Mearl Mackey told law enforcement various conflicting stories about the whereabouts of his wife, Evelyn “Laverne” Mackey.

Kim Allen had just testified against her husband in court, but he had been out of town at the time of the murder.

Tim Smith told Rowan County investigators that he beat Amanda Smith unconscious before his girlfriend, Stephanie Hall, “stepped on her neck, until she stopped gurgling.”

When Sara Dixon started draining the family fortune to provide around-the-clock care for her sick husband, her stepson Dennis Dixon hatched a deadly plot to secure his inheritance.