Book contents
- Just as Deadly
- Advance Praise
- Just as Deadly
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is a Serial Killer?
- Chapter 2 Why Are We Interested in Serial Killers?
- Chapter 3 The Lives of Female Serial Killers
- Chapter 4 Mental Health and Substance Use Among FSKs
- Chapter 5 FSK Crimes and Outcomes
- Chapter 6 FSK Motives and Profile
- Chapter 7 Comparing FSKs and MSKs: Backgrounds and Mental Illness
- Chapter 8 Comparing FSKs and MSKs: Crimes and Victims
- Chapter 9 The Behavioral Neuroscience of Serial Murder
- Chapter 10 Psychosocial Factors that Make a Serial Murderer
- Chapter 11 Evolutionary and Converging Perspectives of Serial Murder
- Chapter 12 Our Understanding of Serial Killers Evolves
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
Chapter 5 - FSK Crimes and Outcomes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2023
- Just as Deadly
- Advance Praise
- Just as Deadly
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is a Serial Killer?
- Chapter 2 Why Are We Interested in Serial Killers?
- Chapter 3 The Lives of Female Serial Killers
- Chapter 4 Mental Health and Substance Use Among FSKs
- Chapter 5 FSK Crimes and Outcomes
- Chapter 6 FSK Motives and Profile
- Chapter 7 Comparing FSKs and MSKs: Backgrounds and Mental Illness
- Chapter 8 Comparing FSKs and MSKs: Crimes and Victims
- Chapter 9 The Behavioral Neuroscience of Serial Murder
- Chapter 10 Psychosocial Factors that Make a Serial Murderer
- Chapter 11 Evolutionary and Converging Perspectives of Serial Murder
- Chapter 12 Our Understanding of Serial Killers Evolves
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
People tend to want to know the explicit details of crimes, including descriptions of violence and carnage. The author discusses her team’s research, and the research of others when possible, on the places where female serial killers (FSKs) commit their crimes, which typically includes a suburb, and the primary means FSKs use to commit murder, the most common of which is poison. The author presents information on the victims of FSKs, including the average number deceased, and victim age, vulnerability, familiarity, relatedness. Startlingly, more than half of FSKs killed children, more than three-quarters of FSKs killed someone vulnerable and in their care, more than 90% killed at least one person they knew, and more than 60% were related to at least one victim by blood or marriage. The cases of FSKs Tammy Corbett, Genene Jones, and Nanny Doss are presented to illustrate chapter concepts.
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- Just as DeadlyThe Psychology of Female Serial Killers, pp. 72 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023