The Most Evil Women in (Recent) History
Featuring rapist mothers, murdering caregivers and a human pelt hanging in the kitchen.
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When the fairer sex, the nurturing sex, commit acts of pure evil, it’s as if nature itself has been upended. We expect men to be violent and criminal. They’re the hunters. They act on impulse. But mommy holding a knife – that’s another proposition.
Take these eight. All of them modern. They’re nurses, mothers, wives on the one hand and serial killers and psychopaths on the other. What pushed them beyond the brink? We like to think it was society or their cruel upbringings. But maybe it’s simpler. Maybe evil is as evil does. And sometimes its face is female.
Griselda Blanco
The Cocaine Godmother did it in style. She was a visionary drug lord of the Medellín Cartel in the 1970s and 80s, and she always had her hair done right and the finest furs draped around her five-foot frame. Born in Colombia, she moved to Queens, New York, with her second husband and quickly built a thriving drug business. She briefly returned to Colombia in 1975 after being indicted on drug charges, but a few years later she turned up in Miami and built an empire with her band of gunmen, the Pistoleros.
Blanco moved 300 kilos of cocaine worth $8 million a month. She ordered at least 200 murders during her Miami days, gunning down anyone who challenged the Madrina. In 1985 she was arrested and sent to prison but continued running her business through a penpal small-time dealer-turned-lover who bears a strong resemblance to Bernie Mac (see Cocaine Cowboys 2). Some flimsy evidence got her released in 2004 and deported back to Colombia. With a mile-long list of enemies, Blanco kept her life private, but only this September she was gunned down leaving a butcher shop in Colombia by motorcycle assassination, a murder method she’s credited with inventing.
Watch this: Cocaine Cowboys and Cocaine Cowboys 2
Dorothea Puente
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An elderly woman running a boarding house for the unfortunate hardly fits the profile of a conniving murderer. And yet this small-time Sacramento socialite had her system down to a science. She trapped and killed at least 25 troubled or sick older men, forged their Social Security checks to buy clothes, makeup and even some plastic surgery. Neighbors wondered why her house smelled fouler than rotting citrus. What they didn’t know was that she had been convicted for drugging and stealing people from bars in her younger days, or that she ran a brothel in the late 1950s, and did jail time before settling in Sacramento. In 1988 the police arrived with shovels at her house. Sentenced to life without parole, in 1998 she became pen-pals with artist Shane Bugbee and recipes and art work she sent him eventually were published alongside interviews in a book.
Read: Cooking With A Serial Killer
Rosemary West
Rosemary and Fred West set up an illicit love shack they called home at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, England. They lured children and young women to their “House Of Horrors,” tortured and raped them for days, then killed and dismembered their bodies before burying them beneath the house. They also massacred their own daughters, Heather and Charmaine. Both Rosemary and Fred came from abusive families that contributed to the depravity of their sexual tastes. Rosemary was a prostitute and a sadist, and although 10 girls were accounted for, it’s possibly that up to 20 lost children died at the couple’s hands.
How does the saying go? “A couple that rapes together burns in hell together”? They were arrested in 1994 for crimes they committed mainly between 1973 and 1979. Though Fred committed suicide while awaiting trial, Rosemary became the second woman in British history to serve a life sentence. But prison doesn’t sound so bad. She’s the champion of the Monopoly ring, gets free TV and enjoys daily shopping from catalogues.
Watch: Appropriate Adult
Aileen Wuornos
As prostitute serial killers go, no one receives more sympathy than Aileen Wuornos. Is it because the movies were so good? She survived a childhood of incest, pre-teen pregnancy and abandonment. At 15, she lived in the woods, started thieving and fighting and wound up in Florida, where she married a 69-year-old yacht club owner whom she beat with his own cane. Between 1989 and 1990 Wuornos killed seven men, acts for which she received six death sentences. And though she claimed self-defense until the very end – the men were allegedly trying to rape her – all the media scrutiny, overblown publicity and back and forth eventually overwhelmed her, and she gave up, ready to die. Awaiting her lethal injection, she promised to return with Jesus on the mother ship on Independence Day.
