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ISSUE 1 - May 2014

WOMEN

LOREM MAGAZINE

Editors

Table of Contents

Maddy Beem photographer Ana Mastrianni manager Helene Sorenson secretary Madison Meyer chief editor

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Susan Smith……………………..………………………………..…3

By Maddy Beem

Dorothea Puente…………….………………………………..……5

By Helene Sorensen

Aileen Wuornos………………………………………………….…7

By Madison Meyer

Nancy Hazel ……………………………………………….….9

By Ana Mastrianni

Men VS Women……………………………………………………. 11

By Maddy Beem

Interview ….………………………………………………………..….13

By Madison Meyer

What killer are you?………………………………………….… 15

By Ana Mastrianni

Why women kill……………………………………………..……. 16

By Helene Sorensen

Recipe……………………………………………………………..……. 17

By Ana Mastrianni

Timeline………………………………………………………………. 18

By Helene Sorensen

Spot the difference………………………………………..……. 19

By Maddy Beem

Top ten women killers in movies……………………..…. 20

By Madison Meyer

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Susan Smith

By Madison Beem

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Her story Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith was born in Union, South Carolina on September 26, 1971 Her Parents, Harry Ray Vaughan and Linda had a rough marriage from the start.

In 1960, Harry was twenty, Linda was seventeen, and pregnant, from a previous relationship when they married. Together, Harry and Linda had a son, Scotty, a daughter, Susan, and they raised Linda’s son, Michael. Harry and Linda’s marriage had many conflicts and some of those conflicts escalated to the point where Harry became violent and threatened to kill Linda and then himself. Harrys violence was the result of his alcoholism and his obsession with the idea that Linda was unfaithful.

During Susan’s early childhood, her home life was very dysfunctional.

Susan and her older brother Scotty were scared because of the abusive relationship that their parents had. Her half brother, Michael, tried to commit suicide by hanging himself, but then got medical treatment.

After 17 years of marriage, Linda divorced Harry. He was so devastated by the divorce that just after five weeks of it being finalized he committed suicide.

Two weeks after her divorce from Harry, Linda married Beverly (Bev) Russell. He had been previously married and had several daughters. After her mother's remarriage, Susan and her brothers moved from their house to Bev’s three bedroom home in an exclusive section of Union.

Susan maintained good throughout her school career. She was voted Friendliest Female at Union High School in her senior year. Her classmates remembered her as cheerful and down to earth.

She was also vivacious and outgoing, and had a desire need for male attention.

Susan’s life was filled with turmoil.

Some of it came from her relationship with her stepfather. Over the years, Bev’s attention and approval became increasingly important to Susan and she found herself competing with her mother for his attention.

More abusive behavior began when Susan was fifteen, it was leading up to her sixteenth birthday and her step sister was staying at their house. Susan agreed to sleep on the sofa, and as she was ready to go to sleep Bev was still on the couch.

Because she thought it wouldn't be a big deal, she laid with her head on him and fell asleep. He then started to touch her inappropriately and make her touch him.

She pretended to be asleep, but she claimed that she wanted to see how far he would go.

Susan filed a complaint against Bev and his perverted actions which lead to Bev, Linda, and Susan attending family counseling. However, they only went four or five times before discontinuing the sessions.

The family blamed Susan more than they blamed Bev. The summer going into her senior year Susan got a job at a supermarket. At the beginning of her senior year in high school, Susan began to date one of her co-workers who was an older, married man. Soon after, Susan became pregnant and had an abortion. Not only that, she was also dating another co-worker. Her two boyfriends figured out what was going on, and they both dumped her.

Susan became very depressed over the breakups, and attempted to commit suicide by taking an overdose of…

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Left: Michael Right: Alex

Her story cont. aspirin and Tylenol. She went to a medical center where she was hospitalized for one week. Doctors discovered that this was not Susan’s first suicide attempt. When she was thirteen years old, she had taken a similar overdose of aspirin. Susan took about a month off from work recovering from her suicide, and was then greeted back to her job at the supermarket.

After going back to her job, Susan met David Smith, who had attended the same high school as she did. She began seeing him, and then David broke things off with his current girlfriend in order to have a relationship with Susan.

