Episode
Deadly Women: Breaking Point
Overview
Battered housewife Amber Cummings shot her white supremacist, child-pornography loving, Nazi obsessed husband to save her daughter from being sexually assaulted. Consumed with greed, alcoholic con-artist Kate Webster murders her employer, spins a web of lies to cover up her crime and disposes of the body in the most gruesome way possible. Sick of having to constantly care for her needy, terminally-ill husband, who had only weeks to live, Wendi Andriano got impatient waiting for him to die and sped things up by killing him herself.
Details
- Series
- Deadly Women
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 2011-09-09
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Breaking Point is Episode 7 in Season 5 of Deadly Women. It aired on 2011-09-09. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 6: Kill For Cash
In order to kill her father, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong had to make enough money to hire a hit-man and decided to use a collar bomb as a weapon. Little did her accomplice know the bomb on his chest wasn't a decoy. Rosie Alfaro stabbed her friend's 9-year-old sister over 50 times to rob the house and trade the items and money stolen in exchange for drugs and booze. To inherit her kind neighbor's farm, Kim Snibson brutally murdered the couple and got two men to do the work for her.
Episode 8: Love to Death
Self-proclaimed voodoo queen Josephine Gray terrifies her husbands and kills them, but due to lack of evidence, locking her up called for some very drastic actions. Elisa McNabney and Sarah Dutra have a bond so strong that it leaves Elisa's husband the third person in his marriage. Money and pure selfishness motivates them to execute Larry. Peter Shellard gives his girlfriend Shirley Withers everything including her own boutique, money and a nice house. How does Shirley repay him? Well, by hiring two drug addicts to murder Peter and stage it like a game of kinky sex gone wrong.
More episodes from this season
Episode 5: To Love and To Murder
Southern belle Louise Peete shot and killed multiple partners – leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind her before the state took her life in the gas chamber. Instead of divorce, horse owner Jane Dorotik chose to murder her husband so she wouldn't have to share the money she planned on spending on her own ranch. Teresa Lewis and two secret lovers shot her husband and his son for life insurance, but they didn't plan it well and the men didn't die until after the cops showed up.
Episode 9: Sacrifice Their Blood
Robin Lee Row needs money to pay off her excessive spending, her solution is to set the house on fire with her husband and two kids inside. But her water-tight alibi leads police on a wild goose chase for clues and a conviction – leading to dark secrets from her past and only one way to expose her. Marybeth Tinning loved the attention she received after her third child died of meningitis as a baby, to keep receiving that attention she quietly kills her other eight children over a span of years. She's seen as a woman with a series of unfortunate events, until she goes one step too far by smothering an adopted child. To make sure she doesn't lose her kids to her husband in a custody battle, alcoholic, con-artist Cora Caro gets revenge on her unfaithful husband (both are seen as caring Christians) by shooting their three eldest sons and attempts suicide by shooting herself in the mouth, barely surviving it.
Episode 4: Kill Their Own
Jealous of the attention given to her children, Darlie Routier stabbed two of her sons and staged a break in to get that attention back. Frances Newton cold-heartedly shot her husband and two young children for life insurance money. Susan Eubanks got revenge against her ex-husbands by shooting and killing her four sons in the order they came into her life, she currently awaits execution.
Episode 10: Deadly Possessions
Rachel Wade and Sarah Luderman engage in an online battle for the affections of a boy and the battle enters the real world. When Sarah takes one risk too many by confronting Rachel at a house after humiliating her online, Rachel is armed with a knife and uses it to effectively kill Sarah. Caroline Young was so upset at the thought of losing her grandson to his biological father, she stabs both her grand-kids (ages 6 and 4) and also stabs herself (but survives) and all of this is while her daughter and the kids' mother is watching. Elizabeth Duncan had only one man who always stuck by her - her son Frank. So when Frank marries his pregnant girlfriend (who helped nurse Elizabeth back to health after attempting suicide) in a private ceremony, Elizabeth taunts them with phone calls and hires two amateur criminals to kidnap and kill Frank's pregnant wife and their unborn child.
