Delphine Lalaurie: An Analysis Of Female Serial Killers

Often people are pushed to believe that women are fragile creatures, or mothers with kind hearts; and although this view is archaic, it is still very much present in the society today. Being greatly influenced by this idea we are brought to a cognitive dissonance. So, when someone speaks of female serial killers we are shaken by this “phenomenon”, and show a lot of interest and curiosity towards this topic. While it is of some interest to study serial killers of any gender, female serial killers have a certain peculiarity to it. The further you dig into the malicious details connected with female serial killers the more you realize the complexity and multidimensional nature of their stories. This essay is going to uncover the cultural and
Born in 1775, in New Orleans, she was a wealthy socialite, had a great reputation and was well known throughout New Orleans as a kind and giving woman. Little did people know what was going on behind this mask, a hidden psychopath that fed off the misery of her black slaves. After the fire in her mansion, people discovered dozens of mutilated bodies of her slaves chained to the walls and floors of her attic. Her body was never found. Once again having complete and utter power over a group of people she killed and tortured without any consequences. Living a society where slavery was a part of culture, she experienced revulsion against the African American slaves, thus exterminating them in the worse manner
However not all killers needed wealth and a high social position to further their misdoings. Irma Ida Ilse Grese, born 7 October 1923, in Germany, had a very traumatic childhood, with her mother committing suicide when Irma was only 12. Her father had joined the Nazi party, so in his footsteps she joined The League of German Girls. Irma was later employed at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and was a warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. Even though she was the warden, she had a relatively low inelegance, due to dropping out of school at 14. Grese was convicted for crimes against humanity at the Belsen Trial and sentenced to death. She was nicknamed "the Beast of Belsen". While any warden could be considered a serial killer, the name of Irma Ida Ilse Grese could be used as a synonym of cruelty and immorality, leaving about 50,000 deaths to her “legacy”. Having a difficult childhood and being brainwashed with the Nazi propaganda did she commit all these atrocities. As well as being motivated to kill more and more, to climb higher on the social hierarchy and feel respected and even feared of. Bullied from young age she felt the need to exercise her superiority over people who were