We present you top 6 most evil women in history.
We all have the instinct to focus on the horrible males in the world and overlook some of the truly evil women who have lived.
With this list, we intend to correct that. Not only do we have serial killers here, but also other heinous ladies who have wreaked havoc on the lives of many individuals.
So, without further ado, here are the top 6 most evil women in history:
Top 6 most evil women in history
1- Queen Mary I
Mary was Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon’s only child to survive childhood.
Mary is most known for temporarily and violently reverting England to Catholicism after the death of Edward VI and the removal of The Nine Days Queen-Lady Jane Grey.
Many notable Protestants were executed because of their views, earning the nickname “Bloody Mary.”
Fearing the gallows, 800 more Protestants fled the nation, unable to return until she died.
2- Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady were responsible for the “Moors murders” that occurred in the Manchester area of the United Kingdom between 1963 and 1965.
These two monsters were responsible for the kidnapping, sexual abuse, torture, and death of three children under the age of twelve, as well as two teens ages 16 and 17.
A key discovered in Myra’s possession led to the discovery of incriminating evidence at Manchester Central Station’s left-luggage facility.
A tape recording of one of the murder victims screaming while Hindley and Brady raped and tormented her was among the evidence.
Police secretary Sandra Wilkinson has never forgotten seeing Hindley and her mother Nellie, leaning against the courthouse eating sweets.
While the mother was obviously and understandably upset, Hindley seemed indifferent and uncaring about her situation.
3- Isabella of Castile
Isabella I of Spain, well known as Christopher Columbus’ patron, and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon was instrumental in bringing Spain together under their grandson Carlos I.
Isabella nominated Tomás de Torquemada as the first Inquisitor General of the Inquisition as part of her desire for unification.
The Alhambra Decree, which forced the evacuation or conversion of Jews and Muslims, goes into effect on March 31, 1492.
Approximately 200,000 people fled Spain; those who remained chose conversion and were prosecuted by the Inquisition probing Judaizing conversos.
Pope Paul VI initiated her case for beatification in 1974.
This puts her on the road to probable sainthood.
In the Catholic Church, she is referred to as a Servant of God.
4- Beverly Allitt
Beverley Gail Allit, the “Angel of Death,” is one of Britain’s most well-known serial killers. She is responsible for the murder of four children and the serious injury of five more while working as a pediatric nurse.
When insulin or potassium injections were available, they were used to induce cardiac arrest; smothering sufficed when they were not.
Despite being convicted of death or harm in nine cases, Allit attacked 13 children over the course of 58 days before being apprehended.
Allit has never revealed the motivation behind her acts, but Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy explains her actions.
This debatable personality disorder involves a pattern of abuse or harm to someone in your care in order to garner attention (Alitt was known as a child to wear bandages and casts over wounds, but would not allow them to be examined).
5- Belle Gunness
Belle Gunness was a depraved and prolific female serial killer in America. She was an imposing and robust woman of Norwegian heritage, standing 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and weighing more than 200 pounds (91 kg).
She most likely murdered both of her husbands and all of her children at various periods, but she did murder most of her suitors, boyfriends, and her two daughters, Myrtle and Lucy.
The motivation was simply greed; life insurance policies and assets taken or defrauded from her suitors became her source of income.
Most reports put her death toll at more than 20 victims over several decades, with some claiming in excess of 100 people.
Inconsistencies during her post-mortem examination; the corpse was reported to be two inches shorter than Belle’s six feet, paved the way for Belle Gunnes to enter American criminal folklore, a female Bluebeard.
6- Mary Ann Cotton
Mary Ann Cotton, an Englishwoman, is another for-profit serial killer who predates Belle Gunnes by 30 years. The newlyweds settled in Plymouth, Devon, to start their family after marrying at the age of 20 to William Mowbray.
Four of the couple’s five children died of ‘gastric fever and stomach aches.’ When they returned to the northeast, tragedy seemed to follow them; three more children were born, and three more perished.
William died of an ‘intestinal disease’ in January 1865, soon after his children.
British Prudential soon paid a 35-pound dividend, establishing a precedent.
Her second husband, George Ward, and one of her two remaining children died of intestinal troubles.
The power of the press, always a force to be reckoned with, caught up with Mary Ann.
The local newspapers discovered that as Mary Ann moved around northern England, she lost three husbands, a lover, a friend, her mother, and a dozen children, all dying of stomach fever.
She was hanged at Durham County Gaol, on March 24, 1873, for murder by arsenic poisoning. She died slowly, the hangman using too short a drop for ‘clean’ execution.
