Today, we’re discussing Belle Gunness, who murdered husbands, suitors, and even children for financial gain...

Today, we’ll meet Blanche Taylor Moore, the middle-aged churchgoer convicted of poisoning her boyfriend in 1986...

Today, we’re discussing Uloma Curry-Walker, a woman from Cleveland, Ohio who hired hitmen to kill her firefighter husband.

Today, we’re discussing Lynn Turner. She lost both her husbands to a mysterious, debilitating sickness...

Today, we’re discussing Martha Needle, who discovered early on in life that an arsenic product called “Rough on Rats!” also had a deadly effect on people...

Today, we’re discussing Susan Lee Russo.

After murdering her husband, 42-year-old Stella Nickell tried to cover her tracks by poisoning more Excedrin pills.

Today, we’re discussing Tillie Klimek.

Today, we’ll meet Margaret Rudin, the antiques dealer accused of shooting and killing her husband in December 1994...

Today, we’re discussing Sharon Nelson, a former pastor’s wife who raked in $400,000 in life insurance payments after the deaths of her second and third husbands...

Today, we’re discussing Louisa Collins. In 1888, Collins was found guilty of murdering her second husband with rat poison. She’d previously stood trial for murder three times...

Today, we’re discussing Betty Neumar. While she was never officially convicted of any murders, the marital mayhem that followed her for fifty years has led some to call her the Black Widow Granny...

Today, we’ll meet the “Black Widows of Liverpool,” a pair of sisters who poisoned lodgers and family members to collect insurance money...

By 1986, 42-year-old Stella Nickell was over her marriage to Bruce.

Today, we’ll meet Denise Williams—a Florida wife turned murder conspirator.

Today, we’re discussing Nannie Doss. Dubbed the “Giggling Granny” or the “Lonely Hearts Killer,” Nannie was a jovial Southern grandmother who’d been widowed four times over.

Today, we’re discussing Griselda Blanco, the “Black Widow of Columbia.” Though you might know her under a different moniker: The Cocaine Godmother...

Today, we’re discussing Patricia Dagorn. Known as the “Black Widow of the Riviera,” Dagorn targeted older men through manipulation and sexual favors, creeping her way into their lives, and often, their wills...

Today, we’re discussing Lyda Southard, also known as Lyda Trueblood, a serial widow who used illness to disguise her crimes...

Today, we’re discussing Stacey Castor. She appeared to be a resilient single mother, grieving the death of not one but two husbands.

After murdering Patrick O'Connor in 1849, Marie and Frederick Manning split up so they could more effectively evade the authorities.

Today, we’re discussing Elfriede Blauensteiner. Dubbed “Austria’s Black Widow,” Blauensteiner is believed to have killed over ten people with poison...

Today, we’re discussing Mary Ann Cotton, who repeatedly married and then killed her family, collecting their insurance money...

Today, we’re discussing Betty Lou Beets. Betty was dubbed a “Black Widow” when police uncovered her fourth and fifth husbands’ dead bodies buried side by side...

Today, we’re discussing Melissa Ann Shepard, otherwise known as the “Internet Black Widow.”