A Texas jury in what has been dubbed a “black widow” trial convicted a 45-year-old mother of four of murder and evidence tampering on Monday for shooting to death her husband in a 2011 plot to collect insurance money.
Williams, who prosecutors say tried to frame someone else for the 2011 killing of her husband Greg Williams.
The jury deliberated for about seven hours before returning its verdict finding Williams guilty of murder and tampering with evidence in the form of the firearm used in the killing. Prosecutors have said Williams wiped down the gun.
20. Irma Grese
This Nazi woman tortured and killed Jewish women who were more attractive than herself. She believed she would have a career in the movies once Germany won World War II but instead was hanged for her crimes in 1945.
19. Rosemary West
Rosemary and Fred West set up an illicit love shack they called home at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, England. They lured children and young women to their “House Of Horrors,” tortured and raped them for days, then killed and dismembered their bodies before burying them beneath the house. They also massacred their own daughters, Heather and Charmaine. Both Rosemary and Fred came from abusive families that contributed to the depravity of their sexual tastes. Rosemary was a prostitute and a sadist, and although 10 girls were accounted for, it’s possibly that up to 20 lost children died at the couple’s hands.
How does the saying go? “A couple that rapes together burns in hell together”? They were arrested in 1994 for crimes they committed mainly between 1973 and 1979. Though Fred committed suicide while awaiting trial, Rosemary became the second woman in British history to serve a life sentence.
18. Mary Ann Cotton
When Mary Ann found out that she would receive payouts for the death of a family member, she wasted no time. She murdered 21 people via arsenic poisoning, 12 of which were her own children. She also killed several husbands and even her own mother just to make a quick buck.
17. Leonarda Cianciulli
Cianciulli was an Italian woman who killed three women between 1939 and 1940. Although that is a low body count, what she did with them was horrifying. Cianciulli used the remains of the bodies to make soaps that she would later bathe with. In addition to soap, she used dried blood from the victims in her tea cakes that she served to friends when they would visit. She also claimed that she enjoyed eating them.
16. Beverley Allitt
Between February and April of 1991, Allitt went on a rampage. She was employed as a State Enrolled Nurse at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in the UK. For no known reason at all, she successfully murdered four children, attempted to murder three more, and caused serious bodily harm to six more. She murdered the children by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin, and also by injecting air bubbles into them.
15. Enriqueta Marti
This cruel woman preyed on homeless children and would put them into prostitution or murder them, then use their remains for ointments that she claimed cured tuberculosis. She was eventually arrested and hung by her prison mates before trial.
14. Aileen Wuornos
Having a difficult childhood, Aileen grew up hating all men and became a serial killer. She stole cars, stuck up convenience stores and killed a lot of different men before she was arrested and killed in 2002.
13. Wu Zetian
This evil Chinese empress put countless people to death for threatening her rule. She even put her own infant daughter to death as well as other family members.
12. Queen Mary I
This Catholic queen murdered huge numbers of Protestants in England and was nicknamed Bloody Mary. Hundreds of thousands of Protestants fled England in order to survive until Queen Mary died in 1558.
11. Griselda Blanco
This infamous cocaine godmother, who was already kidnapping and murdering children at age 11, ran the cocaine trade with murderous force in New York and Miami before being shot in the head in 2012.
10. Belle Gunness
She killed her three children and husband, used the insurance money to buy a home, remarried and killed both her new husband and infant daughter as well. She then took out an ad as a widow with property. Each prospective buyer would be killed and robbed. She left the country after 40 separate murders and was never found.
9. Ilse Koch
This Nazi wife tortured and killed many Jewish inmates and made lampshades and other household items out of their skin.
8. Katherine Knight
Knight is known for strangling her husband for falling asleep during sex, slitting a boyfriend’s dog’s throat right in front of him, and most infamously stabbing a man 37 times, decapitating him, hanging his body on a meat hook and attempting to feed his cooked body parts to his children.
7. Elizabeth Bathory
Using her political status in the 16th century, she was responsible for the torture and murder of over 650 women who were be lured into her castle in hopes of finding a job.
6. Lizzie Borden
Accused of murdering her family with an ax, she was one of the first criminal cases to gain nationwide attention.
Acquitted after trial, speculation continues to this day as her guilt is still widely assumed.
5. Maria ‘Chata’ Leon
As the head of The Avenues, Chata ran one of the most dangerous street gangs in the history of Los Angeles. From her fortress home on Drew St., she ran a criminal enterprise based on drugs, murder and intimidation.
Much of the gang’s higher leadership was made up of her children.
4. Myra Hindley
Together with her boyfriend, Ian Brady, Hindley was responsible for the rape and murder of five young children between 1962-68. Hindley died in prison in 2002.
3. Dorothea Binz
As the SS supervisor at the Ravensbruck concentration camp, her dedication to her work was described by her fellow Nazis as “unyielding.”
Known for patrolling the camp with a whip in one hand and a German Shepherd at her side, inmates reportedly fell silent upon her approach. Her reputation of whipping, beating and even shooting female inmates earned her the job of supervising the torture bunkers. She made lamp shades from the skin of the dead men and women she murdered.
2. Biljana Plavsic
As the former president of Republika Srpska, she led Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Serbian genocides of the 1990s.
It was her comments that ethnic cleansing was a “natural thing,” and that six million Serbs needed to die, that rallied her republic to perpetrate genocide.
1. Fusako Shigenobu
After a career as a student activist, she volunteered with the PLO before forming the Japanese Red Army. In her attempts to unite Japan under Communist revolution, she became a full-fledged terrorist. Until her arrest in 2000, she was the most wanted terrorist on earth.
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