Highborn and unaccountable, Elizabeth Bathory was the absolute ruler of a patch of what is now Slovakia. With the help of three of her servants, she sadistically tortured between 100 and 650 girls to ...
ČACHTICE, Slovakia — More than 400 years after her death, the truth about “the Blood Countess,” a Hungarian noblewoman alleged to have been the most prolific female serial killer of all time, remains ...