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. Lisa Marie Montgomery In 2004 in Melvern, Kansas, she faked a pregnancy, and to avoid being exposed, she murdered a pregnant woman so she could steal her unborn baby. Two husbands, a mother-in-law and her young daughter all died of arsenic poisoning at her hands. Sims is not eligible for parole, but despite this, parole was granted in October 2021.[2]. She is able to find love in Karl Bloxham, who tries to help her sober up, but her drinking problem comes back after months of sobriety. In Victorian London, England, Maria Manning is openly courted by Patrick O'Conner and Frederick Manning, the latter of whom she truly loves, with Maria eventually choosing Frederick based on a lie that he tells her. She is sentenced to death, but her sentence is later commuted to life in prison, much to the chagrin of Bevel's fellow officers. Michele immediately spends all of his money and runs his business to the ground. After getting caught for the crimes, Lyda escapes, and almost commits another poison murder before getting caught. Kody is caught when their school's security camera catches the abduction, and Toni is caught soon after when she confides in Kody's father. Beverley Allitt In 1991, the British nurse murdered four children and injured five others by injecting them with insulin or potassium, causing cardiac arrest. Unless a plea bargain is reached, they face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole. Police eventually discover that she is a murderer after finding large amounts of poison in the exhumed body of her second husband. She starts stalking him and his wife Wendy, even building a shrine for him, but after learning for certain that Rick is no longer willing to tolerate her stalking, Cheryl snaps and kills Rick by shooting him, even keeping the bullet casing as a final souvenir. Elisa McNabney and Sarah Dutra had a bond so strong that it left Elisa's husband, Larry, feeling like the third person in his own marriage. She is sentenced to death, Jimmy to life in prison without parole. Amber persuades Jeff to stab Dixie to death, and they do so on January 16, 1996. Her solution was to set her Pocatello, Idaho, house on fire with her husband and two kids inside. Ellishia Allen is a British glamour model with a drinking problem and a volatile temper. In Greenville, South Carolina, Carman Major is a good, churchgoing girl until she meets and marries Clarence Jenkins. Holly Harvey, 15, had lived with her grandparents Carl, 74, and Sarah, 73, Collier at their Fayette County home in Georgia for just four months when she decided that she had had enough. Recently widowed chef Cai Xia Liao is smitten with recently-separated Chinese-born Australian businessman Brian Mach. She is quickly caught and, despite claiming and maintaining her innocence, is sentenced to death. Virginia Larzelere A seductress who got every man that she came into contact with (including her own son) tangled in a web of lust and greed, which allowed her to hire a hitman to shoot her husband in the middle of the day in his dental office. In 1940s Memphis, Tennessee, 49-year-old Georgia Tann, hailed as "the mother of modern adoption," is acclaimed for her work in adopting babies out to Hollywood actors and other well-to-do childless couples, but she is really a cold-hearted monster who kidnaps babies from poor families and neglects the ones she finds unworthy of adoption. O'Mahoney received an eight-year prison sentence, while her comrades received twelve years. Police manage to trick her into being caught, and she is sentenced to fifty-five years in jail, with no possibility of parole until 2060. In 1908, Illinois maid Essie Bible marries her newly widowed employer, Haville Bible, in order to justify what others see as immoral behavior. 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. She received a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty at trial. 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. Latvian immigrant Angelika Gavare is a single mom working as a clerk in suburban Adelaide, Australia, who dreams of the good life. She befriends sixty-nine-year-old Doris Johnston, who allows Jennifer and her son to stay with her in her home rent-free. She lies about Peter raping her, and then, in October 2012, gets smitten friend Joseph Collins to help beat him to death so she can spend all his money. In March 2011, Erin shoots Tory twice in the head, smashes her face with a hammer, and tries to disguise the murder as a home invasion. She and her husband Danny befriend Demetra Faye Parker, and in September 1980, they decide to use Demetra in a sex game. Wright's sentence was 25 years, but was reduced to 20 years; she is released from prison on December 30, 2020. In the United Kingdom during the early 1870s, Mary Ann Cotton murdered by poison 21 people, including 3 of her husbands, her mother, a lover, a friend and 12 children, 11 of them were her own. Orbin faced a death sentence, but instead received life without parole. 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. 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. Her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, is a gambling addict who loses up to $20,000 a night at casinos, and her alcoholic millionaire husband, Don, has threatened her with divorce. Brittney Dwyer is an Australian woman who has a close relationship with her grandfather, Robert Whitwell, but in secret, Brittney has a dark obsession with murder and violence. The two women get engaged, but Tory still has feelings for her ex-boyfriend and soon breaks off the engagement to return to him. Sarah Williams and Katrina "Kit" Walsh are best friends despite their twenty-year age difference, and enjoy using men for money, with Sarah having sex with them. 