Deadly Women Season 5

Season 5

Air date: 2011-07-29

Episodes: 20

Episodes

E1: Twisted Thrills

Christina Walters defies the odds by becoming a gang leader at age 20 and attempts to earn the Crips' tear tattoo under an eye meaning they've killed. As deadly initiation, Christina and her gang kidnap three women in two separate abductions and shoot them like lambs to the slaughter. The seemingly senseless murders would've remained unsolved if it weren't for one thing – one woman is still alive. Judith Neelley and her husband Alvin met and after marrying when she was 15, they begin a crime spree. After being released on armed robbery charges, Judith and Alvin commit the most heinous of crimes by abducting, raping, torturing and murdering two women, one of them a 13-year-old girl. One extraordinary breakthrough leads to an eyewitness confession and one detail ultimately leads to their arrest. Irene Maslin gladly plans to help kill her friend's on-again-off-again boyfriend by injecting him with battery acid.

Air date: 2011-07-29 • ★ 6

E2: Loathe Thy Neighbor

Tiffany Cole kidnapped and buried alive an elderly couple who had helped care for her as her father was dying from terminal cancer. Seeking initiation into the notorious street gang, the Bloods, Shonda Walter butchered a Pearl Harbor survivor with an ax without mercy. And bipolar Sunday School teacher Melissa Huckaby drugged her young daughter's 8-year-old friend out of jealousy and raped her using a rolling pin.

Air date: 2011-08-05 • ★ 6

E3: Hearts of Stone

Mother and wife Lydia Sherman laced food and drinks with arsenic, killing three husbands and all of her children. Young mother Paula Sims murdered her two young daughters, but let her son live due to her personal view that girls were unwanted. Under the influence of serious drugs, Velma Barfield played caretaker while secretly killing people with arsenic. Away from the drugs, she became the 'angel of death row' before being executed.

Air date: 2011-08-12 • ★ 6

E4: Kill Their Own

Jealous of the attention given to her children, Darlie Routier stabbed two of her sons and staged a break in to get that attention back. Frances Newton cold-heartedly shot her husband and two young children for life insurance money. Susan Eubanks got revenge against her ex-husbands by shooting and killing her four sons in the order they came into her life, she currently awaits execution.

Air date: 2011-08-19 • ★ 6

E5: To Love and To Murder

Southern belle Louise Peete shot and killed multiple partners – leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind her before the state took her life in the gas chamber. Instead of divorce, horse owner Jane Dorotik chose to murder her husband so she wouldn't have to share the money she planned on spending on her own ranch. Teresa Lewis and two secret lovers shot her husband and his son for life insurance, but they didn't plan it well and the men didn't die until after the cops showed up.

Air date: 2011-08-26

E6: Kill For Cash

In order to kill her father, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong had to make enough money to hire a hit-man and decided to use a collar bomb as a weapon. Little did her accomplice know the bomb on his chest wasn't a decoy. Rosie Alfaro stabbed her friend's 9-year-old sister over 50 times to rob the house and trade the items and money stolen in exchange for drugs and booze. To inherit her kind neighbor's farm, Kim Snibson brutally murdered the couple and got two men to do the work for her.

Air date: 2011-09-02 • ★ 6

E7: Breaking Point

Battered housewife Amber Cummings shot her white supremacist, child-pornography loving, Nazi obsessed husband to save her daughter from being sexually assaulted. Consumed with greed, alcoholic con-artist Kate Webster murders her employer, spins a web of lies to cover up her crime and disposes of the body in the most gruesome way possible. Sick of having to constantly care for her needy, terminally-ill husband, who had only weeks to live, Wendi Andriano got impatient waiting for him to die and sped things up by killing him herself.

Air date: 2011-09-09 • ★ 6

E8: Love to Death

Self-proclaimed voodoo queen Josephine Gray terrifies her husbands and kills them, but due to lack of evidence, locking her up called for some very drastic actions. Elisa McNabney and Sarah Dutra have a bond so strong that it leaves Elisa's husband the third person in his marriage. Money and pure selfishness motivates them to execute Larry. Peter Shellard gives his girlfriend Shirley Withers everything including her own boutique, money and a nice house. How does Shirley repay him? Well, by hiring two drug addicts to murder Peter and stage it like a game of kinky sex gone wrong.

