“They were an explosive couple that each fed off the other and I don’t think the crime would have happened without the passion they had,” defense attorney Kevin McCants said on Snapped: Killer Couples of Shanika Robinson and her boyfriend, who helped to brutally murder her brother-in-law.
“The murder happened in her home, and she had to have known about it,” Robbie Fox, former Sevierville police chief, said on Snapped: Killer Couples, as Shayne Lovera claimed she was innocent. “There was no way for her to get around that.”
“I just couldn’t believe it,” Curtis Smith, Aaron Friar’s friend, said on Snapped: Killer Couples of the plot hatched by the teenager to kill her father. “You know, little girl Ellie—I couldn’t believe it.”
Snapped: Killer Couples is returning for a new season on Oxygen True Crime. New episodes feature the murder of a beloved professor and a man found dead on the banks of a Georgia river.
Oxygen’s Killer Couples took a deep dive into the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case as experts and people who worked the case weighed in on whether Nicholas Godejohn was manipulated into murdering her mother in 2015.
Dateline reporter Dennis Murphy described the mastermind of the gruesome plot to kill young parents Josh Niles and Amber Washburn as "perhaps the most villainous killer" he's ever come across.
