Elizabeth Bathory is also a serial killer that will send chills crawling under your skin. She was a countess and her family was very prominent and respected until their bloodline was eventually plagued with epilepsy and incest. What was once a family composed of judges, knights, bishops, cardinals, and kings became a family full of sadist, murderers, and alcoholics. Bathory was much like Rais in regards to torture and her victims being
Reportedly the most prolific female serial killer in recorded history, Elizabeth Bathory was born into Hungarian aristocracy as Erzebet Bathory de Ecsed in the year 1560. She received a privileged upbringing which included a superior education. In what was probably an arranged marriage, she wed Count Ferenc Nadasdy, scion of a rival family of nobles, in 1575. She was fifteen years old. While he would command Hungarian troops against the Ottomans, she remained at their castle in charge of his land