Was it really the result of a genuine act of self-preservation, with no other alternative, or was the killer desperately trying to cover-up a cold-blooded murder?
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.
The night of the fatal shooting, Jimmy Shelton, Sean Patrick Foley and Miranda Goddard drank together on a porch, until Foley went inside and overheard the pair’s conversation.
At the scene, EMS responders found 53-year-old Burt Templet “in a pool of blood” in a bathroom of the home he shared with his son, an assistant district attorney said.
Hector Campos claimed he feared that neighbor Ana Weed would use the packing tape she was holding to choke him with, and that he shot her in self-defense.
“I was in absolute terror," Spencer Newcomer told his defense attorney of the moments before fatally shooting neighbor David Wintermyer. "At that point I pulled the trigger.”
Kathleen Jourdan, then a medical resident, called authorities in 2020, saying she'd shot her husband, Joshua Jourdan. Their 7- and 4-year-old sons were in the back seat of their car.
After Jonathan Hoffman, 17, dialed 911 to report his grandma, 74, shot him, police found him face down in gym shorts and socks, with multiple gunshot wounds and a faint pulse.
Despite the chilling admissions heard in the trailer for the new Oxygen series — from “I shot my husband" to “I just killed my dad" — not all cases are as clear-cut as they seem.
Through the investigation and sparring of legal teams, every episode of this new Oxygen show provides an immersive journey, exploring both sides of the story.
