Lady Killers by Tori Telfer5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() She examines how physical attractiveness and sexuality played into each woman’s personal scenario and how each was branded or given a nickname depending on the violent nature of her crimes. Telfer delves deeply into the role of the media in making these women notorious, and she analyzes how quickly they lost their stardom, fading into relative oblivion. Most often, they used poison to kill their victims, but some enjoyed, among other methods, brutal and bloody torture and throat cutting as a means to a deadly end. These women took great pleasure, physically, emotionally, and sexually, in killing-their husbands and other men, their own children, and other women. He probably has a dreadful nickname… is his brand, a nightmare name for a nightmare man whose victims are, more often than not, innocent women.” In her first book, however, the author compiles comprehensive biographies of more than a dozen women who were as vicious, coldblooded, and brutal as their male counterparts. ![]() ![]() Well, ‘man,’ actually-some vicious, twisted sociopath, working alone. “When we think about serial killers,” writes freelancer Telfer, “we think about men. A compendium of women serial killers through the ages. ![]()
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