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According to Psychology Today,^[1] the black widow serial killer is defined as a woman who targeted and killed at least three men — usually husbands, fiancés, or boyfriends — in order to advance her own financial status. Many take out insurance policies before administering a fatal dose of poison or a bullet, and sometimes it's only when someone realizes that they're leaving a trail of victims in their wake that suspicions are aroused.

For some, there's another component to the killing, too: sympathy. People tend to flock to those who have recently lost a loved one in a show of support, and for many black widows, this is a definite bonus.

The category that includes black widow cases is as follows: Category:Black Widows

Black Widows[]

Note: List is sorted after years active.

Mary Ann Cotton (1832 — 1873), killed around 21 people in the United Kingdom.
Martha Needle (1863 — 1894), killed 5 people in Australia, between 1885 and 1894.
Louise Vermilya (1868 — 1913), killed 9 people in the United States between 1893 and 1911, but the charges were dismissed.
Edith Murray (died 1969), also called the Cleveland Black Widow, is suspected of killing up to 5 people between 1903 and 1922 in the United States.
Lyda Southard (1892 — 1958), also known as Lyda Trueblood and from the United States, is suspected of killing her four husbands, a brother-in-law, and her daughter by using arsenic poisoning between 1915 and 1920.
Lyda Ambrose (1891 — 19??), from the United States, is suspected of killing five of her husbands and lovers by using arsenic poisoning between 1917 and 1920.^{[note 1]}
Vera Renczi (1903 — 1960) killed 35 people in Romania, Yugoslavia & allegedly Hungary, between 1920 and 1930.
Emma Heppermann (1883 — 1968), also called the St. Louis Black Widow, is suspected of killing between 1 and 7 people in the United States between 1925 and 1940.
Nannie Doss (1905 — 1965) killed 11 people in the United States, between 1927 and 1954.
Marie Alexandrine Becker (1879 — 1942) killed 11 people in Belgium, between 1933 and 1936.
Margit Filó (1914 — 1979) killed 4-6 people in Hungary, between 1958 and 1968.
Maria LaPine (born October 15, 1939) killed 9 people in Mexico, between 1970 and 1995.
Betty Neumar (born 1950) is suspected of having killed 5 people in the United States, between 1970 and 2007.
Heloísa Gonçalves Duque Soares Ribeiro (born 1950) is suspected of having killed 4 people in Brazil, between 1971 and 1993.
Judy Buenoano (1943 — 1998) killed 3 people in the United States, between 1971 and 1983.
Josephine Gray (born 1946) killed 3 people in the United States, between 1974 and 1996.
Elena Nekrasova (1943 — 1990s) killed 3 people in the Soviet Union, between 1977 and 1978.
Elfriede Blauensteiner (1931 — 2003) killed between 3 and 10+ people in Austria, between 1981 and 1995.
Betty Lou Beets (1937 — 2000) is suspected of killing 2+ in the 1980s.
Maria Nazaré Félix de Lima killed 5 people in Brazil between 1990s and 2015.
Margarita Sánchez Gutiérrez (born 1953), also known as the Black Widow of Barcelona, killed 4 people in Spain between 1992 and ?.
Ulisa Chavers (born 1949) killed 2 to 3 people in United States between 1994 and 2006.
Marli Teles de Souza (born 1969) killed 1 to 3 people in Brazil between 2000 and 2014.
Esneda Ruiz Cataño (born 1968) killed 3 people in Colombia between 2001 and 2010.
Antonia Giampietro (born 1947) killed at least 2 people in the Argentina, in 2003.
Chisako Kakehi (born 1946) killed 3 to 10 people between 2007 and 2013 in Japan.
Dionny Seijas Cárdenas (born 1973) killed 3 people between 2009 and 2014 in Peru.

Black Widows of Liverpool[]

Main article: Black Widows of Liverpool

Black Widows of Liverpool, Irish sisters who were convicted of poisoning and murdering one person in Liverpool, England, and suspected of four more deaths:
- Catherine Flannagan (1829 — 1884)
- Margaret Higgins (1843 — 1884)

Angel Makers of Nagyrév[]

- Zsuzsanna Fazekas with 20+ accomplices (called The Angel Makers of Nagyrév (Hungarian: Tiszazugi méregkeverők, "Tiszazug poison-mixers")) were a group of women living in the village of Nagyrév, Hungary, who poisoned to death an estimated 40–100 men between 1914 and 1929.

Bodenfelde Black Widows[]

Main article: Bodenfelde Black Widows

Bodenfelde Black Widow, two German serial killers, who committed four murders from 1994 to 2000 in the Bodenfelde:
- Lydia L. (born 1939)
- Siegmund S.