- Most women mellow with age, but those who don't can turn particularly sour. Serving up death is a housewife's favorite dish, a granny's sweet demeanor masks a trail of murder and a possessive divorcee won't share her ex-husband.
- Deadly Women are often cloaked. One woman's killings go undetected for years; a Granny whose husbands keep dying avoids suspicion for half a decade, and a divorcee uses friendship to kill. Family and friends mean nothing to these "Matriarchs of Murder".
- Frances Creighton resorts to poisoning her relative with arsenic when they no longer become of use to her. After being acquitted of murdering her own brother, Frances moves to New York and begins an affair with a married man. Her lover's wife is a gossip who threatens to tell the neighbors about Frances' dark past, and Frances decides to silence her permanently. She was sentenced to death and was executed in the electric chair. Betty Neumar had five husbands - four of whom died suspiciously while married to Betty. For decades no one connects any of the deaths until a cold case investigation reveals Betty's murderous deeds. She dies in 2011 before facing trial. 72-year-old Millicent Cumberbatch and her husband Stanley were married for 38 years, but their union was not always a happy one. After a formal separation and her husband's year-long affair, a scorned and a heartbroken Millicent decides to end their marriage, permanently. She was sentenced to 11 1/2 to 15 years in prison.
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