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Murderess Podcast
by Sidney Smith
Women kill for many of the same reasons men do: love, money, jealousy, rage, control, fear, survival, and sometimes reasons that are much harder to explain. Murderess asks what happened, why it happened, and what the evidence actually tells us. Murderess Podcast is an immersive true-crime series hosted by comedian and storyteller Sidney Smith, examining the stories of women who kill. Every case is presented to the Quiet Jury, the listeners. From infamous murders to cases that received far less attention, each episode takes the Quiet Jury through the people, evidence, motives, contradictions, forensic details, courtroom battles, and choices behind the crime, while never losing sight of the lives taken along the way. The goal is not simply to tell you what happened. It is to give the Quiet Jury enough of the story to wrestle with the harder questions. What do we actually know? What can
Episodes
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#114 Sarah Boone - “That's What You Get"
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 114: Sarah Boone - “That’s What You Get” A Murderess Podcast investigation February 23, 2020. Winter Park, Florida. Sarah Boone zipped her boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr. inside a suitcase during what she initially described as a drunken game of hide-and-seek. The next day,...
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Murderess Replay: #89 Dena Schlosser - "The Mother Who Said God Told Her To"
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Murderess Replay: Dena Schlosser - "The Mother Who Said God Told Her To" A Murderess Podcast investigation She was a stay-at-home mom in the suburbs of Texas. But on a quiet Monday morning in 2004, Dena Schlosser placed a 911 call that would haunt the nation - telling dispatchers...
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Murderess Mini: Christa Pike - “Boy, Did Tennessee Blow This”
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 113: Christa Pike — “One Hour From Death” A Murderess Podcast investigation September 30, 2026. Nashville, Tennessee. By nine o’clock Wednesday morning, Christa Pike was supposed to have about one hour left to live. The governor had denied clemency. The U.S. Supreme Court...
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#113 Christa Pike (Update!) - “One Hour From Death"
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 113: Christa Pike — “One Hour From Death” A Murderess Podcast investigation September 30, 2026. Nashville, Tennessee. By nine o’clock Wednesday morning, Christa Pike was supposed to have about one hour left to live. The governor had denied clemency. The U.S. Supreme Court...
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#112 Christa Pike - “It's Harder To Hurt Somebody When They're Talking To You"
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 112: Christa Pike — “It’s Harder to Hurt Somebody When They’re Talking to You” A Murderess Podcast investigation Nineteen-year-old Colleen Slemmer left Job Corps with Christa Pike and two other students. She never came back. Christa told police it was “harder to hurt...
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#111 Susan Wright - “I Couldn’t Stop”
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 111: Susan Wright - “I Couldn’t Stop” A Murderess Podcast investigation January 13, 2003. Northwest Harris County, Texas. Susan Wright stabbed her husband 193 times. She never denied it. She said years of abuse ended in a desperate fight for her life. Prosecutors said the...
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#110 Taylor Parker - “She Needed A Baby” | Part 2
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 110: Taylor Parker, Part Two — “She Needed a Baby” A Murderess Podcast investigation October 9, 2020. New Boston, Texas. Taylor Parker’s impossible pregnancy has finally reached the day it is supposed to become real. For nearly ten months, every contradiction had been...
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#109 Taylor Parker - “The Pregnancy That Never Existed” | Part 1
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 109: Taylor Parker, Part One — “The Pregnancy That Never Existed” A Murderess Podcast investigation October 9, 2020. New Boston, Texas. East Texas. Taylor Parker tells Wade Griffin she is pregnant, even though a hysterectomy has made that impossible. Instead of backing…
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#108 Bernadette Protti - "The Fear of Being Weird"
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 108: Bernadette Protti — “The Fear of Being Weird” A Murderess Podcast investigation June 23, 1984. Orinda, California. A fifteen-year-old kills another fifteen-year-old because she’s terrified people will think she’s weird, then goes back to school and lives among…
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Murderess Podcast Is Back | New Episodes, New Cases, Same Quiet Jury
Murderess Podcast is back. I’m Sidney Smith, and the Quiet Jury is officially back in session. The relaunch begins with four episodes covering Kouri Richins, Bernadette Protti, and a two-part investigation into Taylor Parker, a woman who spent nearly ten months faking a pregnancy before the lie...
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#107 Kouri Richins - “Are You With Me?”
📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 107: Kouri Richins - “Are You With Me?” A Murderess Podcast investigation March 4, 2022. Kamas, Utah. When 39-year-old Eric Richins is found dead in his bedroom, his wife Kouri says they had spent the night celebrating a major real-estate closing. She made him a drink, he...
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#106 Erin Caffey - "The Door She Opened (Revisited)
🎙 Episode 106: Erin Caffey — “The Door Was Unlocked” This episode revisits a story that meant a great deal to someone who believed deeply in this show March 1, 2008. Emory, Texas. Just after midnight, a fire erupts at a quiet brick home on a rural road. Firefighters expect an accident. Instead,...
