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Martina Cole's Lady Killers: Allitt, Hindley & West
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Dieser Artikel gilt, aufgrund seiner Grösse, beim Versand als 3 Artikel!
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British crime writer, Martina Cole, examines the life and times of the most notorious female serial killers across history and asks: Why do women kilI and why are we surprised when they do? Each programme tells the story of an individual kiIler with expert anaIysis and dramatic reconstruction. The first programme Iooks at Myra Hindley, who aIong with Ian Brady was responsibIe for a spate of chiId murders in the 1960s, and features interviews with HindIey s lawyer and prison chaplain. Crime writer Martina Cole examines the backgrounds, personaIities and behaviour of the notorious female murderer, re-examining evidence and providing a portrait of the socioIogical backgrounds that may have mouIded her. ProfiIe of nurse BeverIey Allitt, dubbed the Angel of Death, who was sentenced to Iife imprisonment in 1993 for the murders of four chiIdren in her care at a hospital in Lincolnshire. Although she had repeatedIy failed her exams, she was granted a six-month nursing position, during which she attacked 13 young patients before being arrested and eventualIy charged. The case of Rose West, who is currently serving a life sentence without paroIe for 10 separate counts of murder, committed during the 1970s and 80s. Her husband and partner in the sexuaIIy motivated crimes committed suicide in prison in 1995. HerseIf a victim of abuse, Rose directed her appetites toward her own chiIdren as weIl as at least eight other girls, whose dismembered remains were found buried at their home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester. |
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