A Bunch of WEIRDO Female Serial Killers

“Women are only violent in self-defense.” Bullshit. “Women are less likely to commit domestic violence than men.” Poppycock. “Female serial killers are super-duper extra rare (compared with male serial killers).” A flat out lie. “Female serial killers only engage in sadistic sexual perversion as passive puppets of make serial killer partners.” Gimme a friggin' break!

Feminists lie. Sorry, but you’re just going to have to get used facing up to this plain and simple fact. You cannot trust a feminist to tell the truth about anything – everything is distorted through the lens of their stupid gimmicky theories, their biases, their language manipulation, all deriving from their irrational, scientifically retarded ideological superstitions.

This is not to say that male experts on serial killer are not mostly full of shit up to their eyebrows too. They perpetuate false information about male serial killers sometimes and much more frequently about females. It seems be getting worse every year, when we look at the silly copy-cat feminism-derived assertions of Scott Bonn, PhD (see article).

Here’s a roster of the weird female serial killers featured below:

1) Moulay Hassan – Morocco

2) Elena Lobacheva – Russia

3) Guadelupe Bejarano – Mexico

4) Elizabeth & Mary Branch – England

5) Raya and Sakina Abdel Al – Egypt

6) Georgia Tann – USA

7) Helen Geisen-Volk – USA

8) Tamara Samsonova – Russia

9) Mary Bateman – England

10) Lizzie Halliday – USA

11) Enriqueta Marti – Spain

12) Credonia Mwerinde – Uganda

13) Louise Lindloff – USA

14) Emma Heppermann – USA
15) Roberta Elder – USA
16) Bruna Oliveira da Silva & Isabel Cristina Pires – Brazil
17) Kanae Kijima – Japan
18) Sabine Hilschenz – Germany

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WEIRDO FSK #1 -- 1938 – Moulay Hassen – Fez, Morocco

This woman, known after her 1936 arrest as the “Ogress of Fez,”  was a control freak, a control freak from hell to be more precise. Oum-el-Hassen, known as Moulay Hassen, got away with torture and murder, more than a hundred times, it is said, before she slipped up.

“It was this sadistic-minded woman’s diabolical joy to abduct attractive young girls, several of European nationality, and use them in staging fantastic, indescribable orgies for the entertainment of her depraved guests. Those who resisted, she shacked in her fetid, verminous dungeons to be whipped, tattooed with hot irons, and bastinadoed at leisure. Finally, if they still remained defiant, they were dismembered and smuggled out of the city for burial in the sands. It says much for the courage of Moulay Hassan’s girl victims that 100 of them at least, according to authenticated evidence, chose death even this awful form rather then yield to her demands.”

“Of the fourteen girls known to have been inmates of this club in the past year [1938], three have disappeared, four are dead, and seven have been tortured so badly that they will be invalids for life. Once a girl entered this haunt she was never seen again outside.”

Madame Hassen was once a famous dancer who became a madame for prostitutes. She kidnapped, tortured and serially murdered many young women (as well as boys). She was discovered to be a serial killer following the discovery bag full of of dismembered body parts of Cherifa, one of her victims. She fed human flesh to her cats. She was convicted and sentenced to death, but due to her powerful political connections she was freed to continue her criminal career. Convicted of new crimes she was sentenced to only 15 years in prison.

The famous French writer, Colette, was hired by a Paris newspaper to travel to Morocco to report on the sensational trial. Collette interpreted the live story of Oum-el-Hassen through an ideological lens – in social constructionist feminist terms. The sadistic murderess was not, in the feminist thought-universe, personally responsible for her monstrous behavior. No: “the patriarchy did it” – this despite there being no explanation why other women in the region failed to develop similar sociopathic personalities.

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WEIRDO FSK #2 -- 2015 – Elena Lobacheva – Moscow, Russia

A serial killer couple was placed under arrest in Moscow on February 20, 2015.

Their last attack, on a janitor, occurred on February 15, but the victim, a street cleaner,  was able to escape the murder attempt by fending the killers off with a screwdriver. He suffered knife wounds and found his way to a hospital where he was placed in an intensive care unit. He was able to give police a good description of the couple, which led to their arrest.

The press had been aware for some time that the unidentified couple had been targeting homeless men and had nicknamed them “The Cleaners.” All of the victims were killed by a large number of knife stabs.

