She is sentenced to fifty years to life. Mary Jane Fonder was also a suspect in the disappearance of her father in August 1993. The ways of wild, promiscuous "jazz baby" Dorothy Ellingson do not mesh with those of her old-fashioned parents who try to keep her from partying. Blanco was murdered in a drive-by shooting on September 3, 2012. Seath Jackson Murder. When the affair is eventually exposed and after James confronts Ada over the affair, she and Thomas hire a handyman, James Beadle, to shoot him in Lake Palorude on a summer night in 1927, but his body resurfaces three weeks later. Then-Governor George W. Bush refused to do so, thus making her execution, which occurred in February 1998, one of the most controversial in United States history. Danielle Black goes from good girl to Goth teen and begins having sex and cutting herself, much to the horror of her father, Billy, and spreads lies that her father is abusing her. Also known as Saundra Ketchum, S Ketchum, Sandra Ketchu. The 52 minutes long TV film which was the basic pilot to the show covered 4 cases of women throughout history who committed murders by poison. Despite Peggy believing that her sister was innocent (and even evidence of her innocence being found), Betty was sent to spend the rest of her life in prison. She is serving two life sentences with no chance of parole. Elizabeth Bthory was a Hungarian noblewoman in the 16th century. David receives a death sentence and remains on death row, Michael receives two life sentences, while Cat pleads guilty and receives four life sentences plus 20 years. Tiffany Cole In Jacksonville, Florida, Tiffany Ann Cole, her boyfriend, Michael Jackson, and friends, Bruce Nixon and Alan Wade kidnapped and buried alive an elderly couple who had helped care for her as her father was dying from terminal cancer and stole their money. Spending most of her life in expensive British boarding schools, American teen Elizabeth Haysom was an honor student who had plans to study the arts, but her parents did not support her ambitions. 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. The second best result is Sandra Lee Ketchum age 80+ in Columbus, GA. Gertrude Baniszewski In 1965, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Bansizewski, who was poverty-stricken, tortured and murdered 16-year-old Sylvia Likens and got her children to help do the dirty work. She is ultimately convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole. She is serving a minimum twenty-year sentence. Missing her mother's companionship, high school student Marie Robards poisons her loving father to move back in with her mom. In 1910s Salt Lake City, Utah, hotel housekeeper Amy Hill has an affair with owner Ross Bonny, with Amy ditching her family to be with him. Both are sentenced to hang publicly and are hanged together, becoming the first couple hanged together since 1700. On October 13, 2011, when Greg announces his plans to build a house, Michele becomes desperate to hide her spending habits from him, ultimately shooting Greg. That inconsistency soon proves to be her undoing, and she is sentenced to 20 to 27 years in prison. Betty Neumar had five husbands four of whom died suspiciously while married to Betty. She was sentenced to life and paroled after 10 years, but ends up back in prison for a dating scam, and dies in prison in 1941. However, the plan is exposed when one of the scammers comes forward. In April 2008, Holger goes missing and Esti falls in love with Manfred Hinterberger, with whom she once had an affair during her marriage. Her solution was to set her Pocatello, Idaho, house on fire with her husband and two kids inside. In January 1914, she shoots Frank twice, one in the leg and the second in the back. Susanna testified against Wamsley and Richardson, getting a 30-year sentence with the possibility of parole. Grace decides to move out after the relationship threatens to separate her from her children, but Carman and Clarence, determined to get their lover back, decide to kidnap and kill thirty-four-year-old drug addict Mekole Harris in order to threaten Grace to move back in with them. Bernadette served a seven-year sentence in juvenile hall and is now a free woman living under a new identity. She is ultimately given a fifteen-year sentence, which she serves, and dies three years after her release. In Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1992, Jean Ann James is devastated when she learns that her husband is having an affair with her best friend, Gladys Wakabayashi. Around 2pm, law enforcement officials from Atlanta and from Tybee arrested 15-year-old Holley Harvey and 16-year-old Sandra Ketchum. Alexander promises to leave his wife and marry Laura, but after seven years of empty promises and lies from Alexander, Laura is tired of being the other woman, and shoots him in front of his wife. Sentenced to life, she cons her way into parole after only fifteen years behind bars. Sep 30, 2020, 16:05 ET. One night, she gets into a heated argument with her white neighbor, Jason Horsley, and his girlfriend, over the loud barking of their dogs. Jean and Leslie falsely accuse Alex of molesting the boy in a plot to get Leslie full custody, and before Alex can have his day in court, Jean strikes first, shooting Alex to death in January 2006. