WHORES AND MURDERERS: THE MIND OF A PSYCHOPATH

We love great criminal minds. They intrigue us and arouse more interest every day among all types of audiences.

The offering in cinema and television in this regard is very wide and there are more and more series and films about murders and their perpetrators.

But, as always, reality is stranger than fiction and many of us wonder what drives these dark souls to commit such atrocities.

Generally these characters coincide in a sad and gray childhood and perhaps it is that along with some other triggers that end up causing normal people to end up becoming criminals.

In this regard, there is a lot of talk about murderers, in masculine terms, clearly referring to their gender, both real and fictional, but what about women? Are there female murderers?

Of course yes, it was simply a rhetorical question, but what really worries us, what leads us to the article at hand is: Have there been prostitutes capable of murdering their clients in recent years?

Yes. They exist and they were not far behind when it comes to the cynicism and violence of their actions.

So, in this article we will try to tell you about them, about these perverse and disturbed women, about the horrors and crimes they committed, in detail and openly.

AILEEN WUORNOS, THE SPIDER WOMAN.

And what could be more appropriate than to start with Aileen Wuornos, alias "The Maiden of Death" or "The Highway Prostitute."
This ruthless woman confessed to being the author of the murder of 7 men, all in 1990, while she was working as a prostitute.
Her case generated many debates about mental health in times where it was still a fairly taboo topic.

She was born on February 29, 1956 in Michigan, United States. She never met her father, Leo Arthur Pittman, a pedophile and criminal who spent his life in prisons and psychiatric hospitals until he hanged himself in 1969.
Her mother had married Pittman at the young age of 15 and gave birth to her brother Keith before her. But before Alileen was born he divorced her and a few years later, she gave both children to the care of her Finnish grandparents.

Britta Wuornos and Lauri legally adopted their grandchildren.

The fate that Aileen and her brother Keith met in that home was cruel and sad, her grandfather was a violent alcoholic and sexual abuser, her grandmother suffered from mental disorders, which created a chaotic environment. Wuornos claimed to have become sexually active at a very young age, even having relations with her brother.

At the young age of 15 she became pregnant.

She gave birth in a maternity ward in Detroit on March 23, 1971 and at the same time she was banished from her home, repudiating her as a community, since in those times it was very frowned upon for an unmarried woman to have a child.

The child was given up for adoption and after a time living in forests and cars, she was sent to a home for single mothers.

Her grandmother died and she and her brother became wards of the court.

Aileen began prostitution, under the alias Sandra Kretsch, and continued her studies.

She began to commit crimes and vandalism of all kinds, from attacking a waiter by throwing a pool ball at his head, to driving drunk and intimidating people with her revolver.

Tragedies continued to happen around her, in 1976 her brother died due to cancer. Aileen collected $10,000 in life insurance, which at that time represented a significant sum of money.

But she quickly spent it on excesses and luxuries that she couldn't maintain and she ended up ruining everything, like an expensive car she bought and crashed.

In September 1976, already without a cent of her brother's life insurance, Aileen hitchhiked to Florida. There she met the president of the Yacht Club, Lewis Fell, 76 years old.

They married in 1976 and the news of their wedding was printed in the society section of the local newspaper.

Her married life did not keep her from conflicts; she was always involved in a fight.

One day she hit her husband on the head with a fishing rod and he obtained a restraining order against Aileen as well as an annulment of her marriage.

Some time later, she met a lesbian woman named Moore, with whom she fell in love and they began a relationship.

"Aileen began prostitution, under the alias Sandra Kretsch, and continued her studies.."

In the 1980s, Wuornos began killing in Florida, where she continued to work as a prostitute.

Police concluded that between 1989 and 1990, she killed seven men.

She picked up and selected her victims while she was a street prostitute and then murdered them in cold blood.

To commit the murders she used firearms and abandoned the bodies in remote places.

Her criminal career came to an end in 1991 when she was arrested at a bar in Port Orange, Florida.

Aileen and her partner Moore were involved in a traffic accident while they were driving the car of one of the victims. At the time of the incident, despite being injured, they did not accept help and fled, thus alerting the police.

They quickly spread a robotic portrait of the couple on television and after a short time they found Moore's whereabouts; she was in Pennsylvania, taking refuge in her sister's house.

The authorities offered Moore a deal in exchange for her handing over Wuornos, she accepted and after several dramatic twists and turns, the murderer turned herself in and confessed to the 7 crimes.

