“The Jacquelyn Smith case became a very high-profile case very quickly, and it was all hands on deck,” Baltimore detective Jill Beauregard said of the search for a homeless couple that turned out to be a lie.
Twins Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead, 16, said they'd come home from school to find their mom, Jarmecca “Nikki” Whitehead, brutally killed in a bathtub. What later unfolded shocked investigators.
After Elizabeth Ferrell's naked, bruised and battered body was discovered in a Louisiana Waterway, her husband Jonathan Allee "didn’t seem too upset," a detective said.
Pandora Zan initially told detectives that intruders knocked her unconscious before stabbing her husband, Charles Zan, to death in their Miamisburg home.
Michigan mom Renee Pagel was found stabbed more than 50 times in her home on Aug. 5, 2006, just days after she donated one of her kidney's to the father of one of her nursing students.
Authorities believe the Connecticut moms lost their lives at the hands of their estranged husbands, now legislation in the state is aimed at preventing similar tragedies.
