edward Strzok. Edward Strzok probably suffered more than Jack the Ripper's victims.
11:58That year, the nurse also poisoned three of their six children. And in 1865, the remaining three met the
12:05same fate. In 1868, she married her second husband, Dennis Hurlburt, and killed him the same way shortly after.
12:12Two years later, she wed Horatio Sherman, who died from arsenic poisoning about a year after tying the knot.
12:19One of the most frightening aspects of these psychopathic killers is the extent to which
12:26they can simulate normal human reactions and behavior. Lydia Sherman was finally caught in 1871
12:35and sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder. While she only admitted to the murders of
12:41her three husbands and four of her children, some believe she killed close to 11 people.
12:46The Queen of Poison introduces the world to the horrific concept of the female serial killer.
12:55Which of these surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments below.
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