AS Brittany Wilson is facing charges for killing her boyfriend with a sword on Christmas Eve, we’re taking a look back on seven other female killers.
Wilson, 32, was arrested after authorities found her covered in blood on the front lawn of her Missouri home on Friday.
As outrageous as Wilson’s story seems, her’s is just one of many chilling tales throughout history when it comes to females charged or convicted of brutal murders.
Judy Buenoano
Buenoano became known as the “Black Widow.”
She was convicted of killing her husband with arsenic and years later, drowning her son, who was partially paralyzed.
She was also convicted for the attempted murder of a boyfriend.
She was executed in the electric chair in 1998.
Juana Barraza
Barraza became known as “La Mataviejitas,” or the killer of old ladies, after being charged with 11 counts of murder.
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She was given 759 years in prison for killing elderly women in Mexico City.
Some believe that the serial killer was targeting older women because of her own mother, who was reportedly an alcoholic and sold her to an abusive man for three beers.
Barraza is currently 64 years old and is serving her prison sentence.
Kristen Gilbert
Gilbert was convicted for injecting four of her victims, all veterans, with a deadly dose of epinephrine when she worked as a nurse.
She was also convicted of two attempted murders.
She was sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for the murders at a VA hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Dorothea Puente
Puente was arrested in 1988 and charged with poisoning several of her tenants to steal their social security benefits.
She committed the crimes while running a boarding house in Sacremento with elderly or mentally disable tenants.
The remains of four women and three men were found on her patio.
She was sentenced to life in prison and passed away while locked up in 2011.
Beverley Allitt
Allitt, nicknamed the “Angel of Death,” was convicted for killing four children, attempting to kill three others, and causing grievous bodily harm to another six by making them overdose on insulin.
She was diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder where a caregiver makes a child sick on purpose to attract attention.
She was apprehended in the UK in 1991 and eventually given 13 life sentences.
Nannie Doss
Doss was convicted of killing 11 people at some point between 1920 and 1954.
She’s been referred to as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard.
She confessed in 1954 to killing four husbands, two children, her sister, her mother, two grandsons, and a mother-in-law.
She died of cancer in prison in 1965.
Brittany Wilson
According to police, Wilson admitted that she and her boyfriend took methamphetamines on Christmas Eve and that he had “several other entities living inside his body for the past several months.”
Wilson says that she stabbed her boyfriend, Harrison Stephen Foster, as a form of “setting him free” from those “entities.”
She was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.
Wilson’s eery mugshot shows the suspect grinning from ear to ear after reportedly confessing to the slaying.