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- A bizarre journey into the world of women who kill for thrills, Thrill Killers transports us into the teenage territory of Indiana pack-leader, Melinda Loveless, whose jealousy sparks a revenge rampage that leads to the kidnap and torture of an innocent 12-year-old. Thrill Killers also takes us into the mind of 16-year-old Brenda Spencer, who opens fire on a schoolyard, killing two and wounding nine because she "doesn't like Mondays". And from Brisbane, Australia a so-called "lesbian Vampire murder"-a tale of satanic rituals, and gothic goings-on that culminates in the slaying of a male victim to satiate Tracey Wiggington's lust for blood.
- Some women burn madly with jealousy, it becomes an anger so deep that they'll be prepared to kill to satisfy it. But what else is it that drives women to breaking point? Winnie Ruth Judd impulsively murders her friends after fighting over a man and has them cut up with intention of dumping the remains in the Pacific Ocean, Carolyn Warmus was so desperate for a man's love that she shot his wife nine times, and Daphne Wright butchered another deaf woman to protect the only love she's ever known. Some of these killings impulsive, some more cold and calculated, but all of their troubles began with a Heart of Darkness.
- When a woman's desire spirals out of control, there are always casualties. To avoid being exploited of her phony pregnancy, Lisa M. Montgomery murdered another woman in cold blood so she could steal her baby. Best friends Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme were so obsessed with each other and their fantasy world, they killed a loving mother to protect their friendship. Catherine Birnie was hopelessly in love with a sexually sadistic serial killer and became one herself. These Deadly Women destroyed other lives and their own for the sake of their Fatal Obsessions.
- Revenge is one of the oldest motives for murder in the book, but some people are so consumed by it that they go overboard and shock countless people with their crimes. At age sixteen, Sarah Marie Johnson shot both of her parents because they wouldn't let her see her nineteen year old boyfriend, Piper Rountree wouldn't rest until her ex-husband was in the grave for leaving her, and Christa Pike led a pack of teens to cut a classmate over 300 times and bludgeon her with a rock before taking a piece of the skull as a trophy. For these deadly women, the quest to seek retribution was so powerful that they went out of control, methodically seeking Lethal Vengeance.
- While their sisters chose sensible lives of motherhood and sought out wholesome careers, they lived lives of crime. Infamous drug lord Griselda Blanco has roughly 100 people murdered by her hand or her order during the Drug Wars in Miami, but outdoes herself by putting a contract on one of her hitmen and killing his two year-old son by mistake in a drive-by. Bad girl Barbara Graham had so much hatred towards her abusive mother that she pistol whips a lonely widow to death in order to let it all out, turning what was supposed to be a mere robbery into bloody murder and landing her a spot in the gas chamber. Self-proclaimed "Queen of Thieves" Juanita Spinelli fostered young teens and taught them to become her henchmen, but when they accidentally kill an innocent man, she murders one of her helpers to keep him from talking. These Deadly Women don't play by the rules, they are Outlaws.
- A woman who murders a partner, spouse, stranger, friend or acquaintance will shock society, but there's a special Hall of Infamy designated for the women who kill their own. Theresa Knorr was driven by series of deadly delusions to kill two of her daughters in a story so grotesque that detectives didn't believe it until two Jane Doe cases confirmed the story as told by her lone surviving daughter. Fueled by a potent cocktail of prolonged alcohol abuse, intense anger problems and unstable mental health, Debora Green set her house on fire and killed two of her three children to get back at her husband for leaving her. Diane O'Dell had a series of bad relationships and was pregnant often. If the father wasn't around for the birth, Diane made it a habit to smother the infant to death and place their body in a box. This happened on three separate occasions and it wasn't until decades later when everything was exposed. These mothers killed their own flesh and blood, breaking The Sacred Bond.
- They were too young to buy a beer, some were too young to even vote, but none were too young to commit brutal murder. Chelsea Richardson and Susanna Toledano killed Chelsea's boyfriends' parents so they'd all inherit the large house and the family's money. Chelsea played mastermind and organized everything, Susanna did the killings to protect the only real friends she had. Canadian sisters "Sandra and Beth" were so sick of watching their loving mother waste the money on alcohol , that they developed an elaborate scheme that involved drugging their mother and drowning her in the bathtub. Penny Bjorkland had no history of violence or behavior problems, yet she fantasized what it would be like to shoot someone and she made her fantasy come to life when a man offered her a lift one day and she emptied her pistol twice over by shooting him. These deadly women made a transition from innocent girls to Teen Killers.
