The fascinating cases of every day, seemingly average moms, wives and girlfriends accused of murder. Did they really do it? And if so, why?
Episodes
S01E01 Celeste Beard Johnson
August 6, 2004 43 min
In 1997, the frustrated wife of a multi-millionaire convinced her lesbian lover to kill her husband. Her fatal mistake was instead of embracing here partner in crime she ditched the Sapphic spouse slayer soon after...
Virginia Larzelere's husband Norman was a successful Daytona Beach dentist, and they enjoyed a beautiful home, expensive cars, a yacht, and an airplane. But the good times came to an abrupt end on March 8,...
Few smiles were brighter than those of two married dentists, who shared a thriving practice and a seemingly perfect marriage. But that changed in July of 2003, when the wife began to suspect her husband...
Russian émigré Elena Kiejliches was living the American dream. At 36, she had two children, a millionaire husband, and a sprawling mansion in Staten Island's upscale Toldt Hill neighborhood. But Elena's fairytale life came crashing...
A bright and bubbly surgical technician led a comfortable middle-class existence with her husband. But this sunny, suburban image vanished in smoke and flame on Valentine's weekend of 1998 when they went on a romantic...
A woman who always had a thing for hunky men married a Long Island gym owner in 1998, and everyone thought it was the perfect match. She just had one small problem with her new...
An over-achieving real estate developer and aspiring politician was the wife of a respected urologist in the upscale D.C. suburb of Potomac, MD. In 1994, she made a run to be the Republican nominee for...
A 24-year-old young woman went from rags to riches when she met and married a Miami construction millionaire in 1981. Together, the couple lived lavishly in an exclusive Coconut Grove mansion, went skiing at their...
A middle-class Houston housewife married to a successful salesman, was a stay-at-home mom raising two adorable young children in their suburban home. But then, in January of 2003, he mysteriously disappeared.
Engaged high school sweethearts met in 1991 as volunteers in the Texas Civil Air Patrol. She was an honor roll student bound for Annapolis, and he was a track star with an appointment to the...
A spunky and ambitious toxicologist at the San Diego medical examiner's office was a summa cum laude graduate of San Diego State University. Her husband worked for an up-and-coming biotech firm. Well-educated, highly intelligent, and...
The female bookkeeper and business manager of a millionaire Texan entrepreneur was also a close confidant of his wife. They were so close that he, and others, began to suspect that the pair were more...
A millionaire heiress landed a job teaching computer science where she met and began an illicit affair with a popular sixth grade teacher. Then, the married man's wife was murdered, but who committed such a...