The Aileen Wuornos monster and other cruel murderers

How and why? How do women become serial killers and why do they kill? The 'why' is simple: they can kill for the same reasons as male serial killers: power, control, sexual desire, profit, thrill, self-respect, revenge and madness.

However, there are some remarkable differences. Male serial killers often resort to abduction, imprisonment, rape and mutilation to express their rage and desire for control; female serial killers usually get straight to the killing – no stopping to maim or bite along the way. No Polaroids, on-site masturbation, or sex with a corpse. Female serial killers just get down to business, and that business is murder. In this sense, they are infinitely more deadly than the fantasy-driven male predators…