In November 2016, Rick uses Sonia to shoot Debbie in the face at point-blank range in her house while she sleeps. In 1982, Shirley Allen's husband, Lloyd, dies from a mysterious illness. Lawrence, the only one who refused to participate in the murder, was sentenced to 20 years, but was released on parole on December 14, 2000; Rippey was sentenced to 60 years, but was released on parole on April 28, 2006; Tackett, who also participated in the physical violence towards Sharer, was sentenced to 60 years, but was released on parole on January 11, 2018, the 26th anniversary of Sharer's death; and Loveless, the one who led the whole murder, was sentenced to 60 years in prison, but she was released on parole on September 5, 2019. In Cordele, Georgia, in the 1960s, Janie Lou Gibbs poisoned her three sons, her grandson, and her husband for the purpose of collecting life insurance. However, she got caught quickly due to an unlikely eyewitness who saw the murders unfold. Later, Stella reveals the murder in a confession, and when Sister Janina's body is found 10 years later, it is revealed that the nun was pregnant, confirming Stella's suspicions. On February 12, 2010, after being denied tenure over poor performance, she opened fire during a meeting of the biology department, killing three of her colleagues and leaving three more critically wounded, then plans a date night with her husband while disposing of evidence. Jackie Spaulding gets a motel thanks to her husband Roger, but after eight years of running the business, the motel falls apart due to her owing money and the motel being occupied by prostitutes and felons, and shortly after that, she begins an affair. Richard gets a twenty-five-year-to-life sentence, and Angela is sentenced to death row, which is later commuted to life without parole in August 2020. She is sentenced to life with a non parole period of 21 years. 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 Greenville, South Carolina, Carman Major is a good, churchgoing girl until she meets and marries Clarence Jenkins. "It's finally over. Also known as Saundra Ketchum, S Ketchum, Sandra Ketchu. The pair dismembers and disposes of the body in the Cooks River, and only the head is recovered two weeks later. Instead, she has co-worker Jimmy Luna and two thugs stab Steven and cut off his penis to disguise the killing as a hate crime. She would flirt and talk to the victim, while one of the male family members whacked the victim from behind with a hammer; Kate would then kill them by slitting their throats. For decades, no one connects any of the deaths until a cold case investigation reveals Betty's murderous deeds. Unbelievably, she only serves six months in jail for her second husband's death and lives the rest of her life as a free woman, despite committing another attempted murder soon after her release. She died in 1998 after being released in 1971. to three life terms for murder and armed robbery, to be served concurrently. She was sentenced to death and died in prison. 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. Despite Peggy believing that her sister was innocent (and even evidence of her innocence being found), Betty was sent to spend the rest of her life in prison. Keng Hwee "Kathy" Yeo is a Chinese-Australian woman working as a psychiatric nurse in Sydney, Australia, when she begins a relationship with one of her patients, Christopher "Chris" Dorrian. In December 1987, Linda shoots Ron outside his apartment. Leath received 51 years to life in prison, but was released in 2017 when the case was thrown out. Harris was released from prison to undergo triple bypass surgery and died in 2012 at the age of eighty-nine. Beard, who maintained her innocence, will be eligible for parole in 2042. She also attempted to murder Annie's son, also named Harry. She dies on December 5, 1962, while incarcerated. She was initially sentenced to death, but years later her death sentence was commuted to life in prison. Charged with second-degree murder, Melanie is sentenced to fifty years. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sandra (Ketchum) Bryant. Later, Russo's sentence was changed to twenty-five years to life and was denied parole in June 2018. When Stevie cut her off after learning Sarah had been stealing money and writing checks in her name, Sarah's plans go from devious to diabolical by killing, dismembering, and reemerging from a fire as her sister. 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. Sentenced to life, she cons her way into parole after only fifteen years behind bars. 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. Patricia got life without parole and Christopher's sentence was 30 years in prison. Martha is executed in March 1899, becoming the first woman executed in the electric chair. Child abuse victim Debra Denise Brown is a developmentally disabled young woman who has a "master/slave" relationship with her boyfriend, Alton Coleman. 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. But whether she is an innocent hostage as she claims to be or a willing accomplice remains in dispute. 