About this season
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.
Episodes (13)
1. Young Blood
6.0Aired 20 August 2009 • 42 min
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.
2. Blood For Money
6.0Aired 27 August 2009 • 42 min
A businesswoman kills for cash, a bizarre love affair ends in slaughter, and a midwife becomes a cold-blooded murderer.
3. The Disturbed
6.0Aired 3 September 2009 • 42 min
The crimes of psychopathic killers, including a nurse who betrayed a patient's trust to indulge her deadly desires, and a brutal babysitter.
4. Behind the Mask
6.0Aired 10 September 2009 • 42 min
Looking at killers who hid their instability, including an outgoing hiding dark secrets at home, and two old ladies behind a horrific murder.
5. Forbidden Love
6.0Aired 17 September 2009 • 42 min
Examining crimes of passion, including an office affair that turned toxic and a lover who used the Internet as a murder weapon.
6. Hearts of Darkness
7.0Aired 24 September 2009 • 42 min
A woman boards a train with a grisly secret in her luggage, an active imagination causes a gruesome crime, and a seductress moves from men to murder.
7. Evil Influence
6.0Aired 1 October 2009 • 42 min
How Charles Manson drove women to murder, exploring Myra Hindley's past, and why a young mother was persuaded to kill.
8. Fatal Obsession
6.0Aired 8 October 2009 • 42 min
How a woman took a baby from an expectant mother's womb, two girls killed to protect their friendship, and a killer committed her crimes for a serial murderer she loved.
9. Lethal Lovers
6.0Aired 15 October 2009 • 42 min
A sex-obsessed housewife who lured girls to their graves, a couple who took pleasure in killing, and a woman who swapped single motherhood for a violent relationship.
10. Mothers Who Kill
6.0Aired 22 October 2009 • 42 min
A mother who smothered her baby, a woman who drowned the sons she believed made her unhappy, and how another who was driven by delusions to destroy her family.
11. Born Bad
6.0Aired 29 October 2009 • 42 min
A promiscuous housewife who murdered her husband, a woman who tortured her lodger to death, and a police officer who took a child on a killing spree.
12. Lethal Vengeance
6.0Aired 5 November 2009 • 42 min
A wronged wife who murdered her ex-husband, a jealous girlfriend who took revenge on her rival, and a girl who killed her own father.
13. Blood Lines
6.0Aired 12 November 2009 • 42 min
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.