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Degrees of Monstrosity: Female Killers
True stories about women who kill, and why
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Josephine Powers: Accused of fatally shooting 70-year-old man in her father’s home, hiding body in…
Josephine Powers: Accused of fatally shooting 70-year-old man in her father’s home, hiding body in…
The last thing a father expects to learn upon returning from vacation is that someone was shot and killed in his own home while he was gone…
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 27
LaShanda Wilder: New bodycam footage shows great-aunt’s worry over Wilder’s parenting months before…
LaShanda Wilder: New bodycam footage shows great-aunt’s worry over Wilder’s parenting months before…
The great-aunt of a boy allegedly murdered by his mother tried to warn officers about the danger his mother allegedly posed to him months…
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 27
April Short: Plans insanity plea while new details reveal stab injuries her infant succumbed to
April Short: Plans insanity plea while new details reveal stab injuries her infant succumbed to
A mother who pleaded not guilty to murdering her 11-month-old infant has revealed her intention to use an insanity defense during her…
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 24
Amber Waterman: Files for plea change regarding kidnapping and murder of mother-to-be in 2022
Amber Waterman: Files for plea change regarding kidnapping and murder of mother-to-be in 2022
A capital kidnapping and murder case fraught with delays may now not ever see a federal trial, as the woman accused of the crime is set to…
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 15
Amanda Chapin: Enters a no contest plea to face conviction for poisoning ex-husband two years ago
Amanda Chapin: Enters a no contest plea to face conviction for poisoning ex-husband two years ago
A woman from Wisconsin accused of poisoning her husband, leaving him in a coma, has pleaded no contest to the charges against her…
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 15
Lashanda Wilder: Mother and her partner arrested for allegedly murdering her son, claiming he was…
Lashanda Wilder: Mother and her partner arrested for allegedly murdering her son, claiming he was…
A family is left devastated and questioning the red flags of an Ohio mother and her partner who have been arrested and charged for…
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 13
The Case Files
The Case Files: Heather Reynolds
The Case Files: Heather Reynolds
A mother with a meth addiction who chose men and murder over her own child
Lavinia Thompson
Mar 30
The Case Files: Kaitlin Armstrong
The Case Files: Kaitlin Armstrong
How jealousy, rage, and paranoia led one insecure woman to end the life of an innocent pro-cyclist — all over a man.
Lavinia Thompson
Feb 14
The Case Files: Julissa Thaler
The Case Files: Julissa Thaler
The boy failed by the system, and the father who tried to save him from the sadistic mother hell-bent on keeping her son at all costs —…
Lavinia Thompson
Aug 18, 2023
The Case Files: Taylor Rene Parker (Part 1)
The Case Files: Taylor Rene Parker (Part 1)
A desperate web of lies, a faked pregnancy, a henious murder, and the woman who died fighting for her unborn baby.
Lavinia Thompson
Oct 9, 2023
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