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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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Kennedy Stith: Woman charged with murder after telling police robbers murdered her boyfriend
Kennedy Stith: Woman charged with murder after telling police robbers murdered her boyfriend
The Pleasanton Police Department (PPD) announced the arrest of a woman on Sept. 12, 2024 who claimed two robbers had murdered her boyfriend…
Lavinia Thompson
Oct 7
Verity Beck: Pleads guilty to gruesome murders of her parents after stealing money from them
Verity Beck: Pleads guilty to gruesome murders of her parents after stealing money from them
A woman from Abington, Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to the gruesome murders of her parents in January 2023.
Lavinia Thompson
Oct 2
From the Past: Susan Smith (part 4)
From the Past: Susan Smith (part 4)
A toxic marriage filled with tension, tragedly, and adultery, doomed from the start. Did it help lead to a mother’s ultimate crime?
Lavinia Thompson
Oct 1
Devyn Michaels: Accepts plea deal for murder and decapitation of boyfriend
Devyn Michaels: Accepts plea deal for murder and decapitation of boyfriend
A Las Vegas woman has pleaded guilty to decapitating the father of her children and throwing his head into the trash.
Lavinia Thompson
Sep 27
Lashanda Wilder: Son’s autopsy reveals her alleged cruelty towards him before he died
Lashanda Wilder: Son’s autopsy reveals her alleged cruelty towards him before he died
The autopsy report has been released for an 8-year-old boy allegedly murdered by his mother and her girlfriend in Columbus, Ohio, as a…
Lavinia Thompson
Sep 25
Carly Gregg: Teen sentenced to life in prison following conviction for murdering mother
Carly Gregg: Teen sentenced to life in prison following conviction for murdering mother
A judge has sentenced a Mississippi teen to life in prison for the shooting death of her mother earlier this year, and for attempting to…
Lavinia Thompson
Sep 23
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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