She will be eligible for parole after serving twenty years for manslaughter. Obsessed with getting revenge on Fred for leaving her, she travels from Houston, Texas, to Virginia, and shoots Fred to death on October 28, 2004. By claiming Wayne is abusing her, she convinces a neighbor to murder her husband and disguise it as a car theft. In May 2001, to get her boyfriend back, Linda hatches a plan to steal neighbor Joana Rodriguez's baby and murder Joana, enlisting three henchmen to help with the promise of drugs. Brittney Dwyer is an Australian woman who has a close relationship with her grandfather, Robert Whitwell, but in secret, Brittney has a dark obsession with murder and violence. She will be eligible for release on February 24, 2066, when she will be seventy. Frances Creighton resorts to poisoning her relatives with arsenic when they no longer become of use to her. Regina and Margaret DeFrancisco had a bright future, until they embraced the gang lifestyle. Police find it hard to believe that a grandmother could commit such a brutal crime such as this until they look into her past. On December 18, 1886, after William threatens Roxalana, she enlists the help of her daughter, Mary, and her nephew, Franklin "Frank" Gates, in murdering her husband, shooting, decapitating, and dismembering him before then burning his corpse. She would ultimately be released from prison in 2016 and was deported back to France after her release.[5]. The ways of wild, promiscuous "jazz baby" Dorothy Ellingson do not mesh with those of her old-fashioned parents who try to keep her from partying. Sentenced initially to death, Edythe is paroled in 1971 and lives out the rest of her days peacefully. Despite her remorse, she is serving a life sentence without parole. Catherina "Cat" Voss is bored being a Navy wife and mother to her husband Cory due to her spending problem. Child abuse victim Debra Denise Brown is a developmentally disabled young woman who has a "master/slave" relationship with her boyfriend, Alton Coleman. In 1770s Worcester, Massachusetts, Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner has a bad relationship with her abusive, alcoholic husband, Joshua. Both girls are sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole. Romance blossoms in an Atlanta, Georgia, senior-living community between recent newcomer Lena Driskell, 78, and smooth-talking grandfather Herman Winslow, 85, but Hermans charisma is well known, and despite remaining faithful to Lena, his relentless charm keeps indirectly attracting other women and she constantly believes otherwise. Within hours of meeting in juvenile detention, troubled teens Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf began to plan a life together, and step one in the plan included killing somebody at random. Sentenced to 15 years to life, both Karen and Laura were free on parole as of December 2012. Near the end of the Nineties, Ketchum was also beset with health issues. Due to her past violent actions against Shirley being well known, she is caught almost immediately, and in 2018, she is sentenced to life without parole. Jackie plots to kill him, and ultimately does so in June 2004 with the help of two hitmen. In retaliation, she takes a bean bag and lights it on fire, burning the house down and killing both him and Kelly's St. Bernard, Chevy, who dies trying to rescue him. Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum. Teresa confesses in exchange for immunity, which results in Lois being sent to death row. She was sentenced to life and paroled after 10 years, but ends up back in prison for a dating scam, and dies in prison in 1941. After a tough divorce, Michigan mom Theresa Petto thinks she's found a new start in love when she sees high school friend Brent Kik, but Brent has no intentions of moving in with her even after she reveals she's pregnant. In Tucson, Arizona, teenager Clarissa Sanchez is daddy's little girl until she meets Larry "Ray" Coronado and her father forbids the relationship, fearing Ray is too possessive. Sentenced to life imprisonment, Jane was paroled in June 2015. When Pittman files for sole custody of their 11-year-old son Bert, Tracey forces 20-year-old neighbor Dustin Wehde to write a fake confession claiming Pittman hired him to kill her, then shoots him nine times and tries to disguise the murder as a home invasion. She had her lover murder her husband so they could be together and they framed two black people. Robyn gets twenty-five years for Wayne's murder, plus an additional twenty-eight years for George's murder, giving her a total of fifty-three years in prison. Judith Neelley was sentenced to death, which later was