Plot

A rogue nurse turns a children's ward into a killing field, medicine becomes a deadly weapon for a desperate housewife and a mother uses a medical diagnosis to hide a horrifying compulsion.

Deadly Women examines cases where women use medicine to kill including nurse Beverley Allitt who kills multiple infants with medical overdoses, Stella Nickell who poisoned medicine capsules in stores, and Kathleen Follbigg who killed four of her own children with suffocation and concealed it as sudden infant death syndrome.—Shatterdaymorn

Beverley Allitt - In 1991, the British nurse murdered four children and injured five others by injecting them with insulin or potassium, causing cardiac arrest. Allitt was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison. Stella Maudine Nickell - In 1986, the Seattle-based nurse poisoned her husband and an innocent shopper by planting cyanide-laced pain-relief capsules on drug store shelves in an intricate plan to cash in her husband's life insurance policies. Nickell is serving a 90-year sentence. Kathleen Folbigg - On a killing spree that lasted from 1989 until 1999, the Australian serial killer murdered four of her children by suffocating them. She is serving a 30-year sentence.