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Degrees of Monstrosity: Female Killers
True stories about women who kill, and why
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Criminal Psychology Series
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Kouri Richins: Judge rules she will face trial for murder of her husband; new charges filed against…
Kouri Richins: Judge rules she will face trial for murder of her husband; new charges filed against…
A state judge has ruled that enough evidence exists to send a mother from Park City, Utah, to trial for the 2022 murder of her husband…
Lavinia Thompson
Sep 3
Ashley Jones: New evidence and charges revealed against woman accused of helping mother murder…
Ashley Jones: New evidence and charges revealed against woman accused of helping mother murder…
Almost a year after being charged with the murder of her mother’s husband, Ashley Jones faces additional charges while awaiting trial…
Lavinia Thompson
Aug 24
From the Past: Susan Smith (Part 1)
From the Past: Susan Smith (Part 1)
A young mother, her life falling apart, murders her two sons in 1994 and cries wolf when she claims they were kidnapped — how long would…
Lavinia Thompson
Aug 22
Jesika Jones: Handed a lengthy sentence after pleading guilty to poisoning her own child to create…
Jesika Jones: Handed a lengthy sentence after pleading guilty to poisoning her own child to create…
A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to repeatedly poisoning her daughter to induce a fake illness with Benadryl has been sentenced, according…
Lavinia Thompson
Aug 19
The Case Files: Meshell Hale
The Case Files: Meshell Hale
The black widow who almost got away with murdering the two men she was supposed to love for their life insurance money
Lavinia Thompson
Aug 11
Cold Cases: Woman arrested 37 years after infant found in dumpster in California
Cold Cases: Woman arrested 37 years after infant found in dumpster in California
On October 13, 1987, a man sorted through a dumpster behind a business in Riverside, California. In his mundane hunt for recyclables, he…
Lavinia Thompson
Aug 9
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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