Sandra Ketchum was the product of a home that was repeatedly busted. Despondent after her extramarital affair ends, she turns to murder, smothering her two young sons with a pillow and slashing her husband, Neal, ninety-seven times with his prized Japanese sword. Kate Bender The Wild West murderer was prepared to help her family of serial killers, killing lodgers and robbing them. Convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for financial gain, Amber and Jeff are now serving life in prison without parole. Her son's fiance, Kailyn Hunt, informs the police over a 911 call as the murder takes place. His torso was found in a dumpster behind a supermarket, but the rest of his remains have never been found. She is found guilty and is sentenced to death, which is overturned in 2013 for 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. In April 1924, after an argument that results in Harry ending the relationship, Beulah shoots Harry and successfully claims self-defense, causing a sympathetic jury to acquit her of all charges, denying Harry justice. 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. At the same time, however, Kathy is living with her boyfriend, Raymond "Ray" Galea. After her father discovers her lies, she is forbidden from seeing her boyfriend, Daniel Wong. The criminal couple soon wears out their welcome, but in March 2004, when Vernon orders them to leave, they brutally attack him and Linda, torturing them both and sexually assaulting Linda, in order to get into Vernon's safe. Seething with hatred, she hires friends Marva Golden and Eddie Williams to shoot Valerie to death. Years into their marriage, Ruth is bored, and during a night on the town, she meets a new lover, Judd Gray, and the pair wants to start a new life together. After a short stay in prison for a minor offense, Esther Beckley hooks up with Shane Harrison. Not long after, Tausha dumps Greg for another man, causing Greg to realize he had been lied to by Tausha. 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. She received the nickname "The Giggling Granny" because she seemed to giggle when she confessed the murders. 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. She is also suspected of murdering her first husband five years earlier, though that case remains open. Catherina "Cat" Voss is bored being a Navy wife and mother to her husband Cory due to her spending problem. 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. The hitmen are never found. Tausha Fields Morton is a serial bride who enjoys attention for men and cheating on past husbands. Angela Simpson is an Arizona woman with a troubled past who sees herself as a vigilante wanting to make the world conform to her moral code. Anjette was sentenced to death, but was later sent to an insane asylum, where she died of a heart attack in 1977. Martha is executed in March 1899, becoming the first woman executed in the electric chair. Walter received a death sentence, and in August 2016, her sentence was commuted to life without parole. 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. Facebook gives people the power. She is dubbed "Tiger Lady" because of how brutal the crime was. She had her lover murder her husband so they could be together and they framed two black people. 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. With a rich new boyfriend in the wings, Danielle shoots Raymond ten times in May 2014 and stuffs his body into a toolbox. She pled guilty to second-degree murder and got sixteen years to life. Luther survives, but police discover that Pauline also used arsenic to murder her previous husband, and she receives two twenty-year sentences. The police investigate the crime for years, tailing Jennifer and Matthew around the clock, until they finally crack the case and arrest them. Later, in 2011, it is revealed that Esti killed both men and hid their remains in the basement of her ice cream parlor in Vienna, Austria. She was sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder. Antoinette Renee Frank was a killer cop in New Orleans who shot a fellow officer and two owners of a Vietnamese restaurant that she helped guard at nighttime with her boyfriend, Rogers Lacaze, in 1995 (Frank was also a suspect in the death of her father). On November 17, 2016, James breaks up with Melanie for good via gaming chat, and in a bitter rage, she visits his home and stabs him to death. She was granted escort leave in 2018. 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. She was sentenced to death in 1993, but in August 2008, her sentence was commuted to life in prison. 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. She keeps it a secret for a year until her college roommate recites Claudius' guilt monologue from Hamlet, causing her to break down. Sandra Barajas's marriage to husband Miguel "Mike" Barajas is on the rocks because of her adult daughter, Dawn Richburg, a meth addict who still lives at home. Meanwhile, Greg is given a life sentence in 1983, but is paroled in 2009 after spending twenty-six years in prison. Soon, however, the happy family is torn apart when Misook is caught shoplifting and Linda chooses not to bail her out of jail. Florence Ransom always had dreams of being high in the social status, but they become delusions as she uses her family as servants, especially around her lover Lawrence Fisher, who she wants to marry. She pleads guilty to manslaughter and two counts of second-degree murder and receives 29 years in prison. 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. Despite attempting to reconcile, Marie becomes angry when Frank has a casual encounter with another woman, and the hope for reconciliation was dissolved. O'Mahoney received an eight-year prison sentence, while her comrades received twelve years. At her urging, her boyfriend and his friend murder her husband by beating him to death and then burning his body to make it look like an accident, so that Marilyn can collect on his life insurance. Selfish country girl Beulah Annan begins an affair with laundromat manager Harry Kalstedt for financial gain and promiscuous fun. The new living arrangement was difficult from the beginning as Harvey and her grandparents clashed over rules and a disapproval over her new girlfriend, Sandra Ketchum. Seath Jackson Murder. 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. She turns out to be a greedy, violent monster whose five husbands end up either on-the-run, abused, or (in the last husband's case) murdered for money. One extraordinary breakthrough led to an eyewitness confession and one detail ultimately led to their arrest. 