Examines the turbulent life of Diane Downs--filled with sexual obsession and violence--and chronicles the police investigaton that ended in her conviction for the 1983 murder of her seven-year-old daughter and the attempted murder of her other young children.
A collection of true stories recounting murder cases in which the victims were killed for money, including the case of former Marine sergeant Roland Pitre Jr., who hired someone to kill his wife in 1988.
Tells the story of the bludgeoning death of attorney Cheryl Keeton in 1986 and the subsequent arrest and trial of her husband, Brad Cunningham, who was convicted of murder.
Relates how Debora Green, a physician and mother of three, was convicted of poisoning her husband, Michael Farrar, and setting the fire that killed two of their children in 1995.