Benjamin H. Smith

“Patti, please, please give me my husband back ... this is horrible. I need my husband back," Virginia Hyatt sobbed in a voicemail to Patricia Phillips Wheelington a week before shooting her.

Gail Fulton was trying to move forward with her husband, George Fulton, after learning he was expecting a baby with another woman. Any chance at reconciliation was shot when she was killed.

Princess LaCaze was tired of taking care of her husband, Mike LaCaze, who had a kidney disease and needed dialysis treatments.

Rose Kuehni pretended to be her boyfriend Doug Bailey and wrote suicidal Facebook posts after shooting him.

Werner Hartmann's daughter Eva found her father's bullet-riddled body after her stepmother, Debra Hartmann, insisted they go out dancing all night.    

Sandra Jonas forced her daughter to help her dispose of the body of her romantic rival, Meta Jones, by throwing it in an Idaho canal.

Mikel Dreiling claimed he killed Randy Sheridan after his pastor, Jerry Rollins, assured him it was God's will.

Randy Sheridan was shot to death while out for a jog. Suspicion soon fell on ex-girlfriend Dana Flynn, who had fallen under the influence of a pastor claiming to be God's prophet.

Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek's case turned into a media sensation after she alleged the Milwaukee Police Department was framing her for accusing it of discriminatory practices.

On the night Teresa Poehlman was killed, her daughter Christine Roush texted a friend, "I’m killing my bio piece of s--t tonight."