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When women kill together

The traditional ideas about female serial murderers argue that these offenders are motivated primarily by profit, are less violent than men, are largely reactive rather than initiating, and are not sexually compulsive in their attempt to kill. But there are exceptions to the rule, especially when it comes to stereotypes about serial murderers. Some women who repeatedly kill have certainly been predatory and brutal. Some have been sexually compulsive. There is no reason to believe that women are immune to the rush of an erotics of the assassination operation, and we will examine several cases to illustrate this. Not surprisingly, many turn in the healthcare industry.

Jane Toppan, a nurse at the end of the nineteenth century, experienced in patients with a mixture of drugs that killed slowly. As is lost consciousness, she climbed into bed to cradle while it fell into oblivion. (Schechter, 2003). After she went to work for a family member began dying one by one, with soft Jane at his side. Finally, someone became suspicious and examined more closely these deaths, which Toppan detention. During its consideration and trial, Toppan admitted to being aroused by death, placing his army in the category of a murderer in lust. In fact, she says her only regret was that had been arrested so soon, and had married and had a family, was sure he would have killed them all too.

There has been little or no research about female lust murderers, in part because it is an unexpected phenomenon, and in part because cases are rare. However, like the male lust murder, the counterpart Women are often based on a paraphilia, such as excitement at seeing a corpse or by rubbing against someone inappropriate. Often, there is something deviant in their sexual development that triggers arousal systematically and therefore feeds a compulsion.

erotic motivation is even more common among women who kill in partnerships with other women (although this behavior does not occur in all cases). There are not many documented examples, but we have identified with at least one person with a mind Intriguingly, a degree of psychopathy, and the ability to get a thrill from deciding that others must die. In our first case of two women is not entirely clear who was actually the dominant partner, but violence apparently gave the two sexual peak.

Catherine May Wood was described by her former partner, Ken Wood, as frivolous, too sensitive, temperamental and unpredictable (Cauffiel 1992). She would start something and even pursuing for months, but then dropped to something else. He said he could never have to commit and thought she had never known unconditional love. As a result, she thought, she was both needy and insecure. She surprised him once to admit that he wondered what it would be like stabbing someone. She also felt no affection for her mother's daughter. Annoyed by their excessive weight, however, she still eating junk food.

The Woods separated in 1986 but not before Ken could see the kind of friends Cathy was maintained in the nursing home where she worked as a supervisor, the mansion of the Alps in Walker, Michigan. Apparently a group of lesbian women employed there had become party colleagues, Cathy between them. His sense of morality, already tenuous, Ken seemed to have a complete background.

Cathy told Ken that she was in love with an aide, Gwendolyn Gail Graham, but some of the things we did together their fear. Graham had come from Texas, and this rider 22 years of age, had a difficult side. Cauffiel (1992) states People who saw him as male. She had been seriously wounded several times and often shows the scars on his arms, sometimes lie about what got them. Apparently, they had severe reactions to what he perceived as the abandonment, including the type of self-mutilation common in people with borderline personality disorder. Several of Graham's colleagues liked, but she started going out with Cathy and became lovers. Then became associated with murder.

Alpine Manor, with over 200 beds, an average of 40 deaths a year, and therefore, six unnatural deaths, especially of "total care" patients who required the most attention, not stand out. One of the victims had gangrene, one had Alzheimer's disease, and all are expected to die there in some time. It was an easy situation to exploit, especially with 70 staff to cover all shifts.

According to Wood, whose story became the main legal registration, Graham was the first broached the subject of murder. At first, Wood said she was only a witness, but later admitted taking part. When asked and later in the trial, Wood described how they had practiced sexual asphyxia to achieve greater orgasms, so she thought Graham was joking when he suggested kill a patient. However, the linked pain and pleasure of their sexual games had become threaded with images of cruelty to others. Just talking about murder he said, is so sexually excited. Finally, they decided to do so.

