She stabbed Davis in the throat and in the chest. Gray was athletic and strong and for a female killer, unusually hands-on. Gray was going through a divorce, family strife, and in major debt when she murdered Norma Davis in February 1994. She was a labor and delivery nurse, but her three victims weren’t babies-they were elderly women who trusted her. She was attractive, middle-class, well-liked by those who knew her. Dana Gray was unique among any group of serials, male or female.
Female serial killers serial#
Many women who took three lives or more over time (the FBI definition of a serial killer) were outwardly so normal that it’s still hard to believe what they did today. Sometimes male killers have a female partner, but there’s strong evidence that the majority of those women were the more passive members of the relationship, going along with what the dominant killer wanted-admittedly, some of those convinced themselves they were into the act as well. Male serial killers have-historically-murdered out of sadistic, sexual motivations, distinct from spree killers and mass murderers, who kill out of psychopathic, nihilistic rage. What many may not understand is when a woman kills repeatedly, her motivations are often completely different from a man’s.
That’s why the number of known female serial killers is so small. Serial murder accounts for only one percent of yearly homicides writes Scott Bonn in Why We Love Serial Killers, and Bonn says women are responsible for 17 percent of that total. In the United States, women are responsible for a mere 10 percent of homicides every year.
That said, while women do commit violent crimes, the numbers don’t lie. No matter what creators of shows on Investigation Discovery want viewers to think, it’s not shocking when women kill.
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