Some women are just cold-hearted and attack "Without Pity". A mother who wants another baby is prepared to steal from the womb; a grandmother's outward devotion masks his sadistic nature; and an unhappy divorcee takes revenge on her own flesh and blood.

Without Pity

It’s easy to keep friends and enemies close when they’re one and the same. These Deadly Women turn from "Friends To Foes."

Friends to Foes

A teacher seeking financial gain; a daughter plotting murder; a lonely heart and damaged mind. These women truly believe romance is dead.

Dark Hearts

These mothers teach their sons to hate and kill.

Mommy's Little Helper

Wives who murdered their husbands are profiled.

Self-Made Widows

The match is struck, the fuse is lit, and it’s only a matter of time before the "Anger Mismanagement" of these Deadly Women will see them explode.

Anger Mismanagement

When these deadly women are loved they shine, but push them too far and they turn dangerous.

Brides of Blood

These women love to gamble; but when the money's all gone, the stakes turn deadly. A transgender woman is willing to kill for a new body; a mother and daughter trade a family member for cash; and a wife tries to bury her debts along with her husband.

Gambling Lives Away

A prostitute kills her second, third and fifth husbands; a woman murders her husband and makes it look like a suicide; a woman poisons her husband with antifreeze to collect his life insurance policy.

Wed to Murder

Women who are after their mothers' cash are featured.

Mom's Money

For these heartless women envy is the deadliest sin. An obsessed mistress sacrifices her lover's wife; a young lover kills her girlfriend to keep her from the arms of another; and an angry cowgirl destroys her ex's life by destroying his family.

Green-Eyed Monsters

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 (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 man's financial status met Linda's satisfaction, her solution was to kill both of them.

An Inconvenient Marriage

A mother's love turns bad when she betrays the innocence of her children.

Murder of Innocence

The Season 8 opener features examines the infamous 1892 ax murders of Lizzie Borden's parents.

Lady of Blood

A secret addiction drives a young woman to sacrifice her wheelchair bound employer; a scheming caregiver betrays the man who trusts her; and a single mother’s desire for a better life leads to a brutal dismemberment.

The Vulnerable

Some women are so cold and brutal they don't need an excuse to murder.

No Good Reason

These women discover that for them death has benefits.

Death Benefits

A mother sacrifices her son; a teen rebels; a bookkeeper steals her way to murder.

No Mercy

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.

Breaking Point

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 (a well loved eye-doctor whom Betty married for money) 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.

Sins of the Sister

Web of Death

Victims dealing with the ''death knock'' from deadly women.

Death Knock

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

Death Watch

When one deals with the devil, somebody's gonna get burned.

Evil Spirits

Women exact their vengeance when the kill in cold blood.

Ruthless Revenge

Bury the Boyfriend

A mother in Missouri uses her children for money; a Texas mom becomes delusional; an Australian mother drowns her son.

Evil Guardians

Some women like others to do their dirty work. A drama queen brings her love triangle to a permanent end; an intimate betrayal turns friends into deadly foes; and a loose woman will do anything to protect her freedom.

Murder for Me

They are "Bad To The Bone"... it’s only a matter of time before they become Deadly Women.

Bad To The Bone

A social worker can’t keep the lid on her possessive nature, a friendship is destroyed by jealous delusions, and young love leads to a violent end.

Suspicious Minds

Friends Are Foes

Kirsten Costas reminds her classmate Bernadette Protti of everything she wants, but could never have. The solution to the problem was to annihilate the source of the pain by stabbing Kirsten to death. Karen Severson and Laura Doyle were friends with Missy Avila since grade school, but as they grow older, Missy blossoms into a beautiful, charming young lady while Karen becomes a single mother. Teenage angst trumps childhood friendship when Karen and Laura take Missy into the woods, beat her up, cut her hair and drown her in the lake. The crime is unsolved for years until an unexpected confession appears as if out of nowhere. Kelly Fuller (age 18) is enraged at 15-year-old Jessica Lang, who is her ex's new girlfriend. Jessica, who's more interested in her apprenticeship and family than any boy, pays for her friendliness with her life after Kelly decides to end the source of jealousy permanently by stabbing her almost 50 times.

Deadly Delinquents

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.

Killer Kids

When emotional changes start to become overwhelming the results can be bad.

Teen Terror

Lethal Teens

Sadistic Souls

For some women evil lurks from the beginning and there is no stopping it.

Heartless Souls

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.

Girl on Girl

Some women can't resist boy toys. But fur flies when these Deadly Women reveal they're "Killer Cougars."

Killer Cougars

Greed and lust drove these Deadly Women to commit "Unspeakable Acts."

Unspeakable Acts

Every murder is a tragedy but some are plain barbaric.

Twisted Desires

Apart, a woman and a man can be innocent, safe to society. But when some couples unite, they spark a terrible urge for destruction. Happy couples become deadly teams, intent on one goal--murder.

Dangerous Liaisons

In order to kill her father, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong had to make enough money to hire a hit-man 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 9-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.

Kill For Cash

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 (both are seen as caring Christians) by shooting their three eldest sons and attempts suicide by shooting herself in the mouth, barely surviving it.