Air date: 2011-09-16 • ★ 6

E9: Sacrifice Their Blood

Robin Lee Row needs money to pay off her excessive spending, her solution is to set the house on fire with her husband and two kids inside. But her water-tight alibi leads police on a wild goose chase for clues and a conviction – leading to dark secrets from her past and only one way to expose her. Marybeth Tinning loved the attention she received after her third child died of meningitis as a baby, to keep receiving that attention she quietly kills her other eight children over a span of years. She's seen as a woman with a series of unfortunate events, until she goes one step too far by smothering an adopted child. To make sure she doesn't lose her kids to her husband in a custody battle, alcoholic, con-artist Cora Caro gets revenge on her unfaithful husband (both are seen as caring Christians) by shooting their three eldest sons and attempts suicide by shooting herself in the mouth, barely surviving it.

Air date: 2011-11-04 • ★ 6

E10: Deadly Possessions

Rachel Wade and Sarah Luderman engage in an online battle for the affections of a boy and the battle enters the real world. When Sarah takes one risk too many by confronting Rachel at a house after humiliating her online, Rachel is armed with a knife and uses it to effectively kill Sarah. Caroline Young was so upset at the thought of losing her grandson to his biological father, she stabs both her grand-kids (ages 6 and 4) and also stabs herself (but survives) and all of this is while her daughter and the kids' mother is watching. Elizabeth Duncan had only one man who always stuck by her - her son Frank. So when Frank marries his pregnant girlfriend (who helped nurse Elizabeth back to health after attempting suicide) in a private ceremony, Elizabeth taunts them with phone calls and hires two amateur criminals to kidnap and kill Frank's pregnant wife and their unborn child.

Air date: 2011-11-11

E11: An Inconvenient Marriage

After learning her first husband had an illegitimate child, Raynella Dossett Leath begins to control every aspect of her new husband life, including his death when she's overcome by greed. Soon afterwards, another shocking secret is revealed. Margaret Rudin was sick of her husband wasting all of his money on alcohol and guns (money that she wants to spend) that she kills him and dismembers him before going on the run. Linda Lou Charbonneau got sick of her first husband and married his nephew; when neither man's financial status met Linda's satisfaction, her solution was to kill both of them.

Air date: 2011-11-18 • ★ 6

E12: Sins of the Sister

Sarah Mitchell lives rent-free in the house of her hard-working, well-to-do older sister Stevie. When Stevie cuts her off after learning Sarah had been stealing money and writing checks in her name, Sarah's plans go from devious to diabolic by killing, dismembering and re-emerging from a fire as her sister. Two twins, wholesome school-teacher Peggy Lowe and flashy, audacious nurse Betty Wilson find themselves caught in a web of deception and mystery after a man they both met murders Betty's ailing husband (a well loved eye-doctor whom Betty married for money) and claims they both made him do it. The truth is one that shakes Huntsville, Alabama to it's core. Kathleen Worrall suffers from a hormonal disease, but the medicine causes weight gain, so she stops taking it. As a result, the tiniest things set her off and one mistake leads to her stabbing her younger sister Susan.

Air date: 2011-11-25 • ★ 6

E13: Pleasure from Pain

Respected midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg secretly abuses her servants and ruthlessly tortures, beats and starves them. It's not until one girl is found dying from numerous open sores that this woman is finally unmasked and she is branded a monster for centuries to come. Kerry Lyn Dalton discovers while she was in jail, her flatmate sold some of her belongings to pay for crystal meth, which both women take. Kerry, high on meth, responds by torturing Irene May to death via everything from electrocution to stabbing to bludgeoning. Martha Rendell moves in with her lover, who leaves his wife for her, but keeps their kids. Martha seems to have jumped out of a Grimm's fairy-tale as a wicked stepmother – she makes the children ill and pretends to swab their throats with medicine, which is really acid. Killing three kids, the forth one runs away and reveals she got pleasure from doing this.

Air date: 2011-12-02 • ★ 6

E14: Lethal Love

Susan Wright is supposedly abused and controlled by her husband, who spends days having affairs with strippers and using drugs while Susan raises their two young kids. Susan doesn't believe in divorce and feels the only way out is murder. Alice Mitchell has plans of moving to Boston with her lover Freda Ward and living as a married couple disguised as a man, but when Freda's family stops those plans dead in their tracks and forbids her to see Alice, an obsession begins leading Alice to destroy the one she cherished most. Larissa Schuster is many things - a biochemist,an over-achiever... and a bully. She carries on affairs behind her husband's back and when he leaves the family home – instead of continuing her affairs, she permanently dissolves their marriage by dissolving Tim's body in a blue barrel of acid in the garage.

