Top 10 Most Evil Women in History

as girls they may have been made of sugar and spice and everything nice but as women they were pure evil welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 evil women in history number 10 Karla Homolka in 1990 canadiens Karla Homolka and her future husband Paul Bernardo raped Homolka 's own sister then let her choke to death on her own vomit not satisfied the pair raped and killed two other teenagers over the next couple of years claiming she was forced to kill by Bernardo Homolka copped a manslaughter plea by the time videotaped evidence proved she was no victim it was too late and she got away with a 12-year sentence Karla misled the authorities about her involvement in the crimes on the videos she was seen fully participating in the attacks at the tape surfaced earlier they could have affected her infamous plea deal number nine Beverly allit over a two-month period in 1991 British nurse Beverly Alek murdered four children in her care by various means she also tried to murder three more and seriously injured six others labelled the angel of death allit was found guilty and sentenced to 13 terms of life imprisonment hopefully they don't let her help out at the prison infirmary number 8 Leonarda Cianciulli the love of a mother is a great thing except when taken to extremes case in point Leonardo Chan Julie in Italy in the late 1930s Chan Julie's son was drafted believing only human sacrifices could keep her Sonny boys safe she brutally killed three of her neighbors she then boiled them and turned them into tea cakes and soap spawning her nickname the soap maker of Carrillo number seven Myra Hindley derided by the press as the most evil woman in Britain Myra Hindley and her partner Ian Cross carried out the Moors Murders in the early 1960s their victims whom they also tortured and sexually assaulted were five children and teenagers Henley's coldness and indifference to her deeds made her one of the most reviled women in the country until her death in 2002 number 6 Mary and cotton some people just can't hold their arsenic just ask Mary Ann cotton a notorious 19th century British serial killer who even inspired a child's nursery rhyme cotton is estimated to have poisoned as many as 21 people including 12 of her own children three husbands her mother and a lover but the hangman got back at her legend has it he intentionally used the wrong length of rope so her death would be longer and more painful number five Lizzie Borden Lizzie Borden of Massachusetts also inspired a macabre Surry rhyme but hers is inaccurate Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks and when she saw what she had done she gave her father 41 mrs. Borden only got 18 or 19 whacks her father 10 or 11 also there's a lot of debate as to whether Lizzie really did this dirty deed at all the jury at her 1892 trial acquitted her of the crime to be honest we can't be sure either way not because of the evidence but because the nursery rhyme is so damn catchy number four Belle Gunness Gunness is that to have killed at least 25 people but the real number might actually be closer to 40 she killed her own children as well as a long string of gullible husbands and suitors called a female Bluebeard Gunness may have been done in by her partner in crime but that's never actually been confirmed after all how do you explain the fact that the supposed corpse of the murderess was several inches shorter than the six-foot-tall Gunness number three Elsa Koch it's tough to choose between Elsa Koch the bitch of buchen vault and Irma Grese II the beast of belsen both were vile Nazis but we give the edge to Koch the wife of the commander of two notorious concentration camps Koch tortured and defiled prisoners and enjoyed selecting those destined for the gas chambers supposedly she also cut tattoos from dead prisoners to keep as souvenirs convicted of crimes against humanity after World War two she later hung herself in prison no tears were shed Ilsa was charged with personally selecting prisoners for murder a gruesome selection of skins and shrunken heads was shown to the cult number two Mary the first of England kings and queens have been known to kill at the drop of a hat Mary the first of England also known as Bloody Mary was more systematic wanting to restore Catholicism to England she simply burned a bunch of Protestants 283 to be exact her most heartless murder may have been that of the Archbishop of Canterbury he renounced Protestantism and rejoined the Catholic faith but she went ahead and burned him anyway not bloody sporting before we unveil our number one pick here are a few honorable or in this case dishonorable mentions I wanted to come clean tell the world that killed those men first degree robbed and killed him to keep from anyway this is the end to our work his skills on her husband and served her mum for the kids she wasn't mad she was just able sitting was convicted back in 1987 of killing her 4 month old daughter Tammy Lynn smothering her with a pillow tinning had nine children all of them died in infancy or just beyond his wife Raj was convicted of 10 counts of murder including that of her own child Heather number 1 Elizabeth báthory and the most evil woman in all of history Elizabeth báthory a Hungarian countess of the 16th and 17th centuries she enjoyed luring young women to her castle to torture mutilate and kill them just for kicks the estimated number of her victims goes as high as 650 legend has it that Bathory bathed in the blood of her victims it's probably not true but we wouldn't put anything past the blood countess do you agree with our list who do you think of the most evil women in history for more diabolical top 10s published every day be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com

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Keywords: women, evil women, killers, murder, death, most evil women in history, Elizabeth Bathory, Mary I of England, Bloody Mary, Ilse Koch, Belle Gunness, Irma Grese, Lizzie Borden, Mary Ann Cotton, Myra Hindley, Leonarda Cianciulli, Beverly Allitt

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Length: 6min 47sec (407 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 28 2014

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[u/Rockonfreakybro]

1 should have been the bitch from "dear Zachary"