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Murderess Replay: #30 Amanda Lewis: The Poolside Tragedy
What's up Murderess Accomplices! In this week's episode, Sidney and Jamie cover a drowning, a grieving mother and a child’s accusation that changed everything. In this special rerun, we revisit the Amanda Lewis case — a story built on memory, doubt, and the thin line between accident and intent....
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#105 Omaima Nelson - "Thanksgiving in Blood" (A Murderess Podcast holiday special)
🎙 Episode 105: Omaima Nelson — “Thanksgiving in Blood” A Murderess Podcast holiday special Thanksgiving weekend, 1991. Costa Mesa, California. A 56-year-old man named Bill Nelson is supposed to introduce his new wife to his daughter over dinner. He never makes it. Instead, neighbors hear a…
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#104 Sharon Kinne - Part 4 (Final) - "La Pistolera’s Disappearing Act"
🎙 Episode 104: Sharon Kinne — “La Pistolera’s Disappearing Act” Part 4 of a multi-part series December 1969. A blackout sweeps through Iztapalapa Prison in Mexico City. Within minutes, one of the world’s most elusive inmates — La Pistolera — is gone. No gunfire. No alarms. No chase. For years,...
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Murderess Replay: #39 The murder of an icon. Yolanda Saldivar does the unforgivable to a generation of fans and the family of Selena.
What's up Murderess Accomplices! In this week's episode, Sidney and Jamie cover the murderess who took the life of a beloved musical star. It's Yolanda Saldivar. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the show
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#103 Sharon Kinne - Part 3 - “Trials, Mistrials, and Mexico”
🎙 Episode 103: Sharon Kinne — “Trials, Mistrials, and Mexico” Part 3 of a multi-part series January 1962. A packed courtroom in Independence, Missouri. The state charges Sharon with the first-degree murder of her husband, James Kinne. The trial hinges on the testimony of a teenager who says she...
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The Jolly Rancher Kissing Trick! (Don’t Try This) - Featuring a clip from Running in Slow Motion
If you’re into this kind of back-and-forth, me and my wife Tamra host a podcast called Running In Slow Motion. It’s where we talk real life, marriage, growth, and everything in between — and it’s honestly one of my favorite things I get to make. Running In Slow Motion New episodes every Thursday....
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Murderess Replay: #58 The Devil herself, Karla Homolka!
What's one the worse thing a woman could do? Got your answer?! Well, listen here and see if you're right on course with Karla Homolka. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the show
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#102 Sharon Kinne - Part 2 - “The Widow and the Lover's Wife”
🎙 Episode 102: Sharon Kinne — “The Widow and the Lover’s Wife” Part 2 of a multi-part series May 1960. Independence, Missouri. Patricia Jones leaves work after a phone call, telling coworkers she’ll be right back. She never returns. Hours later, her car is found abandoned. Days later, her body…
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I'm Back, Quiet Jury!
Thanks for sticking with me through the replays — a new episode of Murderess Podcast drops on tomorrow. 🎙️ Tap the link, subscribe, and come hang with us. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the show
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Murderess Replay: #78 This one was a bit complex. But, she is still a Murderess. Stephanie Lapotka.
🎙 MURDERESS REPLAY: #78 Stephanie Lopatka MURDERESS PODCAST is back! Same host and a new research squad brings you Season 4. I'm back. And we have a pretty strange one to kick off 2024 and Season 4. Come on in. LISTEN. SUBSCRIBE. SHARE Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your...
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Murderess Replay: #29 The Live Show Is Coming On Sept. 15th!! (Today we're talking Rose West)
🎙 MURDERESS REPLAY: #29 Rose West In this Murderess Replay, we revisit the story of Rose West — one half of Britain’s most infamous killer couple. Behind the walls of 25 Cromwell Street, Rose and Fred West built what neighbors thought was an ordinary family home. Instead, it became a house of...
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Murderess Replay: #51 Apple Colorists, Kevin Hart and Joe Rogan and (The Manson Women)
🎙 Murderess Replay: Ep. 51 — The Manson Women August 1969. The world remembers the names Tate and LaBianca — but behind Charles Manson’s cult of personality stood a group of young women whose devotion turned deadly. In this Murderess Replay, host Sidney Smith revisits the story of Susan Atkins,...
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#101 Sharon Kinne - Part 1 - “The Pretty Widow”
🎙 Episode 101: Sharon Kinne — “The Pretty Widow” Part 1 of a multi-part series Independence, Missouri. March 1960. A husband found dead in his bed. A young wife weeping, a toddler daughter blamed. Police call it an accident. Sharon Kinne walks free. But before that shocking day, there was a...
