Thread: Top 10 Most Evil Women

We all tend to focus on the evil men in the world and forget some of
the truly evil women that have lived. I hope to correct that with
this list. Here we have not just serial killers, but other utterly
despicable women who have caused tragedy in many people’s lives. So,
without further ado, here are the top 10 most evil women in history.

10. Queen Mary I Born: 1516; Died: 1558



Mary was the only child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon to
live past infancy. Crowned after the death of Edward VI and the
removal of The Nine Days Queen-Lady Jane Grey, Mary is chiefly
remembered for temporarily and violently returning England to
Catholicism. Many prominent Protestants were executed for their
beliefs leading to the moniker “Bloody Mary”. Fearing the gallows a
further 800 Protestants left the country, unable to return until her
death. It should be noted that Elizabeth I shares position 10 on
this list for her equally bad behavior.

9. Myra Hindley Born: 1942; Died: 2002



Myra Hindley and Ian Brady were responsible for the “Moors murders”
occurring in the Manchester area of Britain in the mid 1960’s.
Together these two monsters were responsible for the kidnapping,
sexual abuse, torture and murder of three children under the age of
twelve and two teenagers, aged 16 and 17. A key found in Myra’s
possession led to incriminating evidence stored at a left-luggage
depot at Manchester Central Station. The evidence included a tape
recording of one of the murder victims screaming as Hindley and
Brady raped and tortured her. In the final days before
incarceration, she developed a swagger and arrogant attitude that
became her trademark. Police secretary Sandra Wilkinson has never
forgotten seeing Hindley and her mother Nellie, leaning against the
courthouse eating sweets. While the mother was obviously and
understandably upset, Hindley seemed indifferent and uncaring of her
situation.

8. Isabella of Castile Born: 1451; Died: 1504



Isabella I of Spain, well known as the patron of Christopher
Columbus, with her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon, are responsible
for making possible the unification of Spain under their grandson
Carlos I. As part of the drive for unification, Isabella appointed
Tomás de Torquemada as the first Inquisitor General of the
inquisition. March 31, 1492 marks the implementation of the Alhambra
Decree; expulsion edicts forcing the removal or conversion of Jews
and Muslims. Roughly 200,000 people left Spain; those remaining who
chose conversion were subsequently persecuted by the inquisition
investigating Judaizing conversos. In 1974, Pope Paul VI opened her
cause for beatification. This places her on the path toward possible
sainthood. In the Catholic Church, she is thus titled Servant of God.

7. Beverly Allitt Born: 1968



The “Angel of Death, Beverley Gail Allit, is one of Britain’s most
well known serial killers. Working as a pediatric nurse, she is
responsible for the murder of 4 children and the serious injury of 5
others in her care. When available, insulin or potassium injections
were used to precipitate cardiac arrest; smothering sufficed when
they were not. Although convicted with death or injury in nine
cases, Allit attacked thirteen children over a fifty-eight day
period before being caught red-handed. Allit has never spoken of the
motive for her crimes, but Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy explains
her actions. This debatable personality disorder involves a pattern
of abuse or harm to someone in your care in order to garner
attention (Alitt was known as a child to wear bandages and casts
over wounds, but would not allow them to be examined).

6. Belle Gunness Born: 1859; Died: 1931



Belle Gunness was one of America’s most degenerate and productive
female serial killers. Standing 6 ft (1.83 m) tall and weighing in
at over 200 lbs (91 kg), she was an imposing and powerful woman of
Norwegian descent. It is likely that she killed both her husbands
and all of her children at different times, but it is certain that
she murdered most of her suitors, boyfriends, and her two daughters,
Myrtle and Lucy. The motive was greed-pure and simple; life
insurance policies and assets stolen or swindled from her suitors
became her source of income. Most reports put her death toll at more
than twenty victims over several decades, with some claiming in
excess of one hundred. Inconsistencies during her post mortem
examination; the corpse was reported to be two inches shorter than
Belle’s six feet, paved the way for Belle Gunnes to enter American
criminal folklore, a female Bluebeard.

5. Mary Ann Cotton Born: 1832; Died: 1873



Englishwoman Mary Ann Cotton is another for-profit serial killer,
predating Belle Gunnes by thirty years. Married at age twenty to
William Mowbray, the newlyweds settled in Plymouth, Devon, to start
their family. The couple had five children, four of whom died of
‘gastric fever and stomach pains’. Moving back to the north-east,
tragedy seemed to follow them; three more children born, three more
children died. William soon followed his offspring, dying of an
‘intestinal disorder’ in January 1865. British Prudential promptly
paid a 35 pound dividend, and a pattern was established. Her second
husband, George Ward, died of intestinal problems as well as one of
her two remaining children. The power of the press, always a force
to be reckoned with, caught up with Mary Ann. The local newspapers
discovered that as Mary Ann moved around northern England, she lost
three husbands, a lover, a friend, her mother and a dozen children,
all dying of stomach fever. She was hanged at Durham County Gaol,
March 24, 1873, for murder by arsenic poisoning. She died slowly,
the hangman using too short a drop for a ‘clean’ execution.