Susan married David Smith and had a son, Michael. Their marriage was rough, they were both constantly having affairs and their love for each other was mostly gone.

However, they did manage to have a reconnection and with that came their second son, Alex.

Michael, her oldest son had celebrated his third birthday two weeks prior to his death, and Alex was fourteen months old.

On October 25, 1994, Susan was twenty three, and had long, sandy blond hair that she had tied in a ponytail. She had her two children, Michael, three, and Alex, fourteen months, strapped in their carseats. They had just visited the park, and it was getting late, so her two kids had fallen asleep.

Then, she made a dangerous decision, and drove her vehicle on to a boat ramp that slowly declined, leading directly into the John D. Long Lake.

Susan and her husband, David, were in the middle of a divorce and her boyfriend, Tom Findlay, had just rejected her the week before. She wanted to commit suicide, but she did not want her sons to suffer. Susan believed if she killed her sons first and then committed suicide, that her sons would suffer less, rather than if she committed suicide and left them on their own.

Susan then put her 1990 burgundy Mazda in neutral, and it slowly began to roll down the boat ramp heading into the water. However, Susan hit the breaks after just a short time of the car rolling. She pulled up her emergency brake and got out of her vehicle.

Something was stopping her from surrendering to her depression and loneliness. She did not want to commit suicide, what she wanted was relief from all the stresses and burdens that overwhelmed her. She felt that her life was filled with loss and rejection, and that the responsibilities of being a single mother were overwhelming.

So with this decision, she leaned into her car, released the emergency brake, then shut the drivers side door. Her two kids were still asleep, buckled into their car seats, when the car slowly rolled into the river. It hit the water and it took about six minutes to fill up with water before it finally sank down.

After Susan watched her children drown, she ran to a nearby house to tell her lie of what had actually happened.

Nine days after Susan had lied to officers, investigators, her husband, and the news about what had happened to her two little boys, she finally confessed.

During the trial, Susan’s defense lawyers pleaded that Susan was mentally ill, because of her childhood tragedies, sexual abuse, depression, and suicide attempts. They explained to the jury that Susan’s desire and need for attention fulfilled her, and when a current boyfriend of hers broke it off three days before the murder, she lost it. Her desperateness caused her to act so insanely but when it came down to it, Susan was accused guilty of two counts of murder.

Susan is currently serving life in South Carolina's Leath Correctional Institution.

Recently, there has been news that guards have been having sex with Susan.

This was found out after she developed a sexually transmitted disease.

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Dorothea Puente

By Helene Sørensen Dorothea Puenta is classified as a serial killer.

She was born on January 9th, 1929 in San Bernardino County, California to two alcoholic parents. Dorothea’s life growing up was not normal, as dealt with abuse from both parents and rummaged for food. Both her parents died before Dorothea hit the age seven, resulting in Dorothea to be sent to an orphanage until relatives located in Fresno, California took her in. When Dorothea was of age to live on her own she had the opportunity to start over, that being she told people she was a daughter to parents who had eighteen children and they were all born and raised in Mexico.

In 1946 Dorothea married for the first time, but sadly her husband did within their first two years of marriage to a heart attack. Money was tight for Dorothea and after the death of her husband, the person in the household that brought in money or the only one who had an income; she was left with nothing after his death. For a short period she would forge checks but eventually she was caught and sentenced to jail for a year, being of good behavior she was let out on parole for six months. Shortly after her released a man that she had little knowledge on impregnated her. She went through with the pregnancy and gave birth to a girl, but gave her up for adoption. It was the year of 1952 when Dorothea remarried to Axel Johanson and lived a violent 14 years of marriage with him.

In 1960 Dorothea was sentenced to 90 days in Sacramento County jail for being arrested with being involved in a brothel. After her release, she was arrested again; this arrest was on vagrancy and another 90 days she was sentenced to in jail.

After being released the second time Dorothea started a nursing aid job, where she was caring for disabled and elderly people in private homes.

After her liking for this job increased she took on a job to manage boarding houses.

1966 she divorced Johansen and married another man, Roberto Puente in Mexico City. Roberto’s problem in this marriage was him staying faithful to Dorothea, resulting in their marriage only lasting two years. Before their divorce, Dorothea opening up a three-story, six-bedroom care home on 2100 F Street in Sacramento, California for homeless and needy in the area.

