Gwendolyn Graham & Cathy Wood: The Lethal Lovers

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

Exhibit C, True Crime

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong unravels the horrifying case of Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood, also known as the “Lethal Lovers.” Inside the walls of a Michigan nursing home, their romance became intertwined with violence, as the pair used murder as a way to deepen their emotional and sexual bond. Over several months, vulnerable patients became targets in a shared, intimate thrill – a lethal fusion of affection, manipulation, and desire. Candice explores how their toxic dependency escalated into a series of killings, and how a relationship built on control, obsession, and the pursuit of shared gratification spiraled into one of the most disturbing partnerships in criminal history.

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0:00.0	Hey there, killer psyche listeners.
0:02.2	Ever wonder what really drives someone to kill?
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0:09.5	exclusive deep dive episodes that take you further into the minds of the most dangerous criminals
0:15.3	and add free listening.
0:19.6	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone.
0:26.1	Please be advised.
0:36.2	You've probably heard the saying, misery loves company, a phrase that suggests how suffering,
0:43.4	when shared, can become a bond between people. But in the world of true crime, it is not just
0:51.1	misery that seeks out a companion.
0:56.2	Malice does too.
1:00.9	Some of history's most chilling murders were not committed alone, but by partners who learned to revel in each other's brutality.
1:07.0	Eric Hickey, a forensic psychologist, once noted that in many criminal duos,
1:12.9	one partner supplies the fantasy and the other supplies the courage to make it real.
1:20.4	In Kathy Wood and Gwendolyn Graham, that pattern was horrifyingly clear.
1:26.8	But they were not only partners in crime.
1:29.9	They were lovers.
1:32.3	By day, they were nurses' aides, tasked with caring for society's most vulnerable.
1:39.3	But by night, their relationship fuels something far more sinister, a shared lust for murder.
1:49.7	One by one, they began killing their patients. For them, it was a way to bond, a way to fuse their
1:59.2	sexual desires with violence against others.
2:03.9	The killings became their shared obsession, and in each act of brutality, they found a perverse
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