11 most dangerous women in the history of Mankind – #3 was a prostitute (With Photos)

8. Lizzie Borden: The Perfect Murder?

“Lizzie Borden took an axe/ gave her mother forty whacks/ when she saw what she had done / she gave her father forty-one.” Or so goes the rhyme! In actuality, Lizzie’s stepmother suffered 18-19 blows and her father suffered 11 blows.

Lizzie Borden was tried for the brutal axe murders of her father and step-mother but was acquitted, mostly because the police were lax in collecting evidence (why would a daughter murder her parents?) and then the jury decided to acquit her (particularly after she fainted upon seeing her parents’ heads, presented as evidence).

After the acquittal, Lizzie and her older sister Emma chose to remain in the same town, though they shifted homes and lived somewhat of a grand life with plenty of servants and parties, considering their father’s estate was partly theirs. Later Emma too left Lizzie, after a fight over a party thrown for an actress, and both the sisters lived alone and never married. To date, the murders have not been solved.

So Lizzie Borden might have been the most dangerous woman after all, for she might just have planned the perfect murder. Or maybe it was Emma!

7. Jeanne Manford: I have A Gay Son, And I Love Him

At a time when being a homosexual was considered a mental illness, Jeanne Manford took a stand… with her son. After her son, a gay activist, was attacked inside a hospital for distributing flyers advocating gay rights in the 1970s, Jeanne wrote to the editors of several newspapers registering her protest of police inaction against her son’s attacker who had kicked and stomped him while the police were leading her son away.

Later, she walked right along with her son in a New York Pride March, holding a hand-lettered sign reading “Parents of Gays Unite in Support for Our Children” – when homosexuality was a mental illness and sodomy was a crime. Jeanne later recalled that she was hugged and kissed by so many closeted gays, some even begging her to speak to their parents about their being gay.

And this led to Jeanne, who was a teacher, her husband, and a few others forming the support group organization Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), for which she was awarded the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal.