Joanna Dennehy Victims
Joanna Dennehy murdered three men and stabbed two others in Peterborough and Hereford. She is one of only three women in the UK to receive a whole-life order.
In March 2013, Joanna Dennehy, 31, murdered three men in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: her landlord Kevin Lee, Lukasz Slaboszewski, and John Chapman. She stabbed each multiple times.
After the killings, Dennehy went on the run with an accomplice, Gary Stretch. In Hereford, she randomly attacked two men walking their dogs, stabbing both. They survived.
Dennehy showed no remorse and later told a psychiatrist she killed because she wanted 'to have my fun.' She was diagnosed with psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder.
Dennehy pleaded guilty to three murders and two attempted murders. She was sentenced to a whole-life order in 2014—only the third woman in England to receive such a sentence.
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