Watch the movie: Monster & Aileen: Life & Death Of A Serial Killer
Beverly Allitt
The “Angel Of Death” was a British pediatric nurse who used the hospital nursery as a den for her diabolical desires. She injected potassium chloride, lignocaine or insulin into child patients to induce cardiac arrest. Over a two month period in 1991 she attacked 13 children in her ward, from newborns to 11-year olds, killing four of them. Allegedly, she suffered from Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, which caused her to hurt children in order to save them or be by their side as they die. As a girl, Allitt enjoyed dressing up as an injured person and later on she would injure herself, seeking constant attention from doctors and eventually taking up a job in the field. Allit was awarded 13 life sentences at Rampton Maximum Security Hospital, which houses the criminally insane. In prison, she took to stabbing herself with paper clips and pouring boiling water on her hands.
Katherine Mary Knight
This Australian learned to slice and dice by boning out carcasses at the Aberdeen abattoir for a living. She loved her job, and slept with her favorite razor sharp boning knives above her bed. Spurned by a husband, who left her for his mistress, Knight went psycho, assaulting women that rubbed her the wrong way, threatening children with knives. She even left her baby on the train tracks. She was in and out of psychiatric hospitals before eventually being released to her mother’s care, but always the jealous type, she continued beating her lovers. In 2000, Knight used her knife skills to expertly skin the last man in her life, John Price. After stabbing him 37 times, she removed all his skin in one piece except for two tiny bits that remained clinging to his flesh. This pelt she hung in the kitchen. She cooked up a soup using his head then served it to his kids for dinner. They found his buttocks, minus a few slices, tossed in the backyard. Knight became Australia’s first woman sentenced to life imprisonment.
Tracey Wigginton
Tracey Wigginton’s thirst for blood became insatiable. For some time she fed on pig and cow blood from the butcher and, romantically enough, drank from her lover Lisa Ptaschinski’s carefully slit wrists. So one evening, the soon-to-be infamous “Lesbian Vampire Killer,” her lover, along with two female friends, Kim Jervis and Tracey Waugh, embarked on a night cruise looking for a fresh meal. They lured drunken Edward Baldock, age 47, into their car as he left a bar on Oct. 20, 1989. They stopped at a nearby park along the Brisbane River, where Wigginton stabbed him so many times in the chest and back that his head almost fell off. Her friends watched Wigginton drink from the spurting fountain that was his body. Police found her cash card in his shoe the next day and Wigginton received life imprisonment. But she has since returned to a solid food diet and made bail!
Gertrude Baniszewski
Four failed marriages, two involving the same husband, left Gertrude Baniszewski with some kids and a bitter taste for abusing others. In 1965 an unsuspecting circus couple asked her to watch over their two teenage daughters, Sylvia Marie and polio-stricken Jenny Faye Likens, for $20 a week. Baniszewski beat the girls with a mallet for tiny indiscretions, but what makes her truly evil is that she coerced her own seven children and other neighborhood kids to beat, torture and sexually abuse her captives, particularly Sylvia, aka “Cookie.” One incident involved forcing Sylvia to rape herself with a Coke bottle. On Oct. 26, 1965, Indianapolis police were called to 3850 E. New York St. where Sylvia’s body lay on a mattress, starved, bruised, bleeding, burned and found “I Am A Prostitute” tattooed to her stomach. Baniszewski blamed a gang of boys, but the cops didn’t buy it. She spent 20 years of a life sentence in prison.
The most annoying woman EVER
Posted on April 15, 2009 by Heather Laura Clarke
If looks could kill, I would have murdered a woman on the bus yesterday. I’m writing about it to remember what kind of mother I never want to be!
She walked on, screaming and yakking with her friends, and then proceed to make a call on her cell phone. A loud call. Like the entire bus was silent, and she didn’t know — or care — that she was yelling into her phone.
I am the kind of person that texts on the bus, so that I don’t bug the crap out of everyone around me. If my BlackBerry does receive a call, I hiss into the receiver that I can’t talk because I’m on the bus. Yeah, I have a little thing called busmanners.
Let me provide the stintilating transcript …
ANNOYING WOMAN: “Hi Dominic! … It’s Mommy! … Mommy loves you! … Mommy LOVES you! …
ME (in my head): Ughhhhh. Too loud, too loud, too loud!
ANNOYING WOMAN: Dominic! Dominic! … Mommy will see you tomorrow … Mommy will see you TOMORROW … Is it bath night? … Are you having a bath? … Dominic? … It’s MOMMY! … Mommy’s gonna see you tomorrow! … Are you being good? … Dommmmminic!
ME: *Sigh*
ANNOYING WOMAN: Mommy loves you! … Dominic! … Oh, my phone is acting weird. Why is my phone acting weird?
ME (in my head): Probably because everyone else on this bus is willing your phone to self-destruct.
