Plot Synopsis

PRETTY DANGEROUS documents the true stories of women who, under the guise of love and seduction, conned their partners out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mixing black-and-white, film-noir footage with narration, this docuseries exposes not only the femme fatales, but also their foolish, unsuspecting victims. Featuring first-person interviews with a string of infamous bad girls currently incarcerated on charges of insurance fraud, entrapment, theft and murder, PRETTY DANGEROUS takes a look at the extremes both gold-diggers and fools will go to in their thirst for money and love. Subjects include: Toronto con artist Tracy Sargent, who used her sexuality to defraud a variety of besotted men out of more than a million dollars; black widow Cynthia Phillips, who murdered several husbands and burned their homes for the insurance money; and many more femme fatales. Investigation Discovery aired the U.S. premiere of this series on Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 8pm ET/PT, showing back-to-back, 30-minute episodes.