- The deadliest women of all are the ones you don't suspect. 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. Most women nurture loved ones with hearts of gold, but these women had other intentions and Hearts of Stone.
- A mother's most basic instinct is to protect her children and provide for them. But these women broke the sacred bond with a very different motives. Jealous of the attention given to her children, Darlie Routier stabbed two of her sons and staged a break in to get that attention back. Frances Newton cold-heartedly shot her husband and two young children for life insurance money. Susan Eubanks got revenge against her ex-husbands by shooting and killing her four sons in the order they came into her life, she currently awaits execution. However, sociopathy was the common trait that gave these women the audacity to Kill Their Own.
- Money is a strong motivator - it can be used for good or for bad. In order to kill her father, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong had to make enough money to hire a hitman and decided to use a collar bomb as a weapon. Little did her accomplice know the bomb on his chest wasn't a decoy. Rosie Alfaro stabbed her friend's nine year-old sister over 50 times to rob the house and trade the items and money stolen in exchange for drugs and booze. To inherit her kind neighbor's farm, Kim Snibson brutally murdered the couple and got two men to do the work for her. These women were so greedy that they were prepared and willing to Kill for Cash.
- Love is a powerful emotion; it can drive women to unthinkable crimes of passion. Hate however, is love's gloomy shadow, and it can drive women into the darkest corners of their mind. 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 she's 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 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 man's financial status met Linda's satisfaction, her solution was to kill both of them. These women would do just about anything to get out of An Inconvenient Marriage.
- A sisterly bond can mean a life full of friendship and sibling love. But for some women, having a sister means nothing more than having their own personal meal ticket, scapegoat and combatant. These types of relationships can lead to deadly outcomes. Sarah Mitchell lives rent-free in the house of her hard-working, well-to-do older sister Stevie. When Stevie cuts her off after learning Sarah had been stealing money and writing checks in her name, Sarah's plans go from devious to diabolic by killing, dismembering and re-emerging from a fire as her sister. Two twins, wholesome school-teacher Peggy Lowe and flashy, audacious nurse Betty Wilson find themselves caught in a web of deception and mystery after a man they both met murders Betty's ailing husband and claims they both made him do it. The truth is one that shakes Huntsville, Alabama to it's core. Kathleen Worrall suffers from a hormonal disease, but the medicine causes weight gain, so she stops taking it. As a result, the tiniest things set her off and one mistake leads to her stabbing her younger sister Susan. These women did more than cut family ties, they destroyed them through the Sins of the Sister.
- Some women are so depraved that their thoughts are unspeakable, their actions incomprehensible. This is the deadly woman's house of sullen delight, a torturous world for those who receive pleasure from pain. Respected midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg secretly abuses her servants and ruthlessly tortures, beats and starves them. It's not until one girl is found dying from numerous open sores that this woman is finally unmasked and she is branded a monster for centuries to come. Kerry Lynn Dalton discovers while she was in jail, her flatmate sold some of her belongings to pay for crystal meth, which both women take. Kerry, high on meth, responds by torturing Irene May to death via everything from electrocution to stabbing to bludgeoning. Martha Rendell moves in with her lover, who leaves his wife for her, but keeps their kids. Martha seems to have jumped out of a Grimm's fairytale as a wicked stepmother - she makes the children ill and pretends to swab their throats with medicine, which is really acid. Killing three kids, the forth one runs away and reveals she got pleasure from doing this. These deadly women commit some of the most evil acts of all because they get Pleasure from Pain.
