She was sentenced to death and died in prison. Regina and Margaret DeFrancisco had a bright future, until they embraced the gang lifestyle. She was pursuing a romantic relationship with a married man who didn't want children and refused to leave his wife. Shortly afterward, Mathis disappears, and when his body is found, Dugan is suspected of bludgeoning him to death. Both are sentenced to death in Ohio. After an affair with Walter Law ends, she shoots him in his car in March 1924, and then explained to the cops that she wanted to clean up a "big mess." The truth was one that shook Huntsville, Alabama, to its core. The bodies of two of her previous husbands are exhumed, revealing high levels of phosphorus. His life indeed destroyed, a grieving Ron commits suicide two months after the murder, and Darcy is serving life in prison without parole. When Patricia Robinson-Olsen had money problems, she resorted to soliciting her teenage son Christopher into shooting her second husband Neil to death, and then attempted to have him take the fall. Both are sentenced to life with a minimum of twenty-eight years. She is also suspected of the murder of fellow exotic dancer Shari Davison, who has been missing since February 18, 1995. Sandra J Ketchum, 81. After the death of her husband Paul, who controls the rivalry between them, the two women go from verbal to physical altercations. 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. The sisters spend two years on the run before they are caught. Both receive twenty-five-year sentences; Jamila's is later reduced to twenty years. Missing her mother's companionship, high school student Marie Robards poisons her loving father to move back in with her mom. Christina Marie Riggs On November 4, 1997, in Sherwood, Arkansas, Riggs, who had severe depression, tried to kill her children by injecting them with potassium chloride, but after injecting her son, the potassium chloride caused him great pain but not death, which led her to suffocate them and then she tried to commit suicide but survived. In 1999, Donna Kay Trapani is a home health care nurse who falls in love with a married man named George Fulton. In 1950's Salt Lake City, Utah, Jean Sinclair, the owner of a retirement home, begins a forbidden love with her beautician, LaRae Peterson. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed to an insane asylum. Description. 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. In 1905, Marie Arthur, a preacher's daughter, is rebellious and already married when she falls in love with a bartender, Frank Broadway Jones, but all is not happiness in her life, as they are broke financially and she proves herself to be not happy with Frank. Meanwhile, Greg is given a life sentence in 1983, but is paroled in 2009 after spending twenty-six years in prison. Julia's feelings of betrayal come to a head on the night of November 28, 2012, in an argument over Randy destroying Julia's car, and she shoots him to death. She receives 32 years to life; Vonne's head and hands are still missing. In 1991, Canadian Melissa Ann Shepard drains husband Gordon Stewart's bank account and then drugs him and runs him over with her car, and is briefly jailed for manslaughter. Sentenced to 23 years to life, Della dies in prison on November 20, 2010. Eighteen-year-old Maria Barbella and her Italian family have moved from Italy to New York, where Maria looks for a husband, finding one in entrepreneur Domenico Cataldo, a fellow Italian immigrant. 15 years later, Haville also dies, and the cycle repeats: Essie is taken in by Ernest and Laura Malinsky, Laura dies, and Essie marries Ernest, seeking higher social status. She cunningly lures Gladys into a trap, then stabs her repeatedly and slashes her throat. Patricia Wells is working as a nurse in a retirement home when she meets William Jennings, and despite their age cap, they marry. After Regina is jailed for dealing drugs, the sisters concoct a ruse to get $1,000 cash from Regina's boyfriend, Oscar Velazquez, but when he, too, demands repayment, he is repaid with a bullet to the head. Eventually, the crime is exposed and the killers are caught, with a remorseful Greg pleading guilty and receiving 19 years, while Tausha receives a life sentence without parole. She is sentenced to fifteen years to life. Donna becomes the only woman currently on death row in Ohio. In 1984, the two embark on a killing spree through several Midwestern states. Kirsten Costas reminded her classmate Bernadette Protti of everything she wanted, but could never have. 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. The pair dismembers and disposes of the body in the Cooks River, and only the head is recovered two weeks later. Italian fortune teller Leonarda Cianciulli had a life of tragedy which makes her emotionally attached to her children. Amber persuades Jeff to stab Dixie to death, and they do so on January 16, 1996. She is sentenced to life without parole, plus an additional five years for tampering with evidence. 