Snapped

Mary Winkler was desperate to find her way out of a financial crisis and escape a troubled marriage. This wholesome preacher's wife exchanged virtue for the ultimate vice.

Jessica McCord spent seven years embattled with her ex-husband over the custody of their two daughters - until she convinces her new husband to shoot her ex-husband.

The pretty and ambitious 24-year-old law student, Adrienne Hickson, was looking forward to a career in criminal law and spending the rest of her life with her college sweetheart, Shawn Washington. In June, 2007, the former law student found herself in a courtroom, not as an attorney, but as a defendant.

Sarah Brady, an expectant mother, stabs another pregnant woman to death in February 2005 during a violent altercation in the woman's apartment.

Elizabeth Reynolds is a Texas woman who went to extreme measures to exact revenge on her cheating husband, who she had many cosmetic surgeries for just to please him.

Lynn Turner used antifreeze to poison the two men in her life, her police-officer husband and her firefighter boyfriend.

Wealthy ranch owner Kathleen Denson's fast life of money, sex and drugs came to a screeching halt when her boyfriend was shot and she was caught with the smoking gun.

Misty Witherspoon is suspected of murdering her policeman husband with his own gun to get his life insurance, in order to cover up her embezzlement of funds from her church.

One-time beauty queen and Akron socialite Cynthia George is found by police to be living a secret life linked to a murder.

Lisa Whedbee and her lover are accused of conspiring to murder her husband in May 1994.

Erika Sifrit, a scrapbooker, and her husband are charged with murdering another vacationing couple in Ocean City, Maryland in May 2002.

Malaika Griffin, a biochemist, shoots her neighbor in May 1999 then eludes authorities for more than six years.

Sharon Daniels, a teacher, claims abuse in the shooting death of her second husband, a preacher and school bus driver, in September 2005.

Nurse, Michelle Michael, becomes bored with her life and sets fire to her house for the insurance, after giving her sleeping husband a lethal injection.

Linda Henning was a fashion designer who fell under the spell of a conman, and ended up being charged with the September 1999 murder of his wife.

Darlene Gentry had three things she cherished in life, drinking, drugs and dancing. But when she ran short on money she decided her husband was worth more to her dead than alive.

Monique Berkley, her young lover, and her stepdaughter's boyfriend are behind the December 2005 shooting death of her husband, a Navy reservist.

Shayne Lovera did not want a divorce from her mathematics professor husband, so she and her lover Brett Rae beat him to death in November 1994 then attempted to hide his body.

Ann Trexler is accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-son-in-law Ron Stovall in October 1998 so he could not take custody of her granddaughter.

Kerri Faye Brown was on the brink of being fired for embezzlement, so she shot her employer to death in April 2001.

Ann Miller Kontz, a chemist, uses arsenic to get out of her marriage in December 2000.

Elicia Hughes is suspected of shooting her husband, Brian, in their home in June 2004 after learning of his infidelity.

Linda Fields is accused of taking a life insurance policy out on her ranch hand, then taking him out in December 2003.

Tracey Frame is a mother who is hailed as a hero when she kills a home intruder -- but a secret journal leads police to suspect she may have planned a cold-blooded murder.

Shawna Nelson was convicted in January 2007 for the shooting death of her lover in which the police detectives believe was a case of fatal attraction.

Jeanette Sliwinski's modeling career was failing, and in a suicide attempt in July 2005, she claims the lives of three musicians.

Leslie MacKool is accused of stabbing her mother Janie Ballard 74 times in September 2003 so she could inherit her parents' multimillion-dollar estate.