
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.

Three women find themselves tangled in love triangles where the odd person out ends up murdered.

Alicia Williamson is charged with the murder of her roommate of nine days; Patricia Donnelly pleads guilty to first-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Virginia Twenter is serving two life terms without parole for the double murders of her father and stepmother; Diane Metzger is serving a life sentence without parole for first-degree murder, kidnapping and burglary.