Sacrifice Their Blood

Eternal Revenge

A businesswoman targets a lottery winner; a young bride sends her husband overboard.

Money Hungry

Ladies that believe social status gives them a license to kill; they assume they are entitled to do it.

Above the Law

A California woman commits a deadly sin rather than live with an immoral husband; a housewife drives two women to join a murderous poison ring.

Brutal Brides

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

Killer-In-Laws

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

Tainted Love

Portraits of women who don't fend for themselves, but feed off others for money, mayhem and murder.

Clean Hands, Dirty Deeds

When these women meet their mate they gain a partner in crime and life.

Hunting Humans

These young women plans for revenge ended in murder.

Parents Peril

For an English Rose, husbands equal dollar signs; for a serial killer, feeding her family pays; for a businesswoman, a missing mother keeps the checks coming.

Insatiable Greed

One woman's murders go undetected for years; Granny's husbands keep dying; a divorcee uses friendship to kill.

Matriarchs of Murder

A Texan goes to any length to keep her man; a mother does the unthinkable to her tiny son.

Untamed Evil

These women think their men are worth more dead than alive. A scorned Southern belle tries to cash in on her ex's life; a countess clings to her riches through violent means; and a mother of two trades her husband for another shot at the good life.

Get Rich Quick

Some women have short fuses and when their blood boils get out of their way. A couple's New Year's resolution ends in a murderous rampage; a pious parish housekeeper hides a sinful secret and a Christmas drink between neighbors has a deadly hangover.

Red Hot Temper

Extraordinary cases of women who repay a parent's unconditional love with cold-hearted betrayal.

Kill Their Creators

Killing comes easy to those with hearts of ice.

Ice Cold

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.

Senseless Slayings

Men are blinded by love and passion when it comes to the women in their lives.

Love You to Pieces

Bury Their Babes

When deadly women and killer men pair up they spiral into a world sickening fantasies.

Kinky Killers

Sometimes, a woman has a killer instinct when she meets her other half. These wicked women exert control over their partners to become the master puppeteer of a murderous plot. Acting as two on behalf of one, these Deadly Women are 'Double Trouble'.

Double Trouble

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

If Looks Could Kill

These Deadly Women won’t let their men go... they "Cling ‘Til Death."

Cling 'Til Death

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

Sugar and Spite

With hearts of stone, these Deadly Women give their men special send-offs when "Love Leaves Town."

Love Leaves Town

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

Flash Point

Eyes are the windows to the soul, but not for these demented women.

Soulless

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 Lyn 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 fairy-tale 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.

Pleasure from Pain

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.

Match Made for Murder

Vengeance

For these women blood isn’t thicker than water. A teen sacrifices her family for an inheritance; an obsession with Hollywood memorabilia leads a recluse to kill her parents; and a soccer mom's social status is more important than her mother's life.

DIY Orphans

When these women have scores to settle, they take matters into their own hands. A traumatized woman thinks she's an avenging angel; one of Mexico's infamous serial killers targets the elderly; and a man is butchered by two women he tries to help.

Payback

When a former police officer is dumped she takes the law into her own hands; a quiet housewife buries her marriage problems in the garden; and an excited fiancée turns into the worst kind of bridezilla.

Forever and a Day

Friendships provide love and support, unless they turn toxic.

Lover Makes Three

Connecting three women who were driven by different reasons to commit murder.

Thrill Killers

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 they've 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 would've remained unsolved if it weren't 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 friend's on-again-off-again boyfriend by injecting him with battery acid.

Twisted Thrills

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 grand-kids (ages 6 and 4) and also stabs herself (but survives) 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 (who helped nurse Elizabeth back to health after attempting suicide) 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.

Deadly Possessions

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 clingy, 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 (Greg sustained twice as many stab wounds as Karen). 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.

Lover's Revenge

Women who brutally kill their their victims without a second thought.

Without Conscience

Dig into the world of these Deadly Women... and in their "DIY Burial," you will find blood and bone.

DIY Burial

These Deadly Women didn't grow old gracefully; they committed "Mid-Life Murder."

Illicit and Lethal

When love goes wrong it is a dangerous game. These Deadly Women "Kiss then Kill."

Kiss Then Kill

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

Obsession

The case of 10-year-old Mary Bell who strangled toddlers, a playground plot that ended in murder and a teenage passion that turned to bloody rage.

Young Blood

How Charles Manson drove women to murder, exploring Myra Hindley's past, and why a young mother was persuaded to kill.

Evil Influence

A mother who manipulated her son into committing murder, a woman who made a deadly request of her children, and a daughter who was used as a lure for a family business.

Blood Lines

The Sacred Bond

In Cold Blood

Under His Control

Secrets and Lies

Love Sick

Teen Killers

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.

Kill Their Own

Unsuspecting victims get too close to their enemies.

Too Close for Comfort

An Englishwoman fights with her boyfriend; game players lure a man into a deadly trap.

Vicious Vixens

Women willing to sacrifice the innocent. Betrayal; jealousy; coping with children.

Innocent Blood

This compelling series investigates the motives and m.o. of female murderers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill.

All Episodes of Deadly Women

Season 1

Obsession

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/8/2005

Greed

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/15/2005

Revenge

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/22/2005