Even More Scary Bitches! 15 More of the Scariest Women You'll Ever Meet!
The Bitches return in this third, final entry of our Scary Bitches series! More black widows, more murderous mothers, and a sibling rivalry that ends in death, it's all here. The ladies in this volume span the ages, from 1700s Louisiana to modern Oregon, and include such famous cases as the last woman to be executed for murder. You won't want to miss this one
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Introduction
There are some women who are so scary that become symbols of evil to entire nations. This list includes such monsters as Andrea Yates, Susan Smith, Karla Faye Tucker and Ruth Ellis.
Some of these ladies are known for their cold-blooded ways, others for incredible violence. Scary women strike fear into average people because they often look like the woman next door or even your own grandmother.
They all have one thing in common; a complete disregard for human life and basic notions of morality and decency. This tendency is made all the more frightening because these women can often hide behind a façade of normalcy. They often look like normal church going mothers and neighbors, even though they are ruthless killers. So it is easy to see why we are so frightened, fascinated and repelled by these murdering women.
Andrea Yates: Killer Mother
The scariest women of all are mothers that kill their own children. They not only murder; they violate and pervert the most sacred bond of all—motherhood. One of the most frightening killer mothers of all time was Andrea Yates. She drowned five of her own children, including a helpless infant.
Yates’ case so startled the American people that it inspired the media and even pop culture. Internet legends even claim that the popular American TV soap opera Desperate Housewives was inspired by Andrea Yates and her horrendous actions. Yates’ case shook American society to the core because it touched on such controversial issues as mental illness, religion, and the nature of family.
From Fertile Myrtle to Depression
There were two sides to Andrea Yates, who was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She was a successful young woman, the daughter of immigrants, who was the valedictorian of her high school class, a member of the National Honor Society, and captain of the swim team.
Yet Yates was also a very shy woman who didn’t date until she was 23 and met a young man named Rusty Yates. The young couple was serious and intensely religious—they spent much of their time in Bible study and prayer. After marriage, Yates left her job as a nurse and concentrated on having as many children as possible (in compliance with the biblical command to be fruitful and multiply).
Yates was also very reclusive; she had few friends and insisted on home schooling her children. The couple was also heavily influenced by a traveling fundamentalist preacher named Michael Woroiecki, who preached that mothers that had bad children would go to hell. Some observers think these teachings convinced the unstable Yates that she needed to prevent her children from growing up and becoming bad.
Andrea had five children: Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary. She gave them biblical names, but her life wasn’t working out. The family had money problems, and Andrea became depressed. She ended up in a mental hospital in 1999 and was prescribed the antidepressant Haldol. Her husband eventually talked her out of taking Haldol for religious reasons.
A Weird Family Life and Murder
The Yates’ family life was certainly weird. They lived in an old school bus for a number of years, then in 2000 they returned to a more normal suburban life in Houston and bought a home.
The new life didn’t work out and became a true nightmare on June 20, 2001. On that day Rusty left for his job at NASA as he normally did. After he left the home, Andrea turned a normal activity, bathing her five children, into a ritual of death.
While her children were eating their cereal, Andrea went into the bathroom and filled the tub with water. She then lured each of them into the bathroom and held them face down in the water until they were dead. Andrea covered each of the bodies with a sheet after drowning them. One of them, six-month-old Mary, she took out of her bassinet and drowned. The last to go was five-year-old Noah, whose body she left floating in the tub.
After the killings, Andrea called the police and told the operator that she had killed her children. When officers came to her home, they discovered a true scene of horror that included Noah’s body floating in a filthy tub with water full of urine, vomit, and feces. Andrea was arrested and taken to police headquarters. Rusty came home from work and was unable to get into his own home because it was now a crime scene.
Circus in the Court Room and Weird Testimony
Andrea Yates was tried twice for her horrible crimes in two different trials that deteriorated into media circuses. The first trial, held in 2002, hinged on the issue of Andrea Yates’ sanity.
