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Casey Anthony, a young, attractive, single mother, stood accused of the murder of her adorable two-year-old daughter, Caylee.

Hailed as "the trial of a decade," the proceedings generated a media feeding frenzy as each shocking new disclosure provoked a blizzard of coverage leading up to the shocking verdict. Biography goes back to the beginning to explore Casey Anthony's life, behavior and the series of lies that led to the massive public outcry over her acquittal in this sensational case.

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Nine year old Shannon Matthews disappeared whilst walking home from school in February 2008. After weeks of appeals from her family and a police operation costing over £3 million, she was remarkably found less than a mile from her house. Her mother, Karen Matthews and a local man, Mick Donovan, quickly became suspects in the little girl’s disappearance. What followed was an extraordinary story of ultimate betrayal.

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A look at the bizarre life of Sandra Bridewell, a beautiful Southern belle and wealthy socialite who became known as the "Black Widow" when three of her husbands ended up dead and Sandra pocketed big life insurance payouts.

The program follows detectives and newspaper reporter Glenna Whitley as they investigate Bridewell's trail of death and deceit and prepare to spring a trap for her.

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A truly tragic story of mum Petrina Stocker who killed her nine year old child David by poisoning him with salt while he was being treated for a mystery illness in Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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A middle class mum-of-two walks into a beauty salon in broad daylight and at point blank range shoots dead her pregnant best friend.

We reveal the tragic tale of events which drove surburban housewife Rena Salmon to murder.
 

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In 1966 Myra Hindley was sentenced to life for the Moors murders. In 2002 Britain's most infamous female prisoner died behind bars.

With her imprisonment for life without parole, Hindley's life at large was at an end. But behind bars, a new life was just beginning.

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A mother kills her child. It's a crime as old as Greek mythology, yet it's just as shocking today when stories of Andrea Yates, Marilyn Lemak and Susan Smith show up in the news.

Though filicide is not uncommon, society grapples with the question of how such a seemingly unnatural crime could happen.
How could these women cross the intuitive thresholds that stop others from killing their own babies, their own flesh and blood.
Are these women always insane, or are there cases where clear-cut, cold-blooded choices are made?

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Snapped: Women Who Kill is a hard-hitting true crime series chronicling the lives of female criminals, asking what it was that made these women snap and turn to murder.

Find out more about Snapped: Women Who Kill here

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