Snapped: Women Who Kill

Snapped: Women Who Kill chronicles the lives of women who have been charged with murder. These shocking but true stories turn common assumptions about crime and criminals upside down, and prove that even the most unlikely suspects can be capable of murder.

The stories begin in ordinary cities, towns and suburbs in the United States, with women who have normal lives. But statistics don’t lie and, according to FBI figures, seven per cent of the 16,000 murders that occur each year are committed by women.

But who are these women and what drives them to kill?

Snapped chronicles these crimes and profiles the women who, for different reasons, ‘snapped’.

The series features candid interviews with the witnesses, the law enforcers and the women themselves and it revisits each case to investigate and explain why these women reached their own boiling point

The question is asked: did they really commit murder? And, if so, why? Was it as a result of domestic abuse, jealousy over an unfaithful partner, was it the lure of big life insurance policy, or was it motivated by something outside normal human understanding?

From secretaries to biochemists, the female murderers all share one thing: at some point, they all snapped.

Snapped: Women Who Kill screens Monday-Friday at 11pm

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