Yates’ attorneys tried to prove that she was insane, which would protect her from the death penalty. Prosecutors tried to prove that Yates was sane, which would make her eligible for the death penalty. The prosecution prevailed in the first trial with the help of a prominent witness, a psychiatrist named Park Dietz. Dietz, a professional witness who had helped prosecutors prove that cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the Unabomber were sane, did the same for Andrea.
There was only one problem—part of Dietz’s testimony was false. Dietz claimed that Yates was inspired by an episode of the popular TV police procedural Law & Order in which a woman drowned her children in a bathtub. There was no such episode; Dietz’s testimony was poorly researched and flawed, and a court threw it out and overturned Yates’ convictions on five counts of first-degree murder in January 2005.
Saved from the Death Penalty
The overturning of the first conviction saved Andrea Yates from the death penalty but not from herself. In July 2006 a second jury, which hadn’t heard from Dietz, found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced her to life in prison.
Yates is currently being held in the Kerrville State Hospital in Texas. She participates in the Yates Children Memorial Fund, which tries to help families deal with mental illness and spread the word about postpartum depression, which she blames for her homicidal behavior. Rusty Yates still lives in the family home in Houston. Andrea Yates will stay in Texas state prisons for a long time to come without a pardon. She won’t be eligible for parole until the year 2041, when she will be 77 years old.
Bibliography
Cohen, Andrew. "How Andrea Yates Lives, and Lives With Herself, a Decade Later." 12 March 2012. theatlantic.com. Atlantic Magazine Feature Article. 12 April 2013.
Montaldo, Charles. "Profile of Andrea Yates." n.d. crime.about.com. About.com Feature Article. 12 April 2013.
Ramsland, Katherine. "Andrea Yates: Ill or Evil?" n.d. trutv.com/library/crime. Online Encyclopedia Entry. 12 April 2013.
Roche, Timothy. "Andrea Yates: More To The Story." 18 March 2002. time.com/time. Time Magazine Feature Article. 12 April 2013.
Williams, Pete. "Convictions overturned for mom who drowned 5 kids." 6 January 2005. nbcnews.com. NBC News Article. 12 April 2013.
There are some women who are so scary that become symbols of evil to entire nations. This list includes such monsters as Andrea Yates, Susan Smith, Karla Faye Tucker and Ruth Ellis.
Some of these ladies are known for their cold-blooded ways, others for incredible violence. Scary women strike fear into average people because they often look like the woman next door or even your own grandmother.
They all have one thing in common; a complete disregard for human life and basic notions of morality and decency. This tendency is made all the more frightening because these women can often hide behind a façade of normalcy. They often look like normal church going mothers and neighbors, even though they are ruthless killers. So it is easy to see why we are so frightened, fascinated and repelled by these murdering women.
Andrea Yates: Killer Mother
The scariest women of all are mothers that kill their own children. They not only murder; they violate and pervert the most sacred bond of all—motherhood. One of the most frightening killer mothers of all time was Andrea Yates. She drowned five of her own children, including a helpless infant.
Yates’ case so startled the American people that it inspired the media and even pop culture. Internet legends even claim that the popular American TV soap opera Desperate Housewives was inspired by Andrea Yates and her horrendous actions. Yates’ case shook American society to the core because it touched on such controversial issues as mental illness, religion, and the nature of family.
From Fertile Myrtle to Depression
There were two sides to Andrea Yates, who was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She was a successful young woman, the daughter of immigrants, who was the valedictorian of her high school class, a member of the National Honor Society, and captain of the swim team.
Yet Yates was also a very shy woman who didn’t date until she was 23 and met a young man named Rusty Yates. The young couple was serious and intensely religious—they spent much of their time in Bible study and prayer. After marriage, Yates left her job as a nurse and concentrated on having as many children as possible (in compliance with the biblical command to be fruitful and multiply).
