ALL KILLER, NO FILLER
Sony Crime Channel’s compelling series Deadly Women tells the stories of the most grisly murders ever committed by women
MONEY, LOVE, CHILDHOOD trauma – what drives an ordinary woman to kill? In this 20-part series, former FBI profiler Candice Delong takes us deep into the lives and crimes of real-life Deadly Women, using eyewitness testimonies to explore just what it takes to make a murderer.
LIZZIE BORDEN
In 1890s Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden gives her mother 40 whacks with an axe, before turning her attention to her father and giving him 41. But did the Sunday-school teacher really kill her parents – or was she the victim of a terrible injustice?
TASHIA STUART
As a teenager, Tashia Stuart repeatedly ran away from her adoptive mother’s home. But when Tashia returns two decades later, she’s welcomed with open arms. But Tashia’s arrived back home with a gun, an axe and one thing on her mind: getting her hands on her mother’s inheritance.
JEAN JAMES
In 1992, Jean James is happy with her career, home and loving husband. But Jean’s world crumbles when she discovers her husband is having an affair with her best friend behind her back. Armed with a Stanley knife, Jean lures her friend into a trap and stabs her. But she covers her tracks, and it takes an elaborate police operation to catch this killer.
LINDA DARBY
When Charles Darby is struck down ill, his wife Linda sees a way to escape her unhappy marriage. When the children are out of the house for the night, she shoots her husband, before setting the house alight. With all the evidence destroyed in the fire, has Linda committed the perfect crime?
MELISSA SHEPPARD
Melissa Sheppard’s charming demeanour hides a dark secret: she’s a seasoned fraudster whose elderly husbands all end up dying in mysterious circumstances. It isn’t long before the police take a closer look at a suspected poisoner they come to dub “the black widow”.