Source Three Female Serial Murderers: Directions for Future Research on a Hidden Population From the International Journal

of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology by Elizabeth A. Gurian

http://ehis.ebscohost.com.librarylink.uncc.edu/ehost/detail?sid=1d331131-8f57-4011-95d1023eddfdb852%40sessionmgr11&vid=2&hid=5 Summary: This article in this journal looks at 65 different female serial murder cases and helps compare the information with a partnered (male and female) serial murder. The article gives information about the different methods, motives, and offender-victim relationships of the different cases. Female serial murderers who act with a male in a murder have different methods and motives than the female serial murderers who act alone. The main method of a female serial murderer who acts alone is poisoning her victim. Whereas the female serial murderer acts with a male serial murderer, they use sexual torture. This article also organizes the female serial murderers in different charts such as age groups.

Credentials: Sage Publications who is a well-known publication company known for the publication of credible textbooks, educational journals, and reference books published this journal. Elizabeth A. Gurian who has a Ph. D in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, UK wrote this article. Source Four Gender Differences in Serial Murderers: A Preliminary Analysis from the Journal of Interpersonal Violence by Belea T. Keeney and Kathleen M. Heide
http://jiv.sagepub.com.librarylink.uncc.edu/content/9/3/383.full.pdf+html Summary: This article shows different characteristics of a female serial murderer. The journal article also discusses the characteristics of a male serial murderer. The characteristics, motives, and methods of the male and female serial murderers are then compared in the article and shows that there are actually more similarities than differences between male and female serial murderers. This article does not just discuss the behaviors of the male and female serial murderers during and after the murders but it also discusses the male and female serial murderers past such as their home life as children and if they were drug addicts or alcoholics. Credentials:

This article was also published by Sage Publications just as the previous article was. The article was edited by Belea T. Keeney but written by Katleen M. Heide. Kathleen M. Heide is a professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida, and is a licensed psychotherapist. Source Five Murder the Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer by Michael D. Kelleher and C.L. Kelleher http://www.questia.com/read/14217482/murder-most-rare-the-female-serial-killer Summary: This book discusses not only the motives and nature of a female serial killer but the motives and nature of a serial killer in general. This book goes on to discuss how female serial killers make it more difficult for law enforcement to solve serial killer cases because the female serial killers have more complex and more well thought out plans than a male serial killer. Most serial killers (male) can go four years with killing before they are caught. However, female serial killers can go eight years with killing before they are caught. Female serial killers are significantly more successful than male serial killers are. Credentials: The author of this book is Michael D. Kelleher who has also written articles for educational Criminology journals such as Crime, Law, and Social Change. Praeger Publishers, the publisher of this book is popular for titles in social sciences and humanities, such as Websters Timeline History, and is a member of Greenwood Publishing Group.