Beginning in July 2014, Elena Lobacheva (Елены Лобачёвой), 25, and Paul Voitov, 20, (according to police allegations) murdered 12 men in Moscow, all homeless, with one exception, Sergei Yevseyev, a middle-class bank employee. The male partner, Paul Voitov, claimed their motivation was to “clean up” the city by killing alcoholic homeless men. Russian media nicknamed Elena “Chucky’s Bride.”

Elena Lobacheva is a sexual sadist, with her 20-year-old male accomplice, whose alternative sexuality preference involved stabbing 12 men (up to 107 times), all strangers, randomly selected, to death, and photographing them “with their stomachs cut open.” She was, as she claimed,  inspired to become a murderess by the movie “Bride of Chucky,” and has a tattoo of the Chucky character on her arm.

English language news sources broke the story of the arrest on February 24 and announced Elena’s shocking confession regarding her sexual perversion on February 27.

Elena Lobacheva is quoting as stating: “Randomly stabbing the body of a dying human brought me pleasure comparable to sexual pleasure.”

Olga Lobacheva, mother of the confessed female serial killer, has announced, in essence, that her daughter is a nice girl who wouldn’t hurt a fly.

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WEIRDO FSK #3 -- 1892 – Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano – Mexico City, Mexico

“La Bejarano” tortured, sexually mutilated three orphaned teenaged girls. Wikipedia states:  “She attracted her victims, young and poor girls, offering employment as a servant in her household. Only after the victim had been installed in the domicile were the true intentions of the mistress revealed. The girl would be enslaved and subjected to sexual torture with a markedly sexual nature. Guadalupe especially enjoyed forcing the girls to sit naked on a burning brazier (roman chair); she would strip them and hang them from the ceiling by the wrists and flog them with a cattle whip. Finally the victims would be starved to death.”

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/68754?locale=en

Other tortures mentioned in newspaper accounts: “Among these may be cited the dragging of the child across the floor, the application of burning matches to the exposed parts of her body and her confinement for hours at a time under the flooring of the room, there to fight for her life with mice and vermin and breathe the fetid air of her damp surroundings.”

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WEIRDO FSK # 4 – 1740 – Elizabeth & Mary Branch – Taunton, Somerset, England

“Elizabeth, aged 67, and her daughter Mary, 24, were both charged with the cruel murder of their maid, Jane Butterworth. A transcript of their trial, which took place at Taunton, Somerset, in March 1740, reported that: It was obvious, judging by the suspicions of their neighbours, that both the accused had also committed other murders in the past. Mrs Branch’s husband died under circumstances that led others who lived nearby to believe she had poisoned him and they were convinced that she had hanged her mother, after murdering her, to avoid an investigation into the cause of the death. Human bones were also discovered in a well near her [Elizabeth’s] farm, which were believed to be those of one of her servant girls who disappeared and was never heard from again.”

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WEIRDO FSK # 5 – 1920 – Raya & Sakina Aly Hammam – Alexandria, Egypt

Sisters Raya and Sakina were convicted, along with their mates and two other accomplices, on May 16, 1921 of 17 murders of women in the Labban quarter of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. The sisters were operators of four underground “houses of depravity.” Their victims were visitors some of whom were prostitutes, others married women using the facilities for trysts.

Their killing career began in November 1919. The public became aware of the serial murders of women only in November of the following year when Al-Ahram newspaper displayed the shocking headline: “Women slaughtered in Labban: 12 corpses unearthed.” The murderers’ confessions revealed that they would drug the victims by offering them a drink, then strangle them, working as a team, each with a specific task: “one of the killers would clamp his hands over the victim’s mouth, another would grab hold of her throat, a third would hold her hands behind her back and the fourth would pin down her feet until she stopped breathing. Abdel-Aal was in charge of holding the feet.”

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WEIRDO FSK # 6 – 1950 – Georgia Tann – Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Georgia Tann may well be the most prolific serial killer in US history. During Tann’s tenure as head of the organization she founded, Tennessee Children’s Home Society, in Memphis, the region had the highest infant mortality rate in the nation. Her practice was to rid herself of those babies put in her charge she deemed unsaleable by leaving them unattended out in the sun until they broiled to death. She and her lover and male sexual deviants she employed would beat and torture children for the perverse sexual thrill of it.

