Deadly Women: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when she's on a mission to murder. Deadly Women investigates the motives and modus operandi of female murderers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill. Through dramatized reconstructions the series investigates the driving force behind female thrill killers. What turns love affairs into fatal attractions. How twisted minds and dark secrets send other women on murdering rampages. Deadly Women also investigates the most ruthless female killers of them all-predators. Tune in as experts sift forensic fact from fanciful fiction. Former FBI agent and profiler, Candice DeLong offers insights into the psychology of female killers, while Dr Janis Amatuzio, a Mid West forensic pathologist known as "The Compassionate Coroner", provides expert commentary on the tell-tale evidence that Deadly Women leave behind. They are history's most intriguing and horrifying women. A sisterhood whose crimes are written in blood on history's pages.

Series details

• Title: Deadly Women
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Crime
• Premiere date: 2005-02-08
• Final broadcast date listed: 2021-09-09
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Investigation Discovery
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 55 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.2/10
• TVMaze ID: 869

Cast and credited roles

• Candice DeLong — Candice DeLong
• Lynnanne Zager — Narrator
• Marsha Crenshaw — Narrator
• Dr. Janis Amatuzio — Dr. Janis Amatuzio
• Michael William Phelps — Michael William Phelps
• Diane Fanning — Diane Fanning

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2005-02-08; final listed air date 2005-02-22.
• Season 2: premiered 2008-10-09; final listed air date 2008-11-13.
• Season 3: premiered 2009-08-20; final listed air date 2009-11-12.
• Season 4: premiered 2010-08-12; final listed air date 2010-12-23.
• Season 5: premiered 2011-07-29; final listed air date 2012-01-27.
• Season 6: premiered 2012-08-17; final listed air date 2013-01-25.
• Season 7: premiered 2013-07-19; final listed air date 2013-11-29.
• Season 8: premiered 2014-08-01; final listed air date 2014-12-05.
• Season 9: premiered 2015-08-07; final listed air date 2015-11-06.
• Season 10: premiered 2016-08-27; final listed air date 2016-11-26; episode order: 13.
• Season 11: premiered 2017-09-01; final listed air date 2017-11-24.
• Season 12: premiered 2018-09-03; final listed air date 2018-11-23.
• Season 13: premiered 2019-08-22; final listed air date 2019-10-24; episode order: 10.
• Season 14: premiered 2021-06-17; final listed air date 2021-09-09.

Source and licence

Adapted from Deadly Women on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.