Elizabeth Bathory: Female serial killer

Elizabeth Bathory: Blood countess

Elizabeth Bathory was born in Hungary to a powerful family in 1560. The country was involved in a bloody war with the Turks.

She has been accused of killing over 600 of her  servants.

She was a mother and a wife, as well as one of the first recorded female serial killers.  Like many landowners she brought in the local girls as slaves or servants.

But with so much power she was able to get away with torturing and killing them. She enjoyed torturing them by burning their pubic hairs with candles, biting them and there is the legend of her bathing in their blood.

So could she have gotten away with it. To begin with she was directly related to royalty in Transylvania and polish. Her family was one of the richest family in the country. And so no one would have ever questioned her… and if you did you would probably end up dead.

She was married at 15, an arrangement that had been arranged by her parents. He was not a bad pick however, he was rich, handsome and they both loved to torture their servants together. Elizabeth was just a pupil in the beginning, he would make her join and watch.

He once bathe a servant girl in honey and made her stand outside naked for a day while she was stung by her bees.

But then her husband needed to go away to war. Leaving her as lord of the manner. She needed to take care of her seven castles and overlook all the work of her servants, she continues to torture her servants, but her sadistic ways does not truly progress until she is 24 years old and her husband dies.

She did not do it alone, she had two woman helpers and one deformed dwarf to help her sadistic experiments.

There are insane tales of keeping her slaves naked in the freezing winter, and threw cold water over them until they literally froze to the ground.

But suddenly the peasants women began not to be enough, so she then began to kill the daughters of lower gentry people.

It is then that a official enquiry is made. When the right hand of the law arrives at the castle where he finds dying women , and discarded corpses as soon as he opens the door.

270 people where interviewed, but she was never convicted, instead her helpers where tortured and then killed.

In regards to Elizabeth, they locked her in her castle and no one was allowed to talk about her for a hundred years.

But how did a woman of wealth and royal position become like this?

Some say that it all stared when she was six, when her father tortured a gypsy in his court, and then open the belly of a horse, and place the gypsy inside. They then left the gypsy and the horse to die slowly. This might have been the beginning of her sadistic career.

But why girls?

Some say it is because she was a closet homosexual, and she would kill them when they would sexually aroused her with out meaning to. She would then sexually and sadistically tortured them until they would die. This type of torture is called sexual sadism.