The most evil and cruel women in history

Each person is capable of both good and bad deeds. But there are men and women in whom the evil inclination seems to have finally defeated the good. And if you want to know to what dark depths a person who has rejected morality, pity and conscience can descend, we will tell you.

Introducing the top 10 most evil and cruel women in history. And the most violent men will be the subject of a separate article.

10. Rosemary West

Englishmen Rosemary and Fred West are known as some of the most ruthless and hideous serial killers in history. They lured children and young women into their "House of Horrors", tortured and raped them for several days, then killed them, dismembered their bodies, and buried them under the house.

Rosemary was not a frightened wife, silently observing her husband's actions. She took an active part in torture and rape, and also helped to hide the bodies of victims.

The couple did not even stop to molest and kill their own children, Heather and Charmaine (for Rosemary, she was a stepdaughter).

Although the murders of 11 girls were confirmed during the investigation, it is possible that up to 20 people died at the hands of the West couple.

The West's were arrested in 1994 for crimes committed mainly between 1973 and 1979. Although Fred committed suicide while awaiting trial, Rosemary became the second woman in British history to serve a life sentence.

9. Beverly Allitt

Another "devil" from Britain worked as a pediatric nurse and used the hospital ward as a den for her crimes. She injected potassium chloride, lignocaine, or insulin to children to induce cardiac arrest. During a two-month period in 1991, she attacked 13 children, from newborns to 11-year-olds, killing four of them.

Allitt allegedly suffered from Munchausen Syndrome, which caused her to hurt the children in order to save them or to be with them when they die.

In 1993, Allitt was sentenced to 13 life sentences at the Rampton Secure hospital in Nottingham. In 2007, a London court granted Allitt's petition and reduced the maximum parole period from 40 to 30 years.

8. Dorothea Puente

The sweet little old lady who runs a retirement home is unlikely to be your first choice when it comes to the most evil and devious women in the world. But that was exactly what Dorothea Puente was. In her younger years, she wandered, forged bank checks, ran a brothel, poisoned old people with hard drugs and more than once ended up in prison.

However, after she moved to Sacramento, California, the elderly Dorothea opened a boarding house for the elderly, sick and needy people. Some people praised her for her kind character and hospitality, but in the end everyone saw the dark side of the place.

Nine sick and helpless elderly men and women were trapped and killed by Puente. There was a real stench in the house from the decaying bodies, which Dorothea buried in the garden without any special frills. She attributed the stench to sewage problems or dead rats.

Puente's crimes were "nothing personal, just business."The old killer took advantage of her victims' disability and social insurance benefits, and cashed their checks, spending money on clothing, cosmetics and even plastic surgery.

In 1993, Dorothea Puente was sentenced to 2 life sentences with no parole. She died in 2011 in prison.

7. Belle Gunness

One of the most famous serial killers did not commit her crimes out of anger or anger, but for money - mainly for life insurance policies or cash. Ultimately, Gunness made about a quarter of a million dollars.

To accumulate such wealth, she killed both of her husbands, all of her children, friends, and most of the suitors she had in abundance. She is believed to have killed between 25 and 100 people.

And the most shocking fact is that Belle Gunness was never caught. After a fire in her house (during which another woman died), she fled and lived the rest of her days without facing the consequences of what she did. In this case, to say that life is unfair is to understate the century!

6. Irma Grese

One of the most brutal women in human history, nicknamed the "Bolsen Beast", was a warden in the Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen extermination camps. She set hungry dogs on prisoners, beat people with a whip, and selected those who would go to the gas chamber or to experiment with Dr. Josef Mengele.

Why did some women commit heinous war crimes that could serve as a source for creating scariest horror movies? Were they naturally evil, or sincerely thought they were “just following orders”? We will never know. But we know that Irma Grese was one of the youngest Nazis to be hanged for her crimes. At the time of her execution in 1945, she was only 22 years old.

5. Dagmar Overby

The most famous lawsuit in Danish history involved a woman who killed defenseless orphans. However, Dagmar did not seem to see the difference between them and her own child, whom she also killed.

The crimes were committed in the period from 1913-1920, and during this time Overby drowned, burned in a furnace and strangled 25 children. However, the Danish justice managed to prove only 9 murders. But they were enough to send the monster in the skirt to life in prison. Dagmar died in prison in 1929.

4. Ilsa Koch

The Nazi, nicknamed "Buchenwald Witch" and "Buchenwald Bitch", was the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps Karl-Otto Koch. She is infamous for being one of the most brutal women of all time for her horrific treatment of prisoners. Elsa ordered to use the skin with tattoos taken from the killed people to create lampshades for lamps, book covers, gloves and other accessories. She personally beat the prisoners, set a dog on them, and watched the murders and rapes with pleasure.

After the war, Koch was sentenced to life imprisonment, then released on the orders of the American General Lucius Clay, who considered the charges against Ilsa insufficiently proven. Clay's decision caused a public outcry, so Ilse Koch was arrested again, and in 1967 she committed suicide by hanging herself in a cell.

3. Maria Mandel

If other women from Nazi Germany, known for their atrocities, received nicknames at their place of work (for example, "Buchenwald bitch" and others), then Maria Mandel was nicknamed short and capaciously - "beast". This woman, who was in charge of women's units in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, was involved in the murder of half a million prisoners.

By order of Mandel, hundreds of thousands of women and children were sent to the gas chambers.She also ordered to kill any prisoner who, passing by, dared to glance at Mandel.

In 1945, the German gas chamber fell into the hands of the American military. Despite pleas for clemency, she was hanged in 1948.

2. Daria Saltykova

In the history of Russia, there were also women who, without exaggeration, can be called bloodthirsty non-humans. Perhaps the most famous of them was the landowner Daria Saltykova (Saltychikha).

This sadist and serial killer is known for torturing dozens of her serfs to death, mostly women and girls. The victims had their hair pulled out, their heads banged against the wall, left naked in the cold, doused with boiling water, and there were even rumors that Saltychikha was killing or boiling babies.

News of these atrocities reached Catherine II, who eventually deprived Daria Saltykova of the dignity of a pillar noblewoman. She was placed in a monastery prison, where she died.

1. Erzsebet Bathory

The Hungarian countess has entered the Guinness Book of Records as the woman with the highest number of murders in history. The exact number of her victims is unknown, it is estimated - 650 people. Some historians cite the figure as 2,000.

More than 300 witnesses have confirmed the facts about the murders committed by Bathory, and about her bestial cruelty. She maimed and killed young girls, and, according to unconfirmed reports, bathed in the blood of virgins in order to maintain youth and beauty. She was also credited with vampirism and black magic.

After the trial of Erzsebet, the Countess was walled up in a solitary confinement cell in the Cheyte castle. Food was served to her through a small hole in the door. In 1614, the bloody countess died in prison, forever remaining in the memory of descendants as the most terrible of female maniacs.