Introduces eight infamous women, from the last Empress of China to a suburban Texan housewife, and their wicked crimes.
"Evil women, who are they really? What are their motives, and how are they remembered and constructed within our culture?
Many people find it impossible to believe women are capable of committing brutal murders just like men, but this book shows otherwise.
Many people find it impossible to believe women are capable of committing brutal murders, but this book shows otherwise.
"Evil women, who are they really? What are their motives, and how are they remembered and constructed within our culture?
Among the thirty-four cases covered are: Pamela Smart, a volunteer at a high school drug awareness program, who urged her fifteen-year-old lover and his friends to kill her husband; Nancy Kissel, an expat American in Hong Kong, who served ...