One account of their story says the children were regularly called derogatory names from moving cars and picked on. Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten In August 1969, the three women slaughtered seven prominent people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate and Folger's coffee heiress Abigail Folger, in the Hollywood hills. Both Monique and Andrew faced the death penalty, but instead were sentenced to life without parole. After Joel discovers their affair, Jennifer and Matthew shoot him to death on March 18, 1998, to cash in his $1,000,000 life insurance. Mary receives a life sentence for second-degree murder, and Roxalana, as the mastermind, is hanged in 1889. But when the two women meet on June 5, 2009, for shopping, Korena beats Heather to death with a collapsible police baton and cuts the stillborn baby boy, John Stephen, out of her womb. Lisa was found guilty of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. After Mary convinces her husband to fire the maid, on February 25, 1867, Bridget stabs Mary to death before setting the house on fire to try and cover her tracks. Nadia and Roberto suspect Roberto's client, David Campbell, of the assault, and lure him away to be sadistically tortured and murdered. After their separation, Marlene continues to harass and stalk both of them, mindlessly believing that Shirley has stolen Ervin from her. After her husband abandons her, Ada Hulmes is in dire straits for her daughter who she leaves in a convent. Between 1907 and 1917, in Windsor, Connecticut, nursing home proprietor Amy Archer-Gilligan purchased life insurance policies on her elderly residents before poisoning them with arsenic. Baker's sentence is 18 years in prison. Elisa committed suicide in prison, and Sarah was released after serving eight years. The murder is all for nothing, however, as William's ex-wife turns out to be the beneficiary instead of Uloma, much to Uloma's shock and anger. San Fernando Valley, California, couple Joel and Jennifer Shanbrom have a strained relationship due to Jennifer's expensive tastes that plunge them into debt, which gets worse when Jennifer has an affair with con artist Matthew Fletcher. Aileen Carol Wuornos Wournos, a prostitute, shot and killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 to rob them. Unless a plea bargain is reached, they face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole. Coit got life without parole. Martha Beck was executed in the electric chair in 1951. 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She was seen as a woman with a series of unfortunate events, until she went one step too far by smothering an adopted child. In Melbourne, Australia, Robyn Lindholm is an exotic dancer who has a strained relationship with her boyfriend, Wayne Amey, due to him wanting a part of her horse farm. She evades justice for 16 years until inadvertently confessing to undercover cops, and is serving 25 years to life for first-degree murder. Margie "Maggie" Hamilton grew up in a family of career criminals, even aiding Bonnie and Clyde in a shootout as a teenager. [1] J.R. was given a ten-year sentence, while Jeremy was given three concurrent life sentences with a minimum of twenty-five years. She will be eligible for parole after serving twenty years for manslaughter. Carolyn's sentence was twenty-five years to life. Sandra is convicted of second-degree murder and given a minimum twenty-two-year sentence. But her watertight alibi led police on a wild goose chase for clues and a conviction leading to dark secrets from her past and only one way to expose her. Instead of simply robbing her new husband, she murders him and does not stop there. On August 23, 2015, after only two months of marriage, Sharon fatally stabs David in the heart. Sep 30, 2020, 16:05 ET. Sandra Ketchum Release Date Sandra Ketchum is serving a life sentence however she is currently eligible for parole Holly Harvey And Sandra Ketchum More News The two teenage girls arrested on Tybee Island for the murder of an elderly couple appeared in court yesterday. Carolyn Warmus The New York City resident and teacher preferred that her men were married. She befriends sixty-nine-year-old Doris Johnston, who allows Jennifer and her son to stay with her in her home rent-free. Christine Paolilla Under the influence and with her boyfriend Christopher Snider, Paolilla murders her four best friends in a robbery gone wrong in Houston on July 18, 2003, and remained on the loose