Women Behind Bars

- Season 2

(2009)

A woman and her boyfriend were convicted in the fatal shooting of four people in the bar she was recently fired from. A teenage mother was in the car while her husband and another rob and murder a teen drug dealer for his cell phone and $1.

A former beauty queen murdered her roommate, a neighborhood good Samaritan, along with her son's friend. A young mother ended up behind bars after her son was mauled to death (over 100 bite marks) by her boyfriend's abused pit bulls.

A 37-year-old drug addict fatally stabbed her controlling 80-year-old boyfriend 54 times to the chest, back, and head. A 24-year-old was convicted for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter along with her roommate, a convicted child abuser.

A woman who fatally shot her ex-husband while their children played in the next room claims self-defense. A cognitively impaired woman and her boyfriend are convicted in the stabbing death of her estranged husband. She claims innocence.

A woman convicted for the torture and murder of a prostitute, along with three other prostitutes and their pimp. Then, a teenage mother who played a role in a botched robbery scheme that ended with the murder of a Chinese food deliveryman.

A single mother pleads self-defense after fatally stabbing a man she met on a dating website after he rejected her. A woman who strangled a man she just met at a swinger's club after changing her mind about having sex with him for money.

First, a young "follower" convicted of the murder of her adoptive grandmother along with the boy she was obsessed with and a friend. Then, a drug addict fatally shot a teenage bystander after losing her crack money ($3) in a dice game.

A woman convicted of arson and murder after starting a house fire that killed the sleeping children of her girlfriend but claims innocence and denies she's a lesbian. Then, a mentally ill addict with cancer who stabbed her friend to death.

First, a self-destructive single mother who fatally stabbed a teen she befriended while staying at a mental health facility. Then, a former police informant who was convicted in the murder of her pimp and ex-boyfriend but claims innocence.

The story of a woman who found herself behind bars after her husband died from acute methanol poisoning. Also, a prostitute found guilty of murder after her client dies of a heroin overdose after they shot up together.

A mother of three pleaded guilty to fatally shooting her husband after many failed attempts at disposing of his body. A woman was convicted of robbing and murdering her elderly friend along with her son and his two friends as accomplices.

A bipolar teen who pleaded guilty to the carjacking, kidnapping, and murder of a religious family with five of her friends aged 14-20. Also, a woman with a history of drug use and violence fatally stabbed her boyfriend after an argument.