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Deadly Women
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when she's on a mission to murder. Deadly Women investigates the motives and modus operandi of female murderers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill. Through dramatized reconstructions the series investigates the driving force behind female thrill killers. What turns love affairs into fatal attractions. How twisted minds and dark secrets send other women on murdering rampages. Deadly Women also investigates the most ruthless female killers of them all-predators. Tune in as experts sift forensic fact from fanciful fiction. Former FBI agent and profiler, Candice DeLong offers insights into the psychology of female killers, while Dr Janis Amatuzio, a Mid West forensic pathologist known as "The Compassionate Coroner", provides expert commentary on the tell-tale evidence that Deadly Women leave behind. They are history's most intriguing and horrifying women. A sisterhood whose crimes are written in blood on history's pages.
Metadata: TVmaze · CC BY-SAEvery chapter of the story.
45m1. Killer Cougars
45 minExploring the psyche of female killers. These older women use their feminine wiles to get the attention of younger men, then break them down and move in for the kill.
45m2. Granny Gets a Gun
45 minExploring the psyche of female killers. A grandma resents a new family member; a business woman cooks more than the books; and a divorcee tries to bury her past.
45m3. Bad to the Bone
45 minA warped young woman celebrates her husband's birthday with a thrill kill; a newlywed reveals her violent side; a young woman seeks revenge after her lover is convicted of a crime.
44m4. Cling 'til Death
44 minDarcy Matlock starts an office affair, with deadly consequences. Vegas Bray isn't willing to share her new man with anyone and irrational jealousy ends in murder.
45m5. Sugar and Spite
45 minInvestigating the motives and modus operandi of female murderers, who unlike men, often have complex, long-term reasons to kill.
45m6. Cash In
45 minWhen Susan learns about her husband's life insurance, she decides to kill him. A nurse convinces residents to make her the beneficiary of their wills, and then kills them.
45m7. Killer-in-laws
45 minLinda is greedy for her inheritance and arranges the death her of mother and step-father. When Ben marries Opal, family tensions result in a deadly stand-off.
45m8. Suspicious Minds
45 minInvestigating the motives and modus operandi of female murderers, who unlike men, often have complex, long-term reasons to kill.
45m9. Unspeakable Acts
45 minA high school teacher stages her husband's murder to cash in on his life insurance; a woman takes measures to eliminate her lover's wife and child; a serial monogamist grows tired of her fourth husband.
60m10. DIY Burial
60 minAn aspiring Olympic equestrian's dream turns deadly when a financial crisis leads her to kill husband. A gruesome discovery in a toolbox near her home raises suspicion.
45m11. Anger Mismanagement
45 minA highway patrol officer takes her dangerous temper out on her husband; a protective mother becomes overwhelmed with jealousy over her son's new girlfriend; an unhappy housewife recruits her children's aid to kill her husband.
45m12. Love Leaves Town
45 minInvestigating the motives and modus operandi of female murderers, who unlike men, often have complex, long-term reasons to kill.
45m13. Friends to Foes
45 minMolly and Stephanie were best friends and colleagues – before a major fall-out ends up in a fatal stabbing. Betty's sexual friendship with a woman leads to murder.
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