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Deadly Women
Deadly Women

Deadly Women

—Using dramatic re-enactments bolstered by police reports and forensic evidence, Investigation Discovery delves into the minds of female killers in "Deadly Women." Each episode focuses on four different cases in which women, for a variety of reasons and with a variety of methods, chose to take the lives of others. Stories featured include more recent cases, like that of Andrea Yates, the Texas woman who in 2001 drowned her five children one by one in the bathtub and then called police, to older cases like that of the "baby farmer" Sarah Makin in 1890s Australia, who killed illegitimate infants left temporarily in her care.
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Season 26 of 6 Episodes

  • Jealousy leads to the murder of a 12-year-old girl; a teenager opens fire on a schoolyard because she doesn't like Mondays; a killer is driven by bloodlust.

  • In 1983, Diane Downs shoots three of her children, killing one and wounding two; Martha Wise poisoned several of her family members; two Australian women murder their 16-year-old flatmate.

  • In Pennsylvania, a mentally disturbed woman opens fire on shoppers at a mall; depression drives a woman to smother her children to death; a Florida nurse murders 12 nursing home residents.

  • Judy Buenoano murders her husband and others to collect on life insurance policies; an Australian woman leads a double life as a man and kills to keep her secret; in Texas, a pediatric nurse is convicted of infanticide.

  • Stella Nickell plants cyanide-laced capsules on drug store shelves; a woman suffocates her children; known as the "Angel of Death," Beverley Allitt murders four children.

  • Florida prostitute Aileen Wuornos murders seven men; a German-born immigrant poisons her victims to support a gambling habit; a landlady kills her tenants and collects their Social Security checks.

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4 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Beauty and the Beastly
    Vow to Kill
    Kill the Competition
    Loveless
  • Beauty and the Beastly

    Sometimes beauty can mask the ugliest of truths.
    Upcoming
  • Vow to Kill

    Commitment has an out clause.
    Upcoming
  • Kill the Competition

    Mary Jane Fonder becomes obsessed with the new priest at her church; Wanda Stopa falls for a married man and hurts the person he loves most; after a breakup, Sabrina Koudier becomes convinced her children's nanny is a spy for her ex-boyfriend.
    Upcoming
  • Loveless

    There are many ways to leave one's lover.
    Upcoming
Deadly Women

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Using dramatic re-enactments bolstered by police reports and forensic evidence, Investigation Discovery delves into the minds of female killers in "Deadly Women." Each episode focuses on four different cases in which women, for a variety of reasons and with a variety of methods, chose to take the lives of others. Stories featured include more recent cases, like that of Andrea Yates, the Texas woman who in 2001 drowned her five children one by one in the bathtub and then called police, to older cases like that of the "baby farmer" Sarah Makin in 1890s Australia, who killed illegitimate infants left temporarily in her care.

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Candice DeLong, Lynnanne Zager

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