EPISODE · Apr 21, 2026 · 49 MIN
The Cruelest Betrayals Of Wives Towards Their Husbands _ The New Detectives
from FilmRise True Crime · host FilmRise True Crime
A husband is found dead in his own garage. The wife claims an intruder did it. The life insurance policy says otherwise. The text messages to her lover say otherwise. The arsenic in his coffee says otherwise.In this episode of The New Detectives, the groundbreaking Discovery Channel series that aired from 1996 to 2004 and inspired CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, forensic experts examine cases where wives betrayed their husbands in the cruelest way possible. The episode Broken Vows, which aired in 1998, follows coldblooded spouses who saw murder as the ultimate path to an uncontested divorce . The episode Hidden Obsessions reveals how beneath a layer of trust can lurk a deadly obsession, forcing authorities to employ forensic techniques to uncover twisted paths of lies . One case involved a wife who poisoned her husband with antifreeze, watching him die slowly over two weeks. Another involved a wife who hired a hitman to kill her husband while she was on a business trip, not realizing the hitman was an undercover detective.Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the wife who slept beside him was the one who planned his death.
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