- Love is a powerful emotion, one that sits in the core of our soul and fills our lives with hope. But when love turns sour, the results can be deadly. In an act of revenge these deadly women unite with one common goal, to kill. Susan Wright is supposedly abused and controlled by her husband, who spends days having affairs with strippers and using drugs while Susan raises their two young kids. Susan doesn't believe in divorce and feels the only way out is murder, but what makes this horrifying is how brutal the murder was stabbing in excess of 150 times. Alice Mitchell has plans of moving to Boston with her lover Freda Ward and living as a married couple disguised as a man, but when Freda's family stops those plans dead in their tracks and forbids her to see Alice, an obsession begins leading Alice to destroy the one she cherished most. Larissa Schuster is many things- a biochemist,an over-achiever... and a bully. She carries on affairs behind her husband's back and when he leaves the family home - instead of continuing her affairs, she permanently dissolves their marriage by dissolving Tim's body in a blue barrel of acid in the garage. Tragically, the lovers of these deadly women didn't see it coming, but they were simply destined to receive their Lethal Love
- These women burn madly with anger so deep they'll kill to satisfy it. What makes them turn on the ones they love? Find out as we explore the reasons for a lover's revenge. Jane Andrews is appointed the wardrobe specialist for a Duchess in England and after losing her job, her only connection to the high life of England is her boyfriend. When he breaks things off after she begins to act cling-y, she murders him in his bed. Shana Parkinson had a volatile temper that prompted her husband to leave her for another woman. Instead of wanting her husband to be happy, she wants him dead and makes that become a reality by stabbing him and his new fiancee to death . However, she gets caught quickly due to an unlikely eyewitness who saw the murders unfold. Jennifer Bailey is an impressionable girl whose first love is with a modern-day pagan who plants ideas in her mind. Their plans of running off to Canada together are cut short when her mother forbids them to speak and they respond by brutally murdering her. These women committed crimes in their own way, but all three were driven by the barely beatable force of a Lover's Revenge.
- When a deranged mind of a Deadly Woman snaps, there's no telling when the killing will stop. In a rage driven by years of untreated schizophrenia, 25-year-old Sylvia Seegrist opened fire on innocent shoppers in a Philadelphia mall in 1985. Twelve years later, in Sherwood, Arkansas, depression drove Christina Marie Riggs to smother her own children to death and attempt suicide afterwards. And in St. Petersburg, Florida, Bobbie Sue Dudley, a registered nurse suffering from Münchausen syndrome, murders twelve nursing home residents by overdosing them with insulin injections.
- In the suburbs and in the office, the most terrifying killers in history went about their deadly work unnoticed. Their murderous intents hidden beneath masks of sanity. Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt kill homeless men for insurance money, Betty Lou Beets murders two husbands before burying them in her yard, and Kim Hricko sets her loving husband on fire to hide her affair with another man.
- Sometimes, an everyday woman can become a cold-blooded killer while under the spell of a dangerous man. Myra Hindley and her sadistic boyfriend Ian Brady go on a sick, murderous rampage that takes the lives of five children. In August 1969, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten slaughtered seven prominent people in the Hollywood hills, all three girls were disciples of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. Tania Herman was so under the spell of her lover Joe Korp, that she willingly killed her lover's wife simply because he asked her. These women became deadly while under an Evil Influence.
- Is it possible to be born evil? These deadly women lead some people to believe so. Gertrude Baniszewski tortures and murders sixteen year-old Sylvia Likens and gets her children to help do the dirty work, Antoinette Frank was a killer cop who shot a fellow officer and two owners of a Vietnamese restaurant she helped guard at nighttime, and Sharon Kinne traded her life as a suburban mom for a life of crime and still may be among us today. There are numerous factors that can drive a woman to kill, but these deadly women were among the select few who were simply Born Bad.
- When murder is a family affair, no good can come out of it. Barbara Opel talked children into brutally murdering a helpless old man who generously helped them during trying times, out in the Wild West, Kate Bender was prepared to help her family of serial killers, and Sante Kimes led her son into a life of crime, they left a trail of frauds, scams, bills and bodies behind them. For these deadly women, killing is personal as it ran in their Blood Lines.
- Revenge is a powerful emotion that can feed on itself and when these deadly women were crossed, they answered with brutal murder. Power-hungry drug addict and prostitute Karla Faye Tucker used a pickaxe to murder an ex-boyfriend and a woman he was having a one-night-stand with. Upon being sentenced to death however, she experiences some profound changes for the better, making her execution one of the most controversial in United States history. Volatile, hot-tempered single mother Jessica McCord used her children as a lure to send her loving ex-husband and his new wife to a fiery grave as revenge for leaving her. And Clara Harris responds to her husband's ongoing affair with his receptionist by attacking them in a four-star hotel and running over him with her car in the parking lot. When these women were wronged, they gladly took an Eye for an Eye.
