English: The most infamous female criminals and killers: [13,765]

Female criminals. and serial killer: Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos was a serial killer who was executed in 2002 for the murder of five men over the course of a year. Before she began to kill, Wuornos had worked as a prostitute for years until she met a hotel cleaning lady with whom she began a relationship. The two started robbing and murdering her clients after they decided that the money she made from prostitution alone was not enough to get by on. During her trial, she claimed that all the men she killed had been either rapists or had attempted to rape her. Just before she was to be executed, she requested that her final meal be a simple, black cup of coffee.

Female criminals: Andrea Yates
Infamous for the murder of her five children, Andrea Yates currently resides in a minimum security psychiatric hospital after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. After years of depression and multiple suicide attempts, she was eventually left alone with just enough time to draw a bath and drown each of her children one by one. After drowning them, she placed her youngest sons in their beds while leaving her oldest one in the tub with her only daughter in his arms. Before being arrested for the murders, she called her husband at work and simply repeated the phrase “It’s time” over and over again.

Infamous female criminals: Griselda Blanco
Known as The Cocaine Godmother, Griselda Blanco was one of the most brutal and notorious drug lords in the history of the cocaine trade. After a violent upbringing that was strung together by a series of criminal acts, Griselda eventually found her way into the cocaine business where she played a key role in what would become known as the Cocaine Cowboy Wars of the 1970s and 1980s in Miami. Blanco was well known for ordering brutal assassinations when warring with other drug lords and for running her business even while serving prison terms throughout her life. After being deported to Colombia, she spent the remainder of her days plying her trade until she was shot twice in the head by a gunman riding a motorcycle on September 3, 2012.

Infamous criminal: Stacey Castor
Stacey Castor is the woman the media dubbed “The Black Widow” for the murder of her two husbands and the attempted murder of her daughter between 1999 and 2007. Investigators believe that she murdered her first and second husbands through anti-freeze poisoning and had even force-fed her second husband the liquid using a turkey baster. When she realized that the police may have discovered that she had killed her husbands, she attempted to poison her daughter with painkillers in an alcoholic drink and frame her for murder by placing a suicide note next to her comatose body. Unfortunately for Stacey, her daughter survived and Castor was sent to prison.

Female criminal: Patty Hearst
At the time of her kidnapping, Patty Hearst was a wealthy heiress and actress who was targeted by the radical left movement known as the Symbionese Liberation Army. After she was kidnapped, Hearst was later shown to have renounced her parents and to have joined the SLA in order to support their cause and rob banks with them.  Despite the defense’s courtroom claims that she was brainwashed, Hearst was later imprisoned for her role in the SLA robberies. Eventually, though, Hearst was released; President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence and President Clinton wiped her record wiped clean via a Presidential pardon.

Infamous criminal: Bonnie Parker
One half of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde duo, Bonnie Parker was a member of the Barrow Gang that shot its way through numerous thefts before its demise in 1934. According to some historians, there is actually no proof that Bonnie ever shot a person during the Bonnie and Clyde crime spree, but rather it was her good looks that drove the unsavory duo into national notoriety. Nevertheless, Bonnie met her end when a posse of Texas and Louisiana police officers ambushed their automobile and shot them. When her former husband learned of her death while in prison he said, “I’m glad [she] went out like [she] did. It’s much better than being caught.”
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Expose:
Olga Hepnarová (June 30, 1951 – March 12, 1975) was a Czech mass murderer, who in 1973 killed eight people with a truck. She was convicted and executed in 1975, the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia and one of the last by the use of short-drop hanging.

Her life:  Olga Hepnarová was born on June 30, 1951 in Prague. She was the daughter of a bank clerk and her mother was a dentist. She was an average child, but she later developed psychiatric problems; in 1964 she attempted suicide by swallowing medication, and spent a year in a psychiatric ward in Opařany. Later, she worked in various places but was fired shortly after being hired. She ended up as a truck driver.

