Katherine Mary Knight was born and brought up in an unconventional and a dysfunctional family environment. Her mother, Barbara Roughan had an adulterous relationship with Ken Knight, a friend and co-worker of her husband and was forced to move away from the peaceful town of Aberdeen, New South Wales in

Myra Hindley was born in a working class suburb of Manchester in July 1942. Her father, Bob, a labourer, served the Parachute Regiment during the Second World War, He was a tyrant and used to beat little Myra regularly when she was young, but also taught her how to fight.

Born on the 7th day of May, 1948 in San Gabriel, California, Susan Denise Atkins was the second of the three children born to alcoholic parents, Edward and Jeanette. During her early years she was known as a quiet, self-conscious girl who belonged to her school's glee club and the local

The story of Vera Renczi, a stunningly beautiful Romanian woman, always dressed in black, was first published in the USA in May 1925. After that, the story surfaced repeatedly, without any documentary support about the specific dates of her birth, marriage, arrest or death. She reportedly confessed about poisoning 35

Griselda Blanco Restrepo, the infamous drug trafficker, was born in Cartagena, on the country's north coast of Colombia, on 15th February 1943. In her later life she was popularly known as La Madrina or Godmother. Apart from that, she was also known as the Black Widow, the Cocaine Godmother and the Queen of

Ilse Koch is the name of the devil woman who used to make lampshades from the skin of the prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp. She was every bit an evil, she was rightly nicknamed ‘The Bitch of Buchenwald’ for her barbarism and sadism. Born to a factory foreman in Dresden

Beverley Gail Allitt, also known as the "Angel of Death”, was born on 4 October 1968 and grew up in the village of Corby Glen, near the town of Grantham. Her father, Richard, worked in an off-licence and her mother was a school cleaner. She had two sisters and a

She is one of only three women in English criminal history to be sentenced to life imprisonment.  She shares this notoriety with Moors murderer Myra Hindley and Rosemary West, who murdered at least 10 people with her husband, Fred. She is Joanne Dennehy, born in August 1982 in St Albans,

Aileen Wuornos is one of the most well-known female serial killers in American history, who killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 by shooting them at point blank range. However, her life was an unfortunate one, filled with rage, violence, and sadness. Aileen Wuornos was born on February 29, 1956,