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. In May 2016, Lyndsey dies from the abuse, and Becky is sentenced to life with a minimum of 20 years for Lyndsey's death and beating a former girlfriend. 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. Maryann Castorena has fallen out of love with her long-time lover, Jose Hernandez, but not with his money, and wants his life insurance and to be with her secret married husband. Ellen Etheridge is ecstatic when she gets to marry her new millionaire husband after his wife dies. In spring of 1991, when his wife, Joan, receives an inheritance from her mother's death and plans to proceed with a divorce, Dennis, fearing financial ruin, enlists Brandi's help in murdering Joan, bludgeoning Joan with a golf club. 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. 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. Charles Manson died in prison on November 19, 2017. 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. Police find it hard to believe that a grandmother could commit such a brutal crime such as this until they look into her past. Susan Lee Russo's facade of devoted wife and mother masks her dark side: she is a meth addict and is having an affair with her drug dealer, Jason Andrews. She evades justice for 16 years until inadvertently confessing to undercover cops, and is serving 25 years to life for first-degree murder. As Stephanie is convicted of the murder, Alex reveals he had never met Alicia before and denounces her for her actions, leaving a heartbroken Stephanie to realize that she killed her best friend over nothing and serve life in prison without parole for her troubles. She was sentenced to death, but her sentence is later commuted to life without parole. Subsequent articles, including some linked here, do reveal their full names and family names. Soon, however, the happy family is torn apart when Misook is caught shoplifting and Linda chooses not to bail her out of jail. Jeremiah is sentenced to life, Michael to thirty-five years, and Nicole to forty years to life. Tiana was found guilty of second-degree murder and was sentenced to fifteen years to life. But Andy rejects her, and Joann tells her to leave Andy alone. She is eligible for parole when she is 120 years old. She pleads guilty to murder and manslaughter and receives 42 years in prison. Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum "Kill, Keys, Money and Jewelry". Feeling betrayed, Misook plots revenge and ultimately strangles Linda in Misook's sewing shop. Susan did not believe in divorce and felt the only way out was murder. 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. One night in 1981, Claire stabs Sand 27 times to death at their Rancho Mirage, California, home. Winnie Ruth Judd In 1931, Judd impulsively murders her friends after fighting over a man, Jack Halloran, and has them cut up with the intention of dumping their remains in the Pacific Ocean. Her motive is that she is addicted to killing and enjoys the thrill. In 2003, the couple decide to rob and kill retired Pastor Julian Brandon and his wife Alice. In August 2019, an argument between the two turns violent when Debby brutally bludgeons Louise with a garden spade. She is given a seven-year prison sentence, the murder officially labeled a hate crime. In Chorley, England, Sharon Edwards lives the good life as fiance and then wife to successful criminal defence attorney David, but she has a history of abusive and violent behavior against boyfriends, and David is no exception, especially after he loses his job. Gray eventually got forty years in prison without parole. In Greenville, Mississippi, Terrie Robinson is having difficulty coping with the stresses of being a single mother on welfare. Both are sentenced to death in Ohio. 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. In 1950s Cincinnati, Edythe Klumpp convinces her married lover, Bill Bergen, to pose as her husband so that she can get a bank loan, but fears that Bill's wife, Louise, will expose her ruse. Megan Haines has a history of abusing elderly patients, but she still manages to get a job in an Australian nursing home. After her husband's body is discovered, Silver is hanged in the gallows on July 12, 1833. Their victim of choice: a trusting old lady, eighty-five-year-old Anne Brackett, with whom they spent hours chatting about her family before stabbing her. However, she got caught quickly due to an unlikely eyewitness who saw the murders unfold. Anjette was sentenced to death, but was later sent to an insane asylum, where she died of a heart attack in 1977. 