Caitlin Schunn

“She was going to, quite frankly, make a good pay day on his death,” a police officer said of Barbara Pasa’s motives on Snapped.

Was Sydney Powell having a psychotic break, or did she purposely beat and stab her own mother? Family and prosecutors disagreed.

“Somebody wanted him dead and they wanted to make sure he was dead,” police said of the murder of Adrian Zapata on Snapped.

When generous psychologist Thomas Burchard saw Playboy cover model Kelsey Turner in need, he offered to help — but little did he know it would ultimately end in his brutal murder.  

Nicole Thornhill and Chris Tomlinson claimed difficult childhoods and parents with substance abuse issues led to them plotting to murder both Thornhill's stepfather and mother.

“My uncle and my stepfather both went into the woods and only one came out,” Angel Wells, daughter of Lillie Mae Eubank, said on Snapped.

“She said, ‘I don’t remember what happened, but I know I must have killed him,’” prosecutor Brian Cavanagh said on Snapped to describe Catherine Pileggi’s confession to killing Ronald Vinci.

Indiana detectives said Katrina Fouts also researched “crimes of passion” on the Internet before her husband, David, showed up dead in a ditch by the side of the road. 

Although doctors and nurses long suspected an employee of poisoning patients at a Missouri hospital, it took another look at the case from a police officer 20 years later to lead to the arrest of Jennifer Hall for murder.

The murder of Susan Bailey was sparked by a complicated relationship among teenagers that involved threesomes and drinking each other's blood.