Kill or Be Killed

Police received a frantic cry for help at a North Carolina residence. Jennifer and Kirk Turner, a well-to-do couple, had both been stabbed.

Evidence from two security cameras cast doubt on Melissa Turner's self-defense claim in the messy stabbing death of her boyfriend Matthew Trussler.

After Javon Donahue's body was dug up from a Missouri farm, his wife Jema eventually admitted to fatally shooting him. She described being choked, beaten, sodomized, and held in a closet while married to Javon.  

The night of the fatal shooting, Jimmy Shelton, Sean Patrick Foley and Miranda Goddard drank together on a porch, until Foley went inside and overheard the pair’s conversation.

"She sought out life that she felt was disposable," a district attorney said of Tracey Roberts fatally shooting her neighbor Dustin Wehde.

At the scene, EMS responders found 53-year-old Burt Templet “in a pool of blood” in a bathroom of the home he shared with his son, an assistant district attorney said.

Hector Campos claimed he feared that neighbor Ana Weed would use the packing tape she was holding to choke him with, and that he shot her in self-defense.  

“I was in absolute terror," Spencer Newcomer told his defense attorney of the moments before fatally shooting neighbor David Wintermyer. "At that point I pulled the trigger.”

A dispute over $250,000 going missing led to Najem Matti being shot five times and killed by a relative who said he fired to save his own life.

Kathleen Jourdan, then a medical resident, called authorities in 2020, saying she'd shot her husband, Joshua Jourdan. Their 7- and 4-year-old sons were in the back seat of their car.