Puente married for the third time in 1976 to a Pedro Montalvo, a physically abusive alcoholic.

This marriage only lasting a few months.

Dorothea started to spend her days in bars to meet older men who had benefits. She would forge signatures to steal their money, but it never last long until she was caught. Dorothea was charged with 34 counts of treasury fraud. Being sentenced to jail or on probation never stopped Dorothea. 1981, Dorothea rented an upstairs apartment at 1426 F Street in downtown Sacramento. This location was where Dorothea murdered nine victims. The following year, 1982, Ruth Monroe, sixty one years old, moved in with Dorothea, but overdosed shortly after her move in on an overdose usage of Codeine and Tylenol.

Puente told the judge that her roommate’s death was caused from her depression on her husband, causing the judge to rule out everything else and label Ruth’s death as a suicide.

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Dorothea was sentenced to five years in jail after three charges of theft on August 18, 1982. While Puente was serving her time in jail she started to gain a relationship with a seventy seven year old retiree living in Oregon, Everson Gillmouth.

Their relationship grew and developed. When Dorothea was released after three years of her sentenced in 1985, Everson was outside the jail to pick her up. They arranged for a marriage to take place and opened a join bank account, where they shared rent for their two residences that

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Dorothea previously owned back from her marriage with Roberto Puente.

In November of 1985 Puente built a box six feet by three feet by 2 feet to store “books and other items” as she was transporting this box that was nailed-shut box to a storage depot with her friend Florez. She stopped on Garden Highway in Sutter County and dumped this box on the river bank in an unofficial household dumping. Florez questioned Dorothea’s actions but her response was the box was “just junk.”

January 1, 1986 a fisherman came across a box sitting about three feet from the bank of the river. He informed the police and started an investigation, leading to the discovery of a badly decomposed and unidentified body of an elderly man inside. While the investigation was taking place Puente took her soon to be husband, Everson, his pension and wrote letters to his family explaining that the reason for losing contact was because he was ill.

This being false information. Dorothea at this time was taking in forty new tenants, alcoholics and drug addicts.

She was making a good and steady profit but craved more money so she roamed bars looking for new customers.

November 11, 1988 police were in search for tenant Alvaro Montoya, a developmentally disabled schizophrenic. Police came across a discovery of a body buried in the lawn of Dorothea Puente, sixty years old because they noticed the disturbed soil on her property. Seven additional bodies were eventually found, charging Puente with a total of nine murders, convicted of three, she is now serving two life sentences.

She died just recently in prison on March 27, 2011.

On trail it was released from over hundred and thirty witnesses that Dorothea used sleeping pills to put her tenants to sleep, then suffocate them, and she hired convicts to dig the holes in her yard. Dorothea Puente’s motive of her being a serial killer was to poison these people and then cash their social security checks. She killed Ruth Monroe, Everson Gillmouth, Alvaro Montoya, Dorothy Miller, Benjamin Fink, Betty Palmer, Leona Carpenter, James Gallop and Vera Faye Martin.

Dorothea tried to defend herself saying these actions of killing nine people was because she was raised in an abusive household but the jury ruled her out and she was sentenced to life in prison without parole on December 11, 1993.

“Dorothea at this time was taking in forty new tenants, alcoholics and drug addicts.”

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Aileen Wuornos By: Madison Meyer

Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who murdered seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. She claimed that her victims were all men who either raped or attempted to rape her while she worked as a prostitute. She also said that the homicides were committed in selfdefense. Aileen was convicted and sentenced to death for six out of the seven murders and was executed by the State of Florida by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.

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Born on February 29, 1956, Aileen had a hard early life. Her father, Leo Pittman, was a schizophrenic who was later convicted of sex crimes against children and hanged himself in prison in 1969. Her mother abandoned Aileen

and her siblings when they were little, leaving them to their grandparents.

became a prostitute and living in the woods near her old home.

At age 9, Wuornos started to engage in sexual activities in school in exchange for cigarettes, drugs, and food. She also engaged in sexual activities with her b r o t h e r. S h e c l a i m e d t h a t h e r grandfather sexually assaulted and beat her when she was a child. Before beating her, he would force her to strip out of her clothes. In 1970, at age 13, she became pregnant after having been raped by a friend of her grandfather's.

