" What happens when people are confronted with a female serial killer? When ideas of the “weaker sex” break down and we’re staring into the unnerving eyes of a woman with dried blood under her fingernails? First, we’ll probably check to see if she’s hot or not. (A 2015 study took pains to determine which of the sixty-four female serial killers they profiled were of “above-average attractiveness.”) This helps their crimes go down easier "

― Tori Telfer , Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History