Lady Killers

the story of Myra Hindley, dubbed 'the most evil woman in Britain', who killed five children in the 1960s, burying their bodies on moorland

Amelia Dyer qualified as a nurse and became a baby-farmer, looking after others' babies. After deaths of children in her care she was charged with neglect and sent to jail

Beverly Allitt studies nursing, obtaining a job in the local hospital, where she is well-regarded. She kills four children for which she is put away in a secure hospital for life.

Mary Ann Cotton, hanged in Durham in 1873 was a Victorian Black Widow. Killing for greed, she murdered husbands and even her own children.

Countess Bathory was a lesbian who got young girls to come to her castle on the pretext of finding them work and then tortured and killed them.