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Deadly Women

Crime experts explore the motives and modus operandi of female killers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill.
IMDb 7.9200813 episodes
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Episodes

  1. S9 E1 - Sleeping With the Enemy
    August 6, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    When these women exposed their true selves, their men found out they'd been sleeping with the enemy. A beauty queen tries to free herself from family duties, an accountant's tryst turns deadly and a valedictorian makes sure her man can't leave.
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  2. S9 E2 - DIY Orphans
    August 13, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    For these women blood isn't thicker than water. A teen sacrifices her family for an early 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.
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  3. S9 E3 - Gambling Lives Away
    August 20, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    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 a payout and a wife tries to bury her debts along with her husband.
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  4. S9 E4 - Green-Eyed Monsters
    August 28, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    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.
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  5. S9 E5 - Payback
    September 3, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    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 most infamous serial killers targets the elderly and a man is butchered by two women he tried to help.
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  6. S9 E6 - Get Rich Quick
    September 10, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    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.
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  7. S9 E7 - Two to Kill
    September 17, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    Some women like company when they take a life. Teenage lovers chose each other over the life of a loving grandmother, a cold-hearted aunt uses her nephew to become a wealthy widow and a friendship turns fatal for one unsuspecting husband.
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  8. S9 E8 - Never Too Old
    September 24, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    They look like sweet grannies, but they prove murder has no age limit. A grandma's need to control her grandson takes a deadly turn, a retirement home romance meets a lethal end and an ageing gold digger preys on her final victim.
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  9. S9 E9 - Forever and a Day
    October 8, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    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 fiancee turns into the worst kind of bridezilla.
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  10. S9 E10 - Red Hot Temper
    October 15, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    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.
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  11. S9 E11 - Murder for Me
    October 22, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    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 seductress will do anything to protect her freedom.
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  12. S9 E12 - Girl on Girl
    October 29, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    Women 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.
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  13. S9 E13 - The Vulnerable
    November 5, 2015
    43min
    TV-14
    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.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
John MavetyKate RyersonJames KnoxKatie HidesGordon WaddellTylah PrattMichele KonradJamie RobertsonJane ManningGlenn Hanns
Starring
Lynnanne ZagerJanis AmatuzioCandice DeLong
Studio
Investigation Discovery
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