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Used to like the show but fell out of love

posted 8 years ago by dasanimet
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This was the show that got me hooked to investigation discovery. I watched one of their Christmas marathon and I became a deadly women and ID addict. I'm still an ID addict but don't watch Deadly Women anymore. I noticed that all the stories were pretty much the same thing. There was no much variety: a woman killing her children or husband/lover pretty much covered 90% of the Deadly Women episodes. And because each story is only 20 mins long, the background story is like 5-10 mins which is very short. So the woman turning evil and killing a family member or lover is what you usually end up with in all the episodes which started to become repititive for me. What makes an ID show great to me is the details. Yes, we know someone is going to end up losing their life but we like to know the details that led up to that point. Some shows go as far back as childhood if necessary, and after it occurs, how the investigation unfolded to finally nail the culprit. Deadly Women lacks the details. I've seen some Deadly Women stories in which the story is told better on other shows because those shows dedicated an entire hour to it.

With all that said, I still credit the show for letting me discover ID and I still think Candace Long is one of the best narrators on ID.

[–] jennielucas 8 years ago

I still watch, but have become disillusioned since learning Candace DeLong was *never* a profiler. She's defrauding the viewers. My red flag went up after hearing her use the word "evil" over and over. In one instance, she proclaimed that Satan was coming for one of the deadly women. No FBI-trained profiler would use religious terminology in place of clinical psychological terminology. I checked with a retired profiler, and his basic response is that Ms. DeLong is a disgrace to the FBI. Yes, she worked for them, but in a clerical rather than a profiling capacity. The stories she presents are true, but viewers need to be aware that Ms. DeLong's views are those of an amateur, not a trained, professional FBI profiler.

[–] EmilyTheDramaQueen 8 years ago

I had that feeling as well. I love the show but never took Candace's words serious, she's a good narrator for the show but thats about it.

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[–] HalfBloodPrincess1967 8 years ago

I have to agree, I'm not a fan of DeLong either. They also have a tendency to REALLY get their facts wrong.

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[–] jennielucas 7 years ago

Agreed. I wish they could format to two stories per hour. That kind of time would allow for richer detail and substance. I also like getting a glimpse of photos depicting the real "deadly women".

[–] WhoAteMyCookie 7 years ago

That is wrong information, DeLong spent 20 years in the FBI profiling criminals.
I would hardly call the person who was the head of the San Francisco profiling nothing more than a clerical person. I am hardly a fan of DeLong but lets not let our personal feelings of her become a bias that reduces credit where it belongs. Give credit where credit is due, she is highly regarded for her work with the FBI, a decorated agent for her work and well respected in her path. Just because you or I do not like her does not mean she is a disgrace, a clerical worker, or disillusioning anyone.

You learned she was never a profiler? Considering her FBI decorations and record say otherwise. No FBI-trained profiler would use religious terminology, since when is Satan a word that belongs to only religious terminology? Athiest have uttered the word God but that does not mean they use it in a religious reference. A single word or use of that word does not remove the career path and respect the person has achieved by his or her peers.

[–] jennielucas 7 years ago

My source is a highly-decorated author of several books, fiction and non-fiction. I didn't come up with these criticisms out of nowhere! I apologise to those who are offended, but I posted what I believe is fact from a long-term FBI profiler.

[–] CaptainCrozier (597) 4 years ago

I also used to be a regular watcher of this show in the first three or four seasons but lost interest as a result of the producers of the show running out of interesting stories to tell. As you said, 90% of the stories seemed to be the same way--woman kills her lover/spouse or children, usually for monetary reasons or to escape an unhappy relationship or life as a mother.

I also always thought this show had an unnecessarily sensational tone to it, what with the way the narrator always introduced and editorialized the murderers(or murderesses!), the almost comically melodramatic music--complete with opera singing!--and the way they always felt the need to have these 'portrait shots' of the killers, played--invariably of course--by stunningly gorgeous women which had the effect of likening these women to femme fatal characters from old-timey film noirs. The facts of the cases ought to speak for themselves.