Here we go inside the worlds and minds of the black widows and the
women who murder for love.
We investigate these ruthless bad girls, and we reveal the deadliest
women of all.
Our investigation profiles women like Catherine Nevin, who murdered
husband Tom in a greedy bid to grab his fortune, the infamous Scissor
Sisters, who killed and chopped up their mother's lover in a
drug-fuelled revenge killing, and black widows like Julie McGinley and
Hazel Stewart, who took out their husbands so they could be with their
lovers.
Investigations peels back the masks of the Killer Queens and reveals
what drives these women to murder.
Julie McGinley
Julie McGinley was a young woman who got caught up in a sordid world
of group sex and blackmail.
First to enthral her was husband Gerry McGinley. The pair indulged in
group sex, filming romps with other men and then blackmailing them.
Their victims included businessmen, farmers and a part-time policeman.
Gerry went missing in 2000, but cops in Northern Ireland became
suspicious when Julie moved in with a new man, Michael Monaghan.
Monaghan and Julie had been having an affair and had been spotted
having sex in a car park on the outskirts of Enniskillen. Monaghan had
been McGinley's partner in the furniture business they ran in
Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh.
A forensic examination of the room where McGinley had been bludgeoned
to death as he slept found it had been completely redecorated.
The lovers were about to be arrested for murder when a child out
playing discovered McGinley's remains in a remote wooded area in Co.
Leitrim.
Julie claimed that Gerry had tried to force her into having sex with
Monaghan so he could watch and videotape it. In reality Gerry was
murdered in cold blood by Monaghan and his body dumped his body in
woods near the famous beauty spot of Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim.
The two were later jailed for life at Laganside Court in Belfast. The
mother-of-two was freed from Hydebank Women's Prison in Belfast
earlier this month and is understood to be living in the city.
Catherine Nevin
Without doubt, the most sensational trial of a woman accused of
killing her partner was that of Catherine Nevin.
The case featured allegations about a judge, former paramilitaries and
tales of illicit sexual affairs.
Her husband Tom Nevin had been blasted to death with a shotgun as he
sat in the kitchen of Jack White's pub in Co.
Wicklow on March 19, 1996.
Six pellets, the size used to kill deer, tore through his heart,
leaving him with no chance of survival.
Catherine Nevin was found slumped in the hallway, panties stuffed in
her mouth, her wrists tightly tied.
The pub's takings were gone, but there was no sign of a break-in and
no fingerprints were found.
Detectives soon discovered that Nevin had approached three men and had
asked them to murder her husband. One of the men said in court that
Nevin had told him: "It would look great if Tom was to die in my
arms."
After a marathon second trial which lasted 42 days and saw 170
witnesses, Catherine Nevin was convicted by a jury of murder and was
sentenced to life.
Nevin, who has fought several legal battles in a bid to challenge her
conviction, is still serving her sentence.
She has, however, been allowed temporary release to attend college
courses in Dublin city.
Jacqui Noble
The grisly murder of Derek Benson, at a flat in Ballymun, Dublin, in
2000, created headline news at the time.
It came not long after two Irish men had been murdered and mutilated
in Holland, sparking fears of a copy-cat killer.
The truth wasn't any less grim.
Benson had been brutally hacked to death with a martial arts-style
sword and sources said that his blood literally ran down the walls.
During the murder trial, it took State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy
almost an hour to list the 25 stab wounds and 60 cuts inflicted on
him.
His partner, mother-of-one Jacqui Noble (pictured right with Benson),
also from Ballymun in Dublin, said she was forced to hire a hitman
because of Benson's campaign of violence and terror against her.
She paid Paul Hopkins the equivalent of €252 to kill the man who had
tortured her because she wanted a better life for her daughter.
Hopkins, who worked as a doorman at a pub in Drumcondra, had been paid
half the cash, with the rest due after the job was done.
The two worked out a plan to kill Benson together. Hopkins partially
decapitated Benson with a sword after Noble had drugged him with a
cocktail of heroin and valium.
During her trial for murder, Noble told how her former partner used
his fists, feet and various objects to beat her.
She gave evidence how she had been subjected to depraved acts of
physical violence while under Benson's influence and control.
She said he would threaten her with a knife while wearing a balaclava.
Noble remains an inmate in the Dóchas Centre in Dublin's Mountjoy
Prison, where she continues to serve a life sentence, but is allowed
temporary release as she prepares for permanent freedom.
