About this season
What happens when the one you commit to spend your life with ends up taking it instead? This series looks at partner-homicide cases; stories of wives killing husbands, husbands killing wives (much more common), and love turning to loathing as passions get out of control.
Episodes (26)
1. Kelly Cochran
Aired 2 November 2020 • 47 min
When Chris Regan started dating coworker Kelly Cochran, he knew she was married. But he had no idea of the deadly wedding day pact she had made with husband Jason. Chris had become entangled in a love triangle that would see not one, but two people lose their lives.
2. Mahmuda Khatun
Aired 3 November 2020 • 42 min
Amin Miah wanted a devout, homely wife to start a family with. Mahmuda Khatun wanted a career, a social life—and her family off her back. It was not the recipe for a happy marriage. Their differences irreconcilable, one of them would choose the violent way out.
3. Thomas Infante
Aired 4 November 2020 • 42 min
Childhood sweethearts Lisa and Thomas Infante quickly grew apart, but their marriage continued to struggle on until Lisa made the fatal decision to leave.
4. Malcolm Webster
Aired 5 November 2020 • 41 min
The story of a man who murdered his first wife and staged a car crash, attempting to do the same to his second wife - all for life insurance money.
5. Stephen Searle
Aired 6 November 2020 • 42 min
To others, Stephen Searle was a politician, veteran and pub landlord. To his wife Anne, he was a violent abuser. Only her death would expose his true nature.
6. Ann Marie Anastasi
Aired 9 November 2020 • 42 min
When a bizarre, live-in arrangement between a married couple and their mistress goes south, a wife takes revenge by masterminding a twisted murder plot.
7. Hanegret Donnelly
Aired 10 November 2020 • 42 min
The chilling story of midwife and mother-of-four Hannegret Donnelly, who battered her husband to death with a rolling pin.
8. Iain Lawrence
Aired 11 November 2020 • 43 min
A look at the twisted case of a former airline pilot, who murdered his wife by deliberately crashing their car into a tree after disabling her airbag.
9. Chaz Higgs
Aired 12 November 2020 • 43 min
The murder of American politician Kathy Augustine, who died after being given a paralysing drug by her husband Chaz Higgs, a professional nurse.
10. Denise Williams
Aired 13 November 2020 • 43 min
The story of Denise Williams, who conspired with her lover to murder her husband, cover it up and collect the insurance money.
11. Paul Novak
Aired 16 November 2020 • 42 min
Unable to reconcile differences with his wife, paramedic Paul Novak tries to plan the perfect crime. In December 2013, firefighters responded to calls that Catherine Novak's house was burning down in the early hours of the morning.
12. Janbaz Tarin
Aired 17 November 2020 • 42 min
The story of double-murderer Janbaz Tarin, who killed his ex-partner and her mother when they discovered he had a secret wife and children.
13. George Worgan
Aired 18 November 2020 • 43 min
Kelly and George Worgan appear to be the perfect parents, but their marriage ends in murder. After strangling his wife, George left a note for his children which read `Daddy loves you.'
14. Tia Young
Aired 1 February 2021 • 43 min
The story of a woman who teamed up with her lover to murder her husband, in the hope that they could both cash in on a hefty life insurance policy.
15. Chacey Poynter
Aired 2 February 2021 • 42 min
Chacey Poynter played the grieving wife when her veteran fire captain husband was shot to death. But investigators soon began to spot holes in her story.
16. David Clark
Aired 3 February 2021 • 42 min
After a decade of marriage, David Clark snapped and killed his wife in a brutal attack on one fateful New Year's Eve night.
17. Nat Fraser
Aired 4 February 2021 • 48 min
Nat Fraser hits headlines when the evidence against him means he is jailed for the murder of his wife Arlene, despite no trace of her body ever being found.
18. Brian Burns
Aired 5 February 2021 • 43 min
Brian Burns claimed it was an accident, but the overwhelming evidence against him proved that Brian Burns killed his wife in a savage attack before trying to cover up the murder.
19. Lois Riess
Aired 8 February 2021 • 43 min
Lois Riess fatally shot her husband and went on the run to evade justice. But her determination to escape her gruesome past left another innocent victim dead.
20. Keland Hill
Aired 9 February 2021 • 43 min
The shocking story of a husband who opened fire on his estranged wife while sitting in a car outside their children's school.
21. Ricardo Godinho
Aired 10 February 2021 • 42 min
The story of the vicious murder of Aliny Godinho, whose ex-husband Ricardo stabbed her to death as her three-year-old daughter watched on.
22. Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo
Aired 11 February 2021 • 42 min
The story of a man who brutally shot his pregnant ex-wife with a crossbow, in a premeditated attack he plotted for three years prior.
23. Frances Hall
Aired 12 February 2021 • 43 min
When Frances Araiza met Bill Hall Jr, he was a 16-year-old with big dreams. Three decades later, they are grandparents with a multi-million empire. However, behind closed doors their marriage is heading for an explosive end.
24. Faria Khan
Aired 15 February 2021 • 41 min
After leaving an arranged marriage she claimed was abusive, Faria Khan could have moved on. But she wouldn't be satisfied until estranged husband Nawajid was dead. And she knew exactly who to ask to help.
25. Steven McDowell
Aired 16 February 2021 • 42 min
Steven and Crystal McDowell were never a good match, but years after they split up, Steven kept telling himself that a reconciliation was near. Until Crystal suddenly disappeared during a deadly hurricane.
26. Glyn Dix
Aired 17 February 2021 • 42 min
Glyn Dix met his second wife Hazel in prison while serving a sentence for murder. After his release, Dix could not resist his urge to kill again and chopped his wife's body into 16 pieces.