Signature of Christine Falling. With her capture in 1982, Christine Laverne Slaughter Falling joined a select sorority. The rarest variety of serial killer, Falling nonetheless killed with an abandon that her male counterparts would have been proud of. As a child, Falling strangled cats to "test their nine lives." As an adult, Falling took to murdering young children and elderly invalid who came under her care, utilizing what she called "smotheration" to meet that end and sometimes blunt trauma to the head to finish them off.
