Deadly Women - Season 5 - Eps 13: Pleasure from Pain
Respected midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg secretly abuses her servants and ruthlessly tortures, beats and starves them. It's not until one girl is found dying from numerous open sores that this woman is finally unmasked and she is branded a monster for centuries to come. Kerry Lyn Dalton discovers while she was in jail, her flatmate sold some of her belongings to pay for crystal meth, which both women take. Kerry, high on meth, responds by torturing Irene May to death via everything from electrocution to stabbing to bludgeoning. Martha Rendell moves in with her lover, who leaves his wife for her, but keeps their kids. Martha seems to have jumped out of a Grimm's fairy-tale as a wicked stepmother – she makes the children ill and pretends to swab their throats with medicine, which is really acid. Killing three kids, the forth one runs away and reveals she got pleasure from doing this.
About Deadly Women
Title: Deadly Women
First Air Date: 2005-02-08
Last Air Date: 2021-09-09
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.9/10 (from 37 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 14
Total Episodes: 190
Network: Investigation Discovery
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Beyond Productions
Synopsis
This compelling series investigates the motives and m.o. of female murderers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill.