Air date: 2011-12-09 • ★ 6

E15: Baby-Faced Killers

Within hours of meeting in juvenile detention, troubled teens Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf begin to plan a life together and step one in the plan included killing somebody random. Their victim of choice- a trusting old lady who they spend hours talking with about her family before stabbing her. Lorraine Thorpe sees a father figure in a 41 year-old in her group of alcoholics, who violently beats his girlfriend and with 15-year-old Lorraine by his side, he murders her and when Lorraine's father becomes suspicious, they kill him too. Courtney Dunkin was adopted by her grandparents and after her grandfather passed away, she gets into the goth movement. Her new style doesn't mesh with the caring Christian lifestyle, when her restrictions become too much, Courtney kisses her grandma goodnight one evening and then shoots her.

Air date: 2011-12-16 • ★ 6

E16: Senseless Slayings

Tina Powell and LaFonda Foster are drunk and high when they go on a killing spree, taking five friends hostage and brutally killing them all one by one in different ways. The night proves to be the deadliest in the history of Lexington, Kentucky. Melinda Harmon-Raisch is a Christian housewife who falls for a star-student at a nearby college. Since she views divorce sinful, she has her lover murder her husband so they can be together and they pin it on two black people. Strangely enough, the two go on to marry other people and the secret is hidden for a decade. After losing her husband and two sons in the Melbourne gang wars, crime family queen and professional thief Judy Moran tries to save her own skin by executing her brother-in-law.

Air date: 2011-12-30 • ★ 6

E17: Lover's Revenge

Jane Andrews is appointed the wardrobe specialist for a Duchess in England and after losing her job, her only connection to the high life of England is her boyfriend. When he breaks things off after she begins to act clingy, she murders him in his bed. Shana Parkinson had a volatile temper that prompted her husband to leave her for another woman. Instead of wanting her husband to be happy, she wants him dead and makes that become a reality by stabbing him and his new fiancee to death (Greg sustained twice as many stab wounds as Karen). However, she gets caught quickly due to an unlikely eyewitness who saw the murders unfold. Jennifer Bailey is an impressionable girl whose first love is with a modern-day pagan who plants ideas in her mind. Their plans of running off to Canada together are cut short when her mother forbids them to speak and they respond by brutally murdering her.

Air date: 2012-01-06 • ★ 6

E18: Deadly Delinquents

Kirsten Costas reminds her classmate Bernadette Protti of everything she wants, but could never have. The solution to the problem was to annihilate the source of the pain by stabbing Kirsten to death. Karen Severson and Laura Doyle were friends with Missy Avila since grade school, but as they grow older, Missy blossoms into a beautiful, charming young lady while Karen becomes a single mother. Teenage angst trumps childhood friendship when Karen and Laura take Missy into the woods, beat her up, cut her hair and drown her in the lake. The crime is unsolved for years until an unexpected confession appears as if out of nowhere. Kelly Fuller (age 18) is enraged at 15-year-old Jessica Lang, who is her ex's new girlfriend. Jessica, who's more interested in her apprenticeship and family than any boy, pays for her friendliness with her life after Kelly decides to end the source of jealousy permanently by stabbing her almost 50 times.

Air date: 2012-01-13 • ★ 6

E19: Match Made for Murder

When Patricia Robinson-Olsen has money problems, she resorts to soliciting her teenage son into shooting her second husband Neil to death, and then attempts to have him take the fall. Valerie Pape was a hair salon owner and a Scottsdale, Arizona socialite with an abusive husband, Ira Pomerantz. When Valerie has had enough of her husband's abuse, she turns to murder, then dismembers his corpse. His torso was found in a dumpster behind a supermarket, but the rest of his remains have never been found. Jean Lee was a young Australian woman who became involved with two petty criminals and then turned to a life of crime. While attempting to rob an elderly man, he winds up dead. Jean confesses to her involvement hoping for a light prison sentence, but instead becomes the last woman hanged in Australia.

Air date: 2012-01-20 • ★ 6

E20: Killer Kids

Spending most of her life in expensive British boarding schools, American teen Elizabeth Haysom is an honor student who has plans to study the arts, but her parents have other ideas and give her an ultimatum – take science and math classes at college or they won't pay for her to go to her dream school. Rebellion controls her mind and when she's had enough, she gets her boyfriend to destroy them both. Heather D'Aoust was the 15-year-old adopted daughter of a loving couple, but when she is caught engaging in sexual activity with a friend, she decides to kill her mother with a claw hammer. Nikki Reynolds grows up happy and wholesome, but that changes when she's dumped by her boyfriend. After spreading false rumors that she's pregnant, her mother seeks psychological help and constant arguing drives a wedge in the family. Planning to kill both parents, Nikki stabs her mom fatally, but is too broken up to finish the job and turns herself in.

Air date: 2012-01-27 • ★ 6