Female Fugitives

AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRUE CRIME STORIES OF WOMEN WHO TRIED TO EVADE THE LAW

SUCCESSFUL MURDERER

Linda McElroy went on the run after committing a murder and created a life for herself that lasted over thirty years before authorities finally caught up to her.THE DEFRANCISCO SISTERS

"Come on over," - Margaret DeFranciscoThose were the words that Margaret spoke to her sister's suitor, Oscar Velazquez, before he arrived at their mother's home and she shot him for $600. The murder made national headlines when the two "angel faced" girls lured Oscar into their home, shooting him to death then setting his body on fire with nail polish remover. Following the murder, the two sisters went on the run, avoiding capture for two years.

BEVERLY ALLITT

It is hard to believe that a young female could be capable of murder, let alone multiple murders. It is even more shocking that a female nurse could carry out such terrible crimes. That is exactly what Beverly Allitt did though. This nurse is Britain's most infamous female serial killer and also goes by the name of the Angel of Death due to her responsibility to care for others but instead used her nursing position to kill people. Over a short period of fifty-nine days in her job as a nurse in a children's ward, she killed four young children and attempted to kill at least nine others either by causing cardiac arrest or hypoglycemia.

GWEN HENDRICKS

Gwen Hendricks was a seemingly normal Colorado housewife who began hearing voices telling her to kill her husband. With a childhood steeped in religious teaching, Gwen began keeping a journal of her daily conversations with God who she claims told her that she needed to kill her husband in order to obtain proceeds from his life insurance

.KIM HRICKO

Kim Hricko was a happy-go-lucky housewife, mother and wife to her husband, Steve. But her sunny facade blew up in smoke on a Valentine's Day weekend when her husband 's body was discovered on a hotel room floor, burned to a crisp. Kim would claim that her husband was "sloppy drunk" but the autopsy would reveal no trace of alcohol or smoke inhalation. What investigators did find out was that Kim Hricko had been talking about killing her husband for a long, long time....

DANA SUE GRAY

Most female serial killers use poison or a gun to dispose of their victims. Dana Sue Gray was one of the few who was a "hands on" killer, strangling numerous elderly women in the Southern California area in the early 1990s. But what led her to go on this murderous rampage that one police detective described as "the most brutal crimes I've ever seen"? Dana was a compulsive "shopping addict" who would steal her victims credit cards and speed off to the nearest shopping mall to indulge in her habit. A lifelong thrill-seeker and horror movie fan, Dana would succumb to her base impulses and become arguably the most violent female serial killer in modern times.