Deadly Women

The case of 17th-century serial killer Erzsebet Bathory - a Hungarian aristocrat who is said to have murdered 600 of her servants in an attempt to achieve eternal youth

The stories of notorious killer Katherine Knight, an Australian who skinned and decapitated her errant lover, and Blanche Taylor-Moore, who poisoned her partner in hospital

The case of two women who murdered their own children because of an obsessive infatuation.

How Judi Beunoano and Genene Jones managed to keep the crimes they committed a secret.

An investigation into what made women like Aileen Wuornos, Anna Hahn and Dorothea Puente stalk the night in search of victims.

A businesswoman kills for cash, a bizarre love affair ends in slaughter, and a midwife becomes a cold-blooded murderer.

Looking at killers who hid their instability, including an outgoing hiding dark secrets at home, and two old ladies behind a horrific murder.

A woman boards a train with a grisly secret in her luggage, an active imagination causes a gruesome crime, and a seductress moves from men to murder.

How a woman took a baby from an expectant mothers womb, two girls killed to protect their friendship, and a killer committed her crimes for a serial murderer she loved.

A mother who smothered her baby, a woman who drowned the sons she believed made her unhappy, and how another who was driven by delusions to destroy her family.

A wronged wife who murdered her ex-husband, a jealous girlfriend who took revenge on her rival, and a girl who killed her own father.

Christina Walters defies the odds by becoming a gang leader at age 20 and attempts to earn the Crips tear tattoo under an eye meaning theyve killed. As deadly initiation, Christina and her gang kidnap three women in two separate abductions and shoot them like lambs to the slaughter. The seemingly senseless murders wouldve remained unsolved if it werent for one thing – one woman is still alive. Judith Neelley and her husband Alvin met and after marrying when she was 15, they begin a crime spree. After being released on armed robbery charges, Judith and Alvin commit the most heinous of crimes by abducting, raping, torturing and murdering two women, one of them a 13-year-old girl. One extraordinary breakthrough leads to an eyewitness confession and one detail ultimately leads to their arrest. Irene Maslin gladly plans to help kill her friends on-again-off-again boyfriend by injecting him with battery acid.

Mother and wife Lydia Sherman laced food and drinks with arsenic, killing three husbands and all of her children. Young mother Paula Sims murdered her two young daughters, but let her son live due to her personal view that girls were unwanted. Under the influence of serious drugs, Velma Barfield played caretaker while secretly killing people with arsenic. Away from the drugs, she became the angel of death row before being executed.

Southern belle Louise Peete shot and killed multiple partners – leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind her before the state took her life in the gas chamber. Instead of divorce, horse owner Jane Dorotik chose to murder her husband so she wouldnt have to share the money she planned on spending on her own ranch. Teresa Lewis and two secret lovers shot her husband and his son for life insurance, but they didnt plan it well and the men didnt die until after the cops showed up.

Battered housewife Amber Cummings shot her white supremacist, child-pornography loving, Nazi obsessed husband to save her daughter from being sexually assaulted. Consumed with greed, alcoholic con-artist Kate Webster murders her employer, spins a web of lies to cover up her crime and disposes of the body in the most gruesome way possible. Sick of having to constantly care for her needy, terminally-ill husband, who had only weeks to live, Wendi Andriano got impatient waiting for him to die and sped things up by killing him herself.

Robin Lee Row needs money to pay off her excessive spending, her solution is to set the house on fire with her husband and two kids inside. But her water-tight alibi leads police on a wild goose chase for clues and a conviction – leading to dark secrets from her past and only one way to expose her. Marybeth Tinning loved the attention she received after her third child died of meningitis as a baby, to keep receiving that attention she quietly kills her other eight children over a span of years. Shes seen as a woman with a series of unfortunate events, until she goes one step too far by smothering an adopted child. To make sure she doesnt lose her kids to her husband in a custody battle, alcoholic, con-artist Cora Caro gets revenge on her unfaithful husband (both are seen as caring Christians) by shooting their three eldest sons and attempts suicide by shooting herself in the mouth, barely surviving it.

After learning her first husband had an illegitimate child, Raynella Dossett Leath begins to control every aspect of her new husband life, including his death when shes overcome by greed. Soon afterwards, another shocking secret is revealed. Margaret Rudin was sick of her husband wasting all of his money on alcohol and guns (money that she wants to spend) that she kills him and dismembers him before going on the run. Linda Lou Charbonneau got sick of her first husband and married his nephew; when neither mans financial status met Lindas satisfaction, her solution was to kill both of them.

The Season 8 opener features examines the infamous 1892 ax murders of Lizzie Bordens parents.

Young female killers are spotlighted.

Killers who hide from the law in plain sight are profiled.

Wives who murdered their husbands are profiled.

Womens cruel actions are spotlighted.

A middle-aged woman goes after an older man; an Army wife isnt satisfied with her husband; and a black widow poisons her mates.

A comely woman goes after an older man; a cabaret star performs a finale that kills; and a deadly farmers wife is profiled.

A bondage queen doles out punishment; a vengeful teenager ignites a blaze; and a doctor prescribes lethal cures.

A woman seduces both men and women; a churchgoer discovers a new faith; and a matriarch rules with an iron rod.

Two women team up to mastermind a murder.

They may be the fairer sex but when they clash it can be downright brutal. An abusive mother takes drastic steps to keep custody of her child; a small town gossip sparks a murderous grudge match; and a teen bully makes a shocking move.

These Deadly Women are old but not wise. You have to watch your back when "Granny Gets a Gun."

They look sugar coated but these Deadly Women are made of "Sugar And Spite."

These Deadly Women satisfied their blood lust within the family... they were "Killer In-Laws."

These Deadly Women didnt grow old gracefully; they committed "Mid-Life Murder."

These Deadly Women brutally turned on family and in-laws, they had Broken Ties.

These Deadly Women liked company when they killed, for them it took Two to Tangle.

These Deadly Women get their kicks from the suffering of others. They enjoy being on Death Watch.

These Deadly Women sacrificed their loved ones to satisfy their Love of Money.

When these Deadly Women strike they keep it "In The Family."

When their love life goes sour these Deadly Women take lethal revenge. They are Dumped and Dangerous.

Every murder is a tragedy but some are plain barbaric.

Jealousy can become an obsessive trait, even a deadly one.

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Home is where a killer lurks

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Jealousy is an affliction.

Some women marry for money while others are prepared to murder for it.

When love turns to obsession, these women make their lover their possession.

When life becomes a powder, these morally bereft women light the sparks.

Stories of depraved women who dont allow sacred marriage vows to get in the way of cold-blooded murder.

Killing comes easy to those with hearts of ice.

Desperate and dangerous, three womens unquestioning loyalty to the wrong person ends in tragedy.

For these diabolical women, twos company and three is a murder in the making.

Three cases of ruthless women who perilously cross the line from need to greed.