The innocent-looking girl in this picture grew up to be one of the most evil female serial killers in the world.
The child, born in 1956 in Rochester, Michigan, had a tumultuous childhood.
When she was just four years old, she and her brother were abandoned by their mother.
This traumatic incident occurred almost exactly while the girl’s father was sentenced to life in prison, after kidnapping and r**ing a seven-year-old girl.
He later died by s**cide in prison.
The child was left in the care of her maternal grandparents, and while many would hope that life got better for the little ones, their story seemed only to get sadder.
The woman later claimed that her grandmother was an alcoholic, while her grandfather allegedly physically and s**ually assaulted her while she was in their care.
If this heartbreaking start in life wasn’t enough tragedy, the girl became pregnant at just 14 years old after being r**ed, and it was claimed that her brother might have been the father.
After giving birth to the little boy, she soon placed him for adoption, hoping that he would have a better childhood.
When their grandmother died the darkness that had shaped her early years only deepened — setting her on a path that would one day make her name synonymous with cruelty, manipulation, and an evil born from a lifetime of unhealed wounds.