Christopher LeClair claimed his wife, Karen, was terminally ill with ovarian cancer when she reportedly fell overboard a few miles from the Pennsylvania shore. But her coworkers had a different story.
Novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy played the part of a grieving widow when her husband Dan Brophy was gunned down, but surveillance video, her online search history and financial motives implied otherwise.
Bob and Jane Bashara had a seemingly idyllic life in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, until Jane was found dead and her husband's secret life and dark fantasies were exposed.
Investigators initially thought the tragic deaths of Nichole Payne and her son Taylor could be the result of a murder-suicide, but chilling clues at the scene told a different story.
A medical examiner determined Anjelica "AJ" Hadsell, whose body was found face-down in a drainage ditch, died of heroin poisoning — but authorities found no evidence that she was a drug user.
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.