commuted to life. Wright's sentence was 25 years, but was reduced to 20 years; she is released from prison on December 30, 2020. Angela pleads guilty to second-degree murder and gets a minimum 16-year sentence. Heather D'Aoust was the fifteen-year-old adopted daughter of a loving couple, but had depression and bipolar disorder and was briefly institutionalized. Roger, knowing divorce is not an option because he will carry all her debts, decides to separate and leave town. In San Diego in 1987, Deana Wild forged a friendship with Virginia Rearden. All three women were disciples of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. Rosie is sentenced to death. Fearing her lover's reaction on his release, she pays a hit man 10,000 to take care of Cook, but ends up firing the fatal shot herself. She turns out to be a greedy, violent monster whose five husbands end up either on-the-run, abused, or (in the last husband's case) murdered for money. In Melbourne, Australia, Robyn Lindholm is an exotic dancer who has a strained relationship with her boyfriend, Wayne Amey, due to him wanting a part of her horse farm. Twenty-year-old Texan Nicole Yesconis is a spoiled brat who hates her father and stepmother, Robert and Aletha, yet expects them to continue supporting her financially. When Michelle goes to Maryland for her mother's funeral in 2009 and doesn't return, Joe takes up with a new woman, Sunday Bennett. Mary Elizabeth Wilson is on her fourth husband, Ernest, after the mysterious deaths of two other husbands and a lover, but their marriage lasts less than a year, while Mary's suspicious comments during the initial wedding are raising eyebrows. While visiting Robert, her mother tells her about hidden money in his shed, and in August 2016, Brittney and new friend Bernadette Burns drive 1,200 miles to her grandfather's house where Brittney fatally stabs him in the neck and chest. She testifies against her mother and sister, and Latoya receives a thirty-year sentence while Denise receives life without parole. Carolyn's sentence was twenty-five years to life. Diane Borchardt is a well-liked teachers' aide at school, but at home, she is physically and verbally abusive to her husband, Ruben, and his children. Elise Ledvina is known in Milwaukee as a caring Catholic mother who values setting a good example, but secretly battles with intense delusions due to schizophrenia. Following their conviction and sentencing, Gwen has since cut all ties with her mother, whom she now despises for the manipulations that destroyed their family and landed her in prison. Both girls were caught very shortly after the murder and sentenced to incarceration until the age of twenty-five. She will be eligible for parole in 20 years. In January 1988, she shoots husband Richard in his sleep, then enlists her lover and another co-worker to help dispose of the body. On November 17, 2016, James breaks up with Melanie for good via gaming chat, and in a bitter rage, she visits his home and stabs him to death. After meeting a photographer in a bar, the women decided to rob him and lure him outside. Timothy Wade Ketchum, age 58 of Griffin, passed away on Monday, January 31, 2022. In December 2006, she shoots Frank in the eye and claims the murder was an accident, hoping to collect on his life insurance. The 52 minutes long TV film which was the basic pilot to the show covered 4 cases of women throughout history who committed murders by poison. This sends Patricia over the edge, and in December 1994, she kidnaps and murders Joann and Alex to punish Andy for rejecting her. Between 1927 and 1954, Nannie Doss poisoned to death 4 of her husbands, 2 of her kids, her mother, one of her mothers-in-law and 2 of her grandsons. Lisa and Roger are sentenced to death, although Roger's sentence is later overturned to life without parole. While hosting a suicide dinner party, she drugged Joe's drink with rohypnol and injected him with heroin the next day, killing him. Malaika Griffin is known as a brilliant chemist who put herself through college and graduated cum laude, but she also has a hot temper and harbors an intense hatred for White people. PTSD-suffering veteran Bob and Martha Ann McClancy move from Florida to Tennessee, where the couple become friends with a fellow serviceman, Chuck Kaczmarczyk, and Martha eventually starts an affair with him. While Bevel attempts to arrest Andrea for filing a false report, Andrea shoots the officer five times. In Gwinnett County, Georgia, Army wife Kelly Renee Gissendaner is a promiscuous party girl who shamelessly sees other men, even while her husband, Doug, remains devoted to her and remarries her after a three-year