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. Annie stays one step ahead of the law, but after a third husband dies, her secret is exposed she has poisoned her victims with arsenic. Alongside her boyfriend, Christopher Vasquez, she stabbed a regular drinking buddy in excess of 40 times and dumped him in water near Strawberry Fields in Central Park. Aileen Carol Wuornos Wournos, a prostitute, shot and killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 to rob them. She was also suspected in the murder of her ex-boyfriend's three-year-old daughter, Christina McNeil, in 1998, but was never charged. She is serving life behind bars without the possibility of parole. Marie responds by murdering William the night before his wedding, enlisting employee Ralph Giancola to help, promising him a cut of William's life insurance payout. Griselda Blanco The infamous drug lord had roughly 100 people murdered by her hand or her order during the Drug Wars in Miami, but outdid herself by putting a contract on one of her hitmen and killing his two-year-old son by mistake in a drive-by. Anjette was sentenced to death, but was later sent to an insane asylum, where she died of a heart attack in 1977. While her heart may be in the right place, many of her friends believe that her ambition borders on insane. Instead of simply robbing her new husband, she murders him and does not stop there. Seeing herself as an avenging angel, she bludgeons Sister Janina in the head with a shovel and then buries her alive. She is convicted of eleven murders and sentenced to 759 years in prison, but may have claimed as many as forty lives. Tinning got a 20 years to life sentence; after being denied parole several times, she was eventually released in 2018. In 1919, Stella is given a life sentence, before being released in 1927. After a three-year hiatus, the show resumed production in 2008 and began airing on the Investigation Discovery channel as a regularly scheduled series. Her insanity pleas fail, and she is sentenced to thirty-two years in prison. Patricia got life without parole and Christopher's sentence was 30 years in prison. Her solution was to set her Pocatello, Idaho, house on fire with her husband and two kids inside. Angelina tries to kill Frank by causing a gas leak in the house, but he survives. May forces her two oldest sons James and Howard in November 1927 to kill Robert and make the scene look like a robbery gone wrong. After her baby daughter's death, Theresa begins acting possessive of Brent and he ends the relationship, causing Theresa to stalk him and new girlfriend Rachel Drafta, and ultimately shoots and kills Rachel in June 2015. Emma LeDoux gets hitched for the fourth time with a rich man named Jean LeDoux, but she is still married with her third husband Albert McVicar. Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum "Kill, Keys, Money and Jewelry". She was seen as a woman with a series of unfortunate events, until she went one step too far by smothering an adopted child. John exposes his mother as the mastermind of both murders, and both sons serve eleven years in prison before being released on good behavior in 1996. Rosie Alfaro stabbed her friend's nine-year-old sister over 50 times in Anaheim, California, to rob the house and then trade the items and money stolen in exchange for drugs and booze. Geraldine Smith is involved with a married man, Louia[clarification needed] McDonald, but he will not leave his wife Valerie, even after Geraldine gives birth to his child. On the pretense of wanting to reconcile with Missy, Karen and Laura took her into the woods, beat her up, cut her hair, and drowned her in the lake. Roger, knowing divorce is not an option because he will carry all her debts, decides to separate and leave town. Grant receives life without parole, while Amanda receives thirteen to sixteen years, plus an additional twenty years. She then joyfully announces her deed on social media, which helps the police catch up with her. Linda Carty has a history of faking pregnancies, which has led her boyfriend to leave her. Unable to fairly tell her side of the story, Maria is found guilty and sentenced to death, but is granted a retrial three years later, where her abuse at the hands of Domenico is finally told. Both Elizabeth and her boyfriend, Jens Sring, received life sentences, but were released on parole in November 2019. In April 1908, new mother Mary Farmer is determined to escape the life of poverty she and her family are living after her husband, James, loses his job and becomes an alcoholic, doing so by taking advantage of her affluent neighbor, Sarah Brennan, forging her name on Sarah's deed, then brutally axing Sarah to death and stuffing her body into a trunk to cover her tracks before evicting Sarah's husband, Patrick. Upon her release from prison, Gunn-Britt changes her name to "Angelic". Celeste Beard In Austin, Texas, Beard conspired to murder her husband, a retired television executive and self-made multi-millionaire, in order to get his $50,000,000 fortune, with her lover Tracey Tarlton, whom she manipulated to shoot her husband. Sandra and Beth Andersen The Brampton sisters drugged their mother and drowned her in the bathtub in for her money. It all becomes too much for hoarder Jeanne, and on the night of August 16, 2011, she puts a vicious plan into action: stabbing and suffocating her husband to death. HEIGHT: 5'00" WEIGHT: 116 EYE COLOR: BROWN HAIR COLOR: BROWN MAJOR