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. Meanwhile, Greg is given a life sentence in 1983, but is paroled in 2009 after spending twenty-six years in prison. Rosie Alfaro stabbed her friend's nine-year-old sister over 50 times in Anaheim, California, to rob the house and then trade the items and money stolen in exchange for drugs and booze. She will be eligible for parole in 20 years. Jane Toppan In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a nurse who murders at least 31 of her patients in a sadistic fashion for sexual pleasure. 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. After numerous attempts to get Ian back fail, both women plan her murder for a year before acting on it in January 2016. In January 1988, she shoots husband Richard in his sleep, then enlists her lover and another co-worker to help dispose of the body. She is embraced in the goth lifestyle and prefers fantasy and the occult to the real world. She pleads guilty to murder and is sentenced to a 14 year minimum sentence with eligibility for parole at age 43. The pair dismembers and disposes of the body in the Cooks River, and only the head is recovered two weeks later. As her relationship with Gregg starts to have problems, Pam decides to fix them by hiring the teens to kill him for her in May 1990. Judith Neelley At age 15, she married her husband Alvin, and they immediately began a crime spree. It all becomes too much for hoarder Jeanne, and on the night of August 16, 2011, she puts a vicious plan into action: stabbing and suffocating her husband to death. 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. Jealous and enraged, Michelle shoots Joe and Sunday. Both women are serving life without parole. Kenny soon decides to reconcile with ShaRon, leaving a pregnant Nadiyah in dire straits. Lan's drug use and violent temper are soon too much for Monica, who kicks Lan out of the house, but soon decides to give her a second chance. To make her predictions come true, her clients were given her signature hearty stew that was laced with arsenic. Shirley's daughter Norma exposes her mother as a murderer who poisoned Lloyd with antifreeze for Lloyd's life insurance money. Kerry, vengeful and high on meth, responded by torturing Irene to death via everything from electrocution to stabbing to bludgeoning. A new narrator was introduced, Lynnanne Zager, and each episode was reduced to featuring three cases instead of four. 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. Aurea harasses him, and, on September 22, 2005, Aurea, her sister, and boyfriend hire a hitman, Alex Pablon Colon, to kill Adam and stage it as a robbery gone wrong. One night in May 1976, a violent confrontation between the two ends with Patricia killing him. 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. Both are serving 75 years to life. She is acquitted by reason of insanity. After her lies are exposed, she assaults Will again, which earns her a battery charge against her. Sarah and Carl Collier shared a home in the small city of Fayetteville, not too far from Atlanta, Georgia. She was released in 1980 at age 23. Nate proclaims Donna's innocence, but eventually, they both receive the death penalty. She is tried as an adult for two counts of first-degree murder and receives two life sentences, both without parole. Desiring a social life with alcohol, Maria has affairs with miners and prostitutes for her own desires, until news spreads town that Frank has had an affair with a woman. Nelson was sentenced to life in prison, and died in 2017. Timothy Wade Ketchum, age 58 of Griffin, passed away on Monday, January 31, 2022. 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. French immigrant Valerie Pape was a hair salon owner and a Scottsdale, Arizona socialite with an abusive husband, Ira Pomerantz. Sara Moore becomes a live-in caretaker for elderly multiple sclerosis victim Richard Englander, but is more interested in his money than in his welfare and drains his bank accounts to support her crack cocaine habit. In Cordele, Georgia, in the 1960s, Janie Lou Gibbs poisoned her three sons, her grandson, and her husband for the purpose of collecting life insurance. Amy Bishop was a professor and neurobiologist PhD in Chemistry at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, but has a narcissistic personality and a history of violent outbursts, including shooting her 