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#100 Megan Huntsman - Part 2 (Final) - "The Confession"
🎙 Episode 100: Megan Huntsman — “The Confession” Part 2 of a multi-part series February 2015. In a Utah courtroom, a mother admits to the unthinkable. What began as a story of one stillborn child has unraveled into a confession of six murders. In Part 2 of the Megan Huntsman story, host Sidney...
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MURDERESS REPLAY: #9 Hey man, just give the guy some candy and Pop Tarts.
🎙 MURDERESS REPLAY: #9 Belle Gunness April 1908. A farmhouse in La Porte, Indiana burns to the ground. When investigators sift through the ashes, they find more than charred timbers. Buried on the property are bodies — dozens of them — each pointing to the same woman at the center of the…
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#99 Megan Huntsman - Part 1 - "The Garage of Secrets"
🎙 Episode 99: Megan Huntsman — “The Garage of Secrets” Part 1 of a multi-part series April 2014. A quiet Utah neighborhood. A garage filled with boxes that look like ordinary storage. Inside one of them — a discovery that would unravel eighteen years of silence. In Part 1 of the Megan Huntsman...
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#98 Clara Harris - Part 4 (Final) - "Trial of a Wife"
🎙 Episode 98: Clara Harris — “Trial of a Wife” Part 4 of a multi-part series February 2003. A Houston courtroom holds its breath. The prosecution plays the tape: a silver Mercedes circling, headlights sweeping across asphalt, a body lying still. The defense pleads sudden passion — the collapse…
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#97 Clara Harris - Part 3 - “The Mercedes and Murder: Caught on Camera”
🎙 Episode 97: Clara Harris — “The Mercedes and Murder: Caught on Camera” Part 3 of a multi-part series July 24, 2002. A warm Texas night. In the parking lot of the Nassau Bay Hilton, a silver Mercedes-Benz circles under the glow of security lights. Inside, a marriage shatters in real time. In…
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#96 Clara Harris - Part 2 - “The Other Woman”
🎙 Episode 96: Clara Harris — “The Other Woman” Part 2 of a multi-part series She wore perfection like armor. But beneath the surface, something had shifted. Cologne. Late nights. A quiet phone call in the next room. In Part 2 of the Clara Harris story, host Sidney Smith walks us deeper into the...
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#95 Clara Harris - Part 1 - “Cracks in the Perfect Wife”
🎙 Episode 95: Clara Harris — “Cracks in the Perfect Wife” Part 1 of a multi-part series Before the headlines… Before the Mercedes… Before the betrayal that would define her name— Clara Harris built a life people envied. In this first installment, host Sidney Smith takes us back to Bogotá,...
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Patreon Bonus Sneak Peek - Winnie Ruth Judd - “Someone Helped Pack Those Trunks”
Here’s a sneak peek from our latest Murderess bonus episode on Patreon. Hear the full epilogue, exclusive to Murderess supporters, now on Patreon. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the show
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#94 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 5 (Final) - "The Truth That Never Made Trial"
🎙 Episode 95: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Truth That Never Made Trial” Part 5 of a multi-part series For forty years, Winnie’s story was buried beneath headlines, half-truths, and courtroom omissions. But journalist Jana Bommersbach wasn’t content with the official version. In this final…
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Bonus Clip – “Dutch Bros vs Starbucks” from Running In Slow Motion
While you wait for tomorrow’s next chapter in the Winnie Ruth Judd series, here’s something a little different. This 9-minute clip is from Running In Slow Motion, a podcast I host with my wife, Tamra. We talk life, love, and everyday chaos—with honesty and laughs along the way. In this short…
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#93 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 4 - "The Girl Who Kept Escaping"
🎙 Episode 93: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Girl Who Kept Escaping” Part 4 of a multi-part series She was sentenced to death. Then quietly declared insane. And for the next 40 years, Winnie Ruth Judd slipped through the cracks—sometimes literally. In this chapter of the story, host Sidney Smith guides...
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#92 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 3 - "Trial by Reputation"
🎙 Episode 92: Winnie Ruth Judd — “Trial by Reputation” Part 3 of a multi-part series She stood trial. But not just for murder. For being herself—a woman, a mistress, an enigma. In this chapter of the Winnie Ruth Judd story, host Sidney Smith examines a courtroom where justice took a backseat to...
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#91 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 2 - "Two In the Trunk"
🎙 Episode 91: Winnie Ruth Judd — “Two in the Trunk” Part 2 of a multi-part series Two women are dead. One is missing. And a pair of leaking trunks has turned a quiet train station into a national crime scene. In this chapter of the Winnie Ruth Judd story, host Sidney Smith takes listeners deeper...
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#90 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 1 - "The Woman in the Brown Suit"
🎙 Episode 90: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Woman in the Brown Suit” Part 1 of a multi-part series She was described as frail. Pretty. Melancholic. But behind the soft voice and quiet eyes was a woman unraveling—torn between love, illness, and rejection. In this opening chapter of the Winnie Ruth Judd...