ANNOYING WOMAN: Mommy loves you! … Dominic! … Hi … Hi … Hi! … No, you can’t see Mommy … No, it’s not a see-through phone, Bud … Mommy loves you!
Oh. My. God.
She kept up that IDENTICAL dialogue for 20 minutes — no joke. When she got off at her stop, there was a collective sigh from every other passenger.
Never, never, never.
Ten Most Annoying Females on Screen
We have done, and we have seen endless lists about irksome male characters. Pauly Shore in anything, Ross Geller from the prequel to ‘Joey’, the way Danny Glover character’s cannot express emotion without jolting at the same time as if he is getting tazed, or most of Jonah Hills co-starring roles.
Let us not be accused of sexism, there is a top ten annoying males right here
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Bronagh Gallagher as Bernie in The Commitments:
I know Andrew Strong’s character was a bit of a dick, but Bernie was foul-mouthed, abusive, bullying and mean-spirited. Clearly insecure at being the ugliest girl in the band, the short hair and instant scowl makes her a total turn-off. Imelda was also a cow but at least a cow with reason.
She makes fun of Deco for his acne, calls him fat and ugly, then physically assaults him. Spending the whole movie as the short-haired tomboy with an attitude.
Then when the Deco decides to leave the band (presumably fed up of her thicko jibes) she says to him with idiotic condescension and failed humour: “You’re already in a band or hadn’t you bleedin’ noticed” (using that sort of moronic rhetorical sarcasm that only stupid people can truly carry off).
In the summary the narrator says of her “Nice girl, but terrible taste in music”. Not one thing she does or says in the entire film shows that she could ever be described as a “nice girl”. Seriously, she is just a bitch.
Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly in As Good as it Gets
Happy to delay commuters so she can wave goodbye (in the most aggressive personal-space-invading ever seen) to her kid, insults the sexual pride of a man who did her a service (albeit oddly misguided), whines and bitches about her life but scoffs at anyone who suggests change, flips out at her benefactor for the mildest of (as she well-knew) unmeant insults.
Make usual noises about equality and strength and all that shit but still demands a compliment from her date on threat of walking out on him if it is not good enough. True feminism in action.
Blessed with that self-obsessed “I’m-okay-at-being-brutally-honest thing as long as it is one-way. Her gratuitously entitled ego is inked in by
her presumption that the world must care about her sick son. Yet when Melvin makes a gesture that completely renovates everything, she does nothing but exasperate and challenge him with her vain expectations and ludicrous reactions.
Ditch her Jack
Vanessa Marcil as Carla Pestlarossi in The Rock
“Like hell I’m not coming” Snotty little brat. There is clearly a situation that is bigger than you going on. Then you turn up and expect special treatment. Your partner tried to save your life and your arrogance and babyish behaviour put you, he, and all of San Francisco at risk.
This would not have been an issue if you had listened to Stan, I can understand if he was aggressive or abusive, but you hung up on him, causing him to be scared and jittery and potentially causing many deaths due to spoilt petulance. Never hang up on your partner.
Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffet in Friends
Just stop trying to be weird. You are fooling no one (of merit). Like all people who come across as “kooky”, you are boring, unimaginative, and totally ordinary, and what’s more, you are very aware of it. In one episode: “The One with the Boobies” (Oh look they refer to each episode as ‘the one with….’how very postmodern. Also, they say boobies, so they are also not taking themselves too seriously…’sigh’ Dear Marta Kaufmann: Please unscramble this anagram: “smug cnut”) there is a psychiatrist who sums them all up so accurately that I almost enjoyed it.
Bottom line is, anyone who has loud/eccentric clothes/expressions/politics/ideas or leads with their sexuality (so all of them) is pretty much likely to be very boring and repressed underneath and requires distracting trinkets to deflect their natural tedium excess.
Rutina Wesley as Tara Thornton in True Blood
Terri True Blood. Best friends with Sookie, somehow. A remarkable thing considering they never share any closeness. She is rude, aggressive, entitled, and ungrateful.
Unendearingly, plays the race card to the point that Chris Rock would consider garish. She is principled and has a stiff moral code but with no actual values or behaviour to earn it. Rather she just uses it to be rude and aggressive to people
Regina King as Marcy Tidwell in Jerry Maguire
You are not the first person to be pregnant so stop mentioning it as if it is a proper excuse for being rude and lazy. One of those who things being loud and rude is the same as being strong and independent.
Also control your fucking kid, lady. That is someone’s office he is wrecking and reminding everyone you are pregnant in every scene is just reminding everyone you are not up to it.
