Deadly Women

Robin thought she'd found love in his sixties when Steven Lott proposed to her. She moved to Vermont and into Steven's house. But four months later after several arguments her fiancé Steven Lott broke off their engagement and told her to move out.

Jennifer was a struggling, single mom when she met and befriended 69 year-old Doris Johnston. Doris was a kind-hearted soul who took pity on Jennifer and offered her a remarkable gift, a home for her and her 7-year-old son rent-free.

To the outside world Crystal and Giovanni Gambino's marriage appeared ideal. But behind closed doors the couple shared a passion for indulging in sex and drugs. They were both known to participate in cocaine-fuelled sex parties.

Rita Gluzman and her husband Yakov fled the oppression of the Soviet Ukraine for a new life in the United States. Yakov was an acclaimed microbiologist who dedicated his life to cancer research.

Marlene Johnson blamed one person for her marriage break up, her estranged husband's work colleague, Shirley Goodnight Pierce.

Good-looking and seductive Tausha Fields had no trouble attracting men; lots of men. Tausha was a serial wife, having married five times; and she was a bigamist.

It was one of the most sensational and scandalous crimes of the 20th century. Jean wasn't your average woman.

Victoria was the girl who cried rape. She had a history of falsely accusing the men in her life of sexual assault to cover up the fact that she was a man beater.

When an office romance bloomed into marriage, Charlie Stephens thought he was a lucky man; his new bride Kirstin was a bubbly, blonde and 16 years his junior.