Lady Killers

Jul 20, 1980

The story of Marie Marguerite Fahmy who shot dead her Egyptian husband in 1923 at London's Savoy Hotel.

Jul 27, 1980

The story of Kate Webster, a maid who killed her employer Julia Thomas in Richmond in 1879.

Aug 3, 1980

The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

Aug 10, 1980

The story of Mary Pearcey, who murdered her employer and baby in 1890.

Aug 17, 1980

The case of Charlotte Bryant, who was hanged for poisoning her husband with weed-killer.

Aug 24, 1980

The story of Madeleine Smith, a respectable spinster who was accused of killing her lover in 19th-century Edinburgh. The case was famously found to be "not proven".

Aug 31, 1980

The story of 'baby farmer' Amelia Dyer, convicted in 1896 of the murder of several children in her care.

Jul 10, 1981

The story of Dr. Crippen, who killed his nymphomaniac wife Belle Elmore for the love of a young woman named Ethel Le Neve.

Jul 17, 1981

The trial of Frederick Seddon for the murder of his lodger Eliza Barrow by poison gained from soaking fly papers.

Jul 24, 1981

The story of George Joseph Smith, the "brides in the bath" murderer.

Jul 31, 1981

The story of Ronald True, convicted of the murder of a prostitute in 1922.

Aug 7, 1981

The true tale of Edith Thompson, a love triangle that ended in death for all three people involved.

Aug 14, 1981

The notorious case of Neville Heath, the handsome charmer who brutally murdered two women in 1946.

Aug 21, 1981

The story of Sidney Harry Fox, accused of murdering his mother in 1929.