"Why does a young woman lure teenagers into her car then participate in their horrific rape and torture? What makes a nurse lethally inject the healthy babies in her care? Women, statistically, are not a violent breed ... but the female of the species can be just as deadly as th…
Women Who Kill is an exploration of the dark and disturbing world of the female serial killer. With in-depth analysis of individual cases, the book provides an insight into the psychology behind these atrocities.
Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Traditionally, society is used to regarding children as harmless -- but for some the age of innocence is shortlived, messy and ultimately murde…
Uses in-depth case studies of thirteen killers aged between ten and seventeen to explore the reasons some children choose to kill.