OFFENSE: VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: ARRENDALE STATE PRISON MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: 05/19/2040 Tasmiyah Whitehead 2023 Information YOB: 1993 RACE: BLACK GENDER: FEMALE HEIGHT: 5'03" WEIGHT: 130 EYE COLOR: BROWN HAIR COLOR: BROWN Tillie Gburek In an attempt to gain power and respect, Gburek portrayed herself as a fortune teller in Chicago who predicted when people would die. In Memphis, Alice Mitchell had plans of moving to Boston with her lover Freda Ward and living as a married couple disguised as a man, but when Freda's family stopped those plans dead in their tracks and forbade her to see Alice, an obsession began leading Alice to destroy the one that she cherished the most. Frances Creighton resorts to poisoning her relatives with arsenic when they no longer become of use to her. One account of their story says the children were regularly called derogatory names from moving cars and picked on. Walters was sentenced to death, and in December 2012, her death sentence was commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Becky Reid is a volatile, violent, hot-tempered woman who has a history of beating up and abusing ex-girlfriends, and her latest lover, single mom Lyndsey Vaux, is no exception. Heather Stevenson-Snell is a well-educated psychotherapist by day, and a hard-laced biker gang leader by night. In Houston, Texas, party girl Ana Lilia Trujillo moves in with Swedish doctor and fellow alcoholic Stefan Andresson, but Stefan soon has enough of Ana's violent temper and kicks her out. Ketchum released his debut album Past the Point of Rescue in 1991, and his debut single, "Small Town Saturday Night," and the album's title track both charted at No. Wright's sentence was 25 years, but was reduced to 20 years; she is released from prison on December 30, 2020. In August 2019, an argument between the two turns violent when Debby brutally bludgeons Louise with a garden spade. After Angela is investigated by social services, she pulls Jeanette out of school and the abuse escalates, culminating in the fifteen-year-old's death, for which both she and her husband Richard, who failed to report the abuse, are prosecuted. Alyssa Bustamante, who was constantly neglected by her drug-addict mother, grows into a Gothic teen with dark fantasies. To escape the madness, she shot her husband and then chopped him up. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Anthony gets twenty to forty years, while Maryann gets life without parole. Turn of the century Chicago wife/necrophile Louise Vermilya uses arsenic to murder two husbands, five stepchildren and two other men for years before getting exposed. In October 2003, Teresa kidnaps Justyn, resulting in a violent standoff at the local police station in which she shoots Justyn eleven times, killing him, and is herself killed by police shortly afterwards. At the same time, however, Kathy is living with her boyfriend, Raymond "Ray" Galea. Her income becomes her talents in piano and charm, and she travels around the southwest performing in saloons before settling down in Silver City, New Mexico. She will be eligible for release on February 24, 2066, when she will be seventy. She is eligible for parole when she is 120 years old. Being fed up him having yet not divorced his wife, she shot his wife nine times. Wuornos was sentenced to death and was executed in October 2002. Della Sutorius comes off as a sweet, charming and beautiful woman to the men who fall in love with her, but her true colors come out after the weddings. Amanda Perry Hayes and her husband, Grant, are locked in a bitter custody battle for Grant's two sons with his ex-wife, Laura Ackerson. Each of the three original episodes covered the cases of various groups of men who were united by the central theme of the episode. In a desperate attempt to escape, Cindy burns down the Roberson home on New Year's Eve 1975, killing Charles and Carol, but also killing their children in the process. Brooklyn teen Tiana Browne appeared to have a promising start in life, until she was raped and ran away from home. She gets a 15-40 year sentence. Two years after, in 2005, it inspired a mini-series consisting of three episodes: "Obsession," "Greed" and "Revenge." The patients start complaining, so to keep them quiet, Megan poisons Marie and Isabella with insulin in May 2014, though the third patient luckily escapes and reveals Megan's abuse, eventually getting her exposed for her crimes. Bathsheba requests a stay of execution at least until her baby is born, but it is denied, and she is hanged, while still pregnant, on July 2, 1778, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since the Declaration of Independence. Sandi Nieves's troubled eight-year marriage to her former stepfather, David Folden, triggers a series of misfortunes for her, including a failed relationship with a younger man, an abortion, and David's rescinding his adoption of her three oldest children. She was released from prison in June 2019. While Ronnie is incarcerated, Linda fritters away his stash. Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum In Fayetteville, Georgia, troubled teen lovers Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum are forbidden from seeing one another by Holly's grandparents. After numerous attempts to get Ian back fail, both women plan her murder for a year before acting on it in January 2016. Both women have served their prison sentences. But Shelly is determined to have the final move, and on February 23, 2014, Shelly invites Darcy to drink at the house of her twin sister, Kelly Arndt O'Neil, to reconcile, but Darcy doesn't want to get back with her. Diane is sentenced to forty years to life. Her first husband's murder remains an open case. Chuck pleads guilty and is sentenced to twenty-five years, while Martha receives fifty years and is eligible for parole in 2028. In early June of 1997, Kathy shoots Chris to death during an argument, and she calls Raymond to help clean up the mess. Seeking to regain her virtue, Maria pleads with Domenico to marry her in a busy bar, but she ultimately kills Domenico after he refuses and insults her. Brandy Holmes, a woman with a history of violence who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, meets Robert Coleman, a career criminal. She keeps it a secret for a year until her college roommate recites Claudius' guilt monologue from Hamlet, causing her to break down. Both are sentenced to hard labor, Christine for ten years, and Lea for five. When Crystal tries to join in, Giovanni pushes her away, causing Crystal to go berserk and shoot all three. A new narrator was introduced, Lynnanne Zager, and each episode was reduced to featuring three cases instead of four. Rosie is sentenced to death. 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. Judy Buenoano Over a 12-year period, the Starke, Florida, serial killer, murdered her husband and son and attempted to murder a second husband to claim on insurance policies that she had set up in advance. The pair is caught for orchestrating the murder, and in 1928, they are both executed in the electric chair. Posing as a trick-or-treater on October 31, 2003, Heather attempts to shoot Diane with a shotgun, but winds up shooting and killing Diane's innocent neighbor, Robert "Bob" Wilkie, instead, after he sees her face. Monique Susanne Wheeler is an immature, impulsive young woman. For decades, no one connects any of the deaths until a cold case investigation reveals Betty's murderous deeds. In October 2016, after Radica tells Simona to focus on her studies, Simona beats her mother with a wooden plank, then claims intruders broke in the house. Having quit her college teaching job and with her husband unemployed and the family in need of money, Katey Passaniti begins to prey on her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother and stepfather, Ernest and Loretta Luttrell. to three life terms for murder and armed robbery, to be served concurrently. After four months of marriage, Uloma uses up all his money and is in debt. Self-proclaimed voodoo queen Josephine Gray terrified her husbands and killed them in Baltimore, but due to lack of evidence, locking her up called for some very drastic actions. Mary Winkler A preacher's wife, Winkler shoots her sleeping husband in Selmer, Tennessee, claiming she was subjected to physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Her next two husbands, Robert Friedrich and Alexander "Alex" Strategos, die of mysterious illnesses, with Melissa draining both their bank accounts, as well, and she is briefly jailed for theft and forgery. She and her husband Danny befriend Demetra Faye Parker, and in September 1980, they decide to use Demetra in a sex game. Megan Haines has a history of abusing elderly patients, but she still manages to get a job in an Australian nursing home. 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. Suzan Carson and her husband Michael both of whom are mentally ill and abuse drugs have a list of people that they think are witches that they wish to exterminate, and they go on to viciously murder three people. 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. Fourteen-year-old Chelsea O'Mahoney becomes involved in a gang where she and three friends attack eight people in one night while videotaping the encounters. 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. Sandra had known almost right away that she was different, and she told Holly that she was gay. Elisa committed suicide in prison, and Sarah was released after serving eight years. On August 23, 2015, after only two months of marriage, Sharon fatally stabs David in the heart. Around 2pm, law enforcement officials from Atlanta and from Tybee arrested 15-year-old Holley Harvey and 16-year-old Sandra Ketchum. 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. 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. Cai Xia takes her revenge by beating and torturing Brian and murdering Mai and their four-year-old grandson, Alistair, with garden shears. In May 2003, Rhonda sets fire to the house, leaving James to die of smoke inhalation to collect on his insurance policies and hide her affair. She has mental illness and believes that Thierry is sexually abusing the children, so she shoots him to death in front of the kids. In San Diego in 1987, Deana Wild forged a friendship with Virginia Rearden. 