Deadly Women
For centuries women from many different walks of life have killed in brutal, cunning and mysterious ways. Now the Crime and Investigation Network takes an in-depth and fascinating look at these figures and what drove them to kill in Deadly Women.
Women like Countess Bathory, who lived 400 years ago and killed so that she could drink and bath in her victims' blood. The vain countess committed these bloody crimes in the name of beauty - but unlike blood sucking Dracula, she was real.
Or Vera Renczi who had 35 bodies of former lovers preserved in caskets in her basement when the police finally realized what she had been doing in Bucharest in the 1930s. Terrified that the men would leave her, she made sure that they couldn't. These women had different motives, but were both equally as dangerous.
Beauty, devotion, sadism and ego. All are obsessions that when combined with power, can turn ordinary females into deadly women. Deadly Women is on the Crime and Investigation Network on Thursdays at 9pm.
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Myra Hindley
An ordinary woman who became one of Britain's most reviled killers, in tandem with partner Ian Brady
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