1968-
Ma Barker is best known for supposedly leading the criminal behavior of her four sons.
1873-1935
Lorena Bobbitt is best known for severing her husband's penis while he slept, in retaliation for his sexual assaults against her.
1970-
Lizzie Borden is best known for being acquitted in the murder trial of her stepmother and father in 1893.
1860-1927
1944-
Ruth Ellis is best known for the murder of her lover, leading to her execution, the last of a woman in England.
1926-1955
Teenage Amy Fisher had an affair with mechanic Joey Buttafuoco in the early 1990s. When Buttafuoco refused to leave his wife, Fisher attempted to kill her.
1974-
1859-
Jean Harris is best known for murdering Dr. Herman Tarnower. She claimed it was an accident, insisting that she had only wanted to kill herself.
1923-
Myra Hindley was an serial killer of small children, murders she committed in partnership with Ian Brady.
1942-2002
1950-
Susan Smith is best known for her murder of her two sons in order to carry on a relationship with a man.
1971-
1953-
Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. She was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.
1956-2002
1964-