Deadly Women: Fatal Instincts
Investigation Discovery Running Crime
Crime experts explore the motives and modus operandi of female killers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
10 episodes
E01
What's Yours Is Mine
Sun, May 22 2022 3:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A selfish single mum proves that no good deed goes unpunished after an elderly friend offers her a free place to live. Next, a woman decides that she no longer wants her boyfriend. However, no one else better want him either -- or else.
E02
Murder Is Not Rocket Science
Sun, May 29 2022 3:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A woman moves to Vermont to live with her fiancé, but by day's end two people will pay the price for rejection; a brilliant engineer commits a mind-blowingly stupid act in the name of jealousy.
E03
Worth More Dead Than Alive
Sun, Jun 5 2022 3:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A generous woman offers her friend free lodging. Soon, the new tenant discovers the kindly landlord has access to a cash windfall, putting her life in grave danger. Next, a British woman realises her many husbands are worth far more dead than alive.
E04
Murder Is Not a Coping Skill
Sun, Jun 5 2022 3:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
When her casual lover breaks it off to reunite with an ex, Sarah enlists her best friend to carry out a savage revenge plot; hoarder Jeanne Harrington hates getting rid of anything except for her husband.
E05
Defending My Killer
Sun, Jun 12 2022 3:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Ashley Shutes runs over her husband in her car after they decide to divorce. As police close in, a most astonishing witness comes forward to defend Ashley. Next, a woman is sure her lover will pick her over his wife -- but she's dead wrong.
E06
Murder Down Under
Sun, Jun 19 2022 3:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Jemma wants to kill for thrills, so she enlists a submissive friend to help with her evil plan; Manisha's latest relationship quickly falters, but her ex's new lover triggers her murderous heart.
E07
She'll Do Anything for Love
Sun, Jun 26 2022 3:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
An unlikeable teenager falls in love with a troubled man who involves her in a series of armed robberies, but what they do next destroys a blossoming family; in the 1880s, a sassy saloon singer's lover loses interest, but he'll soon lose a lot more.
E08
Sex, Drugs and Gunshots
Sun, Jul 3 2022 3:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Crime experts explore the motives and modus operandi of female killers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill.
E09
Homicide as a Hobby
Sun, Jul 10 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Kayleigh discovers her roommate Bethany knows her boyfriend, Jack Williams; Jack's love of satanism soon overtakes the relationship and sacrificing Bethany becomes an obsession; next, an evil teen uses her benefactor to sate her murderous cravings.
E10
Breaking Up Is Dangerous to Do
Sun, Jul 10 2022 2:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Rita and her microbiologist husband, Yakov Gluzman, flee Soviet Ukraine for America; when Yakov wants to split, Rita plots his demise; Cheryl Lynn Lucero is quite fickle until she meets her soul mate; he then rejects her and she seeks deadly revenge.
Season 2
1 episode
E01
Jealousy
Sun, Feb 15 2026 4:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min