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. Upon saying that, he meant that she must go to live with her father, but Penny strangled Karissa on January 27, 2008. English Rose Sharon Swinhoe is a magnet for many men and attracts 66-year-old retiree Peter McMillian, but Sharon is only in that relationship for his money. She was sentenced to death, but her sentence is later commuted to life without parole. Officer-in-training Alex Reyes' marriage to wife Leslie crumbles after only six months, and Leslie and the couple's infant son move in with her grandmother, Jean Allen, 81, who dislikes Alex due to his Mexican heritage. After numerous attempts to get Ian back fail, both women plan her murder for a year before acting on it in January 2016. Judith Neelley was sentenced to death, which later was commuted to life. Roslyn Pilmar's charmed life in New York's Upper East Side with her millionaire entrepreneur husband Howard and their son threatens to come to a halt when she's caught embezzling money from her former employer. Thirty-six-year-old Patricia Tito of Shreveport, Louisiana, has a way of luring in men and using them for money, but all of them, including her latest lover, Chris Shuffin, have discovered Patricia's ways and refuse to take her back. 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. She dies in 2011 before facing trial. Shana Parkinson had a volatile temper that prompted her husband to leave her for another woman. 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. 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. 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. Barker's sentence is 25 years to life and she will be 51 years old when released. Both murderers get caught very quickly and are sentenced to life without parole, with Delpha Jo taking a plea for the sentence to avoid the death penalty. It was originally based on a 52- minute-long TV documentary film called "Poisonous Women," which was released in 2003. Desiring a social life with alcohol, Maria has affairs with miners and prostitutes for her own desires, until news spreads town that Frank has had an affair with a woman. After Dena Schlosser and her husband John lost their business and their home, they joined a charismatic church, and Dena devoted herself to church to the exclusion of everything else including her children. When teenager Patricia "Patty" Columbo begins a sexual relationship with married pharmacist Frank DeLuca, her parents, Frank and Mary, with whom she has a strained relationship, are not pleased. After Dena Thompson attempts to murder her new third husband with the lure of sex, he barely survives and she gets three years in jail. Alicia Ernst is bubbly and popular, while her best friend since middle school, Stephanie Erends, is troubled, insecure, and self-medicates with drugs and booze. On December 10, 2013, Robyn has her new lover, Torsten Trabert, and her friend, John Ryan, stab and strangle Wayne to death. All three women were disciples of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. She confides in her husband, Justin Rott, and she was arrested. Her three cohorts receive sentences of anything between twenty-nine and fifty-nine years. 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. Angelina finally kills Frank in 2000, by poisoning him with antifreeze. Their solution was an innovative tool that allowed a fish to be released without handling, and the fly to remain . Both are found guilty of second-degree murder and are serving life without parole, although Miranda claims to have committed at least twenty-two other murders, a claim which has not been substantiated. Marjorie Ann Orbin After the former exotic dancer got all she ever wanted from her wealthy husband in Phoenix, Arizona, she shot and dismembered him, and then disposed of his body in the desert. Gates died from kidney failure in 2016. Seven years later, the killer family is exposed after the third son tells investigators about the murder. She served a life sentence with possibility of parole after serving fifty years, but died in prison in July 2000. 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. After stealing a $4,000 check from Wilma, Shirley shoots and then dismembers her to cover up the theft, and she is later suspected of killing her own mother in the same way. She is eventually caught in the act of moving Sam's remains by the police, and upon her conviction, she gets twenty-six years to life in prison. Robin Lee Row needed money to pay off her excessive spending. Tina Powell and LaFonda Foster were drunk and high when they go on a killing spree, taking five friends hostage and killing them all in different ways. Nathan is serving a 33-year minimum sentence and Shauna's sentence is 17 years for manslaughter. 