Infamous Murders: Women Who Kill
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On 23rd March 1935, a tragic love triangle in South England resulted in the death of an elderly man, and the conviction of his young wife's lover.
Architect Francis Rattenbury was found in a pool of blood in his house, the 'Villa Madeira'. Police arrived to find Mr Rattenbury's young wife, Alma (pictured), drunk and hysterical. The very next day she was charged with attempted murder, along with her seventeen-year-old chauffeur George Stoner.
Alma and Stoner soon became lovers after he was employed by her husband. Young Stoner fell deeply in love and couldn't bear to share Alma with her elderly husband. The trial began on 27th May 1935 at the Old Bailey, London. The jury found Stoner guilty and sentenced him to death, but Alma was found innocent. She was distraught by the verdict, and a month later she plunged a knife into her breast five times before throwing herself into the river Avon.
In the late 1960s a radical left wing terrorist group came to prominence in Germany by bombing, killing and maiming. They called themselves the Red Army Faction, but the press dubbed them The Baader Meinhof Gang, after the leaders Andreas Baader and journalist Ulrike Meinhof.
They hoped for a People's Revolution, but soon became addicted to the glory and power of the terrorist lifestyle. In June 1972, Ulrike Meinhof was captured in a dilapidated flat in Hanover. Her trial began in May 1975, and she was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for 'criminal association'. On Mothers Day 1976 Ulrike Meinhof was found hanged in her cell. Isolated, lonely and estranged from her children, Meinhof had committed suicide.
In Florida in 1990, a mentally damaged bi-sexual exacted her revenge on men - by killing them. Prostitute Aileen Wuornos shot and killed seven men she had picked up off the side of the road.
On 14th January 1992, 33-year-old Wuornos went on trial for murder. She was the product of an unhappy and abusive childhood and many people believed that Wuornos' unhappy past triggered her murderous rampage. But for the victim's families that was no excuse. Wuornos was sentenced to death for four of the murders that have been attributed to her.
Architect Francis Rattenbury was found in a pool of blood in his house, the 'Villa Madeira'. Police arrived to find Mr Rattenbury's young wife, Alma (pictured), drunk and hysterical. The very next day she was charged with attempted murder, along with her seventeen-year-old chauffeur George Stoner.
Alma and Stoner soon became lovers after he was employed by her husband. Young Stoner fell deeply in love and couldn't bear to share Alma with her elderly husband. The trial began on 27th May 1935 at the Old Bailey, London. The jury found Stoner guilty and sentenced him to death, but Alma was found innocent. She was distraught by the verdict, and a month later she plunged a knife into her breast five times before throwing herself into the river Avon.
In the late 1960s a radical left wing terrorist group came to prominence in Germany by bombing, killing and maiming. They called themselves the Red Army Faction, but the press dubbed them The Baader Meinhof Gang, after the leaders Andreas Baader and journalist Ulrike Meinhof.
They hoped for a People's Revolution, but soon became addicted to the glory and power of the terrorist lifestyle. In June 1972, Ulrike Meinhof was captured in a dilapidated flat in Hanover. Her trial began in May 1975, and she was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for 'criminal association'. On Mothers Day 1976 Ulrike Meinhof was found hanged in her cell. Isolated, lonely and estranged from her children, Meinhof had committed suicide.
In Florida in 1990, a mentally damaged bi-sexual exacted her revenge on men - by killing them. Prostitute Aileen Wuornos shot and killed seven men she had picked up off the side of the road.
On 14th January 1992, 33-year-old Wuornos went on trial for murder. She was the product of an unhappy and abusive childhood and many people believed that Wuornos' unhappy past triggered her murderous rampage. But for the victim's families that was no excuse. Wuornos was sentenced to death for four of the murders that have been attributed to her.
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