She gave birth at a home for unwed mothers, and the child was later put up for adoption. She dropped out of school when grandmother died of liver failure and when she turned 15, her grandfather threw her out of the house.

She found a way to support herself; she

She started her criminal life early on and was arrested on many occasions.

On May 27, 1974, Wuornos was arrested for driving under the influence , disorderly conduct, and firing a .22-caliber pistol from a moving vehicle. Later, on July 14, 1976, she was arrested and charged with assault and disturbing the peace for throwing a cue ball at a bartender's head. On May 20, 1981, Wuornos was arrested for the armed robbery of a convenience store. Finally, on January 4, 1986, Wuornos was arrested in Miami and charged with car theft, resisting arrest, and obstruction of justice for providing identification bearing her aunt's name.

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1989 was the year she started all of her murders. With all of this anger built up from her troubled life, Aileen wanted revenge.

Her first murder was on November 30, 1989. Richard Mallory, her first victim, was a convicted rapist who she claimed to have killed in self-defense. He was found on December 13, with two bullets in him. This was the murder that she would initially be condemned.

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Her next victim, David Spears, age 43, was a construction worker in Winter Garden, Florida. On June 1, 1990, his body was found, unclothed, along Highway 19 in Citrus County, Florida. Police found that he was shot six times Her next victim, David Spears, age 43, was a construction worker in Winter Garden, Florida.

On June 1, 1990, his body was found, unclothed, along Highway 19 in Citrus County, Florida. Police found that he was shot six times by Wuornos.

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Wuornos's third victim, Charles Carskaddon, age 40, was murdered on May 31, 1990. He was a part-time rodeo worker and on June 6, 1990, his body was found in Pasco County, Florida. His body was found with nine gun shot wounds from a small-caliber weapon.

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Peter Siems, age 65 was murdered in June 1990. Siems left Jupiter, Florida, for New Jersey and on July 4, 1990, his car was found in Orange Springs, Florida. Moore and Wuornos were seen abandoning the car, and Wuornos' palm print was found on the inside door handle.

Siem's body was never found.

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Troy Burress, age 50 was a sausage salesman from Ocala, Florida. On August 4, 1990, his body was found with two gunshot wounds in a wooded area along State Road 19 in Marion County, Florida.

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Charles "Dik" Humphreys, age 56, was murdered on September 11, 1990. He was a retired U.S. Air Force Major, former State Child Abuse Investigator, and former Chief of Police. On September 12, 1990, his body was found in Marion County, Florida. He was shot six times in the head and torso.

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Walter Jeno Antonio, age 62, was Wuornos's final victim. He was a Police Reservist and on November 19, 1990, Antonio's body was found near a logging road in Dixie County, Florida. He had been shot four times.

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Wuornos’ had a troubled life led to her interesting killing spree.

Unlike most female serial killers, Wuornos did not poison her victims; she shot them. Although she did steal some pecuniary items from her victims, she claimed her motives were that each of the men she killed tried to rape her, and therefore, she was acting in self-defense. Throughout her trials in 1992 and 1993, Wuornos maintained this argument. Eventually in 2002, she pled guilty and was sentenced to death by lethal injection.

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Nancy Hazel

by Ana Mastrianni

Nancy Hazel nicknamed “The Giggling Grandma” or “The Black Widow” was born on November 4, 1905 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Although Nancy had a good childhood she was not a dry bright child and because of her father forcing all of his children to work on the farm instead of attending school her education never grew. Her life took a turn for the worse when she was traveling on a train and it stopped suddenly causing her to hit her head on a metal bar. This even cause brain damage and future mental instability.

Nancy killed her 9 proven victims in an assortment of states, Alabama, North Carolina, Kansas, and Oklahoma, all of which she had family in. In killing Nancy used the most common means of killing by women — poison— she claimed she killed because she was looking for “the real romance of life” her murders however typically resulted in her receiving insurance money form the desist. The first time Nancy killed was in 1927, her first husband Charlie Braggs came home to find all of his two children dead on the ground of the kitchen. She claimed it was accidental but soon after Charlie’s mother also died of “food poisoning” not believing this Charlie left her and took their eldest daughter with him.

