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Female Criminals investigates the shocking cases of women who made headlines and uncovers the dark motives, hidden psychology, and jaw-dropping twists behind their crimes. Join Law&Crime's Elizabeth Millner in reexamining the complex and often misunderstood world of Female Criminals. Watch free, only on Spotify.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Female Criminals traces cases involving women through personal history, investigative evidence, and legal consequences, often with close attention to motive.
Female Criminals builds case narratives around women accused or convicted of serious crimes, with Vanessa Richardson or Elizabeth Milner guiding each account through personal history, investigation, and legal outcome.
A fatal suitcase 'game' carries you into years of courtroom fallout.
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A suitcase video carries a murder case through courtroom conflict, a life sentence, and an appeal still in motion.
A hide-and-seek game turns into the core of a murder case after Sarah Boone records George inside a suitcase, leaving a private encounter to become evidence seen far beyond the courtroom.
A terrifying home invasion gives way to a fatal conspiracy and a devastating sentence.
Female Criminals follows the murder of Ernie Ybarra from a frightening home invasion to the later unraveling of a fatal conspiracy involving Samantha Wolford.
A murderer's arrest opens into an Alabama escape story of aliases, deception, and reinvention.
Audrey Marie Hilly's arrest turns out to be less an ending than the start of an even stranger second act. The episode tracks her through aliases, disguises, marriage, a faked death, and the invented twin sister story, while also showing how she pulled John close with claims of…
A polished exterior, a family fracture, and arsenic turn control into something far more sinister.
Audrey Marie Hilly comes across as someone whose composed surface masked a steady hunger for love, attention, and money. The episode finds its strongest turn after her son Mike leaves home in 1972, when Marie decides Frank is the obstacle and starts adding arsenic to his food.
Insurance money, a blue Thunderbird, and an unsettling gun demand frame Sharon Kinney's portrait.
Sharon Kinney's story plays as a study in appetite after James' death: the $24,000 life insurance payout, the blue Ford Thunderbird, the fancy clothes, and the affair with Walter T. Jones, the charismatic former Marine who sold her the car.
A bleak, measured look at abuse, neglect, and the slow accumulation of harm.
The episode takes a grim, careful look at abuse and neglect, opening with a warning before tracing Lisa Montgomery's childhood and the adults who failed to protect her.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
Patrick Radden Keefe investigates whether the CIA secretly wrote a Scorpions hit.
Jake Halpern and the Snowball team track a con artist who defrauded a family.
A city-by-city true-crime documentary, from Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick scandal to mob confessions.
This episode explores Lisa Montgomery's traumatic childhood, including fetal alcohol syndrome, severe abuse, and sexual assault, which led to mental health issues like dissociation and bipolar disorder.
This episode explores the case of Dorothy Martin and the Seekers, a cult in 1954 Chicago that believed in alien communication and an apocalyptic flood.
This episode recounts the 1969 murder on Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, starting with Tim Ireland hearing screams and investigating, leading to the discovery of a brutal crime that disrupted the area's celebrity parties.
Female Criminals follows Sarah Boone and George Torres Jr.
Elizabeth Milner's Female Criminals follows Samantha Wolford and Ernie Ybarra in Titus County, Texas, where two sets of twins, a fifth child, and a strained marriage frame the case.
Female Criminals follows Audrey Marie Hilly after her September 1979 arrest in Anniston, Alabama, when bad checks exposed a trail that included Frank Hilly's arsenic death and Carol's poisoning.
Female Criminals follows Audrey Marie Hilly of Anniston, Alabama, from a permissive childhood into a pattern of control, spending, and jealousy.
["Female Criminals profiles Sharon Kinney, later nicknamed La Pistolera, from Independence, Missouri into a Kansas City murder case that also reaches Mexico City.", "Sharon lies to James Kinney about her age and college plans, uses a false pregnancy to secure a 1956 marriage, and then pushes him through spending, affairs, and divorce threats.", "The story follows James's shooting, the claim that two-year-old Leslie pulled the trigger, Sharon's demand for James's gun back, and the later killing of Patricia Jones.", "The episode closes with Sharon's trials, the courtroom focus on her appearance, and the La Pistolera nickname that follows her into Mexico City."]
This episode examines the case of two 12-year-old girls who attempted to murder their friend to appease the fictional Slenderman.
This episode examines the case of two 12-year-old girls who attempted to kill a friend to prove their devotion to the Slender Man internet meme.
A true crime podcast examining the cases and psychology of female criminals, with this episode featuring a crossover from Medical Murders about a nurse who killed out of envy.
This episode introduces a podcast about medical professionals who kill, focusing on the case of nurse Jane Toppin.
This episode explores Mae West's battle with obscenity charges and how she used the publicity to launch her film career.
On November 11, 1988, Sacramento detectives searching for Burt Montoya uncovered a human leg bone at Dorothea Puente's boarding house.
Janine Jones prepared 333 units of heparin when a safe dose was less than one unit per cubic centimeter.
Female Criminals follows Shi Jianchao's 1935 trial in Tianjin after she shot warlord Sun Quanfang at a Buddhist society.