Miranda Barbour: Female Serial Killers

To begin with, women serial killers are deadlier because they are more in touch with their emotions. To further explain this, about ninety percent of female serial killers never kill for money or for no reason at all. They find their targets through passion and excitement. Whether their target was a drug lord or a child predator, there is always a more understandable reason as to why they were killed. For example, Miranda Barbour decided to murder between twenty-two to forty-five people who Barbour claimed “deserved it.” She stated that “the justice system doesn’t work” which is why she carried out her murders. One of her first victims was Troy LaFerrara. Barbour went undercover and claimed she was a sixteen year old looking for sexual relations …show more content…
She told authorities that the other slaves were in the attic but she refused to give them the keys. Consequently, they knocked the attic door down and what they discovered was horrifying. “Seven slaves, more or less horribly mutilated, hung by their necks from the wall.” (Conliffe). LaLaurie was aware that the slaves were going to be found, so she decided to flee and because of her status and money the need to find her was never there. Therefore, many people would never be suspected of murderers until they are exposed because authorities and authorities always follow the stereotypical image of a serial …show more content…
They will usually portray themselves as the innocent and grieving person, however, deep inside they are the only ones who know the truth. They hide behind a fake wall and watch as everyone else suffers from the loss while they are just planning for their next victim. Nannie Doss or as some people may call her the “Giggling Granny”, is one of those kinds of serial killers. With a body count of twelve victims, Doss was a brutal killer who would poison her victims with arsenic and then proceed to chop them up. You might be asking who her victims were. From four husbands to one mother-in-law to even her own mother, each and every one of her victims was from her family. Over a period of thirty years, slowly she would start to kill off her family. Unfortunately, no one could see behind her innocent façade which was the reason why she kept killing. However, after a failed attempt to murder her late husband, she finished him off with a heavy dose of arsenic in his coffee after his return home. An autopsy confirmed that the arsenic was the cause of his death and police were able to prove that she was the one behind all of the murders. While she may have been caught, she hid behind a façade that made her look innocent for many years, thus proving that women can be more convincing when it comes to proving their innocence