Tag: murder shows

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 with Knives centers on the stories of the wives themselves, who give their version and provide interviews with criminologist and criminal behavior analyst Casey Jordan, who also adds psychoanalytic commentary.

Wives with Knives also brings on the wives’ families and friends, who share details about the context of the women’s lives and are featured more than the victims or their family and friends. The show intersperses the competing sides of the story with dramatized re-creations (with dialogue) that tell the story event by event, focusing on what led up to the murder, in some cases abuse, and the murder itself. It omits long descriptions of the investigation that followed, excluding the detectives and prosecutors involved for the most part. The show’s unique presentation of both sides of the story makes it a fascinating watch.

True crime shows

The Show Elements

Seasons: 5 (2012-2017)

Where to stream: Amazon Prime Video, Discovery+

More shows like Wives with Knives: Snapped, Deadly Women, Deadly Wives, Meet, Marry, Murder

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✘ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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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 background and relationship with interviews with detectives, prosecutors, and victims’ families and friends, sprinkling police interviews and trial clips into the story.

The draw of the show is its ability to show how a relationship can devolve and how detectives discover that it isn’t what it first appears to be. Episodes in Seasons 1-23 detail the suspect’s background first; recent seasons tell the victim’s life story first.

True crime shows

The Show Elements

Seasons: 35 (2004-)

Where to stream: Peacock, Hulu

More shows like Snapped: Snapped: Killer Couples, Deadly Women, Deadly Wives, Wives with Knives, Meet, Marry, Murder, Black Widow Murders

See also this list of true crime shows

✓ Police interviews
✓ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✘ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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Show: Deadly Women

Women murderers take center stage in these homicide cases

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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, from poisoning, to stabbing, to guns, just as well as men, if not as prolifically.

Deadly Women groups episodes by theme, such as greed, jealousy, forbidden love, obsession, revenge, and the like, even historical murders, which are not usually covered in other true crime series, and those from countries outside the US. Some of the cases are detailed elsewhere (see Snapped, for example), but Deadly Women presents them using dramatized re-creations with dialogue that emphasize the murders themselves, rather than the subsequent investigations.

Along with detectives from some of the cases, a stock group of experts provides insights, primarily former FBI profiler Candice DeLong and forensic pathologist Janis Amatuzio. DeLong analyzes the murderer’s behavior and the pathology behind it, while Amatuzio discusses the effects of certain homicide methods on the body. They are joined by a variety of historians, who detail the stories of the older cases, sometimes centuries-old.

True crime shows

The Show Elements

Seasons: 14 (2008-2021)

Where to stream: Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Discovery+

More shows like Deadly Women: Snapped, Deadly Wives, Wives with Knives, Meet, Marry, Murder, Black Widow Murders

See also this list of true crime shows

✘ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✓ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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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 and rely on detectives recounting their investigations, along with outside experts like psychologists, former detectives, journalists, criminologists, attorneys, and domestic abuse specialists, who succeed at emphasizing the seriousness of the situation and the dangers of domestic abuse. They not only detail the story, but also the psychology behind the murder, suspect, victim, and their relationship.

Some of the cases also appear on Dateline and other true crime shows, with different details (such as the Hall, Novak, McDowell, and Cochran cases). A standout is the dual coverage of the Kathy Augustine murder by her husband Chaz Higgs in one episode and the murder-suicide involving Dallas Augustine (her daughter) and her wife in another.

Will Hanrahan narrates the original series, and an abridged version appears on Tubi as an “original,” but it is really a repackaged version of the first series. It consists of some of the American cases from the first series and is hosted by Michelle Trachtenberg, with new titles and narration. Trachtenberg’s narration attempts at salaciousness, but comes across as slow and forced, and she fails to match Hanrahan’s ease of narration and fluid style.

Helen Hunt hosts a new series on Lifetime with the same name, with actual new cases this time, also produced by Hanrahan.

True crime shows

The Show Elements

Seasons: 2 (2020-)

Where to stream: Tubi, True Crime Network, Roku Channel, Peacock

More shows like Meet, Marry Murder: Snapped, Dateline, Deadly Wives, Deadly Women, Wives with Knives, Fatal Vows

See also this list of true crime shows

✓ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✓ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends

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