Dolores O'Neill
Ten years ago Dolores O'Neill was jailed for killing her husband Declan.
She had stabbed him 21 times and hit him 26 times with a plumber's
hammer in a frenzied attack at their Rathfarnham, south Dublin, home
in 2002.
There was no evidence that he put up a fight or any sign of defensive
injuries on his arms or hands.
She claimed in court he was a chronic alcoholic who had subjected to
her to abuse. But the State Pathologist who carried out the autopsy
said in his report there was no evidence that the victim had been a
heavy drinker.
The dead man's brothers, in a statement after her conviction for
manslaughter, said that she had "besmirched" his good name in court.
The Sunday World revealed at the time how he had kept a catalogue of
her violent attacks on him in the months before his death.
In one extract he wrote: "She has beaten me more aggressively over the
last couple of years. In Tallaght Hospital for abrasions to head and
leg after flung by car when she was in control."
Another detailed how she hid his possessions and his medication and
just weeks after his death was on to his employer looking for his
holiday pay. She was released from prison in 2010 after serving her
time.
Christina Williams
In 2003, Christina Williams was dubbed the 'She Devil', after she was
jailed for life for murdering dad-of-two Andy Foley.
She stabbed him 13 times with three knives, then boiled a kettle and
poured the scalding water on him as he bled to death on the floor of
his flat.
The psycho killer from north Wales met her victim in a pub in Dorset
Street, Dublin, on May 7, 2002, and brutally murdered him a few hours
later.
Williams (36), told the court: "I had lost my head completely, I was
drunk, didn't know what I was doing. He started pushing me and I
started pushing him back."
Williams claimed the stabbing happened after the victim returned to
his flat, where he allowed her to sleep, but woke her up demanding
sex.
When she refused, he told her to get out and an argument broke out.
She claimed: "He was grabbing me and touching me in places I didn't
want him to. He was all over me."
She told gardai she picked up a knife and stabbed him in the face.
Williams revealed how her victim collapsed into a chair for "a couple
of minutes" before she decided to boil a kettle of water and pour it
over him.
The court heard the attack was so ferocious that Williams bent one
knife and broke another in the stabbing.
During her trial, Williams hurled foul-mouthed abuse at the jury and
even smirked as she was led away in handcuffs.
After her conviction, Andy's distraught ex-wife Peig told reporters:
"That woman is evil. You can see it in her eyes."
Following her conviction, Williams was compared to America's notorious
first serial killer of men, Aileen Wuornos.
However, in a letter smuggled out of Dublin's Mountjoy prison and sent
to the Sunday World, Williams rejected such an association.
"It is f***ing terrible that I'm being called the serial killer of
Ireland," she stormed.
"I had my reasons for killing that man. I'm not an evil person."
Amazingly, she also revealed in her scrawled letter how she hoped to
get married to a man she had made contact with following the court
case.
"I currently have a boyfriend. We are hoping to get engaged. He visits
me regularly and buys me stuff," she wrote.
A source has told the Sunday World that since being locked up,
Williams has become "very much a loner".
She has become the primary carer of two dogs that live permanently in
the Dóchas Centre – Mountjoy's female wing.
Scissor Sisters
Also in the Dóchas Centre are two of the most notorious criminals in
the history of the State, Charlotte and Linda Mulhall – better known
as the Scissor Sisters.
In 2007, Charlotte stabbed her mother's boyfriend Farah Swaleh Noor to
death at a house in Ballybough, Dublin, following a drink and drugs
bender.
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Her sister, Linda (35), is serving 15 years for the Kenyan's manslaughter.
During interviews with gardai, Linda claimed Mr Noor made a pass at
her, which prompted her sister Charlotte to pick up a Stanley blade
and cut his throat, as their mother Kathleen begged her daughters to
kill him.
In court, Linda admitted repeatedly hitting the victim over the head
with a hammer.
The pair dragged his body into the bathroom of their mother's flat and
spent hours cutting it up with a bread knife. The sisters then dumped
their victim's headless torso into the Royal Canal near Ballybough.
The severed head was taken by bus to Tallaght, where it was buried and
reburied in a number of locations. The head has never been recovered.
Noor's torso and limbs were spotted by passers-by in the canal 10 days
later, sparking a murder hunt by gardai.
Writing to the Sunday World from her cell, Charlotte has said she has
fallen out with her sister and that they no longer speak.
