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In 2008, when ballroom dance teacher Miriam Francis Helmick’s business prospects fail, she begins forging checks to steal money from her husband, Alan. When Alan begins to suspect her, Miriam shoots him in the head, and receives a life sentence for the murder, plus 108 years for fraud and conspiracy to commit murder. Sentenced to life, she cons her way into parole after only fifteen years behind bars. She is also suspected of murdering her first husband five years earlier, though that case remains open. In the early 1920s, Clara Green Carl is a farmer’s daughter with dreams of wealth and prestige, and her greed leads her to poison two husbands and her father-in-law with arsenic for their inheritance money.
When Katey’s plan to have Ernest permanently committed to an Alzheimer’s unit fails, she manipulates her own unwitting mother and her parents’ housekeeper Tina Van Moerquerk into hiring hitman Erick Crain to shoot Ernest to death on July 25, 2010. Loretta is deemed unfit to stand trial, and Tina, Erick and Katey are all serving life without parole, with Katey also getting an additional 70 years for conspiracy and forgery. In 1950s Kentucky, Opal Juanita Collins and paraplegic World War II veteran Ben Collins Jr. begin a whirlwind romance, leading to bad blood between herself and Ben’s family, especially his mother and caretaker, Julia.
Texan Brian Allen is a successful self-made businessman, but no matter what, he can’t please his wife, Karra Trichele Allen, who has bipolar disorder that causes violent mood swings, especially when she drinks. 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. In their parents’ acrimonious divorce, Welsh teens Ashleigh and Holly Robinson side with their mother, Joanne, and bear a grudge against their father, Tony, for allegedly hoarding their mother’s jewellery and some cash. The resulting rift culminates in the girls plotting with their boyfriends, Gordon Harding and Sacha Roberts, to murder Tony in his sleep so they can collect on their inheritance. She is serving life behind bars without the possibility of parole.
Judy Buenoano – Over a 12-year period, the Starke, Florida serial killer, murdered her husband and son and attempted to murder a second husband to claim on insurance policies that she had set up in advance. Eugenia Falleni – Born a woman, but living as a man under the name “Harry Crawford” in conservative turn-of-the-20th century Sydney, Australia, Falleni killed her partner, Annie Birkett, in 1917 to keep her true gender concealed. 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. She also attempted to murder Annie’s son, also named Harry.
Bathsheba requests a stay of execution at least until her baby is born, but it is denied, and she is hanged, while still pregnant, on July 2, 1778, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since the Declaration of Independence. In London, England, Maria Boyne is a selfish, shameless flirt who has multiple affairs with men, while her husband, Graham, is a devoted father to their children and wants to rekindle their relationship.
