Season 5

When her Air Force Captain husband was shot dead, investigators blamed Michelle's lover, but when they tried to arrest the widow for conspiracy, she had vanished.

A Tennessee woman led a seemingly normal life in an upscale Brentwood neighborhood. She was married and had started a successful business. But, her relationship with her husband was troubled. It wasn't long before her depression and an affair put murder on the agenda.

A married couple were making a name for themselves with a successful roofing and chimney sweep business in their small Kentucky community. The wife was the bookkeeper for the family business and was behind on taxes. But, tragedy struck on the night of May 17, 2005, when her husband turns up dead before he can learn about her secret.

She had known her sister's longtime boyfriend for 18 years and trusted him. He was practically an uncle to her three children and often had them over to his home. He was the farthest thing from her mind when she tried to discover why her 16-year-old daughter was depressed. Then she found out he was abusing her children...

In 1987, a four-time divorcee married a Las Vegas real-estate mogul. With his $11 million dollar fortune to draw from, she was thrilled to be able to pursue her passion for buying and selling antique furniture. By 1994, however, his penchant for women and alcohol had put some serious cracks in their once rock-solid marriage and would lead to a sticky end.

A successful healthcare executive's marriage had hit the rocks. In February 2000, after years of marital turmoil, her husband was discovered beaten and stabbed to death.

When a 15-year-old girl's parents sent her to a respected therapist, they had no way of seeing the future. Less than a year after her therapy began, the middle-aged psychologist had fallen in love with his young patient. Their relationship blossomed into marriage and children, but their feuds would lead to murder.

Life was good for popular Louisville, KY, bar owners and they seemed like a close couple to their customers. But, their long days working together would result in murder when he turned up dead and her son blamed her for the crime.

A former prom queen was the all American girl, but she could not seem to master her personal life. Was it a case of 'fatal' attraction when she started dating her lover?

An Iowa couple's marriage was less than idyllic. She caught her husband with a prostitute in the kitchen of their farmhouse, and she had a rifle in her hand when she made the discovery.

A Las Vegas woman ended years of mother-daughter conflict when she put her unstable mother away. But, she had new problems when police discovered where she had put her mother.

A deaf lesbian lived a hard life in the conservative Midwest. In February of 2006, her romantic rival was murdered and she found herself being questioned about committing the crime.

In May 2004, a nurse told friends that her husband of five years had walked out on her. Days later his dismembered body washed up on the shore of Chesapeake Bay.