Herman soon has enough of Lena's jealousy and temper and finds a new girlfriend, and Lena responds by attacking him in his room, and when he runs downstairs for help, following him and shooting him in the head four times in front of a security guard. She is sentenced to twenty-seven years to life. In Coats, North Carolina, eighteen-year-old Miranda Dean Barbour is newly married with an infant daughter and an Internet business charging men for chats and companionship, but she is also a child sexual abuse survivor and an avowed Satanist who lures her husband, Elytte, into her faith. In Sylmar, California, Dennis Dawley begins seeing drug-addicted prostitute Brandita "Brandi" Taliano and supporting her financially. Theresa Riggi's lack of trust in others leads her to isolate her children from society and have complete control over them. Facebook gives people the power. 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. When Detroit, Michigan, high-school students Larketa Collier and Sharon Patterson fall in love, Larketa's conservative mother, Sandra, and grandmother, Bertha Atkins, become furious, and eventually decide to bar Sharon from the house when she disrespects them too many times. In mid-20th century Alabama, Rhonda Belle Martin takes the lives of two husbands, three children, and her mother, and leaves a surviving husband paralyzed, all via arsenic poisoning. Scam artist Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore befriends lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare in order to steal his money, then shoots Abraham to death after he begins to suspect her and tries to convince his family he is still alive. She dies of breast cancer in 2008. In 1983, Jacksonville, Florida, woman Andrea Hicks Jackson calls police to file a report about a vandalized car, but when Officer Gary Bevel arrives on the scene, he learns that Andrea has committed the vandalism herself in a fit of rage. Theresa Jimmie Francine Knorr In Sacramento, California, Knorr was driven by a series of deadly delusions to kill two of her daughters in a story so grotesque that detectives did not believe it until two Jane Doe cases confirmed the story as told by her lone surviving daughter Terry. Lyda Trueblood is an early 20th century woman with a penchant for poison. Her attempt to gain the inheritance fails, as before his death, Moses disinherited her from his will. Facing a death sentence, she pleads guilty to three counts of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder and is sentenced to life in prison without parole. Convicted of aggravated first-degree murder, arson, and six counts of second-degree assault, Shelly is sentenced to life without parole. After being released on armed robbery charges, Judith and Alvin commit the most heinous of crimes by abducting, raping, torturing and murdering two people, one of them Lisa Ann Millican, a 13-year-old girl, in Fort Payne, Alabama, and 22 year old Janice Kay Chatman. Despite Trichele's contempt for Brian, she doesn't want to lose him, and on July 1, 2013, when Brian decides to divorce her, she responds by shooting him to death. Nate proclaims Donna's innocence, but eventually, they both receive the death penalty. When caught, she tries to shove all of the blame onto Gwen. Gates died from kidney failure in 2016. Patricia Rorrer is an accomplished equestrian with a reputation as a confrontational bully. Valmae Beck A sexually sadistic alcoholic, she willingly lured 12-year-old girl, Sian Kingi, in Noosa, Queensland into a deadly trap to satisfy her sexual desires and those of her husband, Barrie Watts. Charged with second-degree murder, Melanie is sentenced to fifty years. However, she has a hot temper fueled by alcohol, and her relationship with her husband, Marcus Lemons, is becoming strained. Jill Coit Married a man for his money, but when he learns that she has been married 11 times, he divorces her, and she then ends the relationship (along with his life) for good with a gun. In the 1890s, Anne Bradley becomes infatuated with married Utah Senator Arthur Brown. Taken in by her aunt, Tiana becomes roommates with her cousin Shannon, who is a straight-A student, but Tiana resists their efforts to help her get on the right track. Her lover's wife is a gossip who threatens to tell the neighbors about Frances' dark past, and Frances decides to silence her permanently. Both receive life sentences, but all but six years of Danielle's sentence are suspended and she was eligible for parole in 2019, which was granted. Angelina finally kills Frank in 2000, by poisoning him with antifreeze. Dorotik served a 25-year sentence before being released in 2020. The baby girl survived and was safely returned to her father when police caught Montgomery the next day at her home. Amanda quickly attempts to kill Sean and also posts her crime online, but Sean survives. Kate Bender The Wild West murderer was prepared to help her family of serial killers, killing lodgers and robbing them. Even during that time, however, she was not exactly free, as she was being haunted by her murdered friends. Afterwards, Alyssa disposes of Elizabeth's body in a pre-dug grave. Dana Sue Gray In 1994, Gray killed three women and severely injured another in Chowchilla, California, due to a craving for power, a thirst for cash, and hatred of her mother. The status quo, the hemostat, wasn't good for the fish or the fly. Her execution was one of the most gruesome in history, requiring four applications of electricity before she was finally pronounced dead. Upon being sentenced to death, however, she experienced a profound spiritual change that transformed her and other people who came into contact with her. Susan Diane Eubanks In San Marcos, California, convinced that all men are liars and cheats, Susan got revenge against her ex-husbands by shooting and killing her four sons in the order that they came into her life. She stabbed him and his new fiance to death. 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. She is found guilty and is sentenced to death, which is overturned in 2013 for life without parole. In 2010, he violently beat his girlfriend, Rosalyn Hunt, and eventually killed her, and Lorraine happily participated. 