When the precious bond between parent and child breaks, the adult doesn't always come out on top. These young women were driven to brink of insanity by their parents and their lethal plans for revenge ended in murder.

Deadly Women are often cloaked. One woman's killings go undetected for years; a Granny whose husbands keep dying avoids suspicion for half a decade, and a divorcee uses friendship to kill. Family and friends mean nothing to these "Matriarchs of Murder".