Robert, her brother and wealthy auto mechanic, is always there for May, but instead of being grateful, she envies him, and it only grows bigger when her mother dies and leaves her money and house to Robert. of malice murder and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. Everyone knew them as the hardworking couple that regularly went to church. Jane Toppan In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a nurse who murders at least 31 of her patients in a sadistic fashion for sexual pleasure. 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. On July 10, 1922, Clara and friend Peggy Caffee hitch a ride with Alberta to a secluded location, where Clara bashes Alberta with a hammer. Esther pleads guilty and sentenced to 95 1/2 years in prison. She was granted escort leave in 2018. Sandra Ketchum and Holly Harvey Holly befriended another troubled teen, 15 year old Sandra Ketchum. On October 19, 2012, following a dispute over a stroller and cigarette butts, Melanie sets fire to their apartment house, ultimately killing the young couple, their son and two cousins. Shawna is sentenced to death. Walters was sentenced to death, and in December 2012, her death sentence was commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But Shelly is determined to have the final move, and on February 23, 2014, Shelly invites Darcy to drink at the house of her twin sister, Kelly Arndt O'Neil, to reconcile, but Darcy doesn't want to get back with her. When Katrina Bridges gets pregnant, she and her boyfriend Chris Ingraham move to Jonesboro, Maine, to make a fresh start. Mary Winkler A preacher's wife, Winkler shoots her sleeping husband in Selmer, Tennessee, claiming she was subjected to physical, sexual and emotional abuse. 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 is convicted of first-degree murder and is now serving fifty years to life in prison. She was arrested and found guilty for the murder of her third husband and died in prison in 1936. Deadly Women resumed production of Season 2 in 2008, with slight changes. In September 2009, she leads friends Joel Alexander and Rachael Burke in a vicious attack against 62-year-old LGBT rights advocate Ian Baynham, kicking him to death. 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). Clara Jane Schwartz is a Virginia teenager attending James Madison University. Chuck pleads guilty and is sentenced to twenty-five years, while Martha receives fifty years and is eligible for parole in 2028. 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 will be eligible for parole in 20 years. Luther survives, but police discover that Pauline also used arsenic to murder her previous husband, and she receives two twenty-year sentences. Wendy is paroled in 2004, and James in 2014, but they are no longer together. When he shows attention and compassion to new member Rhonda Smith, Mary becomes consumed with jealousy and shoots Rhonda to death in January 2008. 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. She serves eighteen-and-a-half years in prison and is now a free woman. Jeremiah is sentenced to life, Michael to thirty-five years, and Nicole to forty years to life. 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. However, she soon finds like-minded friends, who decide to embark on a killing spree. On November 11, 2013, the couple entrap and murder Troy LaFerrara by stabbing him twenty times. Both killers are sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair in 1938. After a three-year hiatus, the show resumed production in 2008 and began airing on the Investigation Discovery channel as a regularly scheduled series. Eighteen-year-old Maria Barbella and her Italian family have moved from Italy to New York, where Maria looks for a husband, finding one in entrepreneur Domenico Cataldo, a fellow Italian immigrant. On May 4, 1998, the couple shoot the Wycherleys to death, then steal the victims' money and concoct a ruse to convince family and friends that they are still alive. 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. Peter was sentenced to life with a minimum of twenty-seven years, while Lorraine was sentenced to life with a minimum of fourteen years. 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. On September 17, 2003, the desperate teens viciously beat 64-year-old Bertha to death with a claw hammer after she catches them having sex and threatens to have Sharon arrested, and torch the house to destroy her body, but are seen leaving by a neighbor. Her claim fails, and she is sentenced to life in prison with a twenty-year minimum. She begins an affair with lawyer Arthwell Hayton in the belief that she will climb the social ladder, but Arthwell dumps her. Sep 30, 2020, 16:05 ET. While Doris is supposed to be caring for Lynne, she and David instead use her for her money and sponge off her every day for two years, until the money runs out and Lynne moves into an assisted-living complex, taking her monthly annuity checks with her and leaving Doris and David to fend for themselves. Enraged at her parents and desperate for freedom, Dorothy shoots her mother in the head and goes partying afterwards. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sandra (Ketchum) Bryant. 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. One day after track practice, Toni and Kody kidnap Mickey and bring her to the desert, where they beat her to death. After her husband abandons her, Ada Hulmes is in dire straits for her daughter who she leaves in a convent. In Loxahatchee, Florida, Melanie Eam and James Barry, Jr., share a passion for video games, which makes them fall in love at a gaming competition. In April 2003, Carol lures Philip to a hotel room with the promise of a romantic night out, then stabs him twenty-two times with a cheese knife and claims he was murdered by swingers in a sex game gone wrong. Teased at school because of her weight, Nakisha Waddell of Troy, Virginia, befriends fellow pariah Annie Belcher, who introduces her to drink and drugs, and Nakisha's close relationship with her single mother, Vaughne, disintegrates. Scam artist Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore befriends lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare in order to steal his money, then shoots Abraham to death after he begins to suspect her and tries to convince his family he is still alive. In March 1906, Emma poisons Albert with morphine, bludgeons him, and puts him in a trunk. In Newark, New Jersey, Kenneth "Kenny" Carter begins a relationship with single mother Nadiyah Venable, but still loves ShaRon Moens, his common-law wife and the mother of his children. In 2003, the couple decide to rob and kill retired Pastor Julian Brandon and his wife Alice. Sharon Nelson Married a man for his money, then drained his bank accounts, turned to her secret lover, and talked him into killing her husband before moving on to another man. Using a Ketchum Release tool to keep your hands dry, your fly intact and without removing the protective slime from the fish. At the same time, however, Kathy is living with her boyfriend, Raymond "Ray" Galea. She was sentenced to life in prison and died in 1971. Holly and Sandy were huddled in the Collier's basement smoking marijuana laced with cocaine. When Hilma Marie Witte's relationships go bad, she turns to her sons, Eric and John, to help. That all came to an end in the spring of 2004 when Holly's mother went to prison. Both were arrested and executed in the gas chamber in 1953. Michele immediately spends all of his money and runs his business to the ground. Behind the scenes, Patricia is an abusive woman who enjoys torturing Louise and treating her like a servant, which she does for three years. There, Eva bludgeoned him with a mallet and Martha ran over him with a car. Both are serving 75 years to life. The unlikely couple begins planning out their future together, and it does not involve Amber's mother, Dixie, or younger sister, Amy, with whom Amber has a stormy relationship. In Springfield, Missouri, Shirley Jo Phillips and Wilma Plaster are seemingly best friends who enjoy drinking and dancing at country-western bars, but Wilma is nothing more than easy money to Shirley. Shirley is also suspected of murdering her previous husband in 1978 under similar circumstances. In Prestatyn, Wales, 20-year-old Lee-Anna Shiers and 24-year-old Liam Timbrell endure constant harassment from 43-year-old alcoholic neighbor Melanie Smith, who is convinced her live-in boyfriend is cheating on her with Lee-Anna. Prosecuted for the murders of maid Jane Buchanan and neighbor Mary Caruthers, Martha is sentenced to death and hanged in November 1867. Dana Sue Gray In 1994, Gray killed three women and severely injured another in Chowchilla, California, due to a craving for power, a thirst for cash, and hatred of her mother. Self-proclaimed voodoo queen Josephine Gray terrified her husbands and killed them in Baltimore, but due to lack of evidence, locking her up called for some very drastic actions. 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. When Texan "Big" Joe Sturdivant retires from his transmission repair business for health reasons, his wife Joyce Sturdivant, 62, takes over the company.