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. She received three consecutive life sentences. After Ketchum released her, she went into shock, and died in a New York hospital. She was seen as a woman with a series of unfortunate events, until she went one step too far by smothering an adopted child. Drug dealer and adulteress Christene Kemmerlin is married for the third time, and her union with husband Wayne is in trouble due to her spendthrift ways and infidelity. The two women get engaged, but Tory still has feelings for her ex-boyfriend and soon breaks off the engagement to return to him. Ian Brady died in prison in 2017. In July 1940, a jealous and fed-up Florence shoots Dorothy, their daughter Freda, and the family maid Charlotte Saunders. Due to the financial straits, the young couple soon separate and head for a divorce but live together in their marital home. After her husband abandons her, Ada Hulmes is in dire straits for her daughter who she leaves in a convent. She is given a sixty-year sentence. Annette Cahill falls for Corey Wieneke, but she's not the only woman in his life, as he's a known playboy and has gotten one of his other lovers pregnant. She is quickly caught and, despite claiming and maintaining her innocence, is sentenced to death. She is sentenced to sixteen years to life in prison. The seemingly senseless murders would have remained unsolved if it were not for one thing one woman was still alive. In Sacramento, California, Lan Anh Le, the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, is a troubled teen when she meets older woman Monica Anderson and begins a relationship with her. She was sentenced to ten years to life and was released after twelve years. Feeling smothered by her husband, David, and wanting his life insurance money, she employs Andrews and fellow drug dealer Bobby Morris to shoot David to death in July 1994. Megan Haines is sentenced to 27 to 36 years in prison. Armstrong was sentenced to life without parole and died in prison on April 4, 2017. Young American Molly Martens takes a job in Ireland as a live-in nanny for single father of two Jason Corbett, becoming a mother figure for the two children. 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. She is caught by the police while lying in wait to murder Brian's daughter (Alistair's mother), as well. Not about to be separated from James, Wendy has him strangle Betty on December 28, 1994, and the two killers hold Kathy hostage for three days, until she is able to escape on New Year's Eve and get aid from a neighbor. 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. Lisa and Roger are sentenced to death, although Roger's sentence is later overturned to life without parole. 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. However, she has a hot temper fueled by alcohol, and her relationship with her husband, Marcus Lemons, is becoming strained. 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. In prison, she appears to change her ways and begins to give lectures to teenagers on the dangers of delinquency. In Marengo, Iowa, cafe owner Denise Leone Frei loves both her son, Jacob, and her live-in boyfriend, Curtis Bailey. Both are sentenced to hard labor, Christine for ten years, and Lea for five. The second best result is Sandra Lee Ketchum age 80+ in Columbus, GA. In 1984, respected nurse Maureen "Miki" McDermott, heavily in debt from her party-girl lifestyle, lets friend Steven Eldridge move in with her, promising him a half-interest in her home in exchange for $10,000, but she does not follow through on her end of the bargain. To make her predictions come true, her clients were given her signature hearty stew that was laced with arsenic. Monique Susanne Wheeler is an immature, impulsive young woman. Karen Severson and Laura Doyle had been friends with Missy Avila since grade school, but as they grew older, the friendship dissolved. At autopsy, it was discovered that the case eerily echoed Margaret's injuries. Mary Bell Bell strangled 4-year-old Martin Brown to death on May 25, 1968, just one day before her 11th birthday, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. In Santa Barbara, California, in 1978, twenty-two-year-old violent-tempered neighborhood babysitter Julia Diaz struggles to make money to send to her family in Mexico, but is unable to keep a job. Between 1939 and 1940, Leonarda drugs three neighbors, chops their bodies, and makes soap and tea cakes out of them. They have a good relationship at first, but Randy drinks heavily to deal with a tragic past (his young infant died of SIDS) and becomes romantically involved with Julia's daughter, Jackie Uzell, after she is released from prison. She falls in love with Justyn Rosen, a married man twice her age, but after seven years of dating, Justyn ends the relationship to return to his wife and gets a restraining order against her. In 1910s Wisconsin, talented schoolteacher Grace Lusk begins a passionate affair with veterinarian David Roberts, but after years of the affair. Two years after, in 2005, it inspired a mini-series consisting of three episodes: "Obsession," "Greed" and "Revenge." Louise Peete A Southern belle shot and killed multiple partners, leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind her before the state takes her life in the gas chamber.