Question: Name the American female serial killer, who after her arrest confessed to 33 murders, and who with only Lydia Sherman and a farmwife in rural Catawissa accused of murdering 17 members of the local community completes the trio of American female serial killers?

Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Jane Toppan (1857–1938), born Honora Kelley, was an American serial killer, nicknamed "Jolly Jane". After her arrest in 1901, she confessed to 33 murders. She is quoted as saying that her ambition was "to have killed more people — helpless people — than any other man or woman who ever lived". [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Bertha Gifford (October 1872 – August 20, 1951) was a farmwife in rural Catawissa, Missouri during the early 1900s who was accused of murdering 17 members of the local community. Some consider her to be America's third female serial killer, behind Lydia Sherman and Jane Toppan. [END]  
Answer: Jane Toppan
Jane Toppan