
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.

A woman who shot her husband and tried to hide his body; a woman is accused of plotting her friend's murder.

How greed and passion led three women to betray the men they love.

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.

A woman is charged with starting a fire which ends up killing the two sleeping children of her lesbian lover.