Her second husband was Robert (Frank) Harrelson who worked in a factory they were married for 16 years and raised Charlie’s two remaining children that he had not been able to take with him. Her oldest daughter , Melvina, had a son in 1943 but right after Robert Lee Haynes was born he died soon after. Melvina and the others in the room at the time say that they saw Nancy kill the baby with a head

pin. In 1945 Franks abusive past came out after 16 years of marriage and he raped Nancy because of his excitement over the end of WWII. This was the last straw for Nancy in her relationship with Frank and she laced his bottle with rat poisoning and killed him. Her third husband was Arlie Lanning a North Carolina man who she married with in 3 days of knowing him. He was an alcoholic and antifeminist in this relationship Nancy acted like a doting housewife and after his death she received the support of the town.

Arlie’s mother died soon after him and the house and all of the endurance of both of the dead was left to Nancy.

After leaving North Carolina she went to stay with her sister Dovie who with in days of Nancys arrival was found dead. Nancy went out to The Diamond Circle Club and met Richard L. Morton her fourth husband he was found dead with in 3 months of their marriage. Her fifth husband was Samuel Doss from Tulsa, Oklahoma he as a religious man, unlike the others she had married, in this however he forbade her from racing romance novels that she lived to read since she was a child. She attempted to kill him and failed sending him to the hospital and home again on October 5, 1954. Later that night she killed him for good and tried to collect on the insurance policies she had taken out on him recently.

Doctors were suspicious of this and called for an autopsy and found that he had been poisoned with arsenic. This is where her stream of killing stopped and Nancy made a full confession she admitted to killing killing four of her husbands, her mother, her sister Dovie, her grandson Robert and her mother-inlaw, Arlie Lanning's mother. She pleaded guilty on May 17, 1955 and was sent to imprisonment at Oklahoma State Penitentiary but only for the killing of Samuel Doss. She died 10 years later of Leukemia in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on June 2 1965 at the age of 59 and was never held accountable in court for her other killings.

“She claimed she killed because she was looking for ‘the real romance of life’”

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WOMEN VS MEN SERIAL KILLER STYLE

By: Maddy Beem

Click on the Info graph to view it interactive!

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What really goes on in Prison?

The Inside Story: An Interview with Abigail Pesta

by Madison Meyer MM: Today, we are lucky enough

to have an award-winning journalist who has lived and worked around the world. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Her featured reporting has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, NBC News, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Glamour, Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She is Vice President of the Overseas Press Club in New York.

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AB: HI thank you so much for having me.

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MM: Thank you so much for coming. For those of you who do not know, Abigail Pesta was arrested in the early 2000’s. Today, she is going to give us insight on what really goes on inside of prisons. Tell me Abigail, where did your story begin?

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AB: Well, a while ago, I was working as a Certified Financial Planner for American Express Financial Advisors. Someone recommended an investment opportunity in California. This operation was buying foreclosed homes, fixing them up, and reselling them for profit. Some of my clients started inquiring about real-estate opportunities, and I asked the compliance officer at American

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Express if I could mention this one. He said that American Express did not deal with "hard property" real estate but if I referred people independently it would not be a problem all I had to do was fill out the proper securities forms. After I did that, I told a few people about the investment, and advised them to look into it. About a year later, in August of 2005, I launched my own financialplanning business. Things went well for the first year, but investors stopped getting any returns on that real-estate deal. Once I realized this, an attorney and I visited the owners of the company. After our meeting, the attorney realized that the operation was all a scam and told me I should report it to the authorities.

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AB: Well, in October 2006, I did

what my attorney told me and a month later, officers confronted me at my home and confiscated my cell phone, computer, and all of my files. I was very confused, but my attorney told me to wait and stay calm. A couple months later, I was sitting in my office when the police returned. They arrested and accused me of being part of a $1.6 million real-estate fraud! They told me that since I recommended the investment and had received standard referral fees, I was guilty. Even though my family and I had lost an enormous

amount of money ourselves, that didn't seem to matter. After I answered what hundreds of questions from an assistant district attorney, my criminal-defense lawyer, advised me to agree to a deal with the DA. If I pleaded guilty, I'd get sentenced six months in jail but could be out in four. I hated the idea of making that deal, but I took his advice and signed the papers. That was January 2008.