- Many killings happen in the heat of an argument, but the coldest killings are the ones that are carefully planned out and women are more likely than men to plan an elaborate murder scheme. Allegedly laced her husband's medicine with cyanide, Stella Nickell poisoned Excedrin capsules with lethal cyanide, resulting in the deaths of her husband Bruce and of Susan Chapman Snow. Anu Singh was a troubled young woman who planned to commit suicide and threw a party to celebrate her final day on the earth, no one knew she was planning to take her fiance to heaven with her. While Joe died after being given multiple shots of heroin, Anu didn't die. Black widow Lynn Turner married two police officers while working as a dispatcher. When she got bored with her husbands, she simply killed them by poisoning them with ethylene glycolhidden in a bowl of Jell-O. These women weren't impulsive, they killed In Cold Blood.
- Love can be a force for good, but when some women become blindsided by love, they can view murder as a sign of devotion.Jennifer Reali was with a man who used seduction and Bible passages to convince her to murder his wife, painting the murder as an act of mercy to set her free of the pain she was suffering from a disease called lupus. Alongside her greedy boyfriend Carl, Bonnie Heady abducted a six year-old boy by posing as his aunt and they held him at ransom for $600,000. Even after his parents sent the money, they killed the boy to keep him from revealing their identities. Using threats to hurt her family members and reveal humiliating information to the public, Fred Andros convinced his lover Dawn Silvernail to kill the woman whom he made Dawn have lesbian sex with while videotaping the affairs. These women may have never murdered otherwise, but they became killers Under His Control.
- These women - a grandmother caring for her grandchildren, a young girl in love with a boy, a mother protecting her son - are consumed with intense love. But when that love is threatened, they find it too much to bear and take measures into their own hands. Rachel Wade and Sarah Luderman engage in an online battle for the affections of a boy and the battle enters the real world. When Sarah takes one risk too many by confronting Rachel at a house after humiliating her online, Rachel is armed with a knife and uses it to effectively kill Sarah. Caroline Young was so upset at the thought of losing her grandson to his biological father, she stabs both her grandkids and also stabs herself and all of this is while her daughter and the kids' mother is watching. Elizabeth Duncan had only one man who always stuck by her- her son Frank. So when Frank marries his pregnant girlfriend in a private ceremony, Elizabeth taunts them with phone calls and hires two amateur criminals to kidnap and kill Frank's pregnant wife and their unborn child. These deadly women didn't see those they loved the most as people at all, they viewed them as their Deadly Possession.
- Money is the driving force behind many crimes, especially murder. These women would stop at nothing to get their hands on the cash they needed. In 1934, Eva Coo and Martha Clift drove Henry Wright, a fellow employee, to an isolated location in Oneonta, New York. There, Eva bludgeoned him with a mallet and Martha ran over him with a car. Coo and Clift's motive for murder was simply to collect the life insurance that had been purchased on Wright. In Texas, Celeste Beard conspires to murder her husband, a retired television executive and self-made multi-millionaire, with her lesbian lover Tracey Tarlton. And in 19th century Australia, baby farmer Sarah Makin murders innocent infants while collecting money from the childrens' mothers.
- Most psychopathic killers work alone, but in rare circumstances, murder plays matchmaker for a sinister couple with twisted thoughts. For almost three decades, Rosemary West and her husband torture, rape and murder at least 11 women before burying them under their patio, Martha Beck helps her con artist boyfriend trick women and three lives are cut short as a result, and Erika Sifrit goes to Ocean City with her husband, giving an innocent couple an invitation back to their condo... an invitation that's to die for. When united with their men, these deadly women change from innocent women to Lethal Lovers.