for three years. In July 2011, high school dropout and drug addict Nadia Palacios and her drug-dealer boyfriend, Roberto Guzman, are attacked by four masked black men, and Nadia is sexually assaulted. A penniless Patricia tries to get back with Chris, but he has moved on with fifty-nine-year-old secretary Judie Winn. Showgirl Clara Phillips has a happy marriage with husband Armor, but when a neighbor tells Clara about Armor talking to a recently-widowed woman named Alberta Meadows, it causes her to snap even though there is no evidence they are having an affair. Clift's confession saved her from the death penalty, and she received thirteen years in prison. Liam's dying words implicate Melanie and she is sentenced to 30 years to life. In Jasper, Alabama, in 1997, Shonda Johnson is married five times by age twenty-eight, but is also a serial bigamist who is married to three men, one being Randy McCullar, and another being Tim Richards. Elisa Baker has her online lover/husband Adam Baker and his young daughter Zahra move from Australia to North Carolina to be with her. NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading global communications consultancy Ketchum promoted Lindsay Wagner to the role of SVP and head of diversity, equity and . Becky Reid is a volatile, violent, hot-tempered woman who has a history of beating up and abusing ex-girlfriends, and her latest lover, single mom Lyndsey Vaux, is no exception. There, she befriends prostitute Claude Lewis and finds love in Jack Brown, a married womanizer. After their breakup, Linda goes on a months-long campaign of harassment and stalking when he meets his new girlfriend. Sandra Ketchum is on Facebook. On the early morning of their wedding day in August 2012, an argument between the two turns violent, and a stressed and sleep-deprived Na Cola stabs Billy in the heart. An investigation exposed the couple as serial insurance claimants, and suggested that Virginia killed her own daughter for insurance money 15 years earlier. Her solution was to set her Pocatello, Idaho, house on fire with her husband and two kids inside. Having quit her college teaching job and with her husband unemployed and the family in need of money, Katey Passaniti begins to prey on her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother and stepfather, Ernest and Loretta Luttrell. Green received a life sentence, and will be eligible for parole at the age of 84. In the early 1900s, on a small farm in La Porte, Indiana, Norwegian immigrant Belle Gunness used strychnine to poison her boyfriends before feeding their remains to the hogs. In 1879, maid and thief Kate Webster murdered her employer, Julia Martha Thomas, and disposed of the body by dismembering and boiling it. Her income becomes her talents in piano and charm, and she travels around the southwest performing in saloons before settling down in Silver City, New Mexico. In 1905, Marie Arthur, a preacher's daughter, is rebellious and already married when she falls in love with a bartender, Frank Broadway Jones, but all is not happiness in her life, as they are broke financially and she proves herself to be not happy with Frank. Wuornos was sentenced to death and was executed in October 2002. Carl and Sarah Collier were brutally murdered in their north Fayette home, each receiving more than 15 stab wounds. Patricia Rorrer is an accomplished equestrian with a reputation as a confrontational bully. David breaks the romance after Grace puts a gun at his face. O'Mahoney received an eight-year prison sentence, while her comrades received twelve years. Amy Bosley Was caught embezzling millions of dollars in Campbell County, Kentucky, and was so consumed by greed, she killed her husband and staged a break-in while hiding the money somewhere. The second best result is Sandra Lee Ketchum age 80+ in Columbus, GA. After she was caught engaging in sexual activity with a female friend, she decided to kill her mother with a claw hammer. Judy Buenoano Over a 12-year period, the Starke, Florida, serial killer, murdered her husband and son and attempted to murder a second husband to claim on insurance policies that she had set up in advance. The TV film was narrated by Marsha Crenshaw. On January 2, 2001, after taking out a $15,000 life insurance policy on him, Katrina shoots Chris in the head while he sleeps, then leaves him to die as she flees their house with their son to establish an alibi. Timothy Wade Ketchum, age 58 of Griffin, passed away on Monday, January 31, 