Overview
- Prime Video’s Confessions of a Female Serial Killer is set to stream on Sunday, December 7, revisiting the Peterborough ditch murders.
- Dennehy killed three men over 10 days in March 2013 and later stabbed two other men who survived, with the three victims’ bodies found in ditches near Peterborough.
- She pleaded guilty and received a whole-life order in 2014, one of very few imposed on women in the UK, after the judge called her a cruel and manipulative murderer.
- Court records and reporting note psychiatric findings including paraphilia sadomasochism and include her reported remark to an accomplice, “I want my fun. I need you to get my fun.”
- Subsequent custody accounts detail an alleged escape plot disclosed in a failed 2016 High Court claim and officials describing her as arguably the most dangerous female prisoner, while accomplice Gary Stretch also received a life sentence with others jailed.