They introduce the women, give a bit background into their personal lives and then look into their crimes and motives. One such woman hunted down the Nazis and is rumored to have taken down quite a number of them. There are also stories featuring women who led cults, used poison as their tools of murder and others who actually worked in professions that have led them to kill. We have women who have killed for revenge, money, no reason at all and others chose murder instead of divorce. This is a collection of real-life stories of women who committed murder. This book caught my attention because it reminded me of the true crime show, Deadly Women. I have always been fascinated by crime documentaries and I am fan of the Investigation Discovery channel. Residing squarely in the middle of a Venn diagram of feminism and true crime, She Kills Me tells the story of 40 women who murdered out of necessity, fear, revenge, and even for pleasure. Maybe we feel bad about loving them, but we eat it up just the same. They do the things that women aren’t supposed to do and live the lives that women aren’t supposed to want: lives that are impulsive and angry and messy and inconvenient. This common dynamic is one of the reasons that women are so enthralled by female murderers. However, when women are featured in stories about murder, they are rarely portrayed as predators. There are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers.
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