They started killing patients in January 1987 and continued for three months, initially trying to select victims, whose names would be part of a spelling game. The idea came while working on a crossword puzzle. They knew that the house Alpine record the names of patients who had died or were discharged in a book. Just for fun, they wanted to do the first initial of six names in a row, when read down, spell murder.

However, it proved very difficult to select appropriate patients in a way that minimizes risk and write the word, so that only selected patients who seemed easy to kill without discovery. Your new submission, Wood said, was to share this secret they were bonded "forever." With each death, they added an extra day for that period of time, so that after the third murder that could sign a letter of love, "forever-three days." Wood said she agreed to be an accomplice because he feared losing Graham, who apparently killed relieve personal stress.

Action as a sentinel, wood, seen as Graham tried to quell the older women, but some fought so hard had to withdraw. Oddly enough, none filed a complaint, and indeed the majority of patients liked these two women. In many ways, it seemed be good at this work, patient and compassionate.

The first victim to die was actually a woman who suffers from Alzheimer's disease who both knew it would be unable to fight. His last name began with an "M" Placing a towel over the woman's nose and mouth, Graham drowned to death. In the weeks that followed, Graham went to another, then another, leaving a towel in the room as his "business card." After she failed to kill one of the male patients, stuck to women, especially those who found it difficult to maintain. In one version of history, were aimed at least 20 different people, among other guests.

To relive the crimes, Graham was heading to the victims, such as jewelry, personal memories, and socks. She and wood placed these memories in your home on a special shelf. In a postscript morbid, sometimes enters the body as part of routine post mortem, and the handling of his victims died more relish.

Then he grew bolder. He told his colleagues what they were doing, because the confessions added to your sexual desire increased, but their accounts were dismissed as sick jokes. Nobody could believe that a person who actively entered healthcare kill a patient, much less become a predator plane. Wood, in particular, was known for lying and playing mind games associated to so few took seriously. Even his shelf of memories did not impress one.

Graham Wood pressured to take a more active role: she would have to kill one of the patient herself. The wood was not prepared for this, or what they later claimed. This infuriated Graham, who began dating another woman and returned to Texas. From there she wrote letters worrying about wanting to break the faces of babies in their care at another facility. Wood swore her ex-husband with the secret and confessed everything, admitting that he killed patients because it was fun. Despite his promise to her, Ken felt in danger only to know about their activities, reported as a therapist, and a year later, the police. Wood tried to deflect the investigation, but quickly collapsed and blamed Graham. (There is some speculation that Graham was available with this confession of punishing him for leaving.)

After an investigation involving two exhumations (which offered no physical evidence), the two women were arrested. Wood turned state witness against his former lover sentenced to 20-40 years, parole. Graham also held, but it was the most eloquent testimony of current lover Graham, who admitted that Graham had confessed to six murders to it. Others testified in a similar line.

On September 20, 1989, the jury deliberated for only six hours before they rendered a verdict: Graham was convicted of five counts of first degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. He pointed to six life sentences without possibility of parole. In the accounts of the media's role was minimized Wood "casual observation post," and the case remains controversial today about whether there were more murders, and if there are any murders at all. There is some speculation, especially after a psychological evaluation of Graham, that even if Graham did death, Wood was the mastermind.

In studies of the murderers of the team, researchers have found that many couples no matter what genre, follow a common pattern: Two people meet, feel a strong attraction, and establish an intimate familiarity that allows them to share fantasies, even violent. When erotic, this approval encourages acting out, and if the partners succeed in the commission of a violent crime without being trapped grow bolder. The dominant person is usually charismatic and has the psychological control of their erotic preferences set the tone.

In the case Graham and Wood, regardless of who actually carries out the murders, his fantasies and reinforce their sadomasochistic sex. Therefore, until it broke, the "game" became an essential aspect of his pleasure and a way to manipulate each other. They encouraged each other, but also exploited the fear of being discovered threaten to another. The fact that killing older women also gave a solution to problems with their mothers both had added another level of motivation. However, the murder was both fun and satisfying.

When lust is not fuel, but females nevertheless kill comradeship, still seems to be element of excitement with erotic manifestations. They do not kill specifically for sexual excitement, but his covenant and actions to argue that provide the stimulus. We see this phenomenon in a series of murders in Vienna, Austria.

It was again a nursing assistant who started the wave of six years in the General Hospital Lainz. Most victims were elderly, many terminally ill. The killings began in 1983, and by the time staff began investigating, the figure death toll stood at 49 (Protzman 1989). The reports of the essay appeared in The New York Times.

Waltraud Wagner, 23, a patient aged 77 one day he asked for help to end their suffering. Many nurses in older care units or facilities meet those requests. Wagner hesitantly obliged overdose of the sick woman with morphine. Once this is achieved without being discovered, apparently felt a surge of energy. Soon recruited accomplices on the night shift to attend in this "euthanasia." Maria Gruber, 19, and the neglect of the nursing school, was happy to participate. Thus was Leidolf Ilene, 21. The third was hire a grandmother, aged 43 Stephanija Mayer. While the initial idea was to do something beneficial, they soon found the pleasure of killing the patients you have in your nerves. Many not even sick unto death, were nothing more than annoying.

Wagner showed others how to give lethal injections to insulin and tranquilizers, and added a mechanism of its own creation: the water cure. " This brutal method involved holding a patient's nose while forcing him to drink water that then fills the lungs and caused an agonizing death. However, it was almost impossible to find as murder, because many elderly patients already had a certain amount of fluid in his lungs.

At first, the nurses died sporadically, but in 1987 had increased and that there were rumors a murderer in Hall 5. Apparently, Wagner could have killed his own estimate of 75 before he retired parts of his confession. Then he said he had killed only nine, although one of his accomplices placed closer to the 200th victim.

As she grew bold, nurses also increased neglected. Over drinks one day, which revives one of his last cases. A doctor listened to them, and went to the police, who launched an investigation. It took six weeks, but the four women were arrested on April 7, 1989. The doctor in charge of her neighborhood, who had been alerted to the murders last year, was suspended.

Although Wagner and others emphasized the disinterested motives, the jury disagreed. Ultimately, Wagner was convicted of 15 murders, 17 attempted murders and two counts of assault. She received life imprisonment. Leidolf, also has a life of five murders, while the other two drew 15 years for multiple murder charges and attempted murder. This relatively mild set of sentences may indicate how difficult it is for society to accept the idea of a predator female murderer, let alone four working together.

Investigator Carol Anne Davis (2001), who wrote about Graham and Wood, said that many women think their murderous crimes, feeling of power when they go with them. Alone, it could be "bad news" in other ways, but recruitment of a partner willing to go the distance can serve catalyst for the murder of repetition. Dominant women intent on violence, she says, tend to be sexually oriented, narcissistic, reserved and manipulative. Often victims in some way during his life, flip the victims of others. Following the adoption of a submissive or even gives them energy, including making feel invincible. Once caught, they try to manipulate the system, still believing in his own power. Sometimes they even succeed, thanks in part to the misperception violent women fostered by erroneous stereotypes. As more cases arise, we will learn more about this type of crime, and formal studies of the teams killing women is clear in order.

References

The Associated Press. (1989, 03 November). Ex-assistant to the nursing home is perpetuated in five murders patient [Electronic version]. The New York Times.

Cauffiel, L. (1992). Provided five days. New York: Zebra Books.

Davis, C. (2001) Women who kill. London: Allison & Busby.

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Protzman, F. (1989, 18 April). Killing of 49 patients per nurse aid 4 stuns the [Austrian] Electronic version. The New York Times.

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About the Author

Katherine Ramsland, PhD, CMI-V, has published 25 books, including The Human Predator: Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and forensic investigation. Dr. Ramsland is an assistant professor of forensic psychology at DeSales University Pennsylvania. She is a Certified Medical Investigator (CMI-V) and been a member of the American College of Forensic Examiners since 1999.

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