![]() ![]() ![]() She also calls attention to how sexuality and beauty are often written into the popular narratives of these crimes. Telfer calls out the misogynistic tropes at play-the witches, femme fatales, and black widows, to name a few-in fictional depictions of female murderers. ![]() The 19th century, and Nannie Doss, the “giggling grandma” from Alabama in the mid-20th century who was so dissatisfied with her string of husbands that she killed them off one by one. Among the women portrayed are Kate Bender, the “beautiful throat cutter” from Kansas who lured unsuspecting travelers to their deaths in the second half of Each woman receives an individual portrait that outlines her crimes in gruesome detail. ![]() In her debut work of nonfiction, Telfer, who writes for the Awl and Vice, exhumes the horrific criminal histories of 14 female serial killers. ![]()
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