If we look for statistics, its often the male who ruins the relationship and stereo-typically speaking, women are all daisies and bonnet. But history is no stereotypical utopia and time and again history has proved women can be just as cruel as men if not crueler.
Yes! You heard it right!!! It may sound strange and weird. But it is a sad fact that history had seen women who were extremely cruel to others around them. Moreover, these women are not only strong but also misused their power to make themselves as most cruel ones in history.
Be it Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary I or others, all of these women were known for their despicable things. There are number of women who are famous for their cruel and evil characters as they feel themselves satisfied to hurt others . But these women are hot topics till today.
We are throwing light upon 17 most cruel and evil wives in the history.
17) Katherine Knight – Ferocious woman
Husband’s name: David Kellet
Cruel angle: Stabbed her husband 37 times with a butcher’s knife
Year: 2000
Notoriety: First Australian woman, who did not get a parole
Brief Story:
Katherine Knight had stabbed her husband, David Kellet 37 times with a butcher’s knife in 2000. After stabbing him, she hanged his body with a meat hook in a lounge room. Katherine is known for her violence in relationships. After that, she had put his head in a pot on the stove, baked flesh from his buttocks and cooked vegetables and gravy as side dishes.
16) Stacey Castor
Husband’s name: David Castor, Michael Wallace
Cruel angle: Murdered her first and second husbands and attempted to murder her daughter
Year: 2005 (murdered her second husband). 2000 (murdered her first husband)
Notoriety: The Black Widow
Brief Story:
Stacey Castor attempted a murder to kill her husband David Castor with antifreeze in the year 2005. She was found guilty in 2009. She also tried to murder her own daughter, Ashley Wallace, with crushed pills mixed in with vodka, orange juice, and Sprite in 2007.
In addition, Stacey had also murdered her first husband, Michael Wallace, in 2000. Due to these stories, she was named ‘The Black Widow’ by media outlets.
15) Omaima Nelson
Husband’s name: Bill Nelson
Cruel angle: Cooked her husband’s rib in barbecue sauce and eaten them
Year: 1991
Notoriety: She was denied parole, serving a life sentence in Central California Women’s prison
Brief Story:
Omaima Nelson murdered her husband, Bill Nelson in 1991. She cooked and ate her husband’s ribs saying that they tasted ‘so sweet’. According to an article by Daily Mail, she chopped up his body and stuck the parts in the freezer.
She fried his hands in oil while boiling and stuffing the head in the freezer. She is serving a life sentence at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California.
14) Betty Neumar
Husband’s name: Harold Gentry (Fourth Husband)
Cruel angle:
Year: 1991
Notoriety: She was denied parole, serving a life sentence in Central California Women’s prison
Brief Story:
Betty Neumdar was charged with arranging the murder of her fourth husband, Harold Gentry. During the investigation, it was found that Betty has five husbands in total, who had all died. The media dubbed her the ‘Black Widow’. On June 13, 2011, Betty Neumar died in a Louisiana hospital of an undisclosed illness.
13) Katya Kharitovonova
Husband’s name: Mikhail
Cruel angle: Bit off her husband’s penis with a floor lamp
Year: 2009
Notoriety: She was sentenced to two years in a Russian labor camp
Brief Story:
Katya Kharitovonova is synonym for revenge. When she fell asleep while watching a movie with her husband and best friend, she woke up to find the Liza Dmitriyeva performing oral sex on Mikhail.
She hit Liza over the head with a floor lamp and then bit off her husband’s penis. She was later sentenced to two years in a Russian labor camp.
12) Vicki Lowing
Name of the women: Vicki Lowing
Husband’s name: Greg
Cruel angle: Choose crocodile other than her husband, Greg
Year: 2005
Notoriety: Crocodile was dearer than husband
Brief Story:
Vicki did not kill her husband nor troubled him. It was her pet crocodile. Yes! You heard it right! This lady preferred crocodile other than her husband, Greg. According to Daily Mail, she claimed that crocodile is like her child. So when her husband, Greg, forced her to choose between Johnny and him, she preferred the crocodile. The couple divorced in 2005.
11) Dawnell Batista
Name of the women: Dawnell Batista
Husband’s name: Dr. Richard Batista
Cruel angle: cheated her husband
Year: 2001
Notoriety: She cheated her husband and denied him the custody of their kids during the divorce.
Brief Story:
Danwell Batista’s husband, Dr. Richard Batista donated his kidney to her as the previous two kidney transplants had failed. But she cheated on him once she was out of the hospital. After the successful kidney transplant, she cheated on him with her physical therapist. She also denied him the custody of their kids during the divorce.
10) Betty Lou Beets
Husband’s name: Jimmy Don Beets (Fifth Husband)
Cruel angle: Murdered her husband
Year: 1983
Notoriety: She murdered her husband’s having been shot in the head, Black Widow
Brief Story:
Betty Lou Beets convicted of shooting her fifth husband, Jimmy Don Beets, on August 1983. She became the forth woman executed in the United States. She admitted to killing her fifth husband because of his physical abuse.
9) Larissa Schuster
Husband’s name: Timothy Schuster
Cruel angle: Submerged her husband’s body in hydrochloric acid
Year: 2003
Notoriety: The Acid Lady
Punishment: Life in prison without parole penalty,
Brief Story:
Larissa Schuster murdered her husband Timothy Schuster y submerging his body in hydrochloric acid. She murdered him by taking the help of her boyfriend, due to her unusual manner in which she committed the murder, she was known as ‘The Acid Lady’ by various media outlets. She was convicted to life in prison without parole penalty in 2008.
8) Pamela Smart
Husband’s name: Gregory Smart
Cruel angle: Killed her husband with the help of her boyfriend
Year: 1990
Punishment: Life in prison without parole penalty
Brief Story:
She plotted to kill her husband with her boyfriend, 15 year old lover, William Billy Flynn, and three of his friends on May 1, 1990 in Derry, New Hampshire and succeeded. She was later convicted of being an accomplice to first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder. She is currently serving a life sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.
7) Jill Coit
Name of the women: Jill Coit
Husband’s name: David Boggs (ninth husband)
Cruel angle: Killed her husband with the help of her boyfriend
Year: 1993
Punishment: Life in prison without parole penalty
Brief Story:
Jill Coit married 11 times. She was eventually convicted of torturing and killing her ninth husband, David Boggs. When David came to know that Coit was married 11 times, she tried to kill him wearing a disguise using a 22 caliber and pistol and a stun gun. She is serving life in prison without parole.
6) Donna Williams
Name of the women: Donna Williams
Husband’s name: Donna Leanne Samuel
Cruel angle: Killed her husband with a hammer and lived with the body
Year: 2011
Punishment: Life in prison without parole penalty
Brief Story:
Donna Williams killed her husband with a hammer and also lived with the body in the back bedroom of their home for two weeks before admitting the murder. She claimed that she was victim of abuse.
5) Ruth Snyder
Husband’s name: Albert Snyder
Cruel angle: Killed her husband
Year: 1928
Notoriety: Ruthess Ruth
Brief Story:
Ruth Snyder hid an affair from her husband for almost three years and then decided to kill him along with her lover. She killed her husband with a bludgeon to the head, then chloroform up the nose and strangulation by wire to finish it off.
4) Clara Harris
Name of the women: Clara Haris
Husband’s name: David Lynn Harris
Cruel angle: Killed her husband
Year: 2002
Notoriety: Spied on her husband
Brief Story:
Clara Harris hired the private investigator to spy on her husband. She decided that running over her husband with a Mercedes. Harris was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and even tried to blame the killing as an accident.
3) Marie Manning
Husband’s name: Frederick Manning
Cruel angle: Buried her husband under the kitchen tiles
Notoriety: Murdered and went back to his home to gather all the cash.
Brief Story:
Manning decided to go with the younger, wealthier Frederick Manning. After discovering that his fortune of an inheritance was a lie, the married couple decided to go after her lover, Patrick O’Connor (whom was the other man she thought about marrying before making her final decision), and rob him of his valuables. Lured one evening to their home, he was shot in the back of the head and buried under the kitchen tiles. Marie then went to his home to gather all the cash and stock certificates she could find.
2) Li
Husband’s name: Huang Li
Cruel angle: sliced off her husband’s testicles while he was sleeping
Year: 2002
Punishment: Incarcerated
Brief Story:
Li sliced off her husband’s testicles while he was sleeping, in order to protect her marriage. Li asked for a divorce but Huang refused. He was suffering from diarrhea. Li gave him sleeping pills instead of medicine. While Huang was sleeping, Li removed his testicles with a fruit knife.
1) Maria Savez
Notoriety: Impaled Husband With Axe
Brief Story
When she caught her husband in bed with her house keep, she got so infuriated, she ran down to the garage to fetch an axe. She attacked her husband on the head with a wooden axe. It took the surgeons 6 hours to remove the axe from his head.
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