Yates was also very reclusive; she had few friends and insisted on home schooling her children. The couple was also heavily influenced by a traveling fundamentalist preacher named Michael Woroiecki, who preached that mothers that had bad children would go to hell. Some observers think these teachings convinced the unstable Yates that she needed to prevent her children from growing up and becoming bad.
Andrea had five children: Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary. She gave them biblical names, but her life wasn’t working out. The family had money problems, and Andrea became depressed. She ended up in a mental hospital in 1999 and was prescribed the antidepressant Haldol. Her husband eventually talked her out of taking Haldol for religious reasons.
A Weird Family Life and Murder
The Yates’ family life was certainly weird. They lived in an old school bus for a number of years, then in 2000 they returned to a more normal suburban life in Houston and bought a home.
The new life didn’t work out and became a true nightmare on June 20, 2001. On that day Rusty left for his job at NASA as he normally did. After he left the home, Andrea turned a normal activity, bathing her five children, into a ritual of death.
While her children were eating their cereal, Andrea went into the bathroom and filled the tub with water. She then lured each of them into the bathroom and held them face down in the water until they were dead. Andrea covered each of the bodies with a sheet after drowning them. One of them, six-month-old Mary, she took out of her bassinet and drowned. The last to go was five-year-old Noah, whose body she left floating in the tub.
After the killings, Andrea called the police and told the operator that she had killed her children. When officers came to her home, they discovered a true scene of horror that included Noah’s body floating in a filthy tub with water full of urine, vomit, and feces. Andrea was arrested and taken to police headquarters. Rusty came home from work and was unable to get into his own home because it was now a crime scene.
Circus in the Court Room and Weird Testimony
Andrea Yates was tried twice for her horrible crimes in two different trials that deteriorated into media circuses. The first trial, held in 2002, hinged on the issue of Andrea Yates’ sanity.
Yates’ attorneys tried to prove that she was insane, which would protect her from the death penalty. Prosecutors tried to prove that Yates was sane, which would make her eligible for the death penalty. The prosecution prevailed in the first trial with the help of a prominent witness, a psychiatrist named Park Dietz. Dietz, a professional witness who had helped prosecutors prove that cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the Unabomber were sane, did the same for Andrea.
There was only one problem—part of Dietz’s testimony was false. Dietz claimed that Yates was inspired by an episode of the popular TV police procedural Law & Order in which a woman drowned her children in a bathtub. There was no such episode; Dietz’s testimony was poorly researched and flawed, and a court threw it out and overturned Yates’ convictions on five counts of first-degree murder in January 2005.
Saved from the Death Penalty
The overturning of the first conviction saved Andrea Yates from the death penalty but not from herself. In July 2006 a second jury, which hadn’t heard from Dietz, found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced her to life in prison.
Yates is currently being held in the Kerrville State Hospital in Texas. She participates in the Yates Children Memorial Fund, which tries to help families deal with mental illness and spread the word about postpartum depression, which she blames for her homicidal behavior. Rusty Yates still lives in the family home in Houston. Andrea Yates will stay in Texas state prisons for a long time to come without a pardon. She won’t be eligible for parole until the year 2041, when she will be 77 years old.
Bibliography
Cohen, Andrew. "How Andrea Yates Lives, and Lives With Herself, a Decade Later." 12 March 2012. theatlantic.com. Atlantic Magazine Feature Article. 12 April 2013.
Montaldo, Charles. "Profile of Andrea Yates." n.d. crime.about.com. About.com Feature Article. 12 April 2013.
Ramsland, Katherine. "Andrea Yates: Ill or Evil?" n.d. trutv.com/library/crime. Online Encyclopedia Entry. 12 April 2013.
Roche, Timothy. "Andrea Yates: More To The Story." 18 March 2002. time.com/time. Time Magazine Feature Article. 12 April 2013.
Williams, Pete. "Convictions overturned for mom who drowned 5 kids." 6 January 2005. nbcnews.com. NBC News Article. 12 April 2013.
