Elizabeth Bathory: The World's Most Extreme Female Serial Killer

With the complexity and brutality of her crimes, Elizabeth Bathory is known as the most sadistic and prolific serial killer in the world; even more so, she stands out because she is a female that is rare: especially in the Elizabethan Era. Bathory was believed to have been responsible for the murders of 600 virgin girls. She was certain that a drop of blood would make her look youthful again, but was convinced that bathing in the blood of girls who were virgins would take years off her. Because of her personality, physical qualities, and her lack of moral/family values, Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary had the life of one of the most fascinating yet obsessive leaders in all of Transylvania.

Elizabeth’s character was a mystery to most people at the time she inherited the throne. She had learned to keep her own council, control her emotions, and always behaved cautiously, thus being able to disprove all rumors about her. Always dignified and stately, she could be vain, willful, dictatorial, temperamental, and imperious. She had courage, both in her decisions, and in the face of danger. Possessing an innate of humanity, she was not normally cruel, unlike most rulers of her day. Most regarded her to be unusually tolerant in that age of religious conflict. She saw herself as one who was always honest and honorable, who

In the stories of The Wife of Bath and Queen Guinevere from the tale of King Arthur, both women of nobility and are strong characters. The Wife of Bath is a woman who likes to be known in the upper class and enjoys and parties. Queen Guinevere “is more passionate and caring,” she takes her royal status for granted. In the Middle Ages, these two women did not fit the idea of how women were to act or think towards their roles as women in that time period.

The 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short has remained one of Hollywood’s most notorious unsolved cases in Los Angeles history. The cold case has been passed down from detective to detective searching answers or any clues to help put the case to rest. The Black Dahlia was actually Elizabeth Short: a young, aspiring actress from a small town in Massachusetts.

“A serial murder’s compulsion to kill may be likend to an addiction”(Dolan 51). Serial killers have an urge to kill. In most cases they can’t control it. Often times, serial killers have phases in which they follow steps before they kill. This is found in Robert W Dolan’s “The Ritual Phases”. For some killers it is a way of life and they kill multiple times before being caught. In “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl the landlady kills multiple young men. She follows steps which demonstrate that she is a killer. The landlady in the story is a serial killer because she looks kind and charming, is alert for her victims and she keeps her victims as a souvenir as do most serial killers.

Paul Bernado and Karla Homolka were Canadian serial killers who attracted worldwide media attention when they were convicted of raping and murdering teenage girls, including Karla's own sister, Tammy Homolka.

In the past few decades, a new stream of research has emerged in American crime and criminality. It entails the study of sensationalized murder stories. Such an inquiry is critical to understand Americans past in crime and criminality. Case studies such as the murder of Jewett are riveting thus creating a nuanced portrait of a historical moment. Such study paints a picture on important changes in American culture and society over time. With this in mind, the paper details the sensational murder of Helen Jewett. A cursory glance at the argument shows that Jewett personality and lifestyle shatters the common ideas particularly in popular minds about prostitutes as pathetic and broken persons living impoverished lives. However, understanding Jewett murder demand a closer look at the 1830s and 1840s prostitution.

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol England in 1861 to Samuel and Hannah Blackwell. She was the third oldest of nine children. Her father Samuel held some liberal views for his day which included education and equal rights for women as well as being an abolitionist (Examiner, 2014). He encouraged his daughters to learn and hired private tutors and a governess to teach them. In 1832, when Elizabeth was eleven, the family moved from Bristol, England to New York City after her father lost his sugar refinery business in a fire.

Unfortunately, it’s not unusual in this day and time to turn on the news and hear a warning about a new serial killer roaming our streets. It’s horrifying and hard to understand what could possibly make a person commit such heinous crimes. What is wrong with this person that drives him or her to commit such an act? The truth is that people have searched for the answer to that question for eons. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be many definitive answers to those questions.

A serial killer is a person who kills two or more people within two separate events or a different period of time. Lizzie Andrew Borden is one of the many famous serial killers that America has known. She is acquitted for the 1892 murders by an axe.

H.H Holmes was not only “one of the first documented serial killers,” he lured dozens of innocent people into his “murder castle” where he performed cruel and disgusting acts on his victims. Holmes admitted to 27 murders but it is estimated that he was responsible for nearly 200. Holmes was an incredibly intelligent child with a seemingly normal childhood. What had happened to him to turn such a promising child into such a greedy and nefarious fiend.

Elizabeth Bathory is known as one of the most ruthless female serial killers.She has rumored to kill over 600 hundred girls. Bathory was born in Transylvania in 1560.Bathory came from a very wealthy and prominent family, she was related to a cardinal, prince and a prime minister but her most famous relative was Istvan Bathory who was the prince of transylvania and king of poland from 1575 to 1586 .Bathory as a child used to have horrible seizures.Before she was married to her husband Bathory had a child with a man who remains unknown. In 1575, Bathory got married to Count Nadasdy.She has four children with her husband.Her husband died in 1604. Bathory started to age that's when she started to drain her servants dry because she thought their blood could keep her forever young she did this because she was fearful that she was losing her beauty.One day a servant was brushing her hair but pulled too hard so Elizabeth slapped her on the hand so hard that it the girl started to bleed until the blood was on Elizabeth’s hand that’s when she thought that blood of young girls would keep her forever beautiful.She ended up telling her majordomo and another helper to cut the servant girl and bring her the blood so she could bath in it.

The Stocking Strangler was the serial killer back in the late 1970s that struck fear within the residence in a certain neighborhood in Georgia. This serial killer targeted older women to satisfy his sexual desire and empowerment over women. Law enforcement had a person of interest that was almost at every crime scene that the serial killer has targeted; his name is Carlton Gary. Throughout the trial against Mr. Gary, the prosecution used evidence from past crimes to paint him in front of the court that he did without a doubt that he committed these acts against these women. He was convicted after all charges and was given the death sentence until about the last minute the state Supreme Court approved the defense’s motion to suspend Mr. Gary’s execution for the basis of DNA testing on the evidence. That motion has paved the way for Mr. Gary to get a re-trial for the charges he was convicted on.

In “The Making of a Serial Killer,” Berit Brogaard explains the genetics and brain-work behind psychopathy. Brogaard examines studies that show psychopathy may be hereditary, furthering the idea that there must be a problem with the brain, which also means it could possibly be correctable. Psychopathy could, along with other mental disorders and illnesses, develop in one’s childhood. Psychopathy is often confused with other disorders and illnesses, which is understandable because of the various similarities. Although studies have shed light on some possible causes of psychopathy, much of the disorder remains a mystery.

Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace in England to King Henry VII and Anne Boleyn on September 7th, 1533. Less than three years later, Anne Boleyn was arrested, charged, and executed because she could not bear Henry a son. Twelve days later, Henry married Jane Seymour, and she gave birth to Prince Edward, the long awaited male heir, in October of 1537. However, Jane shortly died of childbed fever. Elizabeth’s father married three more times, but it was Catherine Parr, Henry’s sixth and final wife, who had the greatest