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. Megan Haines is sentenced to 27 to 36 years in prison. View the profiles of people named Sandra Ketchum. On January 5, 2014, she hires gang teen Anthony Delagarza to beat Jose to death that evening. 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. On November 2, 2010, a violent confrontation between the former friends leads to Molly stabbing Stephanie four times. Row was sentenced to death. Jamila M'Barek rises from high-class call girl and Playboy model to countess when she marries the Earl of Shaftesbury Anthony Ashley-Cooper, but the couple split when she fakes a pregnancy. 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. In Romania during the 1920s and 1930s, Vera Renczi poisoned her husbands, lovers, and her son with arsenic before placing their bodies in zinc-lined coffins in her wine cellar. Her lover's wife is a gossip who threatens to tell the neighbors about Frances' dark past, and Frances decides to silence her permanently. She dismembers his corpse, then burns and disposes of his remains. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. When she engages in an affair with a doctor in town, her husband, Fredric "Fred" Jablin, divorces her and wins custody of their three children. Puente was accused of poisoning her victims, stealing their Social Security checks, then burying seven of their bodies in her backyard. Two months later, at age 11, Bell murdered 3-year-old Brian Howe with her friend Norma Bell (no relation). 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. After a brief fling, George breaks things off with Donna to return to his wife, but his scorned ex-mistress decides to have his wife, 48-year-old Martha "Gail" Fulton, gunned down. She was unable to tell her side of the story to a jury and was sentenced to hang, spending her last days being mentally and verbally tortured by the cruel sheriff who had her in his custody. She is sentenced to nine months in prison, but only serves two due to sympathetic circumstances. His body weakened by the constant torture, Andrew dies after Clare stomps on his chest, and the murderers try to claim he was attacked by a mugger. Her relationship with her mother, Michelle Gordon, is contentious, which worsens after her brother dies of a drug overdose. Taken in by her aunt, Tiana becomes roommates with her cousin Shannon, who is a straight-A student, but Tiana resists their efforts to help her get on the right track. Convicted of first-degree murder and insurance fraud, both are sentenced to life without parole. Antoinette and Rogers both received death sentences (though Lacaze's death sentence was commuted to life without parole in December 2019). Foster was sentenced to death and Powell received a life sentence, but in 1991, Foster's death sentence was commuted to life in prison. Both killers are sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair in 1938. 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 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. Her lover is sentenced to 13 years and released in 2001. All three women were disciples of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. After Mary convinces her husband to fire the maid, on February 25, 1867, Bridget stabs Mary to death before setting the house on fire to try and cover her tracks. Her son's fiance, Kailyn Hunt, informs the police over a 911 call as the murder takes place. When Texan "Big" Joe Sturdivant retires from his transmission repair business for health reasons, his wife Joyce Sturdivant, 62, takes over the company. Louisa and Ada die within a few months of each other in 1935, Ada after making Dorothea the sole beneficiary of her will. In Richmond, Virginia, forty-year-old Piper Rountree has been on a downward slide for years due to narcissistic personality disorder. 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. Coit got life without parole. When Hilma Marie Witte's relationships go bad, she turns to her sons, Eric and John, to help. Robin Lee Row needed money to pay off her excessive spending. Anthony gets twenty to forty years, while Maryann gets life without parole. In 1930s France, Christine and Lea Papin are subjected to constant verbal abuse working as maids for the Lancelin family, their only comfort being their unusually close relationship, which turns sexual. 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. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence, Valerie Parashumti and Jessica Stasinowsky, Salem Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, "Paula Sims, who admitted to killing her newborn babies in the 1980s, granted parole", "Judge orders Jane Dorotik to stand trial again on her husband's murder 22 years ago", "Murder charges against Jane Dorotik dropped in San Diego County case due to insufficient evidence. After Dave no longer wants Liz, she stalks Cari and carries out a premeditated plan to create a fake profile to befriend Cari and gain her trust, ultimately kidnapping and killing Cari in November 2012, then impersonates Cari on cyberspace for the next four years while making herself a victim. Realizing that her father had also wanted her dead, Cinnamon helps send her father to prison for life without parole, and