18-year-old brother, Seth, to death in 1986. Each of the juvenile perpetrators in this story received the maximum sentences allowed under Canadian Law: 10 years. Both men get twenty-five years to life, and Susan receives life without parole. Sandra Ketchum is on Facebook. For years, Becky beats, humiliates, and starves Lyndsey with the help of her mother. These three episodes of the show were narrated by Marsha Crenshaw. Party girl Liz Golyar becomes infatuated with single dad Dave, but he is in a relationship with another woman, Cari Farver. After being released on armed robbery charges, Judith and Alvin commit the most heinous of crimes by abducting, raping, torturing and murdering two people, one of them Lisa Ann Millican, a 13-year-old girl, in Fort Payne, Alabama, and 22 year old Janice Kay Chatman. When Shannon discovers that Roscoe had started a forbidden affair with his psychiatrist, Dr. Irina Puscariu, she becomes furious, and on January 13, 2012, she drives 250 miles throughout the night to Irina's house in Gladstone, Missouri, and shoots her dead in front of Irina's mother. She is now serving life in prison without parole. She targets 92-year-old Holocaust survivor and former disco owner Felix Brinkmann, and recruits brothers Alijulah and Hasib Cutts to help her rob him, bludgeoning and strangling Felix when he refuses to divulge his safe combination. Theresa Riggi's lack of trust in others leads her to isolate her children from society and have complete control over them. After four months of marriage, Uloma uses up all his money and is in debt. 36-year-old single mother Ellie Starr Nesler sends her six-year-old son, Willy, away to a Christian summer camp, where he and several other boys are molested by thirty-one-year-old convicted pedophile Daniel Driver. Celeste Beard In Austin, Texas, Beard conspired to murder her husband, a retired television executive and self-made multi-millionaire, in order to get his $50,000,000 fortune, with her lover Tracey Tarlton, whom she manipulated to shoot her husband. Walter received a death sentence, and in August 2016, her sentence was commuted to life without parole. On the run for manufacturing meth, Lisa Jo Chamberlin and her boyfriend, Roger Gillett, are welcomed with open arms into the home of Roger's cousin, Vernon Hullett, and his girlfriend, Linda Heintzelman, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. On December 18, 1886, after William threatens Roxalana, she enlists the help of her daughter, Mary, and her nephew, Franklin "Frank" Gates, in murdering her husband, shooting, decapitating, and dismembering him before then burning his corpse. In Norfolk, England, fifteen-year-old Lorraine Thorpe saw a father figure in Peter Clarke, a forty-one-year-old man in her group of alcoholics. In 1991, 23-year-old Omaima meets 56-year-old Bill Nelson. After Jonathan fails a drug test and announces he is running away, Sandra fatally shoots him five times and tries to claim self-defense, but the act is caught on Jonathan's 911 call. Montgomery received a death sentence, and she was executed by lethal injection on January 13, 2021. 2. In 1994, Ketchum was inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Between 1939 and 1940, Leonarda drugs three neighbors, chops their bodies, and makes soap and tea cakes out of them. Unrepentant, Lena is sentenced to ten years in prison, but released in 2011 after serving five years. When the family fails to pay up, she goes after seven-year-old Javier Angel after he is accidentally left unsupervised, bludgeoning, strangling, and finally suffocating him by sealing him in garbage bags before hiding him under her bed, but her crime is quickly exposed due to Julia inadvertently revealing it to the police. 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). Toni pleads guilty to second-degree murder and receives life in prison with the possibility of parole after eighteen years, while Kody is convicted of first-degree murder and gets life in prison without parole. In early 20th century Catawissa, Missouri, Bertha Gifford is a nurse who murders seventeen of her patients with arsenic - including several members of her husband's family. The pair is caught for orchestrating the murder, and in 1928, they are both executed in the electric chair. She soon discovered that her efforts were for naught, as her husband had changed his will and completely disinherited her. Wamsley received a life sentence; barring a successful appeal, he will also be eligible for parole. Matre's family has since forgiven Latoya for the crime, knowing that she was tightly under her mother's thumb and would thus never have done it otherwise, but maintained their hatred and disgust toward Denise. 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