4. Ilse Koch Born: 1906; Died: 1967



“Die Hexe von Buchenwald” the Witch of Buchenwald, or “Buchenwälder
Schlampe” the Bitch of Buchenwald was the wife of Karl Koch,
commandant of the concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941,
and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943. Drunk on the absolute power rendered
by her husband, she reveled in torture and obscenity. Infamous for
her souvenirs; tattoos taken from the murdered inmates, her
reputation for debauchery was well earned. After building an indoor
sports arena in 1940, with 250,000 marks stolen from inmates, Ilsa
was promoted to Oberaufseherin or “chief overseer” of the few female
guards at Buchenwald. She committed suicide by hanging herself at
Aichach women’s prison on September 1, 1967.

3. Irma Grese Born: 1923; Died: 1945



Another product of the Nazi’s final solution, Irma Grese or the
“Bitch of Belsen” was a guard at concentration camps Ravensbrück,
Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Transferred to Auschwitz in 1943, (she
must have shown particular enthusiasm and dedication to the job),
she was promoted to Senior Supervisor, the 2nd highest ranking
female in camp, by the end of the year. In charge of over 30,000
Jewish female prisoners, she reveled in her work. Her work included;
savaging of prisoners by her trained and half starved dogs, sexual
excesses, arbitrary shootings, sadistic beatings with a plaited
whip, and selecting prisoners for the gas chamber. She enjoyed both
physical and emotional torture and habitually wore heavy boots and
carried a pistol to facilitate both.

2. Katherine Knight Born: 1956


The first Australian woman to be sentenced to a natural life term
without parole, Katherine Knight had a history of violence in
relationships. She mashed the dentures of one of her ex-husbands and
slashed the throat of another husband’s eight-week-old puppy before
his eyes. A heated relationship with John Charles Thomas Price
became public knowledge with an Apprehended Violence Order that
Price had filed against Knight and ended with Knight stabbing Price
to death with a butcher’s knife. He had been stabbed at least 37
times, both front and back, with many of the wounds penetrating
vital organs. She then skinned him and hung his “suit” from the door
frame in the living room, cut off his head and put it in the soup
pot, baked his buttocks, and prepared gravy and vegetables to
accompany the ‘roast’. The meal and a vindictive note were set out
for the children, luckily discovered by police before they arrived
home.

1. Elizabeth Bathory Born: 1560; Died: 1614





Countess Elizabeth Bathory is considered the most infamous serial
killer in Hungarian/Slovak history. Rumors had circulated for years
about missing peasant girls; offered well paid work at the castle,
they were never seen again. One of these rumors reached the ears of
King Mathias II, who sent a party of men to the massive Castle
Csejthe. The men found one girl dead and one dying. Another was
found wounded and others locked up. Described atrocities, collected
from testimony of witnesses, include; severe beatings over extended
periods of time, the use of needles, burning or mutilation of hands,
sometimes also of faces and genitalia, biting the flesh off the
faces, arms and other bodily parts, and the starving of victims. The
victim total is thought to number in the hundreds occurring over a
twenty-five year period. Due to her social status she was never
brought to trial but remained under house arrest in a single room
until her death. The idea that the Countess bathed in the blood of
her victims is folklore, and one of the few things she did not do.

Note: In order to clear one point up, Lizzie Borden is not on this
list because she was found innocent of the murder of her parents.

Thanks for Reading


Source:
http://listverse.com/2007/09/09/top-10-most-evil-women/

Nice article. Reading the heading, Bathory came to mind immediately but I didn't expect she would be no.1.

i think the most evil woman is from Whistler's painting

but Mr Bean's version

I couldn't help to notice all these women are quite ugly. Maybe they couldn't get a man to love them and hence they became "Evil" lol

I dunno, this lady seems like she should make the list too.

Originally Posted by oldysama

I dunno, this lady seems like she should make the list too.

Yes she must be in this list.
She deserves to be on top.

They also made a movie about the Countess, The Countess (2009) - IMDb.
She was one hell of an evil woman.

It's really interesting... Thanks for sharing.

Anyone that tries to swallow a testicle deserves to be on an evil list lmao.