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Deadly Women Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2005 - 2005
Episode 1
Obsession
Tue, Feb 8, 200542 mins
Deadly Women looks at four cases of women murderers driven by obsession: Elizabeth Báthory a Hungarian noble who craved blood for beauty, Vera Renczi a Romanian woman who poisoned men with arsenic and kept the bodies, Delphine LaLaurie a New Orleans socialite who tortured her slaves, and Linda Hazzard a Washington state doctor who starved her patients to death.
Episode 2
Greed
Tue, Feb 15, 200542 mins
Deadly Women examines cases of women driven to murder by greed including Belle Gunness in Indiana who poisoned suitors with strychnine, Catherine Flannigan and Margaret Higgins who killed men for insurance money in England, Amy Archer-Gilligan who poisoned the elderly residents of her Connecticut nursing home, and Janie Gibbs who killed her family in Georgia for insurance money.
Episode 3
Revenge
Tue, Feb 22, 200542 mins
Deadly Women examines cases of women driven to murder by revenge including Katherine Knight who kills and skins her husband in Australia, Blanche Taylor Moore who killed her loved ones with arsenic in North Carolina, Ruth Ellis who shot her boyfriend after an episode of abuse, and the Lainz Angels of Death who killed numerous elderly patients in a Vienna hospital.
Episode 5
To Have and to Harm
Thu, Jul 8, 2021
Roslyn Pilmar's charmed life in New York's Upper East Side with her millionaire entrepreneur husband Howard and their son threatens to come to a halt when she's caught embezzling money from her former employer. In order to maintain her wealthy lifestyle, she plots to kill Howard and take over the family business, enlisting her younger brother, Evan Wald, to assist in the murder in March 1996. Although suspicion falls around them, the siblings aren't caught until 2016. Both are serving 25 years to life. Nurse's aide Marie Poling wishes to trade in her seemingly happy family life after an affair with a young colleague and plots to kill her husband. In January 1988, she shoots husband Richard in his sleep, then enlists her lover and another co-worker to help dispose of the body. Her lover is sentenced to 13 years and released in 2001. Her coworker received an 18 month sentence. Marie is sentenced to twenty years to life and has been denied parole six times since her incarceration. Her next parole hearing is in 2022. Brilliant but troubled teenager Susan Mae Bolling is sent to respected child psychiatrist Dr. Felix Polk for help in maintaining her mental health. Instead of counseling her, Felix abuses his position and begins an affair with his naïve patient, marrying Susan when she turns twenty-four and going on to raise three sons. A life of luxury does nothing to cure Susan's demons, though, and after a contentious divorce results in Felix getting both the house and the children, Susan snaps and stabs Felix to death in October 2002. She is serving sixteen years to life, with both her appeal and parole hearing being denied.
Episode 6
Lethal Lies
Thu, Jul 15, 2021
Annette Cahill falls for Corey Wieneke, but she's not the only woman in his life, as he's a known playboy and has gotten one of his other lovers pregnant. A jealous Annette decides if she can't have Corey, then no one else can either, and bludgeons him to death with a silver baseball bat in October 1992, managing to cover her tracks for the next 25 years until her conscience gets the better of her, as well as a nurse informing a cold case detective about Corey's murder. She is sentenced to 50 years for second-degree murder. Two days into her marriage, Margaret Vandergulik beats her new husband, Patrick Plumbe, over the head with her cane and then tries to stage his death as a car accident in April 2005, all to gain access to his million-dollar estate. After being betrayed by a man, an ex-lover of Margaret's who told the story of the murder to police, she attempts to get revenge by making up lies about him shooting her in the arm and wanting to kill her, but the police aren't convinced. After she's eventually arrested, she is sentenced to nine years in prison but serves only six. Nicole Abusharif is a habitual liar and a psychopath who leads on both her life partner, Rebecca "Becky" Klein, and her girlfriend, Rose Sodaro. In March 2007, Nicole finally chooses between the two and smothers Becky to death by duct taping her head with plastic after forcing Becky into the trunk of her car and leaving her to slowly die from lack of oxygen. Nicole is sentenced to 50 years in prison after Rose testifies against her and must serve all of it before becoming eligible for parole. By then, she will be 76 years old.
