☠ DeaDLy WoMeN ☠

Deadly Women (UK): 

A look at the most famous British female serial killers including Myra Hindley and Rosemary West.

♀ Myra Hindley ♀

♀ Nurse Beverly Allitt ♀

♀ Rosemary West ♀

♀ Obsession ♀

Known as the "Blood Countess", ♀Elizabeth Báthory was a Hungarian noblewoman obsessed with youth and beauty. In 17th century Central Europe Báthory murdered as many as 650 young women, believing that drinking their blood would preserve her youth. In Romania during the 1920s and '30s, ♀Vera Renczi's fears of infidelity and abandonment ostensibly caused her to murder the men in her life.  In New Orleans during the early 19th century, French socialite ♀Delphine LaLaurie was believed to be a cruel sadist who beat, tortured, and performed medical experiments on slaves in the basement of her mansion. And in Washington State, ♀Linda Burfield Hazzard, a doctor and a delusional "fasting specialist," believed she could "heal" her patients through exhausting diets and starvation.

♀ Greed ♀

In the early 1900s, on a small farm in La Porte, Indiana, Norwegian immigrant ♀Belle Gunness used strychnine to poison her suitors and boyfriends before feeding their remains to the hogs. Gunness's motive was to collect life insurance, cash and other valuables from her victims. Between 1907 and 1917, in Windsor, Connecticut, nursing home proprietor ♀Amy Archer-Gilligan purchased life insurance policies on her elderly residents before poisoning them with arsenic. In Cordele, Georgia, greed led ♀Janie Lou Gibbs, a church going mother and grandmother who once ran a day-care center, to poison her three sons, a grandson and her husband in the 1960s for the sole purpose of collecting life insurance. And during the 1880s in Liverpool, England, sisters ♀Catherine Flannigan & ♀Margaret Higgins worked together to poison their own family members in an attempt to claim insurance payouts. The two sisters became known as "The Black Widows of Liverpool".

♀ Revenge ♀

♀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 38 of their patients.

☠♀ Thrill Killers ☠♀

This episode take us on a bizarre journey into the world of women who kill for thrills, including 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.

☠♀ Fatal Attraction ♀☠

Women driven by obsessive love including ♀Diane Downs shot her three children to win over a lover who didn't want children, ♀Martha Wise poisoned three and crippled many others with poison, and the lesbian couple ♀Valerie Parashumti and ♀Jessica Stasinowsky drugged and strangled their 16-year-old roommate to death.

☠♀ Twisted Minds ♀☠

Women driven by insanity including schizophrenic ♀Sylvia Seegrist who goes on a killing spree in a Philadelphia Mall, ♀Christina Marie Riggs who was driven by depression into killing her own children, and ♀Bobbie Sue Dudley who kills twelve nursing home residents due to Münchausen syndrome.

☠♀ Dark Secrets ♀☠

Woman kill for secret reasons including ♀Judy Buenoano who murdered lovers and her son in order to get insurance money, trans-gender ♀Eugenia Falleni who killed her wife in order to protect the secret of her true gender, nurse ♀Genene Jones who may have killed as many as 46 infants who were placed in her care.

☠♀ Bad Medicine ♀☠

Women use medicine to kill including nurse ♀Beverley Allitt who kills multiple infants with medical overdoses, ♀Stella Nickell who poisoned medicine capsules in stores, and ♀Kathleen Follbigg who killed four of her own children with suffocation and concealed it as sudden infant death syndrome.

☠♀ Predators ♀☠

Predatory women including ♀Aileen Wuornos who shot and killed seven men in Florida over a period of two years... 

♀Dorothea Puente who killed and buried at least seven people in her Sacramento back yard... 

and ♀Anna Hahn who poisoned numerous people in 1930s Cincinnati.

☠♀ The Disturbed ♀☠

Some killers are so troubled that their actions are almost impossible to comprehend. Welcome to the shadow land of the insane, the psychopathic, as we enter the haunting world of The Disturbed.

☠♀ Behind the Mask ♀☠