- Apart, a man and woman can be innocent and safe to have walking around among us. But when united, they create bonds that leave devastation and death in their wake. Rebellious teenager Caril Fugate and her out-of-control boyfriend go on cross-country killing spree that leaves 11 people dead. But whether she's an innocent hostage as she claims to be or a willing accomplice remains in dispute. Sexually sadistic alcoholic Valmae Beck willingly lures a twelve year-old girl into a deadly trap to help her equally sexually sadistic husband satisfy his darkest desires and was turned on by the incident just as much as he was. Under the spell of her dangerous husband Tracey, Ashley Humphrey stalks and kills Tracey's ex-girlfriend Sandy to prevent her from pressing rape charges against him. These women didn't act alone, they became killers due to Dangerous Liaisons.
- In the presence of a charismatic woman with devious intentions, we become pawns in their game of chess. They can easily talk people into doing whatever they want them to do, for these women, that includes murder. For black widow Sharon Nelson the process was simple- marry a man for his money, drain the bank accounts, turn to her secret lover, talk him into killing her husband and move on to a new man. Seductress Virginia Larzelere got every man she came into contact with tangled in a web of lust and greed, which allowed her to hire a hitman to shoot her husband in the middle of the day in his dental office.Sheila LaBarre inherits her husband's farm and entices young men to help share the work... and her bed. Only after moving in with her does Sheila reveal her monstrous nature and she ultimately lured at least two men to a fiery grave. These women were users and abusers of other people, they were Master Manipulators.
- It's not unusual at all for teen girls to be scolded or punished by their parents. No girl likes this, but some take it more seriously than others. Straight-A student Nicole Kasinskas falls for a guy who soon drives a wedge between her and her mother, who until that point was the most important person in her life. After being denied permission to live with her boyfriend, they punish her mother by bludgeoning and stabbing her to death. In 19th century Great Britain, Constance Kent was furious at her father for cheating on her dying mother with the governess, Mary, whom he marries after Constance's mother dies and has a young son with. She gets revenge towards Mary and her father by slashing the throat of her young half-brother and disposing of him in an outhouse. After her brother is arrested for viciously murdering two people, Belinda Van Krevel blames their father for treating them badly and when her brother gets a life sentence, Belinda takes revenge by having her brother's best friend murder her father. Most parents have no reason to fear their children, but these girls' families paid the price with their lives for A Daughter's Revenge.
- They seemed like you average families from the outside looking in, but these wives wanted out of their marriages and were prepared to do anything to get out. Amy Bosley was caught embezzling millions of dollars and was so consumed by greed, she killed her husband and staged a break-in while hiding the money somewhere. Her plan to get away with murder backfired, but the money remains hidden. Joyce Chant and her sons were suffering at the hands of a controlling abusive husband and father. To escape the madness, she shot her husband and then chopped him up. Michelle Michael married her husband Jimmy for his money and for image, so when he discovers she's having an affair with another man, she went from devious to diabolical. Instead of divorcing him, she turned to murder. Their husbands thought they were married for life, when in all actuality, they were Married to Murder.
- Some women stay true to the vows they make when married, but the only vow these women upheld was 'til Death do us Part'. 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 wouldn't 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 didn't plan it well and the men didn't die until after the cops showed up. The partners of these deadly women thought they were to love and to hold, but their wives married them To Love and To Murder.
- When a woman wants money more than love, she'll do just about anything to get it. Self-proclaimed voodoo queen Josephine Gray terrifies her husbands and kills them, but due to lack of evidence, locking her up called for some very drastic actions. Elisa McNabney and Sarah Dutra have a bond so strong that it leaves Elisa's husband the third person in his marriage. Money and pure selfishness motivates them to execute Larry. Peter Shellard gives his girlfriend Shirley Withers everything including her own boutique, money and a nice house. How does Shirley repay him? Well, by hiring two drug addicts to murder Peter and stage it like a game of kinky sex gone wrong. You can run, but you can't hide from a woman who literally Loves to Death.
- To the outside world these caring mothers present a face of love - a suburban Mom, a caring community member, a housewife - but when the doors close, these deadly women will do whatever it takes to have their own needs met, even destroy their family.
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. She's 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 doesn't lose her kids to her husband in a custody battle, alcoholic, con-artist Cora Caro gets revenge on her unfaithful husband by shooting their three eldest sons and attempts suicide by shooting herself in the mouth, barely surviving it. For whatever reason, these deadly women betrayed those they gave life to and Sacrificed their Blood.
