
Deadly Women Season 05
In the early 1900s, Martha Rendell was hanged for torturing and murdering her husband's children. A look at the events that prompted her to commit such unspeakable acts of violence.

In the early 1900s, Martha Rendell was hanged for torturing and murdering her husband's children. A look at the events that prompted her to commit such unspeakable acts of violence.

Why did 17 year old Heather attack her mother with a hammer? How did privileged daughter Elizabeth convince her boyfriend to murder her wealthy parents?

Why did respectable suburban housewives Socorro, Robin and Marybeth kill their own children? Meet the women who murdered those who loved them the most.

Why did Sarah and Kathleen kill their sisters? How did Betty implicate her twin in her husband's murder? Find out what happens when sisterly love turns sour.

Finding out why Caroline stabbed her grandchildren, how a teenage love triangle led to a murderous confrontation, and what a jealous mother `Ma' did to protect her son.

Love is a powerful emotion, it can drive women to unthinkable crimes of passion. Hate however, is loves gloomy shadow, and it too can drive women into the darkness of their minds where a callous plot to kill is hatched. These Deadly Women, once a vision in white, become their husbands blackest hour when murder is their escape from an ‘Inconvenient Marriage'.

What happens when a bride loves money more than her groom? Discover how Josephine convinced her lovers to commit murder and why con artist Elisa poisoned her husband.

An examination of what prompts Amber to shoot her husband in the head how Kate disposes of her elderly employer's body why Wendi murdered her terminally ill husband.

An exploration of why bank robber Marjorie kills a pizza delivery boy with a pipe bomb why Kim strangles a couple to death instead of paying back the $300 she owes them.

How did Queen Poisoner Lydia murder three husbands and seven children why did granny Velma slaughter her husbands and friends and did Paula kill her daughters?

A jealous girlfriend takes blood revenge, daddy's little girl become his killer.

A mother enlists her son to be her partner in crime.

Some women are persuaded to kill under an evil influence.

Some deadly women become bad, while others are just born that way.

Some of the most-terrifying killers wear a mask of sanity.

Love can be a force for good -- and evil.

Obsession can drive a woman to commit unspeakable acts.

A nurse betrays her patients' trust to satisfy dark desires.

While marriage is meant to be for life, so often it ends in divorce.

The heaviest judgments on convicted killers are reserved for those who premeditate murder.