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saying to me before how you searched the jail that they would send you to if you were found guilty online. What did you find when you searched?

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AB: Oh god don’t remind me! First, the jail I was going to be sent to Rikers Island Correctional Facility. When I searched Rikers on google, I cried.

What popped up were reports of abuse, injustice, and rape. There were rumors of guards running an alleged prison fight club, in which inmates were forced to beat each other.

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scared too! What happened next?

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June 2008, I went to a criminal courthouse in Manhattan to be sentenced. When I was finally before the judge, I asked if I could withdraw my guilty plea. The answer, of course, was no. I was handcuffed and escorted to a basement room called "the bridge," where I waited with prostitutes and drug addicts for the bus to Rikers.

When I replay it all in my mind, it seems like a nightmare.

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What happened when you MM: arrived to Rikers?

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For starters, I was told to strip naked and squat just incase I was hiding things inside of me. Then the guards made me sit in a computerized chair called the B.O.S.S.. This chair did an X-ray of my insides to detect anything I might have swallowed.

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MM: Were there any people who wanted to hurt you?

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The most threatening person was this huge woman who first stared at me one night in the communal showers. I knew she wanted to rape me because I was warned of the signs. I had heard of other instances of rape in Rikers and was scared. A fellow inmate came and stood by my side in the shower, and the bully backed off...

Thank god!

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MM: What helped you get through the day?

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What kept me sane was the belief that I was there for a reason, that I might be able to help someone. I managed to teach a woman from Trinidad to read, and showed others

how to do yoga. I held poetry readings with the woman who bunked next to me, an African-American Muslim who had been homeless many times. When I described how I'd once heard someone calling for help, she told me it was her calling.

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What happened when you got out? Did you learn anything/ receive any advice?

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In October 2008, my mother and best friend came and picked me up.

At this point, I had a full-body yeast infection called candida, but I'd never

felt better in my life. I felt oddly proud of myself. I was tougher than I realized, and I knew I could win the respect of people from worlds very different from my own. Ironically, I have my experience at Rikers to thank for that knowledge. Surprisingly, I did receive one piece of advice. One of the guards once said to me, "If you can survive this place, you can survive anything."

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What Killer are You?* !

click on the picture to take the quiz!

By: Ana Mastrianni

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Why Women Kill

By Helene Sorensen

“If you would gain a throne and hold it, fear not to make of human skulls thy stepping stones.”

- Taitu Betul

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s u a l l y, w e o n l y imagine men being m u r d e r e r s .

S u r p r i s i n g l y, a report found that from 2002 to 2012, 6.1% of murders were done by a woman. 93.9% of the murderers were males. It is very rare to hear about a woman murderer. Murder rates have declined in the United States over the past 30 years. In 1976, homicide offending rates per 100,000 of the population were 12.3 males and 3.0 for females. In 2005, the last time this type of data was recorded, it was 11.9 for males and 1.2 for females. Although it is rare, women do commit murders. The murders that they commit are typically linked to a victim they have a close relationship with. Information gathered from 1976 to 2005 showed that 42% of

the victims of female murderers were intimate partners or other family members of the murderer. Only 8.7% were strangers to the female murderers.

So the question remains; why do these women kill?!

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Women killers typically kill using arson or poison. Women will usually kill children in their own family; this is called “intra-familial [killers].” Women have a technique that links a pattern between women killers- they smother, strangle and poison their victims. Only under certain circumstances will a woman killer stab her victim(s). Women killers are practical and clean because they believe when killing, to only use enough violence to get the job done while men are more likely to use more violence than necessary. Men's victims only tend to have stranger victims. This is because they tend to find themselves in

more aggressive situations. Sometimes, women kill because they have experienced brutal and destructive lifestyles where they have been beaten and abused. Sometimes, women killers have a bad childhood sexual abuse or trauma history and take that anger out on people they know when they are older.

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Women serial killers tend to have some form of relationship with their victims.

As stated before, their victims tend to be lovers, children, or people they are employed to care for. Since they usually have a close relationship with their victim(s), the murder is commonly taken place at home or their place of work.

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Women killers are not as common because 9 out of 10 homicides committed are done by men, but women killers DO exist.

