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Black Bird is an American true crime drama miniseries developed by Dennis Lehane, based on the 2010 autobiographical novel In with the Devil: a Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by James Keene with Hillel Levin. [1] The six-episode miniseries premiered on July 8, 2022, on Apple TV+.
Jill Lonita Coit (née Billiot; born June 11, 1943, or 1944 [5]) is an American convicted murderer.A con artist and serial bigamist who has been married 11 times to nine different men since 1961, [1] Coit was convicted of killing her eighth husband in 1993 and is also suspected of killing her third husband in 1972.
Lyda Southard (October 16, 1892 – February 5, 1958), also known as Lyda Anna Mae Trueblood, was an American female suspected serial killer.It was suspected that she had killed four of her husbands, a brother-in-law, and her daughter by using arsenic poisoning derived from flypaper [1] in order to obtain life insurance money.
Louise Peete shot and killed multiple partners and a woman before being executed in the gas chamber in 1947. Instead of divorce, horse owner Jane Dorotik chose to murder her husband so she would not have to share the money she planned to use for her own ranch. Dorotik served a 25-year sentence before being released in 2020.
Snider committed suicide after he killed Stratten. Stratten's death inspired two movies, a book, and several songs: the TV movie Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981), the theatrical motion picture Star 80 (1983), [ 2 ] the book The Killing of the Unicorn (1984), and songs such as "The Best Was Yet to Come" by Bryan Adams ...
Melissa Ann Shepard (née Russell; born May 16, 1935), also known as Melissa Ann Weeks, Melissa Ann Friedrich, Melissa Ann Shephard and Melissa Ann Stewart, [1] sometimes given the sobriquet of Internet Black Widow, is a Canadian murderer and habitual offender. Shepard has been convicted of manslaughter in the death of one of her husbands ...
Barbara Colby (July 2, 1939 – July 24, 1975) was an American actress. She appeared in episodes of numerous television series before a 1974 appearance on The Mary Tyler Moore Show led to a main cast role on the new series Phyllis; after filming three episodes, she and a colleague were murdered outside an acting class, in an unsolved shooting.
Black co-wrote the second series of Time with Jimmy McGovern, set in a women's prison. On Nov 6, 2023, it was announced that Black would adapt her 'Lily Valentine' books for television. [ 5 ] On Nov 27, 2023, it was announced that Black would write the mystery-thriller The Wives for Channel 5.