Synopsis

Women who take lives. Their victims are frequently those nearest to them—partners, family members, friends. Columbia forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Stone employs his scale of evil to explore the minds and motives behind these acts. Do women kill less often than men, or does the ingrained perception of them as gentler allow them to perpetrate more shocking crimes with impunity? Dorothea Puente tended to elderly alcoholics in her home, administering poison until they died; Judy Neelley abducted