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She’s a woman serial killer, she’s amongst the most prolific of women serial killers, she’s an Afghani woman with a lover, and she’s an Afghani woman with a career. Of sorts.

BBC - ‘Kebab killer’ defies Kabul court, By Tom Coghlan

In her cell in Pul-e-Chakri jail, the grim Soviet-built prison on the edge of Kabul, Afghanistan’s most notorious woman prisoner is awaiting trial.

Police say that Shirin Gul has confessed with her lover, Rahmatullah, and 18-year-old son Samiullah, to the murder of 27 men.

If convicted, she would be amongst the most prolific women serial killers.

During an investigation that began in June 2004 with the discovery of the naked body of a businessman near Kabul, police say that they recovered 18 corpses from under the yard of Shirin Gul’s former home in the eastern city of Jalalabad, and another six at an address in Kabul.

There, now, isn’t that amazing?

The body of Shirin Gul’s 60-year-old first husband was recently found under the floor of her Jalalabad home.

There’s the motive. It’s like Agatha Christie always said. Once you’ve killed once, it’s easy to continue doing so. That should teach lecherous old men to think twice before marrying young girls. Perhaps they’ll learn to see that their sell-by date has long passed.

“Even if they hang me I will not admit these crimes,” she said, weeping.

“I knew there were fresh bodies in the yard, but I did not see or do these things. I am a Pashtun woman and we cannot even speak to strangers who come to the house.”

She said that she knew Rahmatullah had killed her first husband but supported him because her first husband had beaten her throughout their marriage.

Hmm.