Fantasies of Female Serial Killers
Police come to me when they have cases where they suspect a woman of serial murder. I am the expert on the topic having interviewed a large group of female serial killers back in the 1990's. From those interviews and studying their murders, I created the profiles of female serial killers. To this day, such a case is the most difficult type of homicide to work. People are reluctant to believe a woman could be so violent, and these women offenders are careful in the way they kill. They use covert murder methods such as asphyxiation or poisoning to kill, and they chose victims who are easy to kill.
People are even less likely to consider that females fantasize about killing. However they do! When I interviewed the female serial offenders, I learned a great deal. First, fantasy is an elaborate set of cognitions...