Willie Barden's family disapproved of his relationship with Felicia Barden, who they called difficult and controlling.

"I was scared to death. I just knew I was about to die," Tonica Jenkins' victim, Melissa Latham, said on Snapped. 

Conspirators said, "You need to buy a black dress," was the code phrase to signify that 41-year-old father Roy Taylor was dead. 

In a bizarre case that started with dessert and baffled New York City detectives, Viktoria Nasyrova was connected to a series of unusual poisonings and thefts, all while she was on the run from an international murder arrest warrant.  

Sasha Skare claimed it was an accident when she shot up-and-coming rapper Martell DeRouen through his apartment door, but a jury believed otherwise.

“She was going to, quite frankly, make a good pay day on his death,” a police officer said of Barbara Pasa’s motives on Snapped.

Was Sydney Powell having a psychotic break, or did she purposely beat and stab her own mother? Family and prosecutors disagreed.

“Somebody wanted him dead and they wanted to make sure he was dead,” police said of the murder of Adrian Zapata on Snapped.

When generous psychologist Thomas Burchard saw Playboy cover model Kelsey Turner in need, he offered to help — but little did he know it would ultimately end in his brutal murder.  

Nicole Thornhill and Chris Tomlinson claimed difficult childhoods and parents with substance abuse issues led to them plotting to murder both Thornhill's stepfather and mother.