
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.

Amos with two co-defendants killed an escaped jailer in 1995; Valdes-Fuerte shot her husband after he set up a divorce.

Dolly Mae Clapp pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the torture and killing of Mechelle Hicks; Shaniqua Brown is charged with second-degree murder.

Denise Holsinger is convicted in the fatal shooting of four people at the Witchduck Inn; Vanessa Crawley is charged with murder.

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.