''Satan in a Skirt''

 Women serial killers tend to be much less common than men and even more importantly much less violent. However, in this particular case, things are different. The police said that they had never seen a woman commit such terrible and cruel acts. Therefore, they believed at first that they were actually looking for a man not a woman. However, Irina Gaidamachuk, who was later diagnosed to be mentally sane, was a woman and some. She would pretend to be a social worker and would then smash the skulls of her victims with a hammer or an axe for their money. Although she claimed that she wanted the money for vodka, the investigators discovered that, most of the time, the amount of money she would take from her victims was irrelevant compared to the crimes that she would commit. The alcoholic woman claimed that her husband would not give her the money for vodka so she had to find her own way of getting it. Irina murdered 17 pensioners before being found in 2010. During the search, police arrested and questioned more than 3000 people, and even wrongly arrested another woman, Irina Valeyeva. The town of Krasnoufimsk, where all of this happened, lived in great fear during Irina Gaidamachuk reign and even her relatives were choked when they learned than she was given a lesser sentence because she was a mother. Her entourage had never suspected anything and if she had not been seen at the moment of her last crime, she would have probably committed more without being caught. This case is proof that anybody could be a serial killer; mother, father, child, no matter how this idea seems illogical.

Here follows a picture of what the police expected Irina to look like ( a woman dressed like a man) , versus a real picture of her. For further reading here is the link to the article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154900/Russias-worst-woman-serial-killer-dubbed-Satan-Skirt-murdering-17-pensioners-year-reign-terror.html

Written by Aimée Pocock