According to her own testimony, these men had been clients of hers who tried to rape her, claiming to have acted in self-defense.

However, years later she changed her statement denying what was previously said and there was much speculation about it, since she had a very long sentence to serve and her living conditions in prison could have discouraged her from continuing to live.

She once said: "I killed those men, I robbed them cold as ice. And I would do it again too. There's no chance in staying alive or anything, because I'd kill again. I have hatred crawling through my system. "I'm so sick of hearing that 'she's crazy' thing. I've been tested so many times. I'm competent, sane, and I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm someone who seriously hates human life and would kill again."

In 1992, Aileen Wuornos was convicted of first-degree murder in six of the seven cases and was sentenced to death.

During her time in prison, her story became famous around the world and became the subject of films and documentaries.

On October 9, 2002, she was executed. The famous last meal of criminals sentenced to death was totally rejected by Aileen, she instead ordered a coffee.

His last strange words were: "I just want to say that I'm sailing with the rock and I will return like on Independence Day with Jesus, June 6, just like in the movie, with big motherships and everything. I will return ".

Her ashes were buried in her hometown of Michigan.

BELVA GAERTNER, CABARET SINGER AND ALLEGED MURDERER.

This woman was the one who inspired the character of Velma Kelly in the famous and successful play "Chicago" and later in the musical based on the play.

You've probably seen the movie, but what you didn't know is that it was based on part of a true story.

Belva Gaertner was born in Litchfield, United States in September 1884. Little is known about her childhood. She began to gain popularity through her work as a cabaret singer, where she used the stage name Belle Brown.

But was Belva also a prostitute or did she only sing in the cabaret? It is not known precisely, although it can be stated that she had a reputation for being lustful and having several lovers, whether she was in exchange for money or not is unknown.

She was married 3 times, her first marriage was to Mr. Overbeck, but it did not prosper and they ended up divorcing.

In 1917, she married William Gaertner, a man older than her and of very good economic status. Five months later, her husband filed for divorce, claiming that Belva's previous marriage had not yet ended. It is believed that it was because he found her with her ex-husband in her bed.

"Was Belva also a prostitute or did she only sing in the cabaret? It is not known precisely, although it can be stated that she had a reputation for being lustful and having several lovers, whether she was in exchange for money or not is unknown."

In March 1924 Belva was involved in a confusing and compromising episode when her lover, Mr. Walter Law, who was married and had a son. He was found shot dead in the front seat of Gaertner's car, next to him were a bottle of gin and the gun with which the shot was fired.

Upon arriving at Belva's home, police found blood-stained clothing belonging to the victim. On March 12, 1924 she was arrested in Chicago.

In her statements she admitted to having spent the night with Law drinking and enjoying herself in jazz houses and bars, she also admitted to carrying a gun as protection against possible robberies.

During the trial, one of Law's co-workers testified that the deceased was afraid of Belva since she was a very possessive woman and had threatened him with a knife when he tried to leave her. He also stated that Walter Law was afraid she would kill him.

Gaertner's defense claimed that she had not killed him and that it could have been a suicide.

Despite evidence pointing to her guilt, Gaertner was found not guilty by an all-male jury, leaving a pall of doubt over Walter's death.

Chicago Tribune reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins covered Gaertner's case and later adapted the story to the play "Chicago" produced in 1927. It was a great success and even Belva herself attended its premiere.

The silent film adaptations did not take long to arrive.

In 2002 they produced a musical film with the same name which won the Oscar for best film.

Catherine Zeta-Jones also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the same film.

THE RUTLESS POQUIANCHIS SISTERS.

"Some versions say that through prostitution some of them began to survive."

The parents died and left a modest inheritance for the sisters. Delfina was the first to open a small bar where, in addition to drinks, she offered the service of young prostitutes. The business was completely illegal but compliance with the laws was not something they worried about.

They remained in the business for years until an altercation within it caused alarm among the authorities who finally closed the establishment.

Delfina, with the support of her sisters, several corrupt politicians and powerful figures, managed to move her operation to the town of Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco.

There the sisters moved with impunity since they even had a permit for the business to operate as a bar, in exchange for sexual favors for the mayor.

But this time they took a twisted turn, since the women they had working were caught with deception or bought from traffickers and mostly minors.

Once the cabaret was set up, they hired people to tour the republic looking for teenagers between 12 and 15 years old and through deception and threats they took them to the place and kept them captive.

Corruption reached such a level that in their brothels they had health cards for the girls, which indicated that they were supposedly healthy, they obtained them through the Ministry of Health. This way, clients felt more "calm."