As a mass murder:  On July 10, 1973 she drove a truck into a group of about 25 people waiting for a tram in Prague 7, on a street today named after Milada Horáková (then it was named "Defenders of Peace"). Three people died immediately, three more died later the same day and two in a few days (all aged between 60 to 79). Six were badly injured, six lightly. Before the murder, she sent a letter to two newspapers (Svobodné slovo and Mladý svět) explaining her action as revenge for all the hatred against her by her family and the world. Due to the slowness of the postal system the letter was received two days after the murder. She had planned the revenge against society in her head for a long time and included ideas of derailing a train or an explosion.

    “.. I am a loner. A destroyed man. A man destroyed by people... I have a choice - to kill myself or to kill others. I choose – ‘To revenge my haters.’ It would be too easy to leave this world as an unknown suicide. The society is too indifferent, rightly so. My verdict is: I, Olga Hepnarová, the victim of your bestiality, sentence you to death penalty. During the investigation, Hepnarová confirmed her intention was to kill as many people as possible and she expressed no regret. Psychology experts found her fully aware of her actions. She planned her actions, as she considered a slope leading to the stop. That allowed her to gain speed for the maximum death toll. The collision was her second attempt, as she felt there were not enough people on her first run. On April 6, 1974, she was sentenced for murder to death by the City Court; the sentence was affirmed by higher instance courts and the Supreme Court requalified the sentence to public endangerement with the same punishment upheld. After several psychiatric examinations she was deemed criminally responsible for her actions. The Prime minister Lubomír Štrougal refused the request for pardon. The execution took place on March 12, 1975 in the Pankrác Prison in Prague. She was the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia. According to the executioner, as recorded by writer Bohumil Hrabal, just before the execution Hepnarová collapsed and had to be dragged to the gallows. The executioner of Hepnarova, years later, admitted that he had to quit his job, as he felt she made his job `disgusting` (she fought, threw up and defecated herself prior to hanging). The reliability of this tale, however, is put in question by the author of the detailed website about Hepnarová.
 

Olga Hepnarová : was the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia

According to the ‘Official Newspaper Report:’
Background:  Olga Hepnarová was born on June 30, 1951 to a middle class family in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her father was a bank clerk, her mother a dentist. She did quite well at school but as she grew older she found it hard to communicate with her parents and classmates. Later she claimed that she could hardly approach people and that the world was her enemy. In 1964, at the age of 13, she attempted suicide by taking an overdose and spent a year in a psychiatric hospital. The rest of her teens passed without incident, but, as a young adult she became obsessed by feelings of hatred for both her family and society as a whole, and was reported to have heard voices, according to several sources.

The crime:  On June 7th, 1973, she sent a letter to two newspapers explaining her planned action, as revenge for all the perceived hatred against her. Due to the slowness of the postal system the letter did not arrive until two days after the crime. In the letter she stated "Ladies and gentlemen, it is not just a letter, it is my declaration. I am writing it as I do want you to appreciate what I am going to do. I do not want you to doubt about my sanity... I am going to steal a bus today and run into a crowd of people at full speed. It will happen somewhere in Prague 7. I intend to kill people. I know I will be on trial and punished . It would be easy to leave this world as an unknown self-murderer. The society is too pushy and it is too difficult to judge... Here is my judgment: I, Olga Hepnarová, the victim of your beastliness, sentence you to death by running over." On 10th July 1973, Olga rented this truck, and spent nearly half an hour circling a busy tram stop waiting for a satisfactory number of people to gather there. When some 25 people were present she drove the lorry straight into them at speed. Three of her victims died at the scene, two more later that day, and another three died within days of the attack. Six more were badly injured and a further six slightly. Ironically the street on which the crime occurred has since been re-named after another hanged woman, Milada Horakova, now a Czech heroine.

