Plot

These Deadly Women brutally turned on family and in-laws, they had "Broken Ties."

Misook Nowlin finds the mother figure she has always craved in her mother-in-law, Linda Tyda. Linda dotes on and mentors her daughter-in-law until Misook is arrested for shoplifting, after which Linda decides to cut Misook out of her life. In December 2011, Misook, fearing the end of her marriage and financial security, lures Linda into a trap and then bludgeons and strangles her. She is serving 55 years behind bars. Styllou Christofi emigrates from Cyprus to London to live with her son, Stavros, and his German-born wife, Hella, who are raising three children. The women are constantly at odds over their cultural differences, and Hella soon tells her husband she wants his mother-in-law out of the house. In July 1954, Styllou retaliates by bludgeoning and strangling Hella and then attempting to burn the corpse. She is hanged five months later. Styllou also murdered her own mother-in-law in Cyprus back in 1925, but was never prosecuted for it. Dawn Wagner's live-in daughter, Sarah Vercauteren, is a drug addict who is supposed to be in recovery, but is still using and stealing to support her habit, and Dawn, fearing for her grandson's welfare, decides to kick her out of the house. On New Year's Eve 2013, a mother-daughter argument over Sarah using Dawn's car to buy drugs ends in Sarah bludgeoning and strangling her mother, then being caught after she robs a bank to get more drug money. She is serving life without parole.—SoSmooth1982