Episode 3: Hearts of Stone
Mother and wife Lydia Sherman laced food and drinks with arsenic, killing three husbands and all of her children. Young mother Paula Sims murdered her two young daughters, but let her son live due to her personal view that girls were unwanted. Under the influence of serious drugs, Velma Barfield played caretaker while secretly killing people with arsenic. Away from the drugs, she became the 'angel of death row' before being executed.
Episode 11: An Inconvenient Marriage
After learning her first husband had an illegitimate child, Raynella Dossett Leath begins to control every aspect of her new husband life, including his death when she's overcome by greed. Soon afterwards, another shocking secret is revealed. Margaret Rudin was sick of her husband wasting all of his money on alcohol and guns (money that she wants to spend) that she kills him and dismembers him before going on the run. Linda Lou Charbonneau got sick of her first husband and married his nephew; when neither man's financial status met Linda's satisfaction, her solution was to kill both of them.
Episode 2: Loathe Thy Neighbor
Tiffany Cole kidnapped and buried alive an elderly couple who had helped care for her as her father was dying from terminal cancer. Seeking initiation into the notorious street gang, the Bloods, Shonda Walter butchered a Pearl Harbor survivor with an ax without mercy. And bipolar Sunday School teacher Melissa Huckaby drugged her young daughter's 8-year-old friend out of jealousy and raped her using a rolling pin.
Episode 12: Sins of the Sister
Sarah Mitchell lives rent-free in the house of her hard-working, well-to-do older sister Stevie. When Stevie cuts her off after learning Sarah had been stealing money and writing checks in her name, Sarah's plans go from devious to diabolic by killing, dismembering and re-emerging from a fire as her sister. Two twins, wholesome school-teacher Peggy Lowe and flashy, audacious nurse Betty Wilson find themselves caught in a web of deception and mystery after a man they both met murders Betty's ailing husband (a well loved eye-doctor whom Betty married for money) and claims they both made him do it. The truth is one that shakes Huntsville, Alabama to it's core. Kathleen Worrall suffers from a hormonal disease, but the medicine causes weight gain, so she stops taking it. As a result, the tiniest things set her off and one mistake leads to her stabbing her younger sister Susan.
Episode 1: Twisted Thrills
Christina Walters defies the odds by becoming a gang leader at age 20 and attempts to earn the Crips' tear tattoo under an eye meaning they've killed. As deadly initiation, Christina and her gang kidnap three women in two separate abductions and shoot them like lambs to the slaughter. The seemingly senseless murders would've remained unsolved if it weren't for one thing – one woman is still alive. Judith Neelley and her husband Alvin met and after marrying when she was 15, they begin a crime spree. After being released on armed robbery charges, Judith and Alvin commit the most heinous of crimes by abducting, raping, torturing and murdering two women, one of them a 13-year-old girl. One extraordinary breakthrough leads to an eyewitness confession and one detail ultimately leads to their arrest. Irene Maslin gladly plans to help kill her friend's on-again-off-again boyfriend by injecting him with battery acid.
Episode 13: Pleasure from Pain
Respected midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg secretly abuses her servants and ruthlessly tortures, beats and starves them. It's not until one girl is found dying from numerous open sores that this woman is finally unmasked and she is branded a monster for centuries to come. Kerry Lyn Dalton discovers while she was in jail, her flatmate sold some of her belongings to pay for crystal meth, which both women take. Kerry, high on meth, responds by torturing Irene May to death via everything from electrocution to stabbing to bludgeoning. Martha Rendell moves in with her lover, who leaves his wife for her, but keeps their kids. Martha seems to have jumped out of a Grimm's fairy-tale as a wicked stepmother – she makes the children ill and pretends to swab their throats with medicine, which is really acid. Killing three kids, the forth one runs away and reveals she got pleasure from doing this.