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Why do women kill? Love, jealousy, fear or self-defense… Such reasons are understandable. But what drives a mother who drowns her children, or a woman who has more than one ruined life on her account? Welcome to the dark world of female psychopathy! Killer mothers, sadists, sociopaths and serials who do not know pity and mercy. What drives their perverted consciousness?

Lydia Beneke, a well-known criminal psychologist, analyzes the nature of female evil. female psychopathy. Until recently, this topic was practically not studied. It turns out that women can be much more dangerous than men. Behind a sweet and harmless appearance, deceit, prudence, cunning and absolute composure can be hidden. They are driven by other motives, and close people are often in danger.

Meet the most famous female killers in history: Diana Downes, Gertrude Baniszewski, Susan Smith, Maribeth Tinning, Eileen Wuornos, who became the prototype of the heroine Charlize Theron in movie Monster. Find out where such a thirst for violence comes from and how psychological profiling works in such cases.

Shocking facts do not speak in favor of female killers - deceit, prudence, cunning and absolute composure. Many of the facts of their crimes make your hair stand on end. The motives are discouraging, and the victims are immensely compassionate. After all, so often children become them ...

"Beneke is one of the stars on the German psychological scene." –

“An extraordinary story of nightmarish deeds.” –

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