The Blood Countess--Evil Incarnate, or an elaborate smear campaign? Elizabeth Báthory  was a Hungarian noblewoman serial killer active in the late 1500s to the early 1600s. Remembered for her cruelty towards her servants, Báthory is said to be the inspiration for the Evil Queen in Snow White as well as legends about retaining ones's youth by bathing in the blood of virgins.  Join Kayley and Siera as Kayley walks us through the story of The Blood Countess and attempts to tell fact from fiction in this gruesome case.

Sources:

https://www.biography.com/crime/elizabeth-bathory

https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1134&context=etd

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Bathory

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-69057709

Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters

by Peter Vronsky