- When a person places no value on human life, they can become unstoppable in their twisted missions to destroy the lives around them. These women all pushed boundaries, and shattered lives with their actions. Tina Powell and LaFonda Foster are drunk and high when they go on a killing spree, taking five friends hostage and brutally killing them all one by one in different ways. The night proves to be the deadliest in the history of Lexington, Kentucky. Melinda Harmon-Raisch is a Christian housewife who falls for a star-student at a nearby college. Since she views divorce sinful, she has her lover murder her husband so they can be together and they pin it on two black people. Strangely enough, the two go on to marry other people and the secret is hidden for a decade. After losing her husband and two sons in the Melbourne gang wars, crime family queen and professional thief Judy Moran tries to save her own skin by executing her brother-in-law. These deadly women saw no value in the lives they took, making it that much easier to commit such Senseless Slayings.
- When a woman wants more from her husband than he can give, marriage can be a dangerous union. For these deadly women, relationships mean nothing more than a match made for murder. When Patricia Robinson-Olsen has money problems, she resorts to soliciting her teenage son into shooting her second husband Neil to death, and then attempts to have him take the fall. Valerie Pape was a hair salon owner and a Scottsdale, Arizona socialite with an abusive husband, Ira Pomerantz. When Valerie has had enough of her husband's abuse, she turns to murder, then dismembers his corpse. His torso was found in a dumpster behind a supermarket, but the rest of his remains have never been found. Jean Lee was a young Australian woman who became involved with two petty criminals and then turned to a life of crime. While attempting to rob an elderly man, he winds up dead. Jean confesses to her involvement hoping for a light prison sentence, but instead becomes the last woman hanged in Australia.
- Crimes of revenge are usually single acts of passion. But sometimes the female killer is driven by a deeper, smoldering anger. These are women who border on the pathological who kill and kill again. Katherine Knight brutally stabbed her de facto husband to death before dismembering him and using parts of the body to cook up a grisly stew. Blanche Taylor Moore used arsenic poisoning to kill her loved ones. Ruth Ellis shot her boyfriend to death after he caused her to miscarry. The Lainz Angels of Death gave nurses a bad name, murdering at least 49 of their patients.
- Dark Secrets are the stock-in-trade of Deadly Women. For twelve years, Florida-based serial killer Judy Buenoano secretly murdered lovers and family members to claim on insurance policies she'd set up in advance. On the other side of the world, and in a different era, Eugenia Falleni lived a double life. Born a woman, but living as a man in conservative turn-of-the-20th century Sydney, Australia, Falleni killed to keep her true gender concealed. And in Texas, pediatric nurse Genene Jones secretly killed as many as 46 infants left in her care between 1980 and 1982. It was a "Dark Secret" that even hospital administrators tried to pretend wasn't happening.
- Some killers are so troubled and so disturbed that their actions are almost impossible to comprehend. Nurse Jane Toppan murders at least 31 of her patients in a sadistic fashion, Dana Sue Gray kills three women and severely injures another due to a crave for power, thirst for cash and hatred of her mother. And in Florida, an unstable babysitter named Christine Falling betrays parents trust by suffocating the children that she's supposed to protect.
- Most women would die to protect their children, so what could drive a mother to murder her own flesh and blood? Waneta Hoyt kills her babies and blames Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for the deaths to gain sympathy from other people, driven by a deadly delusion, Andrea Yates drowns her five children one by one to save their souls, and Susan Smith outrages the nation by sending her two young boys to a watery grave in order to earn back her lover. These deadly women broke a sacred bond by taking young lives, they are Mothers who Kill.
- Greed can become so intense that even those women who seemingly have it all will do anything to have more. For these women, getting that money meant murder. Serial wife Jill Coit married a man for his money and when he learns she's been married eleven times, he divorces her and she ends the relationship for good with a gun. Once former exotic dancer Marjorie Orbin got all she ever wanted from her wealthy husband, she shot, dismembered and disposed of his body in the desert. Caring, church-going lady Barbara Stager shoots her sleeping husband after he discovers that she's greedy, an adulteress and a liar. An identical "accident" with her previous husband and tape recordings by her fearful husband ultimately give her away. These women used sex and seduction to get the ring from the man who had money, they were Fortune Hunters.