"I hate her so much [Linda]. She should have got life, not me. She did
more than what I did that horrific night. It went a bit out of control
that night."
Kathleen was sentenced to five years after pleading guilty in February
2009 to impeding the investigation into Noor's death.
The mum of six was released from Mountjoy in October 2011. She is
currently believed to be living in England with her new 20-year-old
lover.
Since being locked up Charlotte and Linda have continued to make
headlines. Charlotte is believed to be in a long-term lesbian
relationship with another inmate and has also covered her ears, nose
and lips with piercings.
Linda continues to work with blades in the hair and beauty salon in the jail.
Catherine O'Connor
Also in the Dóchas Centre is a mum-of-three who savagely murdered two
people in November 2011.
In 2013, Catherine O'Connor – who appeared to have a swastika tattooed
on her head – pleaded guilty to killing her 42-year-old neighbour John
Forrester.
Drug addict O'Connor was already serving a life sentence handed down
in 2012 after she admitted murdering another man, Jonathan Duke − they
both lived in flats in the same house.
The 37-year-old brutally knifed the English father of four to death at
Bridge House in Bandon, Co. Cork.
She wrapped his body in cable wire and carpet, while his feet were
tied with the belt from her cardigan, and dumped it in the River
Bandon.
Det Sgt Fergal Foley told the court Mr Forrester died of blunt force
trauma and asphyxia. His hyoid bone had been broken and there was
bruising to his throat.
The victim also had a fractured skull, several broken ribs, a broken
hip and lacerations to his head and mouth.
He said a technical examination of Mr Forrester's flat showed blood
had been mopped up. O'Connor's fingerprint was found in his blood on a
broken Man United cup.
It was later established the jagged edge of this cup and a broken
plate had caused head and facial injuries to Mr Forrester.
In O'Connor's flat, her grey cardigan was missing the belt discovered
around the victim's feet.
The detective added that on November 13, O'Connor had told the couple
living in the house's third flat that she had killed Mr Forrester.
O'Connor's motive for the killings remains unclear and it seems most
likely the two men were killed in a fit of rage.
In court, Det Insp. Joe Moore said he had tried to establish a motive
for the murder of Mr Duke, but was unable to do so.
"They seemed to be friendly in the days beforehand," he said, adding
that there had been a lot of drinking going on.
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women who murder for love.
We investigate these ruthless bad girls, and we reveal the deadliest
women of all.
Our investigation profiles women like Catherine Nevin, who murdered
husband Tom in a greedy bid to grab his fortune, the infamous Scissor
Sisters, who killed and chopped up their mother's lover in a
drug-fuelled revenge killing, and black widows like Julie McGinley and
Hazel Stewart, who took out their husbands so they could be with their
lovers.
Investigations peels back the masks of the Killer Queens and reveals
what drives these women to murder.
Julie McGinley
Julie McGinley was a young woman who got caught up in a sordid world
of group sex and blackmail.
First to enthral her was husband Gerry McGinley. The pair indulged in
group sex, filming romps with other men and then blackmailing them.
Their victims included businessmen, farmers and a part-time policeman.
Gerry went missing in 2000, but cops in Northern Ireland became
suspicious when Julie moved in with a new man, Michael Monaghan.
Monaghan and Julie had been having an affair and had been spotted
having sex in a car park on the outskirts of Enniskillen. Monaghan had
been McGinley's partner in the furniture business they ran in
Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh.
A forensic examination of the room where McGinley had been bludgeoned
to death as he slept found it had been completely redecorated.
The lovers were about to be arrested for murder when a child out
playing discovered McGinley's remains in a remote wooded area in Co.
Leitrim.
Julie claimed that Gerry had tried to force her into having sex with
Monaghan so he could watch and videotape it. In reality Gerry was
murdered in cold blood by Monaghan and his body dumped his body in
woods near the famous beauty spot of Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim.
The two were later jailed for life at Laganside Court in Belfast. The
mother-of-two was freed from Hydebank Women's Prison in Belfast
earlier this month and is understood to be living in the city.
Catherine Nevin
Without doubt, the most sensational trial of a woman accused of
killing her partner was that of Catherine Nevin.
The case featured allegations about a judge, former paramilitaries and
tales of illicit sexual affairs.
Her husband Tom Nevin had been blasted to death with a shotgun as he
sat in the kitchen of Jack White's pub in Co.
Wicklow on March 19, 1996.
Six pellets, the size used to kill deer, tore through his heart,
leaving him with no chance of survival.
