Mary Flora Bell Research Paper

When you’re thinking of a person who is psychologically complex, you wouldn’t stumble upon a movie actor, singer or model. Psychologically complex people are those with a past that is unforgettable, those that make you question the world surrounding and the sanity of oneself. And child wouldn’t necessarily be your first thought. A girl whom was born in the late 1950s became the most notorious serial killer in history by being the youngest.

Born May, 26, 1957 in the suburbs of New England, Mary Flora Bell was the daughter of a Betty McCrickett whom was a prostitute who would often leave for weeks at a time, leaving Mary with her stepfather or other relatives. Betty McCrickett had Mary at 17 years of age and became unstable as well as an alcoholic,

At the tender age of just 10 years old, just one day before her 11th birthday, Mary Bell would commit her first murder, she decided that at this point and time in her life she needed that fulfillment, her form of satisfaction. It was 1968 and Mary Bell and her best friend Norma Bell –were playing along the field in Scotswood, which was an inner-city suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, New England, when they noticed a little boy playing, whose name was Martin Brown, whom was 4 years of age, when seeing the child they had approached him and asked him if he would like to play with them, 2 weeks prior to that Mary had been harassing and abusing the children in Scotswood, they had led martin into an abandon house and that was the end of that story, no one knew of the boy’s whereabouts after. A week later Martin Brown’s body was found by three boys in the abandon house, he was faced down with an open bottle of aspirin placed next to him. Police were alerted and since there had been no indication of foul play they had ruled it as an accidental death. Within moments after that Mary and Norma had broken into the local nursery and vandalized. They allegedly littered the nursery with letters claiming that they were Martin Brown’s murderers. Regardless of the evidence being right there, the town’s officers dismissed this as a simple prank and stated that “kids will be kids.” Soon after the vandalism incident, Mary had gone off and strangled three year old Brian Howe to death. After the boy had died, she began to carve the letter N into his chest, which she had later change to a M, and done so with a razor blade, once leaving his body in a field she had then came back to cut parts of his hair off with scissors and used those exact scissors to partially castrate him. During the time period of these events the town people knew there was something strange about Mary Bell and her