divorce. Constance Kent In 19th century Great Britain, Kent was furious at her father for cheating on her dying mother with the governess, Mary, whom he marries after Constance's mother died and had a young son named Francis with. Alexander promises to leave his wife and marry Laura, but after seven years of empty promises and lies from Alexander, Laura is tired of being the other woman, and shoots him in front of his wife. Lucille Miller was an ambitious housewife with dreams of climbing the social status unlike her husband Cork. His parents, Cecil McKinley Ketchum and Doris Helen Goodman, father-in-law and mother-in-law, Walter and Alice Ozley all preceded him in death. In early 20th century Delaware, May Carey is left destitute after her husband's death while raising her three sons. Her obsession leads her to kill a maid, two brothers-in-law, her daughter and a neighbor couple, though her husband was the only one spared. On October 21, 2009, the fifteen-year-old lures nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten into the woods, where she uses a knife to slash the nine-year-old's throat, and she uses her bare hands to strangle Elizabeth to death. In March 2017, Denise manipulates her daughter Latoya to brutally suffocate Matre in order to get exactly what she wanted, all witnessed by Denise's thirteen-year-old daughter, Alana. In Las Vegas, Margaret Rudin was sick of her husband wasting all of his money on alcohol, guns and sleeping with other women and decided to shoot and dismember him before going on the run. In Greenwood, Indiana, Sarah "Cindy" White is the daughter of an alcoholic mother and sexually abusive father, and the stress lands her in a psychiatric hospital for a year. On August 12, 2000, Billie Jean enlists Nicole to help her murder Don with the promise of money for her surgery, and Nicole proceeds to try and poison Don by force feeding him more alcohol while hes already dead drunk, before Billie finishes the job by smothering Don with a pillow. When her husband Jimmy became aware of her actions, he soon died after being shot. After Victor leaves her, Vegas shoots him nine times, killing him, on October 16, 2012. However, on August 9, 1849, when the agreement isn't enough for her, Maria and Frederick shoot and bludgeon Patrick for all of his stock and bonds. It is revealed that Angelina killed her baby daughter as well in order to receive money from a wrongful death lawsuit, and she is sentenced to death. On the run from the law, plastered all over the news, and unable to live with the failure of her plan and her losing the executive forever, Wanda discloses her location to authorities before taking her own life in defeat. However, she has a hot temper fueled by alcohol, and her relationship with her husband, Marcus Lemons, is becoming strained. To make her predictions come true, her clients were given her signature hearty stew that was laced with arsenic. Anu Singh An Australian law student who was a suicidal and delusional young woman obsessed with her body more than her fianc, Joe. When her son Giuseppe is drafted to fight during WWII, a distraught Leonarda draws a strange conclusion that in order to protect her son, she has to commit a human sacrifice. Jennifer is sentenced to life without parole. She gets a life sentence with possibility of parole after thirty years. Harvey & Ketchum. Gaile and Porterfield are both sentenced to death, but Gaile's sentence is later commuted to life and she is released on parole in 2011. Kelly enlists her boyfriend, Greg Owen, to beat and stab Doug to death in February 1997, so she can profit from the marital house and Doug's two life insurance policies. Being fed up him having yet not divorced his wife, she shot his wife nine times. In 1955, bar hostess Ruth Ellis shot her boyfriend, David Blakey, to death after he punched her in the stomach and caused her to miscarry. Morgan shoots and kills Andrea and wounds Daryl, and is sentenced to life without parole for Andrea's murder. As an adult, she is possessive of her boyfriend, fellow recruit Victor Saucedo, and tries to isolate him from having anyone in his life, including his son, which proves to be the tipping point for him. Winnie Ruth Judd In 1931, Judd impulsively murders her friends after fighting over a man, Jack Halloran, and has them cut up with the intention of dumping their remains in the Pacific Ocean. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole on March 27, 2001, and is currently serving her sentence at Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. [1] J.R. was given a ten-year sentence, while Jeremy was given three concurrent life sentences with a minimum of twenty-five years. In 1899 California, Katie Cook's husband, Tom, is a shameless womanizer with a taste for teenage girls, which reflects poorly on Katie's virtue. Soon, however, the happy family is torn apart when Misook is caught shoplifting and Linda chooses not to bail her out of jail. Donna is now serving a life sentence without parole. Brian promises to bring Cai Xia to live in Melbourne, Australia, with him as his new wife, but ultimately reneges when his ex-wife Mai convinces him to reconcile. to three life terms for murder and armed robbery, to be served concurrently. He worked in construction and plumbing. Antoinette Renee Frank was a killer cop in New Orleans who shot a fellow officer and two owners of a Vietnamese restaurant that she helped guard at nighttime with her boyfriend, Rogers Lacaze, in 1995 (Frank was also a suspect in the death of her father). Sentenced to life, she cons her way into parole after only fifteen years behind bars. Jackie's sister comes forward with information about Carl's death, but it was not confirmed. Two days into her marriage, Margaret Vandergulik beats her new husband, Patrick Plumbe, over the head with her cane and then tries to stage his death as a car accident in April 2005, all to gain access to his million-dollar estate. Soon afterwards, another shocking secret was revealed. She was also suspected in the murder of her ex-boyfriend's three-year-old daughter, Christina McNeil, in 1998, but was never charged. Her solution was to set her Pocatello, Idaho, house on fire with her husband and two kids inside. Linda Calvey is a Londoner with stunning good looks and an attraction to gangsters her first husband, gangster Mickey Calvey, died in a botched armed robbery, and her second husband, Ronnie Cook, receives a 16-year prison sentence for armed robbery in 1981. In Las Vegas in 1863, Laura Fair thinks that she has found the perfect man in handsome lawyer Alexander P. Crittenden, until she learns that he is married with kids. Janice Buttrum was neglected, abused and ostracized by her peers as a child, and at age 17, she is married, living in Dalton, Georgia, and expecting her second child. After Donna Roberts of Youngstown, Ohio, has a brush with death, she develops strange behavior and starts having an affair with Nathaniel "Nate" Jackson, a career criminal and a man nearly half her age, behind the back of her divorced-but-live-in ex-husband, Robert Fingerhut. Lisa Michelle Lambert Was furious at the fact that her boyfriend Lawrence raped 16-year-old Laurie Show, but blamed the victim rather than her boyfriend. She is sentenced to twenty-seven years to life. Subsequent articles, including some linked here, do reveal their full names and family names. Both are sentenced to forty-seven years to life, with both eligible for parole in 2063. When Madame Lancelin discovers their secret, the sisters beat and stab her and her daughter to death and gouge out their eyes. After Mary convinces her husband to fire the maid, on February 25, 1867, Bridget stabs Mary to death before setting the house on fire to try and cover her tracks. Belva Gaertner is a gifted showgirl with beauty, brains, and talent. She pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter and is sentenced to a year in prison. Robert, her brother and wealthy auto mechanic, is always there for May, but instead of being grateful, she envies him, and it only grows bigger when her mother dies and leaves her money and house to Robert. New York bankers Patricia Silberstein and Anthony "Tony" Wojcik move in together as a couple, but their happiness is short-lived, as Tony is an abusive, out-of-control alcoholic who cheats on Patricia, and continues to stalk and harass her even after Patricia leaves him. Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence On January 10, 1992, Loveless, with the help of the 3 other schoolgirls, kidnapped, tortured, and murdered 12-year-old Shanda Sharer in Madison, Indiana. She was released in May 2022. She dies in 2011 before facing trial. Holly was forced to move in with her conservative Baptist grandparents, Carl and Sarah Collier, who . After murdering the couple, only to find that the safe is empty, Lisa and Roger dismember the bodies and stash them in a freezer on property belonging to Roger's family, who turn the deadly couple in to police. Heather Barbara is a troubled woman with a hot temper fueled by drugs; her temper cost her husband and children. In 1880s Los Angeles, wealthy womanizer Chico Forster courts virtuous teenager Lastania Abarta and convinces her to leave her fianc and elope with him with the promise of marriage, but he forces sex on her and then abandons her.