is herself paroled in 1992. Sandra is devoted to her religion, but as a Jehovah's Witness, being divorced would result in her being shunned from her community. Child abuse victim Debra Denise Brown is a developmentally disabled young woman who has a "master/slave" relationship with her boyfriend, Alton Coleman. Holly Harvey & Sandra Ketchum - Bizarre Buffet Podcast She is serving life behind bars without the possibility of parole. Two teenage girls wanted for murdering one teen's grandparents near Atlanta have been apprehended on Tybee Island. She is sentenced to life without parole, plus an additional five years for tampering with evidence. Holly Harvey, 'Killer Instinct': 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know In Peoria, Arizona, Doris Ann Carlson is a part-time nursing assistant living with her husband, David Carlson, and her mother-in-law, Lynne Carlson, who has multiple sclerosis. 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. "It's finally over. Mary Jane Fonder becomes obsessed with her church's new pastor, but he rebuffs her advances. Her three cohorts receive sentences of anything between twenty-nine and fifty-nine years. Convicted of aggravated first-degree murder, arson, and six counts of second-degree assault, Shelly is sentenced to life without parole. She and her live-in boyfriend, Austin Hughes, falsely accuse John of molesting his younger sister Melissa and brutally beat him to death, then claim John was attacked in a park, but the police are not fooled. In 1914, 19 year-old Ruth Snyder meets her 32 year-old husband Albert after dialing a wrong telephone number. Yes If yes which service? Jessica McCord She lured her ex-husband, Alan Bates, and his wife, Terra, into a trap, where her current husband, Jeff, would shoot them both in Hoover, Alabama, in February, 2002. She is serving two life sentences with no chance of parole. Martha later becomes overwhelmed with greed and plans to kill Bob with Chuck at her side; their first attempt fails, but their second attempt on May 15, 2006, is successful. In the late 19th century London, Mary Wheeler is a young woman who enjoys using men for money and sex (one in particular was Frank Hogg). She serves eighteen-and-a-half years in prison and is now a free woman. 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. To keep receiving that attention, she quietly killed her other eight children over a span of years. Furious at this, her ex-husband Pasquale gets four-hour visitations every week upon divorcing her and when he tries to apply for full custody, she stabs all three children and makes an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide on August 4, 2010. Afterwards, Alyssa disposes of Elizabeth's body in a pre-dug grave. Watts is currently serving two life sentences without parole. After violent assaults, Will gets out of the relationship, but Victoria won't let him go, going so far as to accuse him of rape and abuse. Tommy is sentenced to forty years, Dawn to thirty-five years, and Sandra to life in prison without parole. She is convicted of first-degree murder in 2017 and sentenced to twenty-seven years in prison. On August 23, 2015, after only two months of marriage, Sharon fatally stabs David in the heart. Armstrong was sentenced to life without parole and died in prison on April 4, 2017. With a rich new boyfriend in the wings, Danielle shoots Raymond ten times in May 2014 and stuffs his body into a toolbox. In June 2002, Jane snaps and violently kills Brent and stages the murder as robbery and gets away with it for a decade, but is eventually caught and is sentenced to 25 years to life. In January 2015, Doris confronts Jennifer after being alerted to the missing money, causing Jennifer to seriously injure her, and eventually kill her after four days of waiting for Doris to die. Jane Andrews was appointed the wardrobe specialist for Sarah, Duchess of York, but was fired. Pam Smart has a great career, beauty, and a lovely romance with her new husband, Gregg. In 1920's Chicago, Wanda Stopa's aspiration to be the first female prosecutor is destroyed, and she turns to the bohemian lifestyle and finds love with a married advertising executive. After Deana died in a fall at Big Sur, the authorities discovered Virginia and her husband, Billy Joe McGinnis, took out a life insurance policy on her. Sharee Miller The businesswoman from Flint, Michigan, used the Internet as a tool to manipulate her lover, police officer Jerry Cassaday, into killing her husband, Bruce, in 1999. Robyn gets twenty-five years for Wayne's murder, plus an additional twenty-eight years for George's murder, giving her a total of fifty-three years in prison. Jane Dorotik Instead of divorce, horse owner Jane Dorotik chose to murder her husband so she would not have to share the money she planned on using for her own ranch. While Greg was sentenced to life without parole for twenty-five years in exchange for his testimony, Kelly, as the mastermind, was sentenced to death, and she was executed on September 30, 2015 (one year and four days after the episode aired). Tinning got a 20 years to life sentence; after being denied parole several times, she was eventually released in 2018. Sandra Ketchum is on Facebook. When Tom begins an affair with a servant girl, Katie has had enough and shoots Tom in the head while he sleeps. In 1919, Stella is given a life sentence, before being released in 1927. Bernadette served a seven-year sentence in juvenile hall and is now a free woman living under a new identity.