2022. Eric shoots his father, Paul, and John murders his grandmother, Elaine, with a crossbow so that his mother can keep stealing Elaine's money. In April 2003, Carol lures Philip to a hotel room with the promise of a romantic night out, then stabs him twenty-two times with a cheese knife and claims he was murdered by swingers in a sex game gone wrong. In Denver, Colorado, Darcy Matlock's first marriage ends due to her extramarital affair, and she finds comfort in the arms of her new boyfriend, Ron Griffin, but this relationship is also short-lived due to her erratic and jealous behavior. Blanche Taylor Moore used arsenic to repeatedly poison her boyfriend, Raymond Reid. In Prestatyn, Wales, 20-year-old Lee-Anna Shiers and 24-year-old Liam Timbrell endure constant harassment from 43-year-old alcoholic neighbor Melanie Smith, who is convinced her live-in boyfriend is cheating on her with Lee-Anna. She received three consecutive life sentences. After 22 years in prison, she is granted a compassionate release in 2020 due to her suffering from health issues. Sandi Nieves's troubled eight-year marriage to her former stepfather, David Folden, triggers a series of misfortunes for her, including a failed relationship with a younger man, an abortion, and David's rescinding his adoption of her three oldest children. In 1760s London, respected midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg secretly abused her servants and ruthlessly tortured, beat and starved them. But Shelly is determined to have the final move, and on February 23, 2014, Shelly invites Darcy to drink at the house of her twin sister, Kelly Arndt O'Neil, to reconcile, but Darcy doesn't want to get back with her. Both Elizabeth and her boyfriend, Jens Sring, received life sentences, but were released on parole in November 2019. She gets 30 years in prison plus three years in an asylum, dying in 1970. Convicted of first-degree murder and insurance fraud, both are sentenced to life without parole. In February 1889, Jack dumps Ada for Claude and later goes to the saloon, shooting him in front of many witnesses. One night in May 1976, a violent confrontation between the two ends with Patricia killing him. With no direct evidence against Billie Jean, she is acquitted, but dies of cancer soon afterward. The embezzled money has never been recovered. In Worth County, Missouri, empty nesters Shannon O'Roark Griffin and her husband, Roscoe, are living apart, with Shannon refusing to move from their home in Missouri. Money and pure selfishness motivated them to execute Larry. She was sentenced to life and paroled after 10 years, but ends up back in prison for a dating scam, and dies in prison in 1941. After being acquitted of murdering her own brother, Frances moves to New York and begins an affair with a married man. She turns out to be a greedy, violent monster whose five husbands end up either on-the-run, abused, or (in the last husband's case) murdered for money. Her next parole hearing is in 2022. In January 1963, Jean ambushes Donald, shooting him near the face, and blindly believes that her murderous deed will win LaRae back, but instead, LaRae turns Jean in. After Travis begins dating Lisa Williams, Chelsea begins stalking both Travis and Lisa. Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum Teen Killers. In the late 19th century London, Mary Wheeler is a young woman who enjoys using men for money and sex (one in particular was Frank Hogg). In 1940s Memphis, Tennessee, 49-year-old Georgia Tann, hailed as "the mother of modern adoption," is acclaimed for her work in adopting babies out to Hollywood actors and other well-to-do childless couples, but she is really a cold-hearted monster who kidnaps babies from poor families and neglects the ones she finds unworthy of adoption. After an affair with Walter Law ends, she shoots him in his car in March 1924, and then explained to the cops that she wanted to clean up a "big mess." Thomas's skull remained undiscovered for 130 years. She was released from prison in June 2019. . Bridget is very good with the couple's young daughter, Mamey, but she envies Mary's lifestyle and husband, and she is lazy and insubordinate. Anjette was sentenced to death, but was later sent to an insane asylum, where she died of a heart attack in 1977. Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum In Fayetteville, Georgia, troubled teen lovers Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum are forbidden from seeing one another by Holly's grandparents. She was sentenced to ten years to life and was released after twelve years. The truth was one that shook Huntsville, Alabama, to its core. After an angry marital argument, Silver uses a hatchet to hack her husband to death. Pam Smart has a great career, beauty, and a lovely romance with her new husband, Gregg. During her trial, Esti gives birth to a son she had with a man she dated after killing Manfred, but her dreams are forever shattered when, due to her crimes, her son is permanently taken out of her hands to be raised by her parents instead, leaving Esti to plead guilty to the two murders and be sentenced to life in a maximum security psychiatric prison. She is paroled after four months. But Claire does not like her fifth husband's penchant for rough sex. Barbara Graham Pistol-whipped a lonely widow to death in Oakland, California, turning what was supposed to be a robbery into a murder. Gunness's motive was to collect life insurance, cash and other valuables from her victims. Shauna Hoare and her boyfriend, Nathan Matthews, get sexual kicks out of violent schoolgirl-rape pornography, and plot to make their sexual fantasies come true by abducting and raping Nathan's 16-year-old stepsister, Becky Watts. She gets caught shoplifting and is sent to detention, where she writes a manual on how to rob and kill elderly people. As her relationship with Gregg starts to have problems, Pam decides to fix them by hiring the teens to kill him for her in May 1990. Belva Gaertner is a gifted showgirl with beauty, brains, and talent. Beth Carpenter A lifetime over-achiever and fresh out of law school, Carpenter was determined to take custody of her niece in East Lyme, Connecticut, but the judge granted custody to her sister Kim and Kim's partner Buzz. As an adult, she is possessive of her boyfriend, fellow recruit Victor Saucedo, and tries to isolate him from having anyone in his life, including his son, which proves to be the tipping point for him. Showing no remorse, Chelsea pleads guilty and is sentenced to 34 years to life, and is also prohibited from contacting her kids. She was found guilty of second degree murder, and got a twenty-year sentence. Linda Calvey is a Londoner with stunning good looks and an attraction to gangsters her first husband, gangster Mickey Calvey, died in a botched armed robbery, and her second husband, Ronnie Cook, receives a 16-year prison sentence for armed robbery in 1981. Aurea flees to Europe, but after thirteen years, she is captured, extradited, and sentenced to life without parole. Spending most of her life in expensive British boarding schools, American teen Elizabeth Haysom was an honor student who had plans to study the arts, but her parents did not support her ambitions. Rebecca Salcedo Married a socially awkward rich man for his money and after learning she would only get a few thousand dollars by divorcing him, she created a sinister plan to take him for all that he had. The unlikely couple begins planning out their future together, and it does not involve Amber's mother, Dixie, or younger sister, Amy, with whom Amber has a stormy relationship. Tausha Fields Morton is a serial bride who enjoys attention for men and cheating on past husbands. When Katey's plan to have Ernest permanently committed to an Alzheimer's unit fails, she manipulates her own unwitting mother and her parents' housekeeper Tina Van Moerquerk into hiring hitman Erick Crain to shoot Ernest to death on July 25, 2010. She was released in May 2022. In early 20th century Memphis, Tennessee, Alma Theede is a prostitute who charms men with her sexuality, but becomes a serial wife who discards her husbands like garbage when she tires of them. Fred committed suicide, while Rosemary was sentenced to life in prison. Armstrong was sentenced to life without parole and died in prison on April 4, 2017. The plan to get Grace back does not work, and Clarence is sentenced to life without parole, while Carman is sentenced to forty years. Eventually, Patricia's abuse comes to an end on February 28, 2011, when she throws a hammer at Louise in a rage, which ends up killing her by accident. She had her lover murder her husband so they could be together and they framed two black people. The seemingly senseless murders would have remained unsolved if it were not for one thing one woman was still alive. It was not until one girl was found dying from numerous open sores that this woman was finally unmasked and she was branded a monster for centuries to come. Dalton was sentenced to death. Mary's schemes are all for naught, as their son is ultimately sent to an orphanage and possibly a future worse than the poverty from which Mary killed to escape. Teased at school because of her weight, Nakisha Waddell of Troy, Virginia, befriends fellow pariah Annie Belcher, who introduces her to drink and drugs, and Nakisha's close relationship with her single mother, Vaughne, disintegrates. Thomas Loden Mississippi Death Row. Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt The two Hungarian immigrants, aged in their 70s, killed two homeless men for insurance money in Santa Monica, California. She is sentenced to life for 125 years. In August 2008, she gives Mason an overdose of cough syrup, then sets her house on fire and lets her son die of smoke inhalation, planning to collect on his life insurance. Sandy Ketchum is on Facebook. In New Orleans during the early 19th century, French socialite Delphine LaLaurie beat, tortured, and performed medical experiments on slaves in the basement of her mansion. All four are sentenced to hang. She is suspected of killing her second husband. Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum. Nickell has a ninety-year sentence. That inconsistency soon proves to be her undoing, and she is sentenced to 20 to 27 years in prison. Texan Brian Allen is a successful self-made businessman, but no matter what, he can't please his wife, Karra Trichele Allen, who has bipolar disorder that causes violent mood swings, especially when she drinks. Clare is sentenced to thirty-two years to life in prison. Meanwhile, Shonda gets the death penalty, but in 2014, it is commuted to life without parole. When Detroit, Michigan, high-school students Larketa Collier and Sharon Patterson fall in love, Larketa's conservative mother, Sandra, and grandmother, Bertha Atkins, become furious, and eventually decide to bar Sharon from the house when she disrespects them too many times. This results in the deaths of three of her husbands, with Alma as either the murderer or the mastermind each time. Amanda is sentenced to life without parole, while Sean is sentenced to 60 years. Although suspicion falls around them, the siblings aren't caught until 2016. She received a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty at trial. Friend Alec Eger, himself a child abuse survivor, believes Danielle's stories and, at Danielle's urging, stabs Billy to death on Halloween 2008. In order to stop William from finding out the truth, Uloma uses her own daughter, Jackie, and her (Jackie's) boyfriend, Chad Padgett, along with his friend, Ryan Dorty, to shoot William on November 3, 2013, for his insurance money. In October 2003, Teresa kidnaps Justyn, resulting in a violent standoff at the local police station in which she shoots Justyn eleven times, killing him, and is herself killed by police shortly afterwards. Bonnie Heady Alongside her boyfriend Carl Austin Hall, abducted a six-year-old boy in Kansas City, Missouri, by posing as his aunt and then held him at ransom for $600,000. Both were arrested and executed in the gas chamber in 1953. In September 2009, she leads friends Joel Alexander and Rachael Burke in a vicious attack against 62-year-old LGBT rights advocate Ian Baynham, kicking him to death. In early 20th century Catawissa, Missouri, Bertha Gifford is a nurse who murders seventeen of her patients with arsenic - including several members of her husband's family. Patricia Wells is working as a nurse in a retirement home when she meets William Jennings, and despite their age cap, they marry. In Sylmar, California, Dennis Dawley begins seeing drug-addicted prostitute Brandita "Brandi" Taliano and supporting her financially. On the run from the law, plastered all over the news, and unable to live with the failure of her plan and her losing the executive forever, Wanda discloses her location to authorities before taking her own life in defeat. Jessica and Jeff are both given life sentences. Sarah angrily launches a deadly rebellion as she shoots both of them to death in 2003. Gray eventually got forty years in prison without parole. In March 1996, Esther and Shane decide to rob a video store where they kill three employees and the grandparents of one of the employees. Myra Hindley In the middle of the 1960s in the United Kingdom, Myra and her sadistic boyfriend, Ian Brady, murdered five children, burying their victims in the couple's favorite place: the English moors. She served a