Martina Cole's Lady Killers

Martina Cole explores the lives of six female serial killers, starting with Myra Hindley, who along with Ian Brady, carried out a spate of child murders in the 1960s.

Martina Cole explores the lives of six female serial killers. Today she focuses on Amelia Dyer, who is thought to have killed more than 400 babies over 30 years.

Martina Cole examines the crimes of Beverley Allitt, who killed four children and attempted to murder a further nine while working at a small hospital in Grantham.

A focus on Rosemary West who, alongside her husband Fred, brutalised and murdered at least ten young women over two decades, including two of their own daughters.

The story of Victorian killer Mary Ann Cotton, who may have been responsible for the deaths of up to 21 members of her own family.

Martina Cole fact from fiction in the tale of Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Bathory, who is thought to have murdered over six hundred of her own maids.