7 Infamous Female Serial Killers in New York [List]
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I ve been watching Serial Killers Week on Oxygen and last night and a program came on about a female serial killer in the United Kingdom. It got me curious about the women serial killers here in New York. According to Murderpedia, here are seven female serial killers (or mass murderers) in the state. The Lonely Hearts Killer
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Martha Beck, also known as The Lonely Hearts Killer, killed four or more people between 1948 - 1949, according to Murderpedia. She was arrested on February 28, 1949, for the murders of Myrtle Young, Janet Fay, Delphine Downing, and two-year-old Rainelle. Beck was executed for her crimes on March 8, 1951, at Sing Sing prison in New York.
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