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.
“She said, ‘I don’t remember what happened, but I know I must have killed him,’” prosecutor Brian Cavanagh said on Snapped to describe Catherine Pileggi’s confession to killing Ronald Vinci.
Indiana detectives said Katrina Fouts also researched “crimes of passion” on the Internet before her husband, David, showed up dead in a ditch by the side of the road.
Although doctors and nurses long suspected an employee of poisoning patients at a Missouri hospital, it took another look at the case from a police officer 20 years later to lead to the arrest of Jennifer Hall for murder.
“They were an explosive couple that each fed off the other and I don’t think the crime would have happened without the passion they had,” defense attorney Kevin McCants said on Snapped: Killer Couples of Shanika Robinson and her boyfriend, who helped to brutally murder her brother-in-law.
“The murder happened in her home, and she had to have known about it,” Robbie Fox, former Sevierville police chief, said on Snapped: Killer Couples, as Shayne Lovera claimed she was innocent. “There was no way for her to get around that.”