Nancy Seaman doesn't deny killing her husband Robert with a hatchet; either she planned it or the murder was a desperate attempt to save her own life after what she claims was three decades of physical and emotional abuse.
Scott Amedure thought the "Jenny Jones Show" was the perfect place to reveal to his friend Jonathan Schmitz that he had a crush on him; three days later, Schmitz shot Amedure to death.
Divorce wasn't enough to end the animosity between James and Linda Cooney; the bitterness continued until Linda shot James dead with a .357 Magnum; she claimed self-defense, but the only witness was their 10-year-old son.
When the wife of a wealthy Florida real estate developer is found dead in her bathroom, two theories emerge; her supposedly loving husband may not have been so loving after all, or a completely different culprit.
Sixty-four-year-old Thurman Martin ruled his family with an iron fist, brutally beating anyone who dared stand up to his emotional and physical abuse; then one day he vanished, his family telling police he'd left with just a few changes of clothing.
Vicki and Gerald Monroe's dream of owning and operating a Louisville bar together came to a tragic end when Vicki found her husband shot dead and the cash register emptied in an apparent robbery.
When Sherri Malarik is found dead in a Winn-Dixie parking lot, police suspect her husband Greg is involved; but it takes twenty years and the confession of his accomplice and former lover Jennifer Spohn to finally charge him with murder.
When Maggie Locascio is found brutally murdered in her home, everybody points to her estranged husband, Ed; but when Ed turns up with an airtight alibi, investigators follow a trail of evidence that leads them through the Locascio family.
It's not easy to score a successful song in Nashville, this is called a bullet; sometimes what it takes is a little more than talent and a little less than legal; Kevin Hughes catches a different kind of bullet.
In 2019, a notorious crime ripped a Texas community apart as a bad break-up left a beloved teacher stabbed to death and a former high school football player convicted of the brutal slaying.
In 2015, Halford conspires with her boyfriend to rob her great uncle; both men end up dead in a blitz of gunfire and Halford would be convicted of capital murder; Halford questions the fairness of a legal system while serving life in prison.