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. The couple was sentenced to life in prison, and Myra died in prison on November 15, 2002. In spring of 1991, when his wife, Joan, receives an inheritance from her mother's death and plans to proceed with a divorce, Dennis, fearing financial ruin, enlists Brandi's help in murdering Joan, bludgeoning Joan with a golf club. She received a life sentence, but was paroled after serving twenty years and died of cancer in 1990. KETCHUM RELEASE - the best tool to release fishing fly from the fish mouth. After drug dealer James "Greg" Smith breaks up with his girlfriend, Cindy Baillee, Greg's mother, Lois "Mean Nadean" Smith, a hot-tempered bully who is fiercely protective of her son, responds to rumors that Cindy plans to turn Greg in by luring Cindy away to be sadistically tortured and killed, and then has Greg and his new girlfriend, Teresa Baker (who actually tried and failed to warn Cindy of Lois's plan), clean up the crime scene. Wendi Mae Davidson - killed her husband by injecting him with drugs that were normally used to euthanize animals. Heather D'Aoust was the fifteen-year-old adopted daughter of a loving couple, but had depression and bipolar disorder and was briefly institutionalized. After she was caught engaging in sexual activity with a female friend, she decided to kill her mother with a claw hammer. In Russellville, Alabama, Christie Michelle Scott lacks the patience and love to deal with her autistic son, Mason. According to legend, Bthory murdered as many as 650 young women, because she believed that bathing in their blood would preserve her youth. To this day, her father's role in the crime is still contested. She is sentenced to death and loses her appeal on her death sentence in April 2017. Both men get twenty-five years to life, and Susan receives life without parole. Margie "Maggie" Hamilton grew up in a family of career criminals, even aiding Bonnie and Clyde in a shootout as a teenager. On the run for manufacturing meth, Lisa Jo Chamberlin and her boyfriend, Roger Gillett, are welcomed with open arms into the home of Roger's cousin, Vernon Hullett, and his girlfriend, Linda Heintzelman, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Originally, her sentence was made by her how old she was on the day of the murder: twenty-two years, seven months, and six days. In Prestatyn, Wales, 20-year-old Lee-Anna Shiers and 24-year-old Liam Timbrell endure constant harassment from 43-year-old alcoholic neighbor Melanie Smith, who is convinced her live-in boyfriend is cheating on her with Lee-Anna. Showing no remorse, Nakisha is sentenced to seventy years in prison, eligible for parole in 2038. It was originally based on a 52- minute-long TV documentary film called "Poisonous Women," which was released in 2003. 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. Martha Beck On Long Island, Beck helps her boyfriend trick women, and three lives (two women and a toddler) are cut short as a result. Dalton was sentenced to death. Enraged at her parents and desperate for freedom, Dorothy shoots her mother in the head and goes partying afterwards. She is convicted of first-degree murder and is now serving fifty years to life in prison. She falls head over heels as he moves into her house, but he doesn't share the same feelings as she does, preferring to have drugs, alcohol, avoid important responsibilities and also have affairs with other women. Alice was declared insane and was committed to an asylum, where she died. She is quickly caught and, despite claiming and maintaining her innocence, is sentenced to death. She is serving life without parole. Her claim fails, and she is sentenced to life in prison with a twenty-year minimum. Barker's sentence is 25 years to life and she will be 51 years old when released. When Ruben divorces Diane and leaves her with nothing, she manipulates three students -- Michael Maldonado, Douglas Vest, and Joshua Yanke -- into murdering him, but her students give her up when she is unable to pay them as she promised. Her sentence is twenty-two years to life. She was sentenced to death in 1920, but was released from prison after 11 years and lived the rest of her life as a cisgender woman. After Ketchum released her, she went into shock, and died in a New York hospital. As her relationship with Gregg starts to have problems, Pam decides to fix them by hiring the teens to kill him for her in May 1990. Sara Moore becomes a live-in caretaker for elderly multiple sclerosis victim Richard Englander, but is more interested in his money than in his welfare and drains his bank accounts to support her crack cocaine habit. The police investigate the crime for years, tailing Jennifer and Matthew around the clock, until they finally crack the case and arrest them. Carolyn's sentence was twenty-five years to life. Originally sentenced to death, Florence is committed to a psychiatric prison. Her plan to get away with murder backfired and she was sentenced to life in prison, but the money remains hidden. But her watertight alibi led police on a wild goose chase for clues and a conviction leading to dark secrets from her past and only one way to expose her. After getting caught for the crimes, Lyda escapes, and almost commits another poison murder before getting caught.