Telling Jerry that you know the four most valuable marketing products for sports-endorsed advertising is does not make you a player. That is something that even back then, could have been done in a quick AOL search or a few minutes in a library.
Of course, you forget what a c**t you were to poor Jerry when you want him to make sure your meal tick…. sorry, husband is safe. Using your hands to assault his brother because that is about your only level. sorry, but pleading poverty and suffrage when you have two kids and live-in siblings and are refusing paid work because it may hurt your husband (who has a stinking attitude too) and his imagined integrity even though you clearly live in a very spacious house. Get past yourself woman. When Rod is injured in the last game and she begs Jerry to get him back safe, I would have cheered for Jerry had he just said: “Go call Bob Sugar.”
Tilda Swinton as Sal in The Beach
My wife is chilled. The ONLY thing I ever said that upset her is that when she dries her hair she looks like “Sal” from Danny Boyle’s The Beach.
There is reason for her ire. The gaslighting, sexually manipulative, despotic, and ideologically unsound de-facto leader of the hedonistic travellers encountered by Leo DiCaprio and his two mates is, in the nicest way, an annoying cunt.
She cons Richard (Leo), promising not to reveal his blunder of sharing the idyllic secret beach location with the idiotic Sam and Zeph providing he fucks her. Post coitus she promises not to tell his girlfriend or her boyfriend. As soon as they return, she emotionally blackmails Richard into a horrid task and instantly reneges and tells everyone about the sex anyway!
It is also little things. Like the way the arrogant bitch lies there on her side, clumsily trying to emulate the famous statue of Wat Pho’s reclining Buddha.
This is while one character, the poor, sweet-natured Gregorio, is writhing in toothache agony. He begs her to allow him to visit a dentist and she refuses, to the amuesment of all involved. This refusal by Sal is also tacit agreement to allowing her unlikeable boyfriend, Bugs, to remove Greg’s tooth. This is by a procedure using unsterilised equipment, clueless operatives, and using illicit hooch as aftercare, which as any dental practitioner will tell you could cause severe issues, not excluding death.
Her despotic lunacy and egostistic arrogance culminates with her demanding murders be committed on her behalf. She even attempts to execute Richard to save herself.
If you haven’t seen the movie and read the book you will be lost Suffice to say that those who only saw the movie should know that the book ending is way different and way, way better.
Tea Leoni as Julie Mott in Bad Boys
From the scene on the way to the doomed party, her smug and self-congratulatory quipping immediately makes you dislike her. Then when she phones the police for help, the entitled bitch keeps making demands and then having the nuts to complain about the outcome.
Eventually, her over-emotional naivete, thinking that her one friend dying outranks the other innocents who the villain, Puchet, kills joyfully she goes off and fucks it all up just as Lowry and Burnett are closing in. Then the gobby cunt has the nerve to complain about not being protected.
Near the end, as it is not exactly how she wants it, she stomps off in a bratty huff, leading to more innocent deaths, and continues to make annoying and unfunny epigrams. Also STOP FUCKING PAUSING FOR BREATH MID-SENTENCE YOU FUCKING AMATUER
Edie Falco as Carmela “Carm” Soprano in The Sopranos
The queen of hypocrisy. A materialistic snob, and a self-deluding Christian who dips into her faith like an avocado spread expecting to wear it as a halo.
There are 8 seasons of bourgeois soccer-mom arrogance to choose from so broad strokes only
She humiliates herself trying to talk literature with her college daughter proving herself as phoney as she is out of her depth, she often berates Tony but expects him to use his might to get her own way when she wants it.
She uses his name to threaten a teacher into recommending her daughter for a certain school, a school she did not wish to go to, but Carmella decided she should. The frightened teacher complied. Carmella knew this meant a disadvantaged child already recommended would lose any chance of a scholarship. Her daughter never attended the school anyway.
She looks down on her old friends. How big the house is matters a great deal to her. In a hilarious scene, one of them tells her (after Carm treated her like a slave in front of her snooty fundraising pals) that she once screwed Tony, and could have had him, but chose her husband. This dents her ego satisfyingly
Then there is the separation. She kicks Tony out, and demands half of the money and the house. Tony tells her to go fuck herself, reminding her that she was accessory and knew all along where the money came from. Her double standards and entitled selfishness make her one of the most contemptible characters ever. Also, one that is overlooked. She is a lot deeper and more twisted than people realise and I do not think Edie Falco gets the proper recognition for the spectacular job she did portraying her all these years.