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#89 Dena Schlosser - "The Mother Who Said God Told Her To"
🎙 Episode 89: Dena Schlosser — “The Hymn, the Knife, and the 911 Call” Standalone Episode She was a stay-at-home mom in the suburbs of Texas. But on a quiet Monday morning in 2004, Dena Schlosser placed a 911 call that would haunt the nation—telling dispatchers she’d cut off her infant…
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MURDERESS REPLAY: #6 The Jetsons was some white man's fantasy.
🚨 Encore Presentation — Originally released March 2021, this episode remains one of the most discussed on Murderess Podcast. Dive back into the story of Dorothea Puente. Hey listeners — Sidney here. This week, I’m pulling one from deep in the archives. Back when Murderess Podcast was still…
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#88 Veronica Orderud — “The Silence at the Farmhouse Door”
🎙 Episode 88: Veronica Orderud — “The Silence at the Farmhouse Door” Standalone Episode She didn’t shoot. She didn’t confess. But she went to prison… along with three others. This week, we go inside one of Norway’s most haunting and divisive murder cases — the 1999 triple homicide that tore…
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MURDERESS REPLAY: Susan Smith — “The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger”
🚨 Encore Presentation — Originally released April 17, 2025, this episode remains one of the most discussed on Murderess Podcast. Dive back into the story of Susan Smith, the mother who shocked a nation. Hey listeners — Sidney here. My voice is a little worn out this week from performances and a...
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#87 Karla Faye Tucker — The Woman With the Pickaxe Smile
🎙 Episode 87: “Karla Faye Tucker — The Woman With the Pickaxe Smile” Standalone Episode She didn’t scream. She didn’t panic. She just smiled—and kept swinging. In this episode, we go inside the brutal 1983 murders of Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton—and follow the path of Karla Faye Tucker, a…
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#86 Jasmine Richardson — The Girl Who Smiled Through the Blood
🎙 Episode 86: “Jasmine Richardson — The Girl Who Smiled Through the Blood” Standalone Episode She was 12 years old. He was 23. And together, they planned the brutal murder of her entire family. In this episode, we trace the chilling case of Jasmine Richardson—a middle school girl who fell under...
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Holding Space: New Episode This Thursday
This week’s full episode is almost ready—but needed one more night to breathe. The story drops Thursday morning. Thank you for holding space, and for listening. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the show
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#85 Michelle Knotek — "The House That Hurt People”
🎙 Episode 85: “Michelle Knotek — The House That Hurt People” Standalone Episode Michelle Knotek didn’t kill with knives or rage. She used manipulation, isolation, and slow, invisible cruelty. She took in the vulnerable—friends, family, boarders—and offered them safety. What she delivered instead...
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#84 Debora Green — "Fire and Poison” (Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc)
🎙 Episode 84: “Debora Green — The Doctor Who Prescribed Her Own Destruction” (Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc) Deborah Green was a brilliant physician, a mother, and a woman seemingly in control—until everything around her began to collapse. Beneath the facade of success and stability,...
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#83 Lacey Spears — "The Mother Who Needed to Be Watched” (Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc)
🎙 Episode 83: “Lacey Spears — The Mother Who Needed to Be Watched” Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc Lacey Spears was the face of a modern-day “supermom”—blogging her sick child’s journey, documenting his struggles, and building a following around strength and faith. But none of it was real. In...
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#82 Diane Downs — The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger (Part of the “Mothers Who Kill” arc)
🎙 Episode 82: Diane Downs — The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger Part of the “Mothers Who Kill” arc Diane Downs said a stranger shot her children. She blamed a man in the trees, her ex-husband, even her daughter. But the truth was far more chilling: Diane did it herself—then drove to the hospital…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Women kill for many of the same reasons men do: love, money, jealousy, rage, control, fear, survival, and sometimes reasons that are much harder to explain.
Murderess asks what happened, why it happened, and what the evidence actually tells us.
Murderess Podcast is an immersive true-crime series hosted by comedian and storyteller Sidney Smith, examining the stories of women who kill.
Every case is presented to the Quiet Jury, the listeners.
From infamous murders to cases that received far less attention, each episode takes the Quiet Jury through the people, evidence, motives, contradictions, forensic details, courtroom battles, and choices behind the crime, while never losing sight of the lives taken along the way.
The goal is not simply to tell you what happened. It is to give the Quiet Jury enough of the story to wrestle with the harder questions. What do we actually know? What can
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Women kill for many of the same reasons men do: love, money, jealousy, rage, control, fear, survival, and sometimes reasons that are much harder to explain. Murderess asks what happened, why it happened, and what the evidence actually tells us. Murderess Podcast is an immersive true-crime series...
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