The Poquianchis were ruthless and fanatical about money, perhaps because they were afraid of being as poor as they were in their childhood. They began to perform satanic rites and initiations on the girls who arrived at the brothel, with rituals that included rape, orgies and rooster blood.

When one of the young slaves became pregnant, they performed an abortion; if the baby was born, they killed it.

The cynicism and violence of these women was such that when their victims reached the age of 25 they were considered too old for the business, so they were murdered in the most horrible ways that exist.

The highest public officials and the most powerful in the country spent their time in those brothels full of girls and thus the sisters had the law in their pockets.

It seemed that that hell would never end, but a brave girl named Catalina Ortega managed to escape a few days after arriving at the brothel. She showed up at the Judicial Police in León, Guajanato and she was extremely lucky that the officers present there did not belong to the corrupt network that supported the Poquianchis trafficking business.

The authorities issued an arrest warrant and detained Delfina and Maria de Jesús, however, Maria Luisa managed to escape.

The young women were rescued and gave their testimonies, thanks to which it was possible to learn about the way these murderers operate.

The confirmed number of murder and torture victims was 91, although it is estimated that they may have killed more than 150 people.

His employees and accomplices were José Facio Santos, watchman and caretaker of the ranch; and Salvador Estrada Bocanegra, “The Executioner,” who beat prostitutes who dared to complain about something or if they tried to escape, he was the one who killed them and buried them. Police and soldiers also used the services of slave girls.

María Auxiliadora Gómez, Lucila Martínez del Campo, Guadalupe Moreno Quiroz, Ramona Gutiérrez Torres, Adela Mancilla Alcalá and Esther Muñoz “La Pico Chulo” were prostitutes who became guards and punishers in exchange for “Las Poquianchis” respecting their lives.

Delfina, Maria de Jesús, Carmen and María Luisa Gonzales Valenzuela were sentenced to 40 years in prison on charges of lenociny, kidnapping and qualified homicide. They received a sentence of 40 years in prison each.

All of them except María Jesús, died before achieving freedom.

The media repercussions: (Las Poquianchis, 1976, directed by Felipe Cazals) and books by some well-known writers (The Dead, novel by Jorge Ibargüengoitia) who adapted the story.

In 2011, during the end of the third season of the series "Mujeres Asesinas" (series readapted by Televisa and directed by Pedro Torres) reference is made to the case of Las Poquianchis, giving it the name "Las Cotuchas, Empresarias".

NANNIE DOSS, THE BLACK WIDOW.

To close this article we will talk about Nannie, a serial killer who always had a Machiavellian smile on her face.

This woman, under a facade of sympathy and kindness, managed to deceive many people and remain unpunished for years.

She was born in November 1905 in Alabama, United States. She was the fourth daughter of a conflictive and violent marriage. Her father James F. Hazel was extremely controlling and abusive.
He did not allow his children to go to school and instead made them work long hours on the family farm.

At the age of 7, Nanni hit her head on a metal bar while she was traveling by train with her family. Following the accident she spent several years with severe headaches, frequent fainting and depression.

Since her childhood, this woman showed a great love for magazines and especially for the "lonely hearts" column, which was the tinder of the old days, she liked to read it with her mother and dream of a future. romantic and promising.

Nanni and her sisters were very repressed by her father, Mr. James, since he did not allow them to wear makeup, wear fashionable clothes or attend social events.

"Since her childhood, this woman showed a great love for magazines and especially for the "lonely hearts" column."

Doss began her first romantic relationship at the age of 15 when she worked in a textile factory with her partner named Charles Bragg. With part of her salary she bought makeup and gossip magazines, which she read secretly, because in her house they were prohibited and considered demonic.

They married in 1921 and, between 1923 and 1927, they had four daughters. The relationship between the two was conflictive. When the youngest of the girls was four months old, the two middle daughters of the marriage died within a period of two weeks.

Doctors ruled that the deaths were due to food poisoning.

Charles sensed that something was not right with his wife, so he took the oldest daughter and they left the home, leaving Nanni with the little baby who was barely a month old. The man would later say that he could not take the little one since she was still He fed on his mother. They got divorced

Nannie met her second husband, Frank Harrelson, a 23-year-old bricklayer, alcoholic and with a history of rape, through the contact pages of a gossip magazine.
They married in 1929 and settled in Aniston, Alabama. Their life was very conflictive, they were always fighting.

