WI: Major Female Serial Killer?

[Killer300]

This is inspired by a thread involving girls attracted to, "bad boys," like terrorists and the like.

Hence, an idea. What if a female serial killer, who is as brutal as Ted Bundy, and kills 20+ victims emerges during the 60s or 70s? Would she attract a large male fan base, like how brutal male serial killers have large female fan bases?

Additionally, how would this impact culture at the time, either way? Keep in mind, this isn't by poison or similar, rather by bludgeon, knives, or even torturing victims to death. Hence, the, "Black Widow," stereotype of female serial killers is broken right then and there. Also, if does have a male fan base, does this perhaps lead to any attempts to capitalize on that in Entertainment, however subtle?

Finally, could these events impact anything outside the United States? I mean, using Ted Bundy as an example again, did he really impact world wide events any? Hell, did he impact much outside of pop culture?

Now, how would this happen? I don't know, however this is, before a certain date, a psychology POD. Being on such a small scale prevents the butterfly effect from getting out of hand before the actual killings. Additionally, there are, literally, extremely conservatively, thousands of potential people here. So really, shake the probability dice enough, if you will, and you can easily get this without ASB, to put things mildly.

So, thoughts on this?

 

[Tripwire]

Depends. Is she hot?

No, really, that's the sole determining factor for the "fanbase" of serial killers.

 

[Killer300]

Depends. Is she hot?

No, really, that's the sole determining factor for the "fanbase" of serial killers.

The male serial killers were physically attractive?!

 

[aktarian]

The male serial killers were physically attractive?!

Male attractivness is based on several points, female on uch less.

 

[Michel Van]

The male serial killers were physically attractive?!

some of worst male serial killers have large female fan group, even get proposal of marriage from them !

woman, i really not understand them...

For serial killers anything outside the United States?
try Belgium, it's perfect breeding ground for serial killers of all kind.
thanks to a social decay and dilettantish Police force and a stuporous judiciary...

 

[Minchandre]

The male serial killers were physically attractive?!

Charles Manson and Ted Bundy were.

 

[JVM]

James Holmes had a fanbase as well, but it died down relatively quickly.

They're really not as huge around real-life ones as much as fictional ones - there's a huge fandom for the new Hannibal show for example, of which I know some people, and I wouldn't call any of those people messed up because it's a fictional series, and as long as people remember that, I have no issue with it. But it does show the idea of liking serial killers isn't as alien as we think, either.

There is a group of women - I shan't stereotype the whole genre - that's really turned on by the idea of a guy who's a jerk to everyone but has a sensitive side only she sees, that makes her feel special because she's the only one that can see the good in him.

Also, the kind of women with rape fetishes but let's not go into that.

The point is those are the two main groups that get attracted to serial killers and why.

(Don't I almost sound like I know what I'm talking about?)

 

[Carl Schwamberger]

Hmmm... I know of several women who have had a series of husbands/boyfriends die. I wonder...

 

[The Red]

You mean Myra Hindley?

Isn't there already that creepy 'Hot Female Criminals' webpage? I guess if there was a horrific spree of killings similar to the Moors Murders in the present day those types might come out of the woodwork, but aside from a few bizarre Rad Fems, I don't really think the reaction would be very different to any other serial killer.

 

[Garrison]

You man Myra Hindley?

And in the US you have Aileen Wuornos. There have also been any number of woman who've killed multiple people for profit, usually by poison, like Dorothea Puente

 

[Killer300]

some of worst male serial killers have large female fan group, even get proposal of marriage from them !

woman, i really not understand them...

For serial killers anything outside the United States?
try Belgium, it's perfect breeding ground for serial killers of all kind.
thanks to a social decay and dilettantish Police force and a stuporous judiciary...

I know they had fanbases, but I didn't think that had anything to do with their physical appearance.

 

[Killer300]

James Holmes had a fanbase as well, but it died down relatively quickly.

They're really not as huge around real-life ones as much as fictional ones - there's a huge fandom for the new Hannibal show for example, of which I know some people, and I wouldn't call any of those people messed up because it's a fictional series, and as long as people remember that, I have no issue with it. But it does show the idea of liking serial killers isn't as alien as we think, either.

There is a group of women - I shan't stereotype the whole genre - that's really turned on by the idea of a guy who's a jerk to everyone but has a sensitive side only she sees, that makes her feel special because she's the only one that can see the good in him.

Also, the kind of women with rape fetishes but let's not go into that.

The point is those are the two main groups that get attracted to serial killers and why.

(Don't I almost sound like I know what I'm talking about?)

Interesting point. And the sensitive side thing... yeah, I can see that.

 

[Killer300]

But okay guys, I'm wondering more how this impacts culture if it occurs around the same time as guys like Ted Bundy started killing people.

 

[wietze]

A Typhoid mary kind of female, that uses her condition to kill intentional?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_Mary

i know there have been people with aids that tried to do that.

 

[DStecks]

Wikipedia's category of American female serial killers has thirty entries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_female_serial_killers, just have one happen to blow up in the media?

And I doubt there'd be any real effects. Being Canadian, we've had our own sensationalized female serial killer: Karla Homolka. And I can't say there have been any real effects on the culture, beyond a couple cop show episodes.

 

[Killer300]

A Typhoid mary kind of female, that uses her condition to kill intentional?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_Mary

i know there have been people with aids that tried to do that.

Read the OP, as that kind of falls outside its specifications.

 

[Killer300]

Wikipedia's category of American female serial killers has thirty entries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_female_serial_killers, just have one happen to blow up in the media?

And I doubt there'd be any real effects. Being Canadian, we've had our own sensationalized female serial killer: Karla Homolka. And I can't say there have been any real effects on the culture, beyond a couple cop show episodes.

For the first, most of them fall outside the OP criteria.

For the second, interesting... to say the least.

 

[DStecks]

For the second, interesting... to say the least.

For those unfamiliar with the case, Karla Homolka is probably the most famous serial killer in Canada, perhaps even more so than her husband, Paul Bernardo. Her crimes were vicious: rape and murder, and one of the victims was her own sister.

That said, a big part of the reason for her notoriety is the circumstances surrounding her release from prison. To briefly summarize, she convinced the prosecution that Bernardo was the one largely responsible, and she was a passive participant. Then, it turned out that the two video taped their crimes extensively, and the tapes proved she was just as active in committing them as Bernardo. However, the plea deal had already been arranged, and Karla Homolka is currently a free woman (Bernardo is serving life without parole in the infamous Kingston Pen).

 

[Heavy]

What about Aileen Wuornos? She was the subject of the movie Monster, for which Charlize Theron won an Academy Award.

 

[Rex Mundi]

But okay guys, I'm wondering more how this impacts culture if it occurs around the same time as guys like Ted Bundy started killing people.

Seriously, though, a LOT depends on whether or not she is hot. That will significantly impact how she's viewed, how she's portrayed in the media, how she's remembered, etc.