Her arrest and trial:  She was arrested and told detectives that it was her intention was to kill as many people as possible. She expressed no regret for her actions. In her statement she said "There were no trams, no cars, nothing was in my way. I said to myself that was the right time to do it. I drove on the pavement, went on and ran into the crowd of people knocking them down." On remand she was examined by prison psychologists who were not able to diagnose her as legally insane. She came to trial in 1974 at the Municipal court in Prague. She was represented by an experienced lawyer but refused to cooperate with him, insisting on her sanity. She tried to make a speech accusing society. "If the society destroys individuals, individuals can destroy the society." "I wanted to take my revenge on the society, including my family, because they are my enemy". "Knowing that I managed to do it, I felt a kind of release and satisfaction."

On April the 6th, 1974, she was found guilty of all eight murders and sentenced to death by hanging. Her mother initiated an appeal to the Czech Supreme Court, but this was rejected and the sentence confirmed. The Supreme Court of the Czechoslovak Socialistic Republic carried out a judicial review which upheld the lower court’s ruling. On March the 3rd, 1975, Gustáv Husák, the President of the Czechoslovac Socialistic Republic, refused her mother's plea for mercy and her execution was fixed for March the 12th, 9 days later. Interviewed in prison, Olga told reporters that "I am not affraid of the death sentence, I do accept it".

Her televised execution:  Olga was hanged on March 12th, 1975 in Pankrác prison, Prague. Despite what she had told reporters earlier, when the time came she was reportedly very afraid of dying. The famous Czech writer, Bohumil Hrabal, interviewed the Pankrác hangman some years later, and he (the hangman) claimed that Olga had been resigned and fatalistic for most of her stay on death row, but that when the time came for her to die, she became hysterical, begged for her life, and lost control of her bodily functions as she was dragged kicking and screaming to the gallows. The hangman went on to say that the experience had traumatized him, and caused him to become totally disgusted with his job. The gallows used for Olga’s execution and was installed in 1954 to replace pole hanging. Photo here. In the execution room she was placed on the 32 inch square metal trap doors and the simple noose, tied to an iron bar projecting from the wall above her, placed around her neck. When the hangman pulled the lever she dropped just a few inches and strangled to death. She was 23 years, 8 months and 10 days old and was the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia.

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Expose:  Suzane Louise Freiin von Richthofen (born November 3, 1983), is a Brazilian who murdered her own parents on October 31, 2002 with help from her boyfriend and his brother. She was put on trial in São Paulo in July 2006 and was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment.

Background and early life:  Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Suzane is the daughter of the German engineer Manfred Albert Freiherr von Richthofen, and his wife, Marisia von Richthofen (née Marísia Abdalla), a Brazilian of Lebanese descent. Her father was working as a director of the State Company for Highway Development in São Paulo, her mother was a psychiatrist. Suzane has a younger brother, Andreas Freiherr von Richthofen, born in 1987. Her father claimed to be a grandnephew of Manfred von Richthofen, German war pilot of World War I, but this is still disputed; the German von Richthofen family denies any link to them. After graduating from a German High School, Suzane studied law at Pontifícia Universidade Católica. She was described as happy, but a little shy. Suzane was known to have a good relation with her parents and her brother. In the summer of 1999, she started practising Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and that's where she got to know Daniel Cravinhos de Paula e Silva, who became her boyfriend and accomplice of the murder.

The murders:  In the late hours of October 31, 2002, Suzane von Richthofen, who had planned the murder of her parents for months, checked if they were already asleep, then disconnected the alarm system of the estate and opened the door to her 21-year-old-boyfriend, Daniel Cravinhos and his brother, 26-year-old Christian Cravinhos who had waited outside. The Cravinhos brothers went upstairs to the parents´ bedroom and hit them with iron sticks before strangling them with towels. Suzane was waiting in the living room downstairs. After the murder was accomplished, the three youngsters simulated a break-in by pocketing money they found, spreading papers in the library and creating a mess in the house. Then they left, Suzane and Daniel went for a motel, Christian went to a fast-food restaurant. Early in the Morning, Suzane and Daniel picked up her little brother, Andreas, then aged 15, at an internet cafe and went home, where they "discovered" the crime, called the police at once and told them their story. The investigating officers, however, doubted a burglary crime and thought of someone familiar to the victims, soon began to question the children and the employees of the Richthofen family. What made them suspicious was not only the crime scene, with the alarm system switched off and the papers spread very regularly, as if by design, but also the extraordinary coolness of Suzane, who was seen in the house's swimming pool with Daniel the day after the murder, and who celebrated her 19th birthday with friends just hours after the parents´ burial. The investigators focused their attention on Suzane and her boyfriend and began shadowing them. The clue for the arrest came with Christian Cravinhos, who had bought a motorcycle a few days later and paid cash in 100-dollar bills. A few days later, on November 9, 2002 he was arrested, as well as his brother and Suzane, who soon confessed the murder. Suzane was released from prison in May 2005, when the Supreme Court of Justice granted her habeas corpus. She then awaited her trial in house arrest.

