
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.

Leslie Demeniuk is sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of her twin sons; Deana Fairchild is sentenced to three life sentences for murder.

A financially strapped Deborah Pierenger is jailed for the murder of her parents.

Shreves was convicted of the 1986 murder of Tony Martinez, her son-in-law; Latham pled guilty to kidnapping a baby from a maternity ward.

Sisters face conviction for attempted spousal murder despite claims of innocence and hired killer confesses; In separate case, teenage mother and friends kidnap and kill romantic rival.