According to one surviving victim, Georgia and her companion would hit the children “on the scalp so no one could see the bruises.” Favored forms of child torture at the Home included tying a rope around a child’s wrists and hang it up on a coat rack and dangling a child from a rope down the laundry chute.

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WEIRDO FSK # 7 – 1925 – Helen Geisen-Volk – New York, New York, USA

She is New York City’s worst serial killer.

Helen Geisen-Volk was a child care provider and child trafficker who abused, battered and murdered scores of children, mostly babies. In her own words: “Babies and animals should be disciplined all the same. When they become unruly, I hold them under water or push them in closets or bang them. I’ve trained children for 20 years that way.” An exchange at her trial: “Didn’t fifty-three infants die in your place?” asked District Attorney Pecora. “No,” was Mrs. Geisen-Volk’s reply. “There were only twelve or fourteen deaths.”

A neighbor, Mrs. Josephine Kass, of the murderess saw such “harrowing sights” that she suffered a nervous breakdown and moved away to California. Another woman, the mother of one of the baby farmer’s victims, little William Angerer, suffered a nervous breakdown as well.

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WEIRDO FSK # 8 – 2015 – Tamara Samsonova – St. Petersburg, Russia

Tamara Samsonova, 68, was arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia July 27, 2015 after her image was captured on a closed circuit security camera dragging a bag suspected of containing human body parts. The remains were presumed to be those of 79-year-old Valentina Ulanova, a paralytic  who Samsanova was the caretaker for. Ulanova’s headless body was found near a pond on Dimitrova Street in St. Petersburg.

In one of the clips from the CCTV footage, Samsonova is seen carrying a saucepan downstairs and exiting the building where the victim lived, located a few blocks from her fiend, and killer. The saucepan contained the head of Valentina.

RT News reports that: “First the upper torso, missing the head and one hand, was found wrapped in a shower curtain. Shortly afterwards a plastic bag with hips and thighs was discovered. The body had been cut into eight pieces.

Samsonova, who had recently been in a hospital receiving mental health treatment, confessed, telling police she had gotten tired of her companion. The 79-year-old had offended her, Samsonova said, for having failed to wash out the tea cups.

Police discovered diaries written by Samsonova which included entries in three languages (Russian, German English) detailing eleven dismemberment murders that took place over a span of then years. These volumes were among books on black magic and astrology. The press dubbed her the “Granny Ripper.” Others have given her the moniker of the ogress of Russian, folklore, Babushka Yaga (“Baba Yaga”).

A ‘book of spells’ with missing pages belonging to Samsonova was found by the police. Pages from the same book were found in packages containing the dismembered the remains of the 2003 murder victim.

A number of unsolved murder cases – in which victims had been dismembered, with body parts in bags found across the city – are being reinvestigated by police. The diaries are being used in attempt to match the detailed descriptions to the evidence on file. The total number of possible murders, based on the diary plus the evidence, is 13.

~ Other Murders ~

2003 – Male tenant, 44-year-old native of  Norilsk; his headless, armless and legless was found on Dimitrova Street.

2005 – Samsonova reported her husband missing in 2005. He was never found. It is suspected she murdered him. A neighbor named Maria, interviewed by reporters, told how she once asked Samsonova about the absence of her husband and was answered with: “Oh, it's very sad - he just left and disappeared.”

Samsonova confessed to murdering and dismembering another tenant (English language news reports don’t mention the year). Bags of remains were found around Frunzensky district of the city. Police say that Samsonova would drug her victims to immobilize them before murdering them.

~ Her Soviet Past ~

After the arrest, police found blood spots in her bathroom, a saw and a knife they suspect she used to cut up the corpses of her victims.

Samsonova lied to police about her background, claiming she was a retired actress and a graduate of the Vaganov Ballet Academy, when in fact she was a former Soviet “monitor” who surveilled hotel guests at the Grand Hotel Europe, which was once regarded the most luxurious hotels in the world.

The description of Samsonova’s job “monitoring” hotel guests describes what in the Soviet era was a KGB-employed prostitute. Prostitution was illegal in the Soviet era, yet prostitutes were used by the KGB as informants, assigned to hotels to collect information on foreign guests.

~ Continuing Investigation ~

On August 5, 2015 the sensational news that Samsonova may cannibalized her victims appeared in the international media. Police are giving out little about their ongoing investigation, but reports are that the woman had cut out the lungs of those she murdered and consumed the organs.

