A Cambridge University academic's quest to clear Elizabeth Bathory's name

Dr Annouchka Bayley was working in a second-hand book shop when she came across a little black book about a 17th Century countess thought to be the most prolific female serial killer in history

Born in 1560, Barthory would eventually stand accused of murdering hundreds of girls between 1590 to 1610.Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian noblewoman, was allegedly a serial killer and torturer who bathed in the blood of 650 young women "I remember putting it on the shelf and carried on shelving but then went back to that book, took it off the shelf and placed it under the front counter.

"They had been noble, then dispossessed of their properties, so they occupied this liminal and bizarre space and, because of the wars taking place at the time, many of the men had died so they were unmarried as well.

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