When we think of heinous crimes, we immediately associate men as the protagonists of history. However, these women may surprise you with the atrocities they committed. Some of them were so historic that they even turned into a movie. Check out the scariest women in history.
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Ma Barker
The American made history in the United States in the early 1930s. Barker was responsible for planning robberies, murders and kidnappings for many years. Her gang was known as the Barker Gang, and among the members, in addition to her, were her two children. In 1935 Barker was killed by the FBI in her hiding place, when she was being sought.
Mary I of England
Known as Bloody Mary, the Queen was responsible for a manhunt of Protestants in England in the 16th century, which resulted in more than 300 deaths during her reign.
Myra Hindley
Along with her boyfriend Ian Brady, the criminal murdered five children aged 10 to 17 years in England, in the 1960s. After being arrested, the killer was sentenced to two life imprisonments; Hindley passed away in 2002 at age 60.
Miyuki Ishikawa
In 1940, Miyuki committed the murder of over 100 children. A midwife at the time, she murdered babies who were abandoned by parents who were unable to raise them. She began to convince the parents, who were mostly poor, to leave the children, justifying that it would cost less to leave the newborns in her hands than to raise them. At the trial, the midwife blamed the children's parents for abandoning the children, and at the end of the trial, she received only eight years in prison.
Gertrude Baniszewski
Gertrude was born and raised in the United States, where she tortured a girl to death. The terrible crime was committed with the help of his sons and four other men in the neighborhood. The girl was horribly raped, beaten and tortured to death. The real reason for so much violence against this girl is still a mystery.