Female Poisoners

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Singleton Poisonings
Name Victims Poison
Grete Beierfiancee
Catharine Bevanhusband
Ann Bilanskyhusband
Angelic Burney daughter
Dovie Deanhusband
Earle Dennisonniece
Sarah Elizabeth Dutraemployer
Sonya Forrest daughter (plus self)
Eva Kaber husband
Eliza McNabney aka Laren Simmshusband
Emeline Meakerfamily member
Elizabeth Reedhusband
Shelia Smith son
Lorraine Alice Whytehusband
Rosa Wilkerson granddaughter
Pamela Wormshusband
Florence Maybrick husband arsenic
Ann Miller husband arsenic
Euphemie Verges husband arsenic
Marie Fortunee Cappelle LaFarge husband arsenic
Madeleine Smith husband arsenic

Multiple Poisonings
NameKillsSurviversVictims
Margie Velma Barfield 4 (7) 1 husband, mother, fiancee
Martha Beck12 (20) 1 lonely women
Marie Alexandrine Becker12husband, lover, friends
Marie Besnard13two husbands, parents, in-laws, cousins, neighbors
Elfriede Blauensteiner 5+ 1+ husbands, lovers, neighbors
Cordelia Botkin 2
Judias Buenoano 3 1 two husbands and a son
Sarah Clark22family of rival
Mary Ann Cotton(17+)husbands, children, stepchildren, mother, sister-in-law
Mary Frances Creighton3brother, father-in-law, lover
Marybeth Davis 1 1 son, daughter
Daisy Louisa C. De Melker3two husbands and a son
Nannie Hazel Doss10children, husbands, sisters, mother
Ellen Etheridge4stepchildren
Catherine Flanagan ?? ?? brother in law, poss. others arsenic
Mrs. Julius Fuzekos7 (100) 1 husbands (other women's)
Tillie Gbrurek5 1 four husbands, one neighbor
Janie Lou Gibbs5husband, four children
Amy Gilligan95 husbands, 4 patients
Debora Green2 1 children, husband
Caroline Grills42family members, friend
Martha Grinder2two women, different sirnames
Belle Gunness16 (49)husbands, children, employees, suitors
Anna Marie Hahn 5 (7)2elderly men
Masumi Hayashi 4 63 random strangers arsenic
Ellen Heesom 3 two of her own children, mother arsenic
Margaret Higgins ?? ?? husband, poss. others arsenic
Audrey Marie Hilley 3 (4)4husband, daughter, mom-in-law, neighbor child
Helene Jegado 23+9sister, aunt, employers, fellow nuns, fellow servants
Christa Lehman 4husband, father-in-law, and at least two neighbors
Juliane Lipka7 (100) 1 husbands (other women's)
Anjette Lyles 42 husbands, mother-in-law, daughter
Rhonda Bell Martin 6 (8) 1 mother, 2 husbands, 3 (5) children
Blanche Taylor Moore 5 1 2 husbands, father, mother-in-law, lover
Stella Nickell2?husband, stranger
Susi Olah 7 (100) 1 husbands (other women's)
Madame Popova (300)husbands (other women's)
Dorothea Puente 9 (25)tenants
Christina Riggs 2children
Amelia Sach ??infants, adoption
Antoinette Scieri 12 (?)elderly patients
Lydia Sherman11(+)?3 husbands, 5 children, 2 stepchildren
Mrs. Szabo7 (100) 1 husbands (other women's)
Lydia Trueblood 6 1 four husbands, son, brother-in-law
Eliz. Van Valkenburgh2husbands
Maria Velten 5 two husbands, father, aunt, lover
Louise Vermilyea 10 2 husbands, 3 children (hers), stepson, friends
Annie Walters ??infants, adoption
Dorothea Waddingham 2 patients
Lorraine Alice Whyte 1 several husband and his coworkers arsenic
Martha Hasel Wise 3(?)mother, aunt, uncle
Anna Zwanziger 3+ ? rivals, employers, and their families arsenic