The information was given by unidentified sources in Russia’s Investigative Committee (equivalent of USA’s FBI). Forensic reports indicate that internal organs, in particular lungs, were removed from victims’ bodies.

Another sensational piece of the story is the allegation that her final victim, 79-year-old Valentina Ulanova, was still living (but drugged) when her friend and caretaker began to use a hacksaw to cut her to pieces.

Several quotations from the diaries were given to the press. Referring to a tenant to whom she had rented a spare room, she wrote: “I killed my tenant Volodya, cut him to pieces in the bathroom with a knife, put the pieces of his body in plastic bags and threw them away.”

~ Before the Court ~

When Samsonova appeared in court in the opening week of August, 2015 to face the first charges to be made against her, the murder of her friend Ulanova, the prisoner declared to Judge Roman Chebotaryov:

“I was getting ready for this court action for dozens of years. It was all done deliberately. With this last murder I closed the chapter.”

He replied: “I am asked to arrest you. What do you think?”

Her answer was: “You decide, your honor. I am guilty and I deserve a punishment.”

 

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WEIRDO FSK # 9 – 1808 – Mary Bateman – Leeds, England

Mary Bateman, the "Yorkshire Witch," was a hoaxer and murderess who was executed for her crimes. She is thought to have poisoned seven victims, two of whom survived. After execution her corpse was skinned, and pouches were made from the leather. He skeleton was placed on public display, where it can still be seen in the Thackray Museum in Leeds.

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WEIRDO FSK # 10 – 1893 – Lizzie Halliday – Burlingham, New York, USA

Lizzie Halliday, known in New York state in her day as “the worst woman on earth,” murdered at least six persons, attempted to murder two others and is suspected of having murdered others. Among her victims were two husbands – one of whom survived a poisoning attempt – a retarded step-son, two neighbor women and two attendants in the insane asylum where she was sent in lieu of execution for three 1893 murders. One of the female attendants survived a strangling in 1895, the other Lizzie stabbed with scissors more than 200 times.

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WEIRDO FSK # 10 – 2000 – Credonia Mwerinde – Kunungu, Uganda

Sister Credonia Mwerinde, leader of Ugandan Marianist cult of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Comandments located in Kunungu murdered hundreds of her followers on March 17, 2000 by locking them in a worship facility called the ark that was pyrotechnically rigged. All door and windows were secured so that none could escape and then the building was set afire. The official death toll was set at 738. The fire was so intense that the many of the victims’ skulls exploded. Their corpses, many of them children, were buried in several mass graves. Sister Credonia disappeared and has not as of this date been apprehended.

Newsweek reporter Lara Santoro travelled to Kunungu to investigate the crimes. Santoro learned that as a young woman, Credonia was obsessed by fire. She had torched the possessions of a man who had failed to acquiesce to her romantic desires. Later on Credonia operated a bar and was once discovered by locals in the act of scrubbing blood stains from the floor of her establishment. It was suspected she had slaughtered a passing motorist. Locals told the Newsweek reporter that Credonia was believed to have murdered, with poison, her three elder brothers in order to secure their inheritance.

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WEIRDO FSK # 11 – 1912 – Enriqueta Martí – Barcelona, Spain (*)

Enriqueta Martí was an occult cannibal pedophile child-trafficker and serial killer. She once forced a little girl to eat portions of the body of a child the woman had slain. Enriqueta would rent out the children she had abducted to pedophiles and also supplied these customers with “magic potions” she made from the boiled down remains of the children she murdered.

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WEIRDO FSK # 12 – 1911 – Clementine Barnabet (Bernebet) – Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

A cult leader at the age of 17, Clementine was convicted of 17 murders, victims were “horribly mutilated.” It is said 300 persons have been slain by the “sacrifice sect” within the last six years. During the trial she shouted from her prisoner’s stand, “I am the axe woman of the sacrifice sect, I killed them all, men, women and babies, and I hugged the babies to my breast. But I am not guilty of murder.”

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WEIRDO FSK # 13 – 1912 – Louise Lindloff – Chicago, Illinois, USA

Louise Lindloff was a clairvoyant who serially poisoned her whole family for insurance money and after her arrest claimed their spirits were visiting her to protect her from false charges. She claimed her crystal ball contained a tear of Cleopatra. Despite her seances she was convicted of murder. Her lawyer was a flamboyant character, the man who is thought to have been F. Scott Fitzgerald's model for Gatsby.

