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Time and time again we hear stories about violence, and the culprit of that crime is typically a man.

When speaking of specific crimes such as serial murder, it is said that

only around 17% of those crimes are committed by women. According to an article featured

in psychology today, when it comes to being a serial killer, the motives that males and females

have are drastically different. On the male side of things, they tend to commit crimes centered around control, while females are more likely to kill for power or money.

Now there are always exceptions to the rules, when it comes to this sort of thing on both sides of the aisle.

Men can kill for power and money, and women can kill for control.

Going through crime books that I have, most of the

topics focus solely on male serial killers. The fact of the matter is, there just seems to be

more of them, or more males have been caught in the act rather than their female counterparts. But women

have been committing serial killings for just as long as men. Turning the clock back to the early 19th century, there was a woman by the name of Lavinia

Fisher, who resided in Charleston, South Carolina.

Not many people know her name, but she may be the first female serial killer to walk

on American soil.

Lavinia would lure travelers into a hotel that her and her husband owned,

and she would offer them what any innkeeper would, a place to eat, drink, and rest. During the

traveler's stay, she would strike up conversation with them to determine whether or not they had

a significant amount of money on them. If she believed they did, she would drug them, typically

by slipping some sort of

sedative into their tea before they went to bed. Once they were laying still, fast asleep,

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