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In today's Issue

Flash Fiction
A story with a twist by Anne Rhodes
UK Female Serial Killers
Trivial Top 10

Flash fiction is fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character stories, also known as twitterature, the dribble (50 words), the drabble (100 words), and sudden fiction (750 words).

It's not as easy as it looks. Why don't you give it a try, and send me in your examples.

Anne Rhodes - 100 word Story

MY SISTER by Anne Rhodes

The policeman said I could have two minutes with my sister before she went back to prison. She looked up from her place on the prison bench and asked me why I had never visited her. I just said “Henry”.

She started crying and said she had not killed him. I said I knew. There was a moment of shocked silence, then she said “….you did it!” and I nodded, then added “But you’ll never prove it.” Her whispered “why???” echoed round the cell and I said

“He was mine first. Revenge is very sweet, my dear – oh! Sweet revenge

Definition of a Serial Killer
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break (a "cooling off period") between them.

UK Female Serial Killers

Beverley Allitt: also known as "Angel of Death"; Lincolnshire paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991

Mary Ann Britland: poisoned her daughter, husband, and the wife of her lover in 1886; executed in 1886

Mary Ann Cotton: British Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims; hanged in 1873

Joanna Dennehy: stabbed three men to death and tried to kill two others selected at random in what would become known as the "Peterborough ditch murders" in 2013; sentenced to life in prison

Amelia Dyer: murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896

Catherine Flannigan and Margaret Higgins: Two Irish women known as "The Black Widows of Liverpool"; killed at least 4 people by poisoning in the 1880s in order to obtain insurance money

Margaret Waters: baby farmer executed on October 11, 1870

Catherine Wilson: nurse considered to have poisoned seven people in the 19th century; executed in 1862

Mary Elizabeth Wilson: also known as the "Merry Widow of Windy Nook"; convicted of murdering two husbands by poisoning and considered to have killed two others

Trivial Top 10

The top 10 biggest serial killers of all time :-

10 Wang Qiang - China - 45 From 1995 to 2003

9 Alexander Pichushkin - Russia - 48 - 1992 to 2006

8 Gary Ridgway - USA - 49 - 1982 to 2000

7 Anatoly Onoprienko - Ukraine - 52 - 1989 to 1996

6 Anatoly Onoprienko - Russia - 53 - 1978 to 1990

5 Yang Xinhai - China - 67 - 2000 to 2003

4 Pedro Rodrigues Filho - Brazil - 71 - 1967 to 2003

3 Daniel Camargo - Columbia - 72 - 1974 to 1986

2 Pedro López - Columbia - 110 - 1969 to 1979

1 Luis Garavito - Columbia - 138 - 1990's

So Columbia is number 1 in the world when it comes to producing serial killers !!

Well that's it for today, thanks for reading......see you tomorrow...
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Oh and always finish with a song..
This is Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads from waaaaaay back in 1977