Elisha Cuthbert as Kim Bauer in 24 ***SPOILERS***
Once again, we have way too many seasons and episodes to choose from. I was unsure of whether to chose her, or a couple of the honourable mentions
Kim won out for her staunch commitment to annoyingness.
Firstly, her bratty behaviour causes the events of season 1 as she falls under Ira Gaines plot. That was annoying enough but it could also be looked at (if you were looking to justify) as a youthful Hijinx gone disastrously wrong and that mostly these things to not lead to mass murder and terrorist plots that lead to death on an unprecedented scale.
However, after her father gets her out, she continues to disobey him by trying to help her kidnapper. Not her father, the hero federal counterterrorist agent whose strength, wit, and bravery are constantly saving hers and other lives. No, she wants to help the guy who pumped her now-dead best friend full of heroin after the other one broke her arm.
Next series she has the balls to be angry at her dad for her mother’s murder. Something that would not have happened had she not ran away. Yet she continues to cause trouble. With the most annoyingly whiney kid in tow (that somehow looks like an old woman) she again puts herself in danger against advice and causes trouble.
Jack then gets her a job at CTU (even though she would not have been qualified as she was a babysitter in her twenties and CTU analysts train from school and must be the best of the best to get in. So, nepotism aside (Chloe knows) she is under Jacks eye (although that eye is full of heroin, but it is Jack so we all know he could kick the Opium Poppy’s ass any day). So, to show her thanks she starts ploughing one of the agents. Causing further issues.
Then she comes back AGAIN. This time with a smug psychiatrist in tow. He has convinced her to blame Jack for her struggles. Have a guess how Jack takes to this fellow.
Yet he still shows Kim endless love. He never rejects or scolds her even though for at least the first four series she does nothing but disappoint and cause danger for herself, Jack, CTU, and the world.
Sorry but just watched Four Weddings sand have to add one:
Andie Macdowell as Carrie: Four Wedings and a Funeral
Oh my shit she is one annoying bitch! I think this must be the actress too though. Her voice is weirdly dubbed on. She has no air or grace and always looks like she is about to fall. She has no chemistry with Grant and yet everyone else does.
Then the character. I know everyone knows the standard “Was it still raining” line. There are others:
Hugh: “We can still get to know each other the night is young”
Andie: “Oh I think we both know thats a big lie”
A big lie? Fuck off lady, who do you think you are talking too? A fib, not true, whatever. “A big lie” Woah steady on Cruella! Then to underline it she walks off! Jeez what a cow!
We also have the absurd, lazy, and totally misrepreantative and awkwardly spliced John Lennon quote from the song; “Mind Games” which is retarded and awkward.
“Love is the answer, and you know that for sure“
That makes no sense whatsoever and is cheapening a great piece of work into a soundbite. That would be forgivable if it worked BUT IT DOESN’T
How this film ever got big is tetstament to every other cast member. How great it could have been with more Kristen Scott-Thomas who IS a splendid actress. Andie Macdowell is responsible for this and making me watch fucking Green Card. She can do one.
According to Wikipedia she was recently voted as one of the most annoying characters in movie history although if you follow the verification it takes you to a Vanity Fair article on JJ Abrams. Go figure.
Toni Collette as Fiona: About a Boy
At Nicely Put we think Toni Colette is great. She can do sultry sex-kitten one day and… this the next. A self-righteous dogmatic hippy who, like most hippies, has a staunch code of rules but no actual value or actions to back it up. Happily allowing her poor kid to go out to a North London comprehensive secondary school dressed like a -as Russell Brand once perfectly put it- “Nan kid.” Spouting her smug and arrogant rhetoric about “being yourself” (which meant “be like me”) as she made him wear lace-ups, charity-shop mismatched ensembles, and makes him say “I love you” in front of the baying wolves in the playground as she kisses him goodbye, to underline how much he “isn’t a sheep.” Needless to say he was bullied mercilessly. Poor kid keeps it quiet for fear of upsetting her. Then she tries to top herself, leaving her son, a twelve-year-old, to find her puke-covered would-be cadaver. Then she has the nerve to accuse her son’s newly discovered older friend of inappropriate behaviour. North London new age narcissistic rope-swing. Remember when you were a teenager and briefly being a bit of a hippy new-age kook held some appeal? Then you soon realised that it is a stupid way to be and grew up? Well some people never hit that trip switch. The excellent Miss Colette has it down to a tee here
