
Female prisoners are a lot like honest politicians: they exist but you never really hear about them. This series brings women who kill to the forefront, detailing a specific case in each episode, and then trying to answer the question of why they did what they did.

Peggy Hilt is convicted of the murder of her two-year-old adopted daughter; Susan D'Aquila is sentenced to 60 years in prison for the murder of her husband.

Two lady criminals lure men to their hotel rooms and rob them at gunpoint; a family follows a mother's command to kill her husband.

Along with her boyfriend, Harris is convicted of shooting an 84-year-old woman and her 57-year-old caretaker; Rocka and a friend terrorize a woman for drug money.

Jackie Alexander is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of her roommate; Heather Frango is charged with murder after the death of her son, Jonathan.