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. Victoria Rickman is a volatile hot-tempered woman who has a history of abuse and violent outbursts, and her new lover William "Will" Carter is no exception, also resenting his time he spends with his daughter from a previous relationship. When Shannon discovers that Roscoe had started a forbidden affair with his psychiatrist, Dr. Irina Puscariu, she becomes furious, and on January 13, 2012, she drives 250 miles throughout the night to Irina's house in Gladstone, Missouri, and shoots her dead in front of Irina's mother. Both are sentenced to hard labor, Christine for ten years, and Lea for five. She was sentenced to death, but her sentence is later commuted to life without parole. Both are sentenced to death in Ohio. But while Rahim sees their relationship as pure friendship, Ciera wants it to be more than that, going as far as to drugging and having sex with him, leading to her getting pregnant. Growing up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Holly Harvey never had any rules or discipline - she was allowed to do what she wanted, when she wanted. In Bellevue, Idaho, Sarah Marie Johnson lives an idyllic life with her doting parents, Alan and Diane. The pair is caught for orchestrating the murder, and in 1928, they are both executed in the electric chair. Nicole Kasinskas The straight-A student from Nashua, New Hampshire, fell for a guy who soon drove a wedge between her and her mother, who until that point was the most important person in her life. Brenda Spencer On January 29, 1979, when she was 16 years old, Spencer opened fire on a schoolyard in San Diego, killing the principal and custodian and wounding eight children and a police officer. She will be eligible for parole in 20 years. Sandra Ketchum was the product of a home that was repeatedly busted. Despite claiming innocence, she was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Walter received a death sentence, and in August 2016, her sentence was commuted to life without parole. In May 2016, Lyndsey dies from the abuse, and Becky is sentenced to life with a minimum of 20 years for Lyndsey's death and beating a former girlfriend. 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. She is later sentenced to death in 1991. Wendy is paroled in 2004, and James in 2014, but they are no longer together. Pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter, Vickie serves a nine-year sentence and is released in 2005, but prison has not tamed her wild temper. Daryl Smith's former lover and BDSM sex slave, Morgan Smith, who has borderline personality disorder, is obsessed with Daryl, and follows him when he moves to Florida to be with his new girlfriend, Andrea Stranko. Manling Tsang Williams ( Zng Miln)[7] enjoys her freedom, finding life as a wife and mother too confining, but does not want the financial strain of divorce. In March 2014, Kirsten shoots Charlie in the back with a rifle as he sleeps to collect on his life insurance and makes the scene look like a robbery gone wrong. Shana got a life sentence with 27 years minimum. In early 20th century Memphis, Tennessee, Alma Theede is a prostitute who charms men with her sexuality, but becomes a serial wife who discards her husbands like garbage when she tires of them. Bridget is very good with the couple's young daughter, Mamey, but she envies Mary's lifestyle and husband, and she is lazy and insubordinate. One night, she gets into a heated argument with her white neighbor, Jason Horsley, and his girlfriend, over the loud barking of their dogs. Instead of simply robbing her new husband, she murders him and does not stop there. When Vaughne forbids her daughter to see her boyfriend, Nakisha stabs her mother forty-three times and she and Annie hide the body in a tool shed. Jackie's sister comes forward with information about Carl's death, but it was not confirmed. In Diamond Bar, California, Carmen Montenegro is financially supported by her boyfriend and later fianc, Samuel "Sam" Wiggins, but far from being grateful, she steals additional money from him. She goes on to dismember and consume his corpse. Robin Lee Row needed money to pay off her excessive spending. In 1950s Kentucky, Opal Juanita Collins and paraplegic World War II veteran Ben Collins Jr. begin a whirlwind romance, leading to bad blood between herself and Ben's family, especially his mother and caretaker, Julia. She remained undetected for years and could have killed as many as 20 people. She pled guilty to second-degree murder and got sixteen years to life. Leath received 51 years to life in prison, but was released in 2017 when the case was thrown out. Dalton was sentenced to death. Both girls are sentenced to life in prison without parole, with Larketa getting an additional four to twenty years for arson and conspiracy. In 1997, Natasha and her gang are responsible for the killings of 34-year-old Vidar Lillelid, 6-year-old Tabitha and 28-year-old Delfina. She never faces justice, cowardly committing suicide in August 2003 by drowning herself and her infant son, Zachary, in the Atlantic Ocean. In March 1906, Emma poisons Albert with morphine, bludgeons him, and puts him in a trunk. When the family fails to pay up, she goes after seven-year-old Javier Angel after he is accidentally left unsupervised, bludgeoning, strangling, and finally suffocating him by sealing him in garbage bags before hiding him under her bed, but her crime is quickly exposed due to Julia inadvertently revealing it to the police. Both receive twenty-five-year sentences; Jamila's is later reduced to twenty years. Convinced that she is a bad mother and that this world was a bad place for her two sons, the voices in her head drive her to bludgeon them with a baseball bat; her elder son is saved due to his father's intervention, but the younger son dies. At 47, she becomes a housekeeper for Arizona rancher Andrew Mathis, but they clash constantly and she is soon fired. A year later, Nadia confesses, only to learn that Campbell was innocent of the rape, and is sentenced to forty years in prison. Coleman was executed in 2002, and Brown's sentence was commuted to life without parole. she is also suspected in the murder of her father, her mother-in-law and her first husband, and the attempted murder of her second husband in 1989. Jennifer Reali Was with a man who used seduction and Bible passages to convince her to murder his wife, painting the murder as an act of mercy because his wife had lupus. Meanwhile, Greg is given a life sentence in 1983, but is paroled in 2009 after spending twenty-six years in prison.