On July 16, 1948 Thelma Lavina Allen was shot by her ex-husband Eugene Leo Gambetta as she tried to escape from him.

On May 9, 1998 (the day before Mother's Day) 28 year old Michael John Yowell murdered his mom, his dad, and his grandma too!

August 26, 1988 in Midwest City, Oklahoma, 33 year old James Earl Plantz was brutally beaten and then burned to death.

Marilyn Kay Plantz hired her teenage boyfriend and his friend to kill her husband for $300,000 in life insurance.

On Saturday April 26, 2008 Nathaniel Casey Dickson murdered his family 46-year-old father, Samuel Andrew Dickson Jr.; his 46-year-old stepmother, Maritza Hurtado Dickson; his 19-year-old stepsister, Melissa Jiliam Salazar; and his 14-year-old brother, Taylor Alex Dickson.

This premiere episode discusses how 15 year old Zachary Everett Davis bludgeoned his mother Melanie Davis with a sledgehammer, while she slept.

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