In Australia, Annmarie Hughes attempted to murder her husband using poison she made from her potted plant. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole on March 27, 2001, and served her sentence at Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1996, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, nurse Kristen Gilbert injected poison into six of her patients, killing four of them. She was sentenced to death and executed by hanging on March 24, 1873. In the United Kingdom during the early 1870s, Mary Ann Cotton murdered 21 people by poison, including three of her husbands, her mother, a lover, a friend, and 12 children, 11 of whom were her own. Avoiding the death penalty because of her gender, she was sentenced to life in prison on May 17, 1955, and remained in prison until she died 10 years later, in 1965. She received the nickname "The Giggling Granny" because she seemed to giggle when she confessed to the murders. It covered four cases of women throughout history who committed murders using poison.īetween 19, Nannie Doss fatally poisoned four of her husbands, two of her kids, her mother, one of her mothers-in-law, and two of her grandsons. The series is produced in Australia by Beyond International.Ī 52-minute-long TV film narrated by Marsha Crenshaw served as the basic pilot to Deadly Women. After a three-year hiatus, the show resumed production in 2008 and began airing on the Investigation Discovery channel as a regularly scheduled series. Deadly Women started as a miniseries comprising three episodes: "Obsession", "Greed", and "Revenge". It was originally based on a TV documentary film called Poisonous Women, which was released in 2003.
It first aired in 2005 on the Discovery Channel. ( Update timer)ĭeadly Women is an American documentary television series focusing on true crime, specifically female killers. This article was last edited by Levi Rinno ( talk | contribs) 50 seconds ago.
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