Prisoners’ Favorite Meal

No Bake Cheese Cake

By Ana Mastrianni

A favorite among prisoners this is a rare delicacy in prison but Ingredients 1 six-oz. package of Graham Crackers, Vanilla Wafers or Oreos 4-6 pats of margarine 1 round of Laughing Cow cheese (8 wedges) 4 cups of vanilla pudding 6 oz. of Coffee Mate 1/2 c. lemon juice (more to taste)

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Directions

much loved by the inmates. Its main base is made out of graham crackers, lemon juice, vanilla pudding mix, cheese, (the two hardest ingredients usually need to be stolen from the kitchen) margarine, and coffee creamer. This type of cake is typically eaten by prisoners for celebrations primarily for birthdays or release dates. This recipe was invented by the famous Piper Kerman who is the writer behind Orange Is the New Black. After being imprisoned for drug smuggling and money laundering she was forced to do what she could to improve the atmosphere she was

1. crush graham crackers and 4 parts of margarine

living in and she did this partly by cooking with the little she

2. mix together and line a bowl with the mixture

could get her hands on.

3. microwave for 60 seconds 4. get a second bowl for steps 5-7 if possible 5. take one full laughing cow cheese and mash with a fork 6. mix in cup of vanilla pudding until the mixture is smooth 7. add lemon juice until the mixture starts to become firm 8. pour batter into crust 9. let the cake chill until it is ready to be eaten 10. enjoy

timeline

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By: Helene Sorensen

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1977

of Women Killers

Clementine Barnabet was an axemurderess who clammed she was a voodoo cult leader she was convicted in 1911

Louise Lindloff poisoned her whole family for insurance money in 1912

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Julian Carlton in Spring Green, WI was age 30 and killed 7 people on August 15th.

Nancy Hazel was sent to prison for murder and under accusation of 10 more people.

Georgia Tann was a pedophile who later in her life kidnapped and murdered a numerous number of babies. She was convicted in 1950.

1950

Caril Ann Fugate in Douglas, WY age 14 killed a total of 10 people on January 21st through the 29th. 1958.

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Ira Attebury killed 2 people in San Antonio, TX she as imprisoned at the age of 64 on April 27th. 1979.

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Dorothea Puenta killed 9 people in California in 1982.

1982

Susan Smith killed her own two children in 1992.

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Emilie Pierre killed 6 people in Hackettstown, NJ at the age of 20 and killed 6 people on August 26th. 1977.

1980

Charlene Gallego was a pedophile who raped and murdered teenage girls. She was convicted in 1980.

1982

Aileen Wournos killed 7 people in 1982

Spot the Difference

BETWEEN THESE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS

By: Maddy Beem

The three killer triplets (L to R: Candice, Hannah, Regan)

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Our Top 10 Favorite Women Killer Actresses of All Time!

By Madison Meyer

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Margaret HamiltonMargaret played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Although adults may not be so scared of her, after watching the movie, children are left with nightmares.

9. Megan Fox-

Daveigh Elizabeth ChaseDaveigh played the role of Samara in The Ring; the ghostly girl who is as scary as the devil itself.

Gloria Holden-

Megan played a cheerleader in Jennifer’s Body that breaks hearts, eats them, and proves that horror is just all

Holden's role in Dracula as Dracula's Daughter made movie audiences so scared they had to check under their beds and lock their doors before going to sleep.

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Takako Fuji-

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This actress played the ghost, Kayako, in the American remakes of The Grudge and left us viewers with nightmares!

5. Emily Jane Browning-

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4. Linda Blair-

Browning is mostly known for her role in The Uninvited. She played Anna, a crazy girl who murders her stepmother.

She went crazy after her real mother was killed in a boathouse fire and everything goes downhill from there.

Shawnee Smith-

Linda played a young possessed by a demon in the original version of The Exorcist. She scared her way to winning an Oscar.

Smith played Amanda Young, the fictional character in the Saw franchise.

At first, she was just a minor character, but by the end of the sequel, she is one of the most important characters and the mind behind the madness.

1. Sissy SpacekThe top women killer actress, hands down, is Carrie White played by Sissy Spacek in the movie, Carrie.

Betsy Palmer-

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Betsy played the role of Mrs. Vorhees, the crazy murderer in the first Friday the 13th. She is, by far, one of the greatest women killer actresses.