Three Female Killers You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

Female psychopaths with a taste for murder

Jacob Wilkins
Lessons from History
4 min readNov 30, 2023

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A photograph of Clara Philips by an unknown photographer, c. 1920 (Wikimedia Commons)

The vast majority of famous killers are men. Yet there are plenty of exceptions to this rule, with many female murderers cropping up throughout human history.

The three women discussed below aren’t particularly well-known, but that doesn't make their crimes any less horrifying.

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