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

The 1993 murder of 19-year-old Dennis Brooks, Jr; a husband shot to death in 2007 due to an argument.

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.

Natasha Cornett is sentenced to life in prison after shooting a Jehovah's Witness, his wife and their six-year-old daughter.