Season Two:
Queens of Crime
Further Reading
Episode 6
If you enjoyed our conversation on Elizabeth Báthory and Lizzie Borden and would like to read more to serve as both judge and jury, check out these works!
Cold-Blooded Murderesses
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Cara Robertson, The Trial of Lizzie Borden (Simon & Schuster, 2019).
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Raymond T. McNally, Dracula Was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania (McGraw-Hill, 1987).
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Rachael Leigh Bledsaw, "No Blood in the Water: The Legal and Gender Conspiracies Against Countess Elizabeth Bathory in Historical Context" (2014). Theses and Dissertations. 135. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/135
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Episode 7
The Carpet Bag Killer
If you enjoyed our conversation on Amelia Dyer and would like to read more, check out these works!
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Allison Rattle and Allison Vale, Amelia Dyer Angel Maker: The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money (2013).
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Sarah Lee, "Amelia Dyer: The Victorian nurse who strangled babies", BBC NEWS (June, 2017)
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Episode 8
The Murder of Helen Jewett
If you enjoyed our conversation on Helen Jewett and would like to read more, check out these works!
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Patricia Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett (Vintage, 1999).
Episode 9
Aileen Wuornos: Killer or Victim?
If you enjoyed our conversation on Aileen Wuornos and would like to read more, check out these works!
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Jean S. Filetti, "From Lizzie Borden to Lorena Bobbitt: Violent Women and Gendered Justice," Journal of American Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3, (Dec., 2001), pp. 471-484.
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Kyra Pearson, "The Trouble with Aileen Wuornos, Feminism’s ‘‘First Serial Killer," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2007, pp. 256-275.
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First ever female serial killer: Aileen Wournos | 60 Minutes Australia
Episode 10
The Queens of New York:
Race, Gender, and the Criminal Underworld
If you enjoyed our conversation on LaShawn Hariss' book Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground, check out these works!
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LaShawn Harris, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground (University of Illinois Press, 2016).
Episode 11
Cult Crimes: NXIVM and Sex Trafficking
If you enjoyed our conversation about NXIVM, check out these works!
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Sarah Edmondson, Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult That Bound My Life (Chronicle Prism, 2019).
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/nyregion/nxivm-cult-keith-raniere-sentenced.html
Episode 12
Innocent or Guilty?
If you enjoyed our conversation, check out these works!