Ciera Harp snaps after realizing aspiring rapper Rahim Grant will never be hers; Linda Ricchio's possessive behavior wears thin with boyfriend Ron Ruse; grandmother Loretta Burroughs marries her high school sweetheart, Danny, then he disappears.
Barbara Rogers and Steven Mineo are members of an online cult; fortune teller Leonarda Cianciulli seeks to keep her son safe through human sacrifice; Geraldine Parrish persuades people to make her the beneficiary of their life insurance policies.
Crime experts explore the motives and modus operandi of female killers; while males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill.
Crime experts explore the motives and modus operandi of female killers; while males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill.
Jackie Spaulding takes lethal measures to get her money back; Lucille Miller realizes she's the sole beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy; Julie Dixon makes sure her partner will never find out about their company's bankruptcy.
Paige Conley turns to drugs and alcohol following her parents' divorce and takes her anger out on her mother; Becky Reid is volatile and violent behind closed doors; Katie Coursey unleashes drug-fueled rage on the one person trying to protect her.
Liz Golyar falls hard for a man she's dating; Marie Arthur's lover falls for the charms of a single mother; Lucy Cruz can't move on after her long-term girlfriend decides she wants to have a husband and children.
When Victoria Rickman can't convince her boyfriend to drop assault charges against her, she takes measures into her own hands; Mary Wheeler is a mistress who decides to eliminate the competition.
Kristin Stephens uses her husband's money to fuel her gambling addiction; Brittney Dwyer convinces her roommate to drive to her grandfather's home to search for money; a couple targets an employee to squelch their financial problems.
When these women expose their true selves, their partners discover they've been sleeping with the enemy; a beauty queen tries to free herself from familial duties; an accountant's tryst turns deadly; a valedictorian makes sure her man cannot leave.
Blood isn't thicker than water for some women; a teen sacrifices her family for an early inheritance; a recluse murders her parents over an obsession with Hollywood memorabilia; a woman's social status is more important to her than her mother's life.
The stakes turn deadly for women who love to gamble; a transgender woman is willing to kill for a new body; a woman tries to bury her debts along with her husband.
Envy is the deadliest of sins; an obsessed mistress sacrifices her lover's wife; a young woman kills her girlfriend to keep her from the arms of another; an angry cowgirl destroys her ex-lover's life by destroying his family.
When these women have scores to settle, they take matters into their own hands; a traumatized woman thinks she's an avenging angel; one of Mexico's most infamous serial killers targets the elderly; a man is butchered by two women he tried to help.
Three stories of heartless women who believe their husbands are worth more dead than alive; an ex-husband angers scorned Southern belle; countess becomes violent to maintain stature; mother of two craves the good life more than she does her husband.
Teenage lovers choose each other over the life of a loving grandmother; a coldhearted woman uses her nephew to become a wealthy widow; a friendship turns fatal for one unsuspecting husband.
When a former police officer is dumped, she takes the law into her own hands; a housewife buries her marriage problems in the garden; an excited fiancée turns into the worst kind of "bridezilla."
Some women have short fuses; a New Year's resolution ends in a murderous rampage; a pious parish housekeeper hides a sinful secret; a Christmas drink between neighbors results in a deadly hangover.
Some women employ others to do their dirty work; a drama queen brings her love triangle to a permanent end; a betrayal turns friends into deadly foes; a woman will do anything to protect her freedom.
An abusive woman goes great lengths to maintain custody of her child; a small-town gossip sparks a deadly grudge match; a teenage bully makes a shocking move.
A secret addiction drives a young woman to sacrifice her wheelchair-bound employer; a scheming caregiver betrays the man who trusts her; a single mother's desire for a better life leads to a brutal dismemberment.
In Arizona, Doris Ann Carlson hires two young men to murder her ailing mother-in-law; a high school senior persuades her boyfriend to kill her mother; a woman shoots her adopted mother to death.
Michelle Gable shoots and kills her estranged husband and his new lover; in 1928, Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray are electrocuted for murdering her husband; a married woman installs her lover in a closet.
Jean Ann James evades justice for 16 years after slashing her friend's throat; Annie Monahan gets away with murder in the early 1900s; Linda Darby escapes from prison and spends 35 years on the lam.
Nurse Maureen McDermott hires a coworker to murder her roommate; Marie Porter goes to the electric chair for murdering her brother to collect on a life insurance policy; bookkeeper Debra Lynn Baker poisons her boss after embezzling money.
A woman shoots her ex-husband to death in front of their children; a scorned lover takes revenge on a rival; a sex addict stomps on others when they get in her way.
Dee Dee Moore befriends a lottery winner, then kill him; Anne Gates murders her estranged husband with a fireplace poker; a money-hungry woman is convicted of murdering her common-law husband.
Korena Roberts beats a pregnant woman to death; a woman mistreats her grandson, causing his detah; Rekha Kumari-Baker stabs her daughters to death to punish her ex-husband.
Teens who are willing to kill to get what they want, including one who makes herself an orphan and another who murders her grandmother to be with a boy.
An English beauty spars with her boyfriend; a middle-aged woman sacrifices lives for money; a couple of game players lure a man into a deadly trap; these women will fight to the death.
A prostitute kills her second, third and fifth husbands; a woman murders her husband and makes it look like a suicide; a woman poisons her husband with antifreeze to collect his life insurance policy.
Trusted by the community, these ladies are beyond suspicion no matter how heinous their crimes; the women get away with murder and assume they are entitled to do it.
For an English Rose, husbands equal dollar signs; for a serial killer, feeding her family pays; for a businesswoman, a missing mother keeps the checks coming.
Women who violate the instinct to protect their children; one woman sacrifices her 18-month-old daughter in order to keep her lover; a woman exacts biblical punishments on her children.
Jealousy leads to the murder of a 12-year-old girl; a teenager opens fire on a schoolyard because she doesn't like Mondays; a killer is driven by blood lust.
In 1983, Diane Downs shoots three of her children, killing one and wounding two; Martha Wise poisoned several of her family members; two Australian women murder their 16-year-old flatmate.
In Pennsylvania, a mentally disturbed woman opens fire on shoppers at a mall; depression drives a woman to smother her children to death; a Florida nurse murders 12 nursing home residents.
Judy Buenoano murders her husband and others to collect on life insurance policies; an Australian woman leads a double life as a man and kills to keep her secret; in Texas, a pediatric nurse is convicted of infanticide.
Florida prostitute Aileen Wuornos murders seven men; a German-born immigrant poisons her victims to support a gambling habit; a landlady kills her tenants and collects their Social Security checks.