In 1943, Melvina, Nannie's eldest daughter, eight months pregnant, asked her to let her come live with them because she had separated from her husband. The baby, a boy, was born a month later. Exhausted from labor and still under the effects of anesthesia, Melvina thought she saw from her bed how her mother stuck a pin in the newborn's head. She was never sure if she had really seen it or if it was a nightmare, but the truth is that the baby, who was never named, died in her grandmother's arms. The death certificate said “sudden death.”

Despite her suspicions, Melvina stayed to live with Nannie. She didn't want to leave because she had met a soldier. Shortly afterward she became pregnant again and in 1945 she had another boy. By then, Melvina's relationship with her mother was very bad and she decided to go visit Charles, her father, to ask him if she could go live with him. She left the baby in the care of Nannie, who seemed to adore him.

Nanni and her grandson were alone in the house on July 7, 1945 when the baby, whom they had named Robert, died of asphyxiation, apparently caused by rolling over in bed and leaving his head under the pillow.

Since the way in which little Robert had died was not entirely clear, an autopsy was performed. “Asphyxiation due to undetermined causes,” the coroner's report said.

It caught no one's attention that a month after the death, Nannie collected a $500 life insurance policy that she had taken out from Robert and had her as his sole beneficiary.

Frank, Nannie's second husband, would last just another month. In August 1945, despite getting along badly, they went out to celebrate together the Allied victory in World War II. That night they drank excessively and the next day Frank woke up dead. Frank was buried without anyone suspecting anything strange in his death.

Ten years later, in her confession to Tulsa police detectives, Nannie told the truth: “That night he raped me and after doing so he asked me to bring him the bottle of whiskey that had been left in the room. kitchen. I took it to him, but first I put rat poison in it. “He died writhing,” she recounted.

A month after Frank's death, Nannie collected another life insurance policy, also for $500. The new widow went to live in Lexington, North Carolina, where she met Arlie Lanning. She again went through the contact page of a gossip magazine. The man was also a widower and they corresponded for a couple of months until they met in person.

They got married three days after that first date. The couple seemed to lead a happy life and Nannie was very affectionate in public with her husband. Her neighbors thought of her as an affable woman, always smiling and willing to help. The only oddity about her was that, every so often, she would be away from the house for several days. “She's going to visit her daughter,” her husband said. Although Arlie had never had health problems, he died of suspected heart failure in 1952, when he had been married to her for two years.

Nanni buried him and a month later the house they had shared – property of good old Arlie – caught fire. Only the foundation remained… and fire insurance in Nannie's name.
Since she had been left homeless, she went to live with her sister Dovie, who was bedridden by illness. Poor Dovie died two weeks after Nannie arrived. Since she was sick, no one suspected that there could be anything strange about her death.

With another dead husband under her belt, Nannie joined the Diamond Circle, a club for singles seeking a partner, and there she met Richard Montorn, a businessman from Emporia, Kansas. They married at the end of 1952 and in January 1953 Richard had the bad idea to invite his mother, Louise, to live with them. When the mother-in-law appeared at the house overnight, Nannie was surprised.

Louise died suddenly at the end of January 1953, when she had been living with Richard and Nannie for just 15 days. “Natural death,” her death certificate said. “I poisoned her with rat poison in her food,” Nannie would tell Tulsa detectives less than three years later. Mr. Morton survived four months after his mother. He died in his sleep on May 19, 1953. “Natural death,” the death certificate again said.

Before long Nannie was back writing to the contact pages of a gossip magazine. She thus met Samuel Doos, a teetotal businessman with strong religious convictions who lived in Tulsa.

They married in July 1953 and just two months later Samuel was rushed to the hospital, with flu-like symptoms and a very high fever. When he checked him, the doctor diagnosed a severe infection in the digestive tract. He was serious. Doos spent a month in the hospital and Nannie never left her side, except to go home to sleep at night. She seemed happy when the doctors finally discharged Samuel.

That same night, October 5, 1953, Nannie prepared Samuel a delicious meal and for dessert a dried plum tart. The man went on a real binge and died a few hours later. And she again collected life insurance that Samuel had taken out and had her as his sole beneficiary.

It was Samuel's doctor friend who felt something was wrong, so he got a judge to order an autopsy. They found enough arsenic to kill several men.

Nanni Doss was arrested at her home. She was sentenced to life imprisonment. She confessed to the crimes of four of her husbands, her mother, her sister, her grandson and her mother-in-law, eleven in total.
She went down in history as one of the most ruthless serial killers in history.

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