Deadly Women - Season 5 - Eps 3: Hearts of Stone
Mother and wife Lydia Sherman laced food and drinks with arsenic, killing three husbands and all of her children. Young mother Paula Sims murdered her two young daughters, but let her son live due to her personal view that girls were unwanted. Under the influence of serious drugs, Velma Barfield played caretaker while secretly killing people with arsenic. Away from the drugs, she became the 'angel of death row' before being executed.
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.
