The Black Widows of Liverpool

The Black Widows of Liverpool
Author: Angela Brabin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2003
Genre: Insurance crimes
ISBN:

An astonishing local book which tells the story of the murderous activities of an infamous killing syndicate of women operating in the heart of Victorian Liverpool. from a poor area of Liverpool who conspired to insure and then poison their victims for their insurance pay out. Two sisters, Catherine Flanagan and Margaret Higgins, sat at the centre of the web, preying like Black Widow spiders on their victims, including their own husbands. more probable victims and accomplices, to produce a gripping account of crime and punishment, and a real insight into working-class life in nineteenth-century Liverpool.

The Liverpool Underworld

The Liverpool Underworld
Author: Michael Macilwee
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2022-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781388857

A survey of the social and economic conditions and events that gave Liverpool a reputation for being the most crime-ridden place in the country in the nineteenth century.

Chilling True Crime Stories - Volume 3

Chilling True Crime Stories - Volume 3
Author: Dylan Frost
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 3748798202

Thirty eclectic and chilling stories from the world of true crime. Serial killers young and old, cannibals, necrophiles, axe muderers, medical killers, mysterious serial killers who were never captured, notorious poisoners, gruesome spree killers, and other darkly fascinating chapters in the annuals of crime. All this and more awaits in Chilling True Crime Stories - Volume 3.

Women Who Kill - Deadly Female Murderers

Women Who Kill - Deadly Female Murderers
Author: Nick Katt
Publisher: epubli
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2023-05-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 3757543688

Over 40 crime cases featuring female killers. Includes, among many others: Kim Edwards - the disturbed fourteen year-old English schoolgirl who conspired with her boyfriend to brutally murder her mother and younger sister. Maria Rossi and Christina Molloy, two evil teenage girls who tortured and murdered the pensioner who lived next door in South Wales. Irina Gaidamachuk, a seemingly ordinary Russian housewife who was in secret a barbaric serial killer. Sarah Marie Johnson, an ordinary American teenager who shot her own parents to death because they didn't like her choice of boyfriend. Yolanda Saldívar, the woman who ran the official fan club for the pop star Selena Quintanilla and tragically ended up murdering the singer. Jeanne Weber, the prolific strangler who became known as The Ogress of the Goutte-d'Or Street. You can read about all of these cases and many more in Women Who Kill - Deadly Female Murderers.

British Serial Killers

British Serial Killers
Author: Nigel Wier
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2011-12-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1467881406

The book is about British serial killers from the 19th century all the way to the present day. I have written the book to show the readers what a serial killer is and why he is so different from any other killers. In Britain it is estimated that there are between 70 and 80 known serial killers and the book will cover about 75% of them. Fortunately for us most serial killers are arrested and sentenced to very long prison sentences and of course the earlier serial killers were executed. But is also shows some serial killers who have remained unidentified and have never been arrested.

Irish Criminals Through History

Irish Criminals Through History
Author: Dr Scott Shaw-Smith
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2015-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1326475533

So many people have throughout Irish history been labeled Criminals or misfits, find out their true background and make up your own mind, are the legends and stories true

The 100 Deadliest British Serial Killers

The 100 Deadliest British Serial Killers
Author: Mason Ryan
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 3748796358

Lock the doors and bolt the windows once again, it's time to countdown the one hundred deadliest British serial killers in history. What follows is a darkly fascinating parade of some of the worst and most frightening people ever to hail from Blighty...