The 'Post A Bad Ass Woman' thread

[JamesHunt]

The 'Post A Bad Ass Woman' thread

Irma Grese

Whilst googling Albert Pierrepoint, Britains last hangman, I stumbled upon the notable executions section on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Grese

and discovered Irma Grese. At the tender age of 20, this failed nurse was second in command at Auschwitz in charge of 30,000 jewish female prisoners.

Her trial was conducted under British military law in Lüneburg, and the charges derived from the Geneva Convention of 1929 regarding the treatment of prisoners.

Survivors provided detailed testimony of murders, tortures, cruelties and sexual excesses in which Grese engaged during her years at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. They testified to acts of sadism, beatings and arbitrary shootings of prisoners, savaging of prisoners by her trained and allegedly half-starved dogs, and to her selecting prisoners for the gas chambers. After a fifty-three day trial, Grese was sentenced to hang.

Grese was reported to have habitually worn heavy boots and carried a whip and a pistol. Witnesses testified that she used both physical and emotional methods to torture the camp's inmates and enjoyed shooting prisoners in cold blood. They also claimed that she beat some women to death and whipped others using a plaited whip.

On Thursday, December 13, 1945, at the age of 22, she was hanged by Albert Pierrepoint.

[SarahG]

This could get interesting.

Countess Elizabeth Bathory aka Blood Countess.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Erzs%C3%A9betB%C3%A1thory.jpg


After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of virgin girls and young women, with one witness attributing to them over 600 victims, though she was only convicted on 80 counts.[1] In 1610, she was imprisoned in Csejte Castle (Čachtice Castle), where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later. She was never formally tried in court.

The case has led to legendary, but false, accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins in order to retain her youth. These stories have led to comparisons with Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia, on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based, and to modern nicknames of the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula.

[jjhill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R20f-TPKjzc

[JamesHunt]

Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Carol Wuornos (February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, later claiming they raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute. She was convicted and sentenced to death for six of the murders, and executed via lethal injection on October 9, 2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos

[Alyssa87]

:twisted:

[SarahG]

Belle Sorenson Gunness

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Belle_Gunness_with_children.jpg


(born as Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth, November 11, 1859, Selbu, Norway- April 28, 1908? La Porte,[1] Indiana) was one of America's most prolific known female serial killers.

At 5'8"[1] and over 200 lb (91 kg), she was a physically strong woman. She may have killed both of her husbands and all of her children (on different occasions), but she is known to have killed most of her suitors, boyfriends, and her two daughters, Myrtle and Lucy. Her apparent motives involved collecting life insurance benefits. Reports estimate that she killed more than 40 people over several decades.

[SarahG]

:twisted:

Ever notice how often they use purple & black in depicting female villains? Not just at disney either.

[SarahG]

Queen Mary 1st

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Maria_Tudor1.jpg/210px-Maria_Tudor1.jpg


Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 19 July 1553 until her death. The fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her short-lived half brother, Edward VI, to the English throne. In the process, she had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian Persecutions, earning her the sobriquet of "Bloody Mary".

[lupinIII]

I'm not a big fan of Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy, I don't think she was evil though, file this one under "morally questionable".

The evil Disney queens though...

*shudder*

They scare the bejeesus out of me. Especially Ursula, when she got all gigantic at the end of Little Mermaid, I literally had to close my eyes as child.

[SarahG]

I'm not a big fan of Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy, I don't think she was evil though, file this one under "morally questionable".

The evil Disney queens though...

*shudder*

They scare the bejeesus out of me. Especially Ursula, when she got all gigantic at the end of Little Mermaid, I literally had to close my eyes as child.

Really? Didn't you ever want to root for the villains?

After all I am sure dalmatians make good coats. http://i42.tinypic.com/2laelmp.gif

[Quiet Reflections]

Lilith

[cookiepuss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R20f-TPKjzc

Beat me to it. Good call!

[gunner55]

Gertrude Nadine Baniszewski (September 19, 1929 – June 16, 1990), also known as Gertrude Wright and Nadine van Fossan, was an Indiana divorcée who, with the aid of some of her own children and neighborhood children, such as Ricky Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenaged girl she had taken into her home. When she was convicted of first-degree murder in 1966, the case was called "the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana's history".

The case has since been subject to numerous fictional and non-fictional adaptations, one of the most recent being An American Crime, featuring Catherine Keener as Gertrude Baniszewski and Ellen Page as Sylvia Likens, which was released nation-wide in 2008.[1]

[Stoerosov]

I remember two famous persons:

1) Kate "Ma" Barker (October 8, 1873 – January 16, 1935) was a legendary American criminal from the "public enemy era", when the exploits of gangs of criminals in the Midwest gripped the American people and press. Her notoriety has since subsided, trailing behind Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. More —> here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Barker) <—
and
2) Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) More —> here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde) <—

[baileyandkc]

Didn't it all start when Herod's stepdaughter asked for John the Baptist's head...Or was there an Old Testament version of that?