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Show: Wives with Knives
Knives are the weapon of choice for these murderous women About Wives With Knives Stabbing is the method of choice in this true crime series about female murderers and attempted murderers. Each episode gives viewers an inside look at one case and the motives of a wife or girlfriend who stabbed her romantic partner. Wives…
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Show: Snapped
Killer women are the focus of this long-running true crime series About Snapped Thought women don’t kill? Snapped proves otherwise. Snapped is a long-running true crime show featuring 31 seasons of murders perpetrated by women through various means, from poisoning, to stabbing, to gunshots, to murder-for-hire. It balances narration, re-creations, and the victim’s and suspect’s…
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Show: Deadly Women
Women murderers take center stage in these homicide cases (Note: This site contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.) About Deadly Women Deadly Women answers the question: Do women kill? Yes, they most certainly do. It tells stories (usually three per episode) of female murderers using all sorts of methods,…
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Show: City Confidential
A look inside murders and other crimes in cities and towns across the US About City Confidential City Confidential looks at murders from a different angle: the cities or towns in which they occurred and the high-profile people involved. Narrated by actors Paul Winfield and Keith David (top-notch among true crime show narrators), City Confidential…
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Show: Deadly Wives
Marriages turn deadly in this show about killer wives About Deadly Wives At first, Deadly Wives might come across as just another murder show about women who kill, but its draw is the sarcastic narration actress Christine Estabrook, who delivers the writing with disbelief and an almost audible rolling of her eyes. She comments on…
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Show: Murder She Solved
Watch out Angela Lansbury, these real-life women are on the case About Murder She Solved Some true crime shows focus on the victim, murderer, or their relationship and the psychology behind it. Murder She Solved: True Crime is a meat-and-potatoes show squarely emphasizing investigations involving female detectives, pathologists, and others like private investigators, forensic scientists,…
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7 Spooky True Crime TV Episodes for Halloween
Celebrate Halloween with some chilling murder cases Dateline NBC: “Under a Halloween Moon” (Season 22, Episode 6) In this episode, Josh Mankiewicz details the murder of Joel Lovelien, which occurred outside a bar he went to with his fiancée for a Halloween party in 2007 in North Dakota. Lovelien was beaten to death in the…
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Show: Dateline NBC
A true crime classic for junkies and newbies alike About Dateline Dateline is the type of show that, back in the days of channel-surfing, would suck you in because you just had to know who the murderer was. This long-running NBC show focuses mostly on murders (and murders of romantic partners), with other investigative pieces…
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Show: Meet, Marry, Murder
The name says it all: two people meet and marry each other, then one of them murders the other About Meet, Marry, Murder Meet, Marry, Murder features disturbing homicide cases committed by one spouse against the other, often in relationships involving domestic abuse or coercive control. Episodes concentrate on couples from the US and UK…
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