The motives:  Suzane's parents, who at first allowed her relationship to Daniel Cravinhos, changed their opinion when they discovered that he used marijuana almost daily. Also, his lower-class background and his unwillingness to work or to attend school caused their disagreement. In July, 2002, her parents were on vacation, so Daniel moved in with the children for a month, much to Suzane's delight. When the parents came back home, Suzane suggested they buy her a flat in which she could live with Daniel, but her father refused, saying that she could do whatever she liked to only if she earned money herself. She continued meeting Daniel secretly. Suzane claimed that she did all for love, for fear that Daniel would leave her if the parents were not killed. Her lawyer, Denivaldo Barni, said that Suzane had no motive at all, but was forced to the crime by Daniel, whom she adored like a god. Another part of the motive may have been the parents wealth, estimated to about seventeen million dollars, which Suzane would inherit in case of the parents´ death. As Prosecutor Roberto Tardelli put it, Suzane wanted to "get her hands on the money and assets her parents had worked so hard to obtain", she "wanted her freedom and independence without having to work for it". On trial, Daniel Cravinhos claimed that Suzane was physically violated by her father, which she and her brother Andreas von Richthofen deny. It was also claimed that the Richthofen parents were alcoholics, but in the autopsy no alcohol was detected in their bodies.

The trial:  On June 5, 2006, Suzane Freiin von Richthofen, along with the Cravinhos, was put on trial in São Paulo, for homicídio qualificado, the equivalent of First Degree Murder in Brazilian law. The Trial was delayed and finally started on July 17. On trial, Suzane blamed Daniel Cravinhos for everything, while the Cravinhos brothers claimed that they acted upon her desire. Prosecutor Roberto Tardelli, however, called Suzane the "mastermind" of the crime. Roberto Tardelli called for 50 years of imprisonment for each of the three defendants. She was described as "personification of the evil blonde". On July 22, 2006 Suzane was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the crime. Daniel Cravinhos got the same sentence and his brother Christian was sentenced to 38 years for conspiracy.  As of April 2016, she is in custody in a women's prison outside São Paulo.

She got the brazilian public attention ahe wanted:  The case generated significant media attention in Brazil due to the stark contrast between the brutal crime and the personality of the daughter. While the Cravinhos brothers fitted in the scheme of the uneducated, unemployed, drug-addicted killers, this was not true for Suzane: She was a pretty, blond girl from an upper-middle-class family of German and Lebanese descent, well-behaved, always doing well at school, speaking three foreign languages and doing ballet. The contrast between her affluent upbringing and the cruelty of the crime shocked the country. Also, as discussion emerged in the Brazilian public about the worth of family values and the effects of education, the question as to whether Suzane was the evil mind behind the crime or just Daniel's tool was also heavily discussed. Many people who initially were emotionally on Suzane's side, changed their opinion when a TV interview with her was shown. Before the interview, when the cameras were already on, she was instructed for the interview by her lawyer. He told her to cry out loud during the broadcast, to create public sympathy. In the outcome, however, the interview was a major blast for her credibility. In court, Suzane still was very cool, while the Cravinhos brothers were crying most of the time. At one occasion, she even started to laugh. One correspondent tried to explain Suzane through Hannah Arendt's theory of the "Banality of evil."

As always, stay safe !

Bird

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