In September 1986, Harriet Renae Giesecke, 40, knowing that she would never receive custody of her seventeen month old daughter because of her criminal record of writing phoney checks, wanted her estranged husband, Randall Carl Giesecke, 35, killed. So, on September 22, she coldly ambushed her husband in his underground parking lot and shot him twice with a high-powered shotgun. Although she claimed that her boyfriend, Bruce Bernard Lynch, 25, shot him without her knowledge out of love for her, in June 1988 she was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

These sort of women do exist. They plot out the murders of their husbands, relatives or friends and kill them. The sort of people that they kill are usually too weak or incapacitated for some other reason. But the truth is that they usually gain from them dying. But what makes then think they will get away with their crimes? What made Adele Gruenke think she could get away with beating an old man up for inheritance? What pushed Elouise Roads Wilson so far over the edge that she would kill her cousin? And how did Agathe Brochu think she would get away with killing her stingy common-law husband? These women are demons, who want to gain, and not let anything stop them. Even if it does mean that they have to kill someone.

But not all women are like that. For example, Mae Favell, 52, stabbed to death her common-law husband because she couldn't take it anymore. He had abused her, burnt her with cigarettes, swung axes, smashed bottles over her head...the list is endless. After sixteen long years, she decided that there was only one way out, and she took it with a knife blade on November 21, 1985. With support from the community, she put the incident behind her, and was given three years probation.

All over, WOMEN WHO KILLED shows that there are two types of women killers - the accidental and the cold-blooded. Both kinds are printed in here. As the judge said at Agathe Brochu's trial, "You are nothing but a blue-eyed, cold hearted killer...the female of the spieces is more deadly than the male." WOMEN WHO KILLED definetely shows that there is nobody innocent out in the Canadian world. Women who kill... There is certainly no discrimination between the two sexes.