Catherine Nevin was found slumped in the hallway, panties stuffed in
her mouth, her wrists tightly tied.
The pub's takings were gone, but there was no sign of a break-in and
no fingerprints were found.
Detectives soon discovered that Nevin had approached three men and had
asked them to murder her husband. One of the men said in court that
Nevin had told him: "It would look great if Tom was to die in my
arms."
After a marathon second trial which lasted 42 days and saw 170
witnesses, Catherine Nevin was convicted by a jury of murder and was
sentenced to life.
Nevin, who has fought several legal battles in a bid to challenge her
conviction, is still serving her sentence.
She has, however, been allowed temporary release to attend college
courses in Dublin city.
Jacqui Noble
The grisly murder of Derek Benson, at a flat in Ballymun, Dublin, in
2000, created headline news at the time.
It came not long after two Irish men had been murdered and mutilated
in Holland, sparking fears of a copy-cat killer.
The truth wasn't any less grim.
Benson had been brutally hacked to death with a martial arts-style
sword and sources said that his blood literally ran down the walls.
During the murder trial, it took State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy
almost an hour to list the 25 stab wounds and 60 cuts inflicted on
him.
His partner, mother-of-one Jacqui Noble (pictured right with Benson),
also from Ballymun in Dublin, said she was forced to hire a hitman
because of Benson's campaign of violence and terror against her.
She paid Paul Hopkins the equivalent of €252 to kill the man who had
tortured her because she wanted a better life for her daughter.
Hopkins, who worked as a doorman at a pub in Drumcondra, had been paid
half the cash, with the rest due after the job was done.
The two worked out a plan to kill Benson together. Hopkins partially
decapitated Benson with a sword after Noble had drugged him with a
cocktail of heroin and valium.
During her trial for murder, Noble told how her former partner used
his fists, feet and various objects to beat her.
She gave evidence how she had been subjected to depraved acts of
physical violence while under Benson's influence and control.
She said he would threaten her with a knife while wearing a balaclava.
Noble remains an inmate in the Dóchas Centre in Dublin's Mountjoy
Prison, where she continues to serve a life sentence, but is allowed
temporary release as she prepares for permanent freedom.
Dolores O'Neill
Ten years ago Dolores O'Neill was jailed for killing her husband Declan.
She had stabbed him 21 times and hit him 26 times with a plumber's
hammer in a frenzied attack at their Rathfarnham, south Dublin, home
in 2002.
There was no evidence that he put up a fight or any sign of defensive
injuries on his arms or hands.
She claimed in court he was a chronic alcoholic who had subjected to
her to abuse. But the State Pathologist who carried out the autopsy
said in his report there was no evidence that the victim had been a
heavy drinker.
The dead man's brothers, in a statement after her conviction for
manslaughter, said that she had "besmirched" his good name in court.
The Sunday World revealed at the time how he had kept a catalogue of
her violent attacks on him in the months before his death.
In one extract he wrote: "She has beaten me more aggressively over the
last couple of years. In Tallaght Hospital for abrasions to head and
leg after flung by car when she was in control."
Another detailed how she hid his possessions and his medication and
just weeks after his death was on to his employer looking for his
holiday pay. She was released from prison in 2010 after serving her
time.
Christina Williams
In 2003, Christina Williams was dubbed the 'She Devil', after she was
jailed for life for murdering dad-of-two Andy Foley.
She stabbed him 13 times with three knives, then boiled a kettle and
poured the scalding water on him as he bled to death on the floor of
his flat.
The psycho killer from north Wales met her victim in a pub in Dorset
Street, Dublin, on May 7, 2002, and brutally murdered him a few hours
later.
Williams (36), told the court: "I had lost my head completely, I was
drunk, didn't know what I was doing. He started pushing me and I
started pushing him back."
Williams claimed the stabbing happened after the victim returned to
his flat, where he allowed her to sleep, but woke her up demanding
sex.
When she refused, he told her to get out and an argument broke out.
She claimed: "He was grabbing me and touching me in places I didn't
want him to. He was all over me."
She told gardai she picked up a knife and stabbed him in the face.
Williams revealed how her victim collapsed into a chair for "a couple
of minutes" before she decided to boil a kettle of water and pour it
over him.
The court heard the attack was so ferocious that Williams bent one
knife and broke another in the stabbing.
During her trial, Williams hurled foul-mouthed abuse at the jury and
even smirked as she was led away in handcuffs.
