
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.

Dawn Amos was partly responsible for killing a guard as she escaped jail. Lourdes Valdes Fuerte shot her husband after he issued her with divorce papers.

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 jailed for her involvement in the fatal shooting of four people in a Virginia restaurant.

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.