Sins of the South

Nurse Vickie Dawn Jackson used a paralyzing drug to murder patients. "It's about the cruelest way to kill somebody,” said a doctor.

The autopsy revealed that 21-year-old student Latrese Curtis had been stabbed nearly 40 times. 

A police chief has never been able to shake the horrible image. “Two young, beautiful girls," he said, "stretched out like cordwood.”

"He just says, ‘I hit her until she wasn’t alive anymore,’” said a district attorney of the confession.

A hit man and his alleged conspirator feared that an honest chart director could expose their dirty business.

What was the motive for the brutal slaying? “It was solely for the money,” a prosecutor told Sins of the South.

While serving multiple life sentences for three murders, Freddie Hammer revealed he also killed his own nephew.

What was behind the grisly deaths of two members of a Florida hotel dynasty? “Greed and vengeance,” said a retired cop.  

The defendant, a three-time widow, was described in court as “somebody who can’t get enough of killing her husbands,” said a reporter.

“I need to report a shot man, and he’s dead,” arms heiress Susan Cummings told 911. "I had a gun ... he tried to kill me."