THERE ARE NO FEMALE SERIAL KILLERS: What The FBI Got Wrong In 1998

8 November - 1 hour 3 mins
Podcast Series Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

The press called Aileen Wuornos America's first female serial killer, and in 1998 an FBI profiler went further, saying there were no female serial killers at all. Jack the Ripper's own countrywoman, Mary Ann Cotton, had already claimed three or four times as many victims as he did, most of them children, and historians still chase the Ripper's identity while almost never mentioning her.

READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mw3nzvbk

FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Female serial killers… they are a lot more common than you think. 
(We’re Surrounded by Female Serial Killers) *** The founder of the website Chicago Hauntings, Ursula Bielski, shar...

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