Female serial killers: how and why women become monsters

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The psychopathology and brief history of the female serial killer

The nature of the feminine beast: the psychopathology of female monsters

The quest for power, profit, and desire: a brief history of female serial killers

Selected case studies of female serial killers and accomplices in the twentieth century

The cult and passion of Aileen Wuornos: the postmodern female serial killer

Murdering friends and inmates: Black widows and profit killers

Loving us to death: serial killer moms, angels of death, and other murdering caregivers

Sex, death and videotape: the female as serial killer accomplice

Nazi bitches and the Manson killer girls: making female missionary cult serial killers

Recognizing the predatory woman: profiling female serial killers.