Lady Killers - Season 1
1980 • 7 episodes
About this season
Dramatic reconstructions of some of Britain's most infamous murder trials involving women.
Episodes
Seasons & Episodes
Murder at the Savoy Hotel
Episode 1 • Jul 20, 1980
The story of Marie Marguerite Fahmy who shot dead her Egyptian husband in 1923 at London's Savoy Hotel.
Not for the Nervous
Episode 2 • Jul 27, 1980
The story of Kate Webster, a maid who killed her employer Julia Thomas in Richmond in 1879.
Lucky, Lucky Thirteen!
Episode 3 • Aug 03, 1980
The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
Killing Mice
Episode 4 • Aug 10, 1980
The story of Mary Pearcey, who murdered her employer and baby in 1890.
Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday
Episode 5 • Aug 17, 1980
The case of Charlotte Bryant, who was hanged for poisoning her husband with weed-killer.
Miss Madeleine Smith
Episode 6 • Aug 24, 1980
The story of Madeleine Smith, a respectable spinster who was accused of killing her lover in 19th-century Edinburgh. The case was famously found to be "not proven".
Suffer Little Children
Episode 7 • Aug 31, 1980
The story of 'baby farmer' Amelia Dyer, convicted in 1896 of the murder of several children in her care.