From French revolutionaries to the ‘most dangerous woman in Germany,’ history has seen a host of fearsome female assassins ...

Investigation Discovery’s Deadly Women throws cold water on female thrill killers, who usually have “more complex, long-term reasons” for murder, according to their official site.

Thrill killers are a type of serial killer that derives immense satisfaction from the process of murder—that is, the acts leading up to it such as tracking their victim—rather than the killing ...

Some female participants might be considered compliant accomplices, except in thrill-based sprees. Overall, about 5 percent of spree killers are ... precipitated the deadly violence and then ...

Candice DeLong never felt she would run out of stories to tell about female killers. The former FBI profiler is gearing up to kick off Season 13 of Investigation Discovery’s “Deadly Women ...

The compelling second series, Deadly Women, Deadly Women 2 (Thursdays ... the series investigates what drives female "thrill killers", while also looking into what can turn an everyday love ...

Using dramatic re-enactments bolstered by police reports and forensic evidence, Investigation Discovery delves into the minds of female killers in `Deadly Women'. Each episode focuses on four ...

Aileen Wuornos had spent her whole life around criminals and involved in crime before she went on a killing spree in 1989, murdering seven men in just under a year. The daughter of a convicted ...

In 1985, criminologist Eric Hickey published the first — to his knowledge — academic paper on female serial killers. The dearth of research ... “The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

The father of an Australian man who went on a deadly ... The killer's father, Andrew Cauchi, however, said he knew why his son, who suffered from schizophrenia, had targeted women.