NUMBER 1: CAROLYN WARMUS AKA ‘THE FATAL ATRRACTION’

Just scraping the top spot is Detroit native Carolyn Warmus, currently serving a 25-year sentence for brutally murdering the wife of her lover. Betty Jeanne Solomon was found with 9 bullet holes in her back and legs. Check her out here; the epitome of sophistication.

NUMBER 2: LESLIE VAN HOUTEN

Indoctrinated into Charles Manson’s notorious ‘˜family’ in the late 1968. The following year, the sultry Californian was convicted with the heinous murder of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca. Just look at her here, the appearance of a Parisian catwalk model belied only by the following police escort.

NUMBER 3: AMANDA KNOX AKA ‘FOXY KNOXY”

Bookie’s favourite to be convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the 21-year-old American cuts a striking figure here as she lies recumbent on a stool, clad head-to-toe in seductive black.

NUMBER 4: ‘BLOODY’ MARY I OF ENGLAND

Burning over 300 religious dissenters at the stake, Mary Tudor is certainly the most prolific murderer of the bunch. Looking resplendent in this portrait, I’m sure you’ll agree it would be a crime not to include her.

NUMBER 5: RUTH ELLIS

The last woman to be hanged in England (for the murder of husband David Blakely, who wasn’t good enough for her anyway, frankly), Ellis exudes a mystique similar to Monroe’s.

WORDS: DAN MOSS