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Degrees of Monstrosity: Female Killers
True stories about women who kill, and why
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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
Amber Waterman: Attorneys seek to have murder, kidnapping charges dismissed on concerns of double…
Amber Waterman: Attorneys seek to have murder, kidnapping charges dismissed on concerns of double…
After pleading guilty to federal charges, a Missouri woman and her attorneys seek to get state charges dismissed on concerns of double…
Lavinia Thompson
Aug 8
Amanda Chapin: Sentenced for poisoning husband with drugs used for animal euthanasia
Amanda Chapin: Sentenced for poisoning husband with drugs used for animal euthanasia
Following a conviction for poisoning her husband two years ago, 51-year-old Amanda Chapin has been sentenced to three years in prison…
Lavinia Thompson
Aug 5
Amber Waterman: Pleads guilty to kidnapping and murdering pregnant woman to steal unborn baby
Amber Waterman: Pleads guilty to kidnapping and murdering pregnant woman to steal unborn baby
Amber Waterman may never again see freedom after pleading guilty to the murder and kidnapping of a mother-to-be and her unborn child in…
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 31
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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