Adele and Steven Craven were the perfect suburban couple. Adele was a trained mortician; Steven was a high-flying Delta Airlines pilot with a sky-high salary. They had a beautiful home in upscale Covington, Kentucky; their two young sons loved their school; and Steven could reach the Delta hub at Cincinnati in minutes. Being close to the airport was also convenient for Adele. Unbeknownst to Steven, she was having an affair with Delta baggage handler Rusty McIntyre. But the lovers needed more space-the cops had already caught them having sex in a car in a church parking lot-and they wanted Steven's $500,000 life insurance payoff. So Adele got Rusty to hire a hit man. For $15,000, small-time crook Ronald Pryor agreed to bludgeon Steven to death with a crow bar. On the morning of July 12, 2000, the three attacked Steven in the Craven's basement. When twelve blows of the crow bar didn't kill her husband, Adele gave Pryor a loaded pistol to finish the job. Within days, all three were arrested and charged with murder. Tried together in June 2001, McIntyre and Pryor were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Adele cried at her trial in November 2002, swearing she was innocent and dearly loved Steven, a good man and a good father. Steven's murder was McIntyre's idea, she said. He stalked her, spied on her, seduced her, and when she tried to break up, he hired Pryor to kill her husband. To escape the death penalty, McIntyre turned State's witness, but Pryor refused to testify. The jury couldn't decide who to believe and on December 6 the judge declared a mistrial. In a second trial scheduled to begin in January 2004, both McIntyre and Pryor agreed to testify against Adele. Feeling the noose tighten around her neck, she pleaded guilty to masterminding the murder-for-hire plot. She received a life sentence without the possibility of parole for twenty years. All three are currently serving time in the Kentucky prison system.

Rita Gluzman solicits her cousin to murder her estranged husband with an ax and dispose of his remains in the Passaic River in New Jersey in April 1996. When police discover garbage bags full of body parts being thrown into a river, Rita Gluzman becomes the prime suspect.

Investigation leads officials to an internet chatroom after Bruce Miller is shot to death in an apparent robbery gone bad.

When successful attorney Larry McNabney's body is discovered in a Sacramento winery his wife Elisa is suspected of the crime.

Albuquerque county commissioner Gene Gilbert is shot in his basement and his wife Teri is suspected of committing the crime.

Donna Somerville, a hospice nurse, is suspected of murder in November 2001 when her wealthy husband's autopsy reveals poison in his stomach.

A flirty Oklahoma City Baptist Sunday school teacher and her insurance salesman lover are looking a t a cool $800,000. The only hitch is it's the payoff on her husband's like insurance policy. To get the money, they have to murder him--and that gets them the death penalty.

Stephanie Stephens is accused of giving her older husband, a former surgeon, a lethal dose of etomidate and atricurium in May 2001.

A sexy little Las Vegas siren with a taste for rich men snares a wealthy sports bookie, kills him for his ready cash, dumps him in the desert, blames it on the mob, and gets away with it. Or at least would've, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!

On the evening of Nov. 7, 1995, three men broke into the home of Jack and Linda Jones. They tied up Linda while she watched helplessly as the thugs beat her husband to death with a bat. But when one of the assailants was later arrested, he fingers Linda Jones as the mastermind in the brutal murder.

Dante Sutorius had lived an unusual life. She's been married and divorces four times. She met her fifth husband, Darryl, through a dating service. He was a recently divorced doctor, and petite, vivacious Dante was just what he needed. Darryl lavished her with gifts and soon proposed marriage. The couple enjoyed the finer things and spent money with abandon. But soon, money was running thin, and tensions were growing. Dante had begun fighting with Darryl's oldest daughter. The couple began seeing a marriage counselor. Then, in February of 1996, Dr. Sutorius didn't sow up for work. When police stopped by the house, the found the doctor shot dead in a downstairs den. Dante said she didn't even know he was home and suspected he had shot himself. Bu the medical examiner saw a different scene. And when news of the doctor's death hit the front page, faces from Dante's past came forward to incriminate her. Dante's ex-husbands alleged that she was violent and had often threatened them. Date was charge with murder. Despite the claims of innocence, a jury convicted her and sentenced her to 24 years in prison.

At 22, Pam Smart had a devoted husband and a good job. Though she had ambitions of being on television, she enjoyed working with teenagers as the media director at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, New Hampshire. Then in May of 1990, Pam's life took a tragic turn when her husband, Gregg, was found shot to death in their home after an apparent robbery. Pam was devastated and appeared on numerous news programs asking for help in solving her husband's murder. A tip led police to the high school where Pam worked, where they arrested two teen-aged boys. One of them was Billy Flynn, a 15-year-old student who claimed Pam was his lover. Flynn told the authorities he had killed Greg Smart at Pam's request. Another teen, Cecelia Pierce, agreed to help police record conversations with Pam about the murder. Caught on tape coaching the girl on what to say, one-time media darling Pam Smart was arrested and charged with murder. Prosecutors claimed she was bored with her husband and had him killed so she could collect his life insurance money. The defense insisted the teenager had acted on his own, executing Pam's husband so the he could be with her. After hearing the wiretaps, the jury found Pam guilty of murder. She is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Outraged that her multi-millionaire boyfriend wants to end their affair, a cheating wife bashes his head in and nearly gets away with it.