life sentence with possibility of parole after serving fifty years, but died in prison in July 2000. Despite a loving mother and a private school education, London teen Ruby Thomas idolizes her alcoholic father, who was jailed for murdering a cab driver, and by age fifteen, she herself is deep in the throes of alcoholism and a violent temper. Jealous and enraged, Michelle shoots Joe and Sunday. She is found guilty and is sentenced to death, which is overturned in 2013 for life without parole. Ian Brady died in prison in 2017. Her first parole hearing is denied in 2011, with her next one to take place in 2026. Tommy is sentenced to forty years, Dawn to thirty-five years, and Sandra to life in prison without parole. When her son Giuseppe is drafted to fight during WWII, a distraught Leonarda draws a strange conclusion that in order to protect her son, she has to commit a human sacrifice. This turns out to be a tragic mistake, as on the fateful night of March 13, 2010, Lan stabs Monica ninety-one times in an argument over a simple phone charger. Kenny soon decides to reconcile with ShaRon, leaving a pregnant Nadiyah in dire straits. As Stephanie is convicted of the murder, Alex reveals he had never met Alicia before and denounces her for her actions, leaving a heartbroken Stephanie to realize that she killed her best friend over nothing and serve life in prison without parole for her troubles. Dorotik served a 25-year sentence before being released in 2020. When Pittman files for sole custody of their 11-year-old son Bert, Tracey forces 20-year-old neighbor Dustin Wehde to write a fake confession claiming Pittman hired him to kill her, then shoots him nine times and tries to disguise the murder as a home invasion. Gates serves only four years in prison for her second husband's murder. Malaika Griffin is known as a brilliant chemist who put herself through college and graduated cum laude, but she also has a hot temper and harbors an intense hatred for White people. While Melanie is sweet on the outside, however, she is a jealous, possessive woman on the inside, believing that James is spending more time with his best friend, Jeff Jarzibokowski, than he is with her, and in retaliation, she kills all of James's expensive fish. She was released in 1980 at age 23. She dismembers his corpse, then burns and disposes of his remains. Theresa Riggi's lack of trust in others leads her to isolate her children from society and have complete control over them. One man dies at their hands. Jacquelyn "Jackie" Greco is living the good life in Illinois with husband Carl Gaimari, but their marriage is on the rocks due to them having extramarital affairs and Jackie neglecting her children. She is hanged on December 23, 1890. Nate proclaims Donna's innocence, but eventually, they both receive the death penalty. Diane Downs On May 19, 1983, in Springfield, Oregon, Downs shot her three children, killing one of them. She told a reporter that she did it because she did not "like Mondays" (the case inspired the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by Irish punk rock group The Boomtown Rats). After drug dealer James "Greg" Smith breaks up with his girlfriend, Cindy Baillee, Greg's mother, Lois "Mean Nadean" Smith, a hot-tempered bully who is fiercely protective of her son, responds to rumors that Cindy plans to turn Greg in by luring Cindy away to be sadistically tortured and killed, and then has Greg and his new girlfriend, Teresa Baker (who actually tried and failed to warn Cindy of Lois's plan), clean up the crime scene. She was put to death by hanging. Also known as Saundra Ketchum, S Ketchum, Sandra Ketchu. Charles Manson died in prison on November 19, 2017. His parents, Cecil McKinley Ketchum and Doris Helen Goodman, father-in-law and mother-in-law, Walter and Alice Ozley all preceded him in death. In 1999, Donna Kay Trapani is a home health care nurse who falls in love with a married man named George Fulton. 24-year-old Vickie Frost is violently abusive and controlling to her visually-impaired boyfriend, 21-year-old Rick Whitcomb, but when Rick decides to leave her after a year of torment, she goes into a blind rage. In March 1980, after the doctor finally dumps Jean for a younger woman, a combination of amphetamine withdrawal and jealousy sends her into a rage, and she shoots him to death in his own home. She ultimately kills four children and is suspected of killing her husband's first wife as well, and is given a life sentence without parole.