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Used to like the show but fell out of love


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.

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