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WEIRDO FSK # 14 – 1940 – Emma Heppermann – Wentzville, Missouri, USA

Emma Heppermann, whom we might fairly dub “The Potato Soup Killer,” was suspected of murdering up to six husbands, a mother-in-law, possibly a daughter, and to have poisoned a step-daughter, who survived due to diagnosis following her father’s death. At the trial for the murder of Tony Heppermann Alphonse Schneider, brother of husband number six:  “She told me three times she wanted to kill me,” he testified. “One day, in the midst of a quarrel, she said she wanted to cook me some soup.” Schneider leaned close to the jury and said, “I sure am glad I didn’t eat any of that soup.”

In a deposition read at an inquest, Dr. J. L. Neubeiser, who treated Mr. Heppermann at a hospital here, said the farmer made “a ‘dying declaration’ that he believed his wife had poisoned him.” She was convicted of the murder of her last husband, Tony Heppermann. The jury took three ballots before sentencing her to live on account of two jurors who on first ballot held out for the death penalty.

 
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WEIRDO FSK # 15 – 1952 – Roberta Elder – Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Roberta Elder, arrested at the age of 43, was jailed for the poison death of her husband and a step-child. Her suspected victims of include 3 husbands (including “common law husband”), four of her children, three step-children, her mother, her grandchild, a cousin, and the former wife of a husband.

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2012 – Bruna Oliveira da Silva & Isabel Cristina Pires – Garahuns, Brazil

Three persons, a married couple and the husband’s live-in mistress, were arrested on murder charges on April 11, 2012 in Garanhuns, in Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco. Police suspect Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, 51, Isabel Cristina Pires da Silveira, 50, and Bruna Cristina Oliviera da Silviera, 25 of luring women to their home by offering a high-paying nanny job with the intention of murdering them. The scheme was uncovered when Isabel made a purchase with a credit card belonging to a woman who had disappeared the previous month.

Jose is the founder of a tiny cult dedicated to “the purification of the world and the reduction of its population.” He published a short book on his ideology, including crude illustrations of the dismemberment of women and a video with similar content. The victims were chosen based on numbers of their identity card "that included somewhere in the document the accursed number 666.” 

Police found the remains of the two women in the backyard of the suspects’ house, Giselly Helena da Silviera, 31, who disappeared on February 25, 2012, and Alexandra Falcão da Silviera disappeared on March 12. Both women had been spotted with Negromonte and his companions near the home the three shared in the Jardim Petropolis neighborhood. Investigators suspect that a five-year-old girl found at the house may be the daughter of Jessica Camila da Silviera Pereira, a 17-year-old who disappeared in 2008 and may be a third victim in the case. 

Bruna Cristina Oliviera da Silviera has for years been well known in the small city for the empanadas, meat-filled dry dumplings, she made and sold. In her confession she told the interviewing police officer that he himself had unwittingly bought some of her people-meat delicacies.

Neighbors, after learning of the crimes and the fact the had been sold cannibal empanadas, burned the cannibal’s house which enraged neighbors burned to the ground the day after the arrests were made.

Police suspect that the total number of victims may be as many as ten.

[UHoM, based on various news sources]

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Isabel Cristina Torreão Pires da Silveira, 51, was known in Garanhuns, a rural area of Pernambuco, for the tasty snacks she sold in the streets. She was arrested on Wednesday and told the police she used human meat to stuff her pies.  In her statement to the State Police, recorded on videotape, she said she also sold the snacks in hospitals and police stations.

"I even sold one to you," she told one of the officers.

In one of the videos, she said she used just "a little" human meat. "I used just some bits, mostly in sauce." 

[Fábio Guibu & Daniel Carvalho, Translated by Thomas Muello, “Human meat served in snacks, says woman arrested as a suspect of cannibalism,” Folha de S. Paulo, Apr. 4, 2012]

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WEIRDO FSK # 16 – 2009 – Kanae Kijima – Tokyo, Japan

On April 13, 2012, Kanae Kijima, 37, was sentenced to death by presiding judge, Kazuyuki Okuma, in Saitama district court, for three murders of three men: Yoshiyuki Oide, 41; Keizo Ando, 80; Hideki Maruyama, 53. The judge stated that “There is no room for leniency as the defendant committed the crimes for selfish purposes. She reiterated irrational excuses in court and did not show any remorse.”

