520: Enriqueta Marti Long Thought to be a Serial Killer of Children Born: 2 February 1868, Municipality of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain Died: 12 May 1913, Barcelona, Spain Full Name: Enriqueta Martí i Ripollés Recent research, however, suggests she suffered from a mental disorder, and now the question of how many children she kidnapped…
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466) Mary Toft
466: Mary Toft Mary Tricked Doctors Into Making Them Think She Gave Birth to Rabbits Born: 1701, Godalming, England Died: 1763, Godalming, England Alternate Spelling: Tofts According to reports, in 1726 Mary (who was married and already a mother) suffered a miscarriage but a month later still looked pregnant and in September of that same…
438) Rachel Wall
438: Rachel Wall American Pirate Born: c.1760, The Colony of Pennsylvania (Present-day Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States of America) Died: 8 October 1789, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Rachel left home at the age of sixteen and worked for a time as a domestic servant before her on-again-off-again boyfriend convinced her to become a pirate…
339) Moll King
339: Moll King The Owner of King’s Coffeehouse Born: 1696, St. Giles in the Fields, London, England (Present-day United Kingdom) Died: 1747, Haverstock, London, England (Present-day United Kingdom) Original Name: Elizabeth Adkins Moll was (purportedly) a pickpocket, sex worker, and notorious member of London’s underworld. She is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s character and novel…
316) Heidi Fleiss
316: Heidi Fleiss Former Madam, Columnist, and Television Personality Born: 30 December 1965, Los Feliz, California, United States of America She reportedly dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, but that never seemed to slow her down. Heidi was known as the Hollywood Madam because she provided prostitutes to high class men in…
296: Erzsébet Báthory de Ecsed
296: Erzsébet Báthory Possible Serial Killer Born: 7 August 1560, Transylvania, Present-day Nyírbátor, Hungary Died: 21 August 1614, Present-day Čachtice Castle, Hungary (Present-day Čachtice, Slovakia) Also Known As: Elisabeth Bathory Correct Hungarian Form: Báthory Erzsébet Yes, you read that right, she was possibly a serial killer. Erzsébet was accused of murdering between thirty and six…
235) Bonnie Parker
235: Bonnie Parker American Outlaw Better Known With Her Boyfriend as Bonnie and Clyde Born: 1 October 1910, Rowena, Texas, United States of America Died: 23 May 1934, Gibsland, Louisiana, United States of America She, Clyde, and several other accomplices spent months traveling around Texas and other Southern states robbing and shooting places up, killing…
233) Arizona Barker
233: Arizona Barker American Outlaw Known Better as “Ma Barker” or “Kate Barker” Born: 8 October 1873, Ash Grove, Missouri, United States of America Died: 16 January 1935, Ocklawaha, Florida, United States of America She and her sons joined several other criminals to lead a life of crime. Ma liked to live well and bought…
232) Lizzie Borden
232: Lizzie Borden More Famous for the Children’s Rhyme Lizzie Borden took an axe…Than Anything Else Born: 19 July 1860, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States of America Died: 1 June 1927, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States of America Lizzie was alleged to have murdered her father and stepmother with an ax but was tried and…
230) Belle Starr
230: Belle Starr American Outlaw Given the Nickname “Bandit Queen” Born: 5 February 1848, Carthage, Missouri, United States of America Died: 3 February 1889, Briartown, Oklahoma, United States of America Born Name: Myra Belle Shirley (Don’t confuse her with the other Bandit Queen—Phoolan Devi, they are completely different women!) Belle knew other famous outlaws like…