Tefler writes about female serial killers throughout history including: Erzebet Bathory: The Blood Countess Lizzie Halliday: The Worst Woman On Earth, Tillie Klimek: High Priestess of the Bluebeard Clique, Raya and Sakina: Vipers and more.
Tefler avoids the sensationalism that is often associated with serial killers, but especially with female serial killers. Serial killers are anomalies and female ones even more so. In order to explain their monstrosity, perversion, inhuman, and un-womanly behavior, female serial killers' crimes are often attributed to over-sexualization, abuse, mental deficiencies, or hysteria. Tefler presents these women as women and human, however flawed they may have been. Tefler avoids exoticising and objectifying these female serial killers and instead tries to understand the motivations behind their crimes.
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