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Join Lucy and a team of female detectives investigating ordinary lives, and extraordinary crimes, of women from the past using a contemporary feminist perspective. This series includes Mary Surratt, accused of conspiring to assassinate a US President.
Jan 3, 2024 · Lucy Worsley revisits the crimes of murderesses including Mary Surratt, accused of conspiring to assassinate a President and Maria Manning the ‘Lady Macbeth of Bermondsey’. Show more.
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley. Lucy and a crack team of female detectives investigate the crimes of women from the 19th and 20th Century from a contemporary, feminist perspective.
Lady Killers – The lives and crimes of eight 19th-century women. Listen to Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley on BBC Sounds. In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the...
- Rose West: Born Evil?
- Ken and Barbie Killers: The Lost Murder Tapes
- Myra Hindley: Making of A Monster
- Dena Thompson - Black Widow
- Aileen: Life and Death of A Serial Killer
- Crimes That Shook Australia: Katherine Mary Knight
- The Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens
- The Interrogation of Stephanie Lazarus
- Murders at The Boarding House
- The Angel of Death
Rosemary Letts' life was grim from the get-go. She was the fifth of seven children born to working-class parents with extreme mental health issues. It is reported that her father physically tormented the family, and regularly sexually abused Rose and her elder sister. In turn, a teenage Rose exhibited troubling sexually-charged behaviors, from freq...
Often referred to as the 'Deal with the Devil', Karla Homolka was only convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 12 years for the horrific crimes she committed alongside her husband Paul Bernardo. This included the rape and murder of her own little sister, 15-year-old Tammy Homolka. The conventionally attractive Canadian couple garnered worldwide me...
Any mention of the Moors murders will still garner a shudder from any British person acquainted with the crimes. From 1963 to 1965, Myra Hindley andIan Brady abducted, tormented, and murdered five children aged 10 to 17. Most notably, they buried their bodies on Saddleworth Moor, and took posed photographs on the graves. The body of Keith Bennettis...
Likened to a female Tinder Swindler, Dena Thompson scoured the "Lonely Hearts" sections of newspapers with a devious ploy to manipulate and cash in on her victims. This resulted in the death of her second husband, Julian Webb, and the suspected murder of her ex-partner Stoyan Kostov, who has been missing since the pair dated in the 1980s. Related: ...
American serial killer Aileen Wuornos is one of the world's most recognizable female perpetrators. Many documentaries and film adaptations of the killer's life have been made, with actress Charlize Theron taking home an Academy Award for her transformation in Monster. Related: Lily James as Pamela Anderson and 9 Other Incredible Actor Transformatio...
Like the plot of a horror movie, Katherine Knight's gruesome crime scene will go down in True Crime history as one of the most disturbing ever. The abattoir worker and serial abuser had a reputation in her small New South Wales town for violent outbursts, frequently fist-fighting locals during disagreements, and keeping an assortment of knives abov...
In 1965 a crime too heinous to be believed unfolded in Indianapolis, Indiana. Two teenage daughters of traveling carnival workers, Jenny and Sylvia Likens, were entrusted to the care of a 37-year-old single mother of seven, Gertrude Baniszewski. In exchange for $20 a week, she would room and feed the girlsuntil their parents return, "treating them ...
True Crime fans love when a cold case is finally solved, and the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen was one such mystery. Thanks to advancements in DNA technology, in 2009 investigators were blindsided by a shocking discovery: the murderer was one of their own, an LAPD officer named Stephanie Lazarus. During a fascinating interrogation, two officers e...
A serial con artist and pathological liar aren't the first terms one conjures when looking at an image of Dorothea Puente. Following a life of crime under multiple aliases, in 1975, freshly divorced for the third time, Puente decided to turn over a new leaf. With oversized glasses, vintage clothing, and graying hair, she established herself as a Sa...
Thosefamiliar with the tragic abuse of Gypsy Rose Blanchard will be familiar with the concept of Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA), formerly referred to as Munchausen by proxy. The syndrome is often attributed to cases of child abuse when a parent intentionally harms their child in order to gain attention and sympathy from others. In th...
Apr 10, 2022 · Historian and author Lucy Worsley explores ten of the most shocking violent crimes of the Victorian era carried out by women and asks - why did they do it? And what can they tell us about the...
July 9, 2024. ( 2024-07-09) –. present. Sasha Reid and the Midnight Order is an true crime documentary series directed and produced by Nancy Schwartzman. It follows Dr. Sasha Reid, and her society of young women who band together to work outside the system to protect the vulnerable, dive into the minds of killers, and solve cold cases across ...