After her conviction, Andy's distraught ex-wife Peig told reporters:
"That woman is evil. You can see it in her eyes."
Following her conviction, Williams was compared to America's notorious
first serial killer of men, Aileen Wuornos.
However, in a letter smuggled out of Dublin's Mountjoy prison and sent
to the Sunday World, Williams rejected such an association.
"It is f***ing terrible that I'm being called the serial killer of
Ireland," she stormed.
"I had my reasons for killing that man. I'm not an evil person."
Amazingly, she also revealed in her scrawled letter how she hoped to
get married to a man she had made contact with following the court
case.
"I currently have a boyfriend. We are hoping to get engaged. He visits
me regularly and buys me stuff," she wrote.
A source has told the Sunday World that since being locked up,
Williams has become "very much a loner".
She has become the primary carer of two dogs that live permanently in
the Dóchas Centre – Mountjoy's female wing.
Scissor Sisters
Also in the Dóchas Centre are two of the most notorious criminals in
the history of the State, Charlotte and Linda Mulhall – better known
as the Scissor Sisters.
In 2007, Charlotte stabbed her mother's boyfriend Farah Swaleh Noor to
death at a house in Ballybough, Dublin, following a drink and drugs
bender.
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Her sister, Linda (35), is serving 15 years for the Kenyan's manslaughter.
During interviews with gardai, Linda claimed Mr Noor made a pass at
her, which prompted her sister Charlotte to pick up a Stanley blade
and cut his throat, as their mother Kathleen begged her daughters to
kill him.
In court, Linda admitted repeatedly hitting the victim over the head
with a hammer.
The pair dragged his body into the bathroom of their mother's flat and
spent hours cutting it up with a bread knife. The sisters then dumped
their victim's headless torso into the Royal Canal near Ballybough.
The severed head was taken by bus to Tallaght, where it was buried and
reburied in a number of locations. The head has never been recovered.
Noor's torso and limbs were spotted by passers-by in the canal 10 days
later, sparking a murder hunt by gardai.
Writing to the Sunday World from her cell, Charlotte has said she has
fallen out with her sister and that they no longer speak.
"I hate her so much [Linda]. She should have got life, not me. She did
more than what I did that horrific night. It went a bit out of control
that night."
Kathleen was sentenced to five years after pleading guilty in February
2009 to impeding the investigation into Noor's death.
The mum of six was released from Mountjoy in October 2011. She is
currently believed to be living in England with her new 20-year-old
lover.
Since being locked up Charlotte and Linda have continued to make
headlines. Charlotte is believed to be in a long-term lesbian
relationship with another inmate and has also covered her ears, nose
and lips with piercings.
Linda continues to work with blades in the hair and beauty salon in the jail.
Catherine O'Connor
Also in the Dóchas Centre is a mum-of-three who savagely murdered two
people in November 2011.
In 2013, Catherine O'Connor – who appeared to have a swastika tattooed
on her head – pleaded guilty to killing her 42-year-old neighbour John
Forrester.
Drug addict O'Connor was already serving a life sentence handed down
in 2012 after she admitted murdering another man, Jonathan Duke − they
both lived in flats in the same house.
The 37-year-old brutally knifed the English father of four to death at
Bridge House in Bandon, Co. Cork.
She wrapped his body in cable wire and carpet, while his feet were
tied with the belt from her cardigan, and dumped it in the River
Bandon.
Det Sgt Fergal Foley told the court Mr Forrester died of blunt force
trauma and asphyxia. His hyoid bone had been broken and there was
bruising to his throat.
The victim also had a fractured skull, several broken ribs, a broken
hip and lacerations to his head and mouth.
He said a technical examination of Mr Forrester's flat showed blood
had been mopped up. O'Connor's fingerprint was found in his blood on a
broken Man United cup.
It was later established the jagged edge of this cup and a broken
plate had caused head and facial injuries to Mr Forrester.
In O'Connor's flat, her grey cardigan was missing the belt discovered
around the victim's feet.
The detective added that on November 13, O'Connor had told the couple
living in the house's third flat that she had killed Mr Forrester.
O'Connor's motive for the killings remains unclear and it seems most
likely the two men were killed in a fit of rage.
In court, Det Insp. Joe Moore said he had tried to establish a motive
for the murder of Mr Duke, but was unable to do so.
"They seemed to be friendly in the days beforehand," he said, adding
that there had been a lot of drinking going on.
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