- Although marriage is meant to last forever, we all know that it doesn't always work out. Women killing their husbands is relatively rare, so when it happens, people notice it. Preacher's wife Mary Winkler shoots her sleeping husband, claiming she was subjected to physical, sexual and emotional abuse. After a trial that gained national attention, her sentencing would become one that would divide the nation. Rebecca Salcedo married a socially awkward rich man for his money and after learning she'd only get a few thousand dollars by divorcing him, she creates a sinister plan to take him for all he has. Betty Broderick helped put her husband through law school and gave him four beautiful children, but he repaid her by cheating on her. After divorcing Betty, Dan and his new wife took custody of the kids and made it a priority to make her life miserable. However, when they went too far, Betty snapped and shot them both as they slept in their mansion. These Deadly Women made a wedding vow that they took to a whole new level- "Til Death do us Part".
- Beautiful eyes, a bright smile and a charming personality can help mask a killers identity, making them that much more dangerous because we never see then coming. In an attempt to gain power and respect, Tillie Gburek portrayed herself as a fortune teller who predicted when people would die. To make her predictions come true, her clients were given her signature hearty stew that was laced with arsenic. She remained undetected for years and could've killed as many as 20 people. A lifetime over-achiever, fresh out of law school, Beth Carpenter was determined to take custody of her niece, but the judge granted custody to her sister Kim and her partner Buzz. Taking the law into her own hands out of anger, she and her boss hired a hitman to kill Buzz for $5000. Caroline Grills inherited her mother-in-law's beautiful home by killing her via food laced with thallium , but she enjoyed it so much that she killed two more relatives over a nice cup of tea. What makes these women so deadly is that you'll never guess who they are, as they're Beyond Suspicion.
- In some cases killers are sneaky enough to the point everything is not what it seems to be. Anjette Lyles was a lively, successful restauranteur who was secretly obsessed with black magic and when relatives got in the way of what she wanted, she'd simply kill them. Two husbands, a mother-in-law and her young daughter all died of arsenic poisoning at her hands. Susan Grund's desires to be sexually desired by men and come across as a devoted, classy wife did not mix. When her husband Jimmy became aware of her actions, he soon died after being shot. She was jailed for it, but there's still a dispute as to who the perpetrator really is. Audrey Marie Hilley secretly used arsenic to kill her husband and her daughter barely escaped a similar fate. Marie soon was on the run - she moved to a different area, used two different identities to cover up her tracks and remained undetected for years. These women are not who you think they are, their true identity is hidden under a series of Secrets and Lies.
- FBI Profiler Candice DeLong counts down the 10 Deadliest Women featured on the show in seasons 2-4 as determined by viewer votes on investigationdiscovery.com. The special featured clips from these deadly women's segments as they went along. The results were as follows - 10.) Myra Hindley, 9.) Caril Fugate, 8.) Lisa Montgomery, 7.) Christa Pike, 6.) Sarah Makin, 5.) Betty Lou Beets, 4.) Rosemary West, 3.) Griselda Blanco, 2.) J.R. and 1.) Gertrude Baniszewski.
- A human can only keep their composure so long, when they're pushed over the edge for whatever reason, the results can be lethal. 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. These women may seem normal to most, but they broke all the rules of society when they finally reached their Breaking Point.
- For many parents, their children's teen years can be one big headache. But when typical teenage rebellion turns into deadly rage, a parent's love may not be enough to save their life. Spending most of her life in expensive British boarding schools, American teen Elizabeth Haysom is an honor student who has plans to study the arts, but her parents have other ideas and give her an ultimatum - take science and math classes at college or they won't pay for her to go to her dream school. Rebellion controls her mind and when she's had enough, she gets her boyfriend to destroy them both. Heather D'Aoust was the 15-year-old adopted daughter of a loving couple, but when she is caught engaging in sexual activity with a friend, she decides to kill her mother with a claw hammer. Nikki Reynolds grows up happy and wholesome, but that changes when she's dumped by her boyfriend. After spreading false rumors that she's pregnant, her mother seeks psychological help and constant arguing drives a wedge in the family. Planning to kill both parents, Nikki stabs her mom fatally, but is too broken up to finish the job and turns herself in. Most parents at one point see raising kids as a thankless task, but these loving parents never knew that they'd raise daughters who'd grow up to be Killer Kids.
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