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. In Burbank, California, Amber Merrie Bray is an intelligent, ambitious, eighteen-year-old high school senior who falls for an older, high school dropout named Jeff Ayers. When Pauline Rogers's husband, Luther, falls mysteriously ill in 1982, she plays the role of the devoted wife, but Luther learns that Pauline has poisoned his favorite strawberry ice cream with pesticide containing arsenic. 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. In 1982, she attempts to kill her sixth husband. They cook up a plan to murder Robert, which is successfully carried out just two weeks before Christmas. The embezzled money has never been recovered. Judith Neelley was sentenced to death, which later was commuted to life. Join Facebook to connect with Sandra Ketchum and others you may know. Sentenced to life, she cons her way into parole after only fifteen years behind bars. When Tom begins an affair with a servant girl, Katie has had enough and shoots Tom in the head while he sleeps. Additionally, when her cafe starts to fail, she decides that Curtis, who has a generous life insurance policy, is worth more dead than alive, and enlists Jacob and his girlfriend, Jessica Dayton, to help kill him by beating him to death. However, Domenico reveals to her that he is married, and later ends up drugging and raping her. 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. Jackie was sentenced to life without parole plus an additional five years for conspiracy to commit murder. Barbara faced a death sentence, but ultimately received life without parole. Canadian code prohibits the use of a juvenile offender's real name in print and in the newspaper. Bthory, who became known as the "Blood Countess", was imprisoned in 1609. Mary Jane Fonder was also a suspect in the disappearance of her father in August 1993. When Cory is deployed, Cat takes in a lover named Michael Draven to relieve her boredom. Debby Foxwell is always at her neighbor Louise Lotz's throat; it goes on for many years, due to a fence being near her property. Chelsea played the mastermind and organized everything; Susanna did the killings to protect the only real friends that she had. Michael Bargo Florida Death Row. She cunningly lures Gladys into a trap, then stabs her repeatedly and slashes her throat. 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. One evening in January 1996, she ends a violent argument by stabbing Rick once in the chest after he finally fights back and tries to strangle her, killing him. Beck received a life sentence, but died in 2008. In Ventura, California, Diana Haun, shy and unlucky in love, begins a hot, passionate affair with womanizer Michael Dally, despite the fact that Michael is married, and his wife, Sherri, refuses to give him up. By claiming Wayne is abusing her, she convinces a neighbor to murder her husband and disguise it as a car theft. A disgraced Lastania shoots Chico to death for stealing her virtue, but is saved from prison by a novel insanity defense. She dismembers his corpse, then burns and disposes of his remains. In Las Vegas, Margaret Rudin was sick of her husband wasting all of his money on alcohol, guns and sleeping with other women and decided to shoot and dismember him before going on the run. After she was caught engaging in sexual activity with a female friend, she decided to kill her mother with a claw hammer. When she and Ross's sister, Winnie, confront him about this, Ross gets angry, and on November 9, 1916, Amy shoots him twice with a revolver. Monique Susanne Wheeler is an immature, impulsive young woman. She was arrested and found guilty for the murder of her third husband and died in prison in 1936. Holly resents her grandparents' strict rules, and with the help of Sandra, the two teens decide to murder the elderly couple by stabbing them to death on August 2, 2004. Marie is sentenced to twenty years to life and has been denied parole six times since her incarceration. Holly accepted her, and they became friends first, and then a romance blossomed. In May 2001, to get her boyfriend back, Linda hatches a plan to steal neighbor Joana Rodriguez's baby and murder Joana, enlisting three henchmen to help with the promise of drugs. Her motive is that she is addicted to killing and enjoys the thrill. Former high school golden girl and social worker Kimethia "Kim" Coleman falls head over heels in love with Air Force sergeant Brian Spinks, but is hotly jealous and suspects him of infidelity. In Bremerton, Washington, Shelly Arndt and Darcy Veeder, Jr., seem like a perfect couple on the outside, but in reality, she's a controlling alcoholic, and after the constant abuse, Darcy writes a letter to Shelly which leads to their breakup. For decades, no one connects any of the deaths until a cold case investigation reveals Betty's murderous deeds. Her children, who now despise her for her crime, testify against her in court, and she is serving forty years to life. She was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole. During her trial, Esti gives birth to a son she had with a man she dated after killing Manfred, but her dreams are forever shattered when, due to her crimes, her son is permanently taken out of her hands to be raised by her parents instead, leaving Esti to plead guilty to the two murders and be sentenced to life in a maximum security psychiatric prison. Jackie is tried as a juvenile and receives one month in prison for delinquency, Chad pleads guilty and receives twenty-eight years, Ryan also pleads guilty and receives twenty-three years to life, and Uloma, as the mastermind, receives life without parole. 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. But Jean becomes possessive of her, and after six years, LaRae ends their relationship and gets a fresh start with Donald Foster, who becomes her fianc. When Katrina Bridges gets pregnant, she and her boyfriend Chris Ingraham move to Jonesboro, Maine, to make a fresh start. Morgan shoots and kills Andrea and wounds Daryl, and is sentenced to life without parole for Andrea's murder. She is ultimately convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced 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. 23-year-old Englishwoman Clare Nicholls regularly insults, abuses, and starves the father of her youngest child, kind but timid 31-year-old Andrew Gardner, and gets her brother and boyfriend to join her in the abuse. PTSD-suffering veteran Bob and Martha Ann McClancy move from Florida to Tennessee, where the couple become friends with a fellow serviceman, Chuck Kaczmarczyk, and Martha eventually starts an affair with him.