Name: Lady Killers
Genre: Factual

Not suitable for younger viewers. Contains discussion and images of crimes which some viewers may find distressing.

Intercut with interviews with experts Martina Cole tells the story of Myra Hindley, dubbed 'the most evil woman in Britain' by the tabloid press.

1. Myra Hindley

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British crime writer Martina Cole examines the life and times of the most notorious female serial killers across history and asks: why do women kill and why are we surprised when they do?

Lady Killers

Series 1

Examining the life and times of the most notorious female serial killers across history.

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Bristol-born Amelia Dyer watched her mother die in pain. 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.

2. Amelia Dyer

Grantham-born Beverly Allitt studies nursing and obtains a job in a local hospital. Here she kills four children and attempts to injure another nine, she is put away in a secure hospital for life.

3. Beverley Allitt

Rosemary West was born in Barnstaple. 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.

4. Rose West

Mary Ann Cotton, hanged in Durham in 1873, was a Victorian Black Widow. Killing for greed, she murdered husbands, stepchildren, her mother and even her own children.

5. Mary Ann Cotton

Born in Hungary in 1560 Countess Bathory got young girls to come to her castle on the pretext of finding them work and then tortured and killed them. It is claimed that she killed 600 victims.

6. Elizabeth Bathory

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