• 2008
  • 48m
Martina Cole's Lady Killers

Summary British crime writer, Martina Cole, examines the life and times of six of the most notorious female serial killers across history and asks: why do women kill and why are we surprised when they do? Each programme tells the story of an individual killer with expert analysis and dramatic reconstruction View more details

  • 2008
  • 48m

Martina Cole's Lady Killers

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Martina Cole Hilary Derrett Russ Booth Polly Lister

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7.4

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Genres : Crime Documentary

Release date : Oct 12, 2008

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : England, UK

Production companies : Free At Last TV

Summary British crime writer, Martina Cole, examines the life and times of six of the most notorious female serial killers across history and asks: why do women kill and why are we surprised when they do? Each programme tells the story of an individual killer with expert analysis and dramatic reconstruction View more details

Details

Genres : Crime Documentary

Release date : Oct 12, 2008

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : England, UK

Production companies : Free At Last TV

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Martina Cole's Lady Killers (2008)

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Episode 1 • Oct 12, 2008
Myra Hindley
Intercut with interviews with experts Martina Cole tells the story of Myra Hindley,dubbed 'the most evil woman in Britain' by the tabloid press,who, in company with the petty criminal Ian Brady,with whom she was besotted, killed five children in the 1960s, burying their bodies on moorland. Despite her claims that she had reformed whilst in prison,Hindley was always to be denied a release and died in jail aged sixty. The point is made that her crimes appear the more heinous because of her sex.
Episode 2 • Oct 19, 2008
Amelia Dyer
As a young girl, Bristol-born Amelia Dyer watched her mother die in pain and it is assumed this had a traumatising effect on her. She qualified as a nurse and became a baby-farmer, looking after others' babies. After deaths of children in her care she was charged with neglect and served six months in jail. Later she spent time in a mental asylum but carried on baby-farming. In 1896 she was hanged for the murder of Doris Marmon, a child in her care, but is suspected of having killed many more infants.
Episode 3 • Oct 26, 2008
Beverly Allitt
Always an attention seeker from childhood, fabricating imaginary illnesses, Grantham-born Beverly Allitt studies nursing, and, due to staff shortages, obtains a job in a local hospital, where she is well-regarded. Here she kills four children and attempts to injure another nine, for which she is put away in a secure hospital for life.
Episode 4 • Nov 02, 2008
Rose West
Rosemary West was born in Barnstaple and,after her parents split up,spent time with her father,who repeatedly sexually abused her. She met Fred West, a man who had already killed two girls, and, with Rose,would kill ten more,usually lodgers at their house but family members too. Fred West killed himself in prison.Rose was originally subject to a life sentence of at least twenty-five years but it was later amended to mean life,so that, with Myra Hindley,she is the only British murderess denied any hope of release.
Episode 5 • Nov 09, 2008
Mary Ann Cotton
Mary Ann Cotton, hanged in Durham in 1873 was a Victorian Black Widow. Killing for greed, she murdered husbands, step children, her mother and even her own children.
Episode 6 • Nov 16, 2008
Elizabeth Báthory
Born in Hungary in 1560 Countess Bathory was a lesbian who, with her son,two sons-in-law and several female helpers, got young girls to come to her castle on the pretext of finding them work and then tortured and killed them. She was eventually found out and died virtually walled up in her castle. It is claimed that she killed 600 victims,making her the most prolific female serial killer of all time. A myth grew up that she bathed in her victims' blood to stay young, a fact used in the horror film 'Countess Dracula',starring Ingrid Pitt,one of the programme's talking heads.
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