Dubbed “Konkatsu Killer” by the media for the konkatsu (marriage-hunting) sites she frequented, she met the men on internet dating sites and poisoned them with carbon monoxide by burning charcoal briquettes after giving them sleeping pills. Kijima reportedly set up each death to look like a suicide: In the latest case, she’s suspected of putting a sedative in one man’s beef stew then poisoning him with carbon monoxide.

The trial featured two opposing narratives: prosecutors said she killed the men so she would not have to pay back the money they had given her. Kijima’s lawyer said they had either committed suicide because broke up with them or died by accident.

In her blog and dating profiles, Kajima portrayed herself as an accomplished cook with expensive tastes in clothes and jewelry. She cropped and altered photos of herself to make herself look more attractive. She’d usually pose as a prospective bride, but sometimes she played a nurse or therapist to better lure a specific target. In just a few years, she allegedly made $2.2 million off her various paramours.

When Kijima’s apartment in Tokyo was searched on Nov 3, 2009, police found vast amounts of medicine, including cold remedies and drugs known to induce drowsiness, that had been prescribed by at least 10 different doctors. Traces of different sleeping medicines were found in the bodies of three other men who died in similarly suspicious circumstances, and all of whom had met Kijima through lonely heart websites.

Yoshiyuki Oide, a 41-year-old from Tokyo, was found dead in August of carbon monoxide poisoning in his car, a common method of committing suicide in Japan, yet unusual because the keys were not in the locked vehicle and shortly after he had transferred Y5 million (£33,175) to his “fiancee.”

Keizo Ando, 80, was an invalid who died in May in a house fire. Kijima had served as his nurse, was seen at his home in Chiba Prefecture the day before the fire and had withdrawn money from his bank account.

Four additional victims are suspected: The naked body of Sadao Fukuyama, a shop manager, was found at his home in Chiba Prefecture after he had loaned Kijima Y74 million (£491,000), and another boyfriend, identified as 53-year-old Takao Terada, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning at his home in Tokyo in February. The body of Kazumi Yabe was discovered on the seabed in April after he apparently died in a fishing accident, Hideki Maruyama was found face-down in a stream in October and an unnamed journalist was run down by a train in May 2004. 

Kijima was convicted of three murders (Hideki Maruyama, Keizo Ando, Yoshiyuki Oide) on April 13, 2012 and was sentenced to death.

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Suspected Victims:

Yoshiyuki Oide, 41, died Aug. 2009, carbon-monoxide

Keizo Ando, 80, died May 2009, house fire

Sadao Fukuyama, died

Takao Terada, 53, died Feb. 2009; carbon-monoxide

Kazumi Yabe, died, Apr. 2009

Hideki Maruyama, 53, died Oct. 2009

Unnamed journalist, May 2004; run down by a train

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WEIRDO FSK # 17 – 2005 – Sabine Hilschenz – Brieskow-Finkenheerd, Germany

Brieskow-Finkenheerd, Brandenberg, Germany – On February 6, 2006, Sabine Hilschenz, 40, an unemployed dental assistant from a small Brandenburg town in the former East Germany near the border with Poland, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on for the manslaughter of eight of her children (the earliest baby was not included in the case due to statute of limitations).

The remains of the seven girls and two boys, born between 1988 and 1998, were discovered in the Summer of 2005 after a neighbor uncovered human bones when clearing out Hilschenz parents’ shed last summer. The nine babies had been buried in plant pots, an aquarium and an old bathtub.

Her defense team argued that her alcohol consumption during labor would cause her to pass out. When she awoke, she would find the child dead and buried in soil on her balcony.

“I would sit on the balcony and talk to them in the flowerpots,” she told police before the trial.

Hilschenz already had three children and told investigators her husband did not want any more. The father of all nine children insisted he did not even know his wife had been pregnant, telling police he thought his wife simply had a weight problem. He declined to testify, as did three surviving children.

Judge Matthias Fuchs, explaining the court’s February 5, 2006 verdict in Frankfurt an-der-Oder, said Hilschenz had killed her children fearing “that her husband would abandon her and take the children with him.”

The case has sparked intense media interest in Germany, with politicians arguing over whether it symbolizes the breakdown of family values in depressed areas of the country’s formerly communist east.

The 2006 conviction was appealed, resulting, five years later in a Federal Court of Justice ruling on July 4, 2011 that  partially overturned the original decision.

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