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Tommy Carlton owed his ex-wife Elizabeth $85,000 in back child support. It would be a lot cheaper to pay a hit man $2,000. What he didn't know was that the hit man was an undercover cop and the photographic proof of his ex's demise was staged.

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Police dispatcher Shawna Nelson thought she had committed the perfect crime when she shot her romantic rival Heath Garraus execution style, but she underestimated the abilities of the very police department she worked for.

Colorado v. Nelson

Dr. Jack Kevorkian thought it was an act of mercy to help over 130 terminally ill patients die a peaceful, pain-free death; Michigan prosecutors said it was murder and spent years trying to get a jury to agree with them.

Michigan v. Kevorkian

Scott Amendure thought the "Jenny Jones Show" was the perfect place to reveal to his friend Jonathan Schmitz that he had a crush on him; three days later, Schmitz shot Amendure to death.

Michigan v. Schmitz

Friends and family of Angie Zapata say she never hid from the men she dated that she was a transgender woman; Michael Andrade claims she did, and that the revelation drove him to brutally murder her.

Colorado v. Andrade

Prosecutors say the death of 16-year-old Neil Beagley was completely preventable; so much so his parents are charged with criminally negligent homicide.

Oregon v. Beagley

When 15-month-old Ava Worthington became ill with a cold, her parents Carl and Raylene did what they always did, and insisted the power of prayer was the only cure she needed.

Oregon v. Worthington

Reverend Randall Foos says it was just an unfortunate accident when his car hit and killed 19-year-old Sara Casey as she rode her bicycle, but a civil suit revealed more than the eye could see, or couldn't, that turned this accident into a crime.

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No one argued that Naveed Haq suffered from mental health issues; he walked into the Seattle Jewish Federation office, started shooting, wounding six women and killing one; the jury has to decide if his mental health issues make it less of a crime.

Washington v. Haq

Nancy Seaman doesn't denied killing her husband Robert with a hatchet; either she planned it or the murder was a desperate attempt to save her own life after, what she claims, was three decades of physical and emotional abuse.

Michigan v. Seaman

Mary Kay Letourneau, 34 year-old married schoolteacher and mother, was having sex with a 12 year old student, and the story grabbed headlines around the world; it's only the first in a series of wild revelations.

Washington v. Letourneau

Jeffery Pyne was every parent's dream in so many ways, so many wonder what drove him to commit the brutal murder of his own mother.

Michigan v. Pyne

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The discovery of Travis Alexander's body, stabbed, slit and shot in the neck, shocked his friends and family; Arizona police charge his girlfriend Jodi Arias with his murder.

S1 E2 | Arizona v. Arias

E108 | Judgment Of The Murder-For-Hire Masquerade With Ashleigh Banfield

E47 | Colorado v. Nelson

E45 | Michigan v. Kevorkian

E44 | Michigan v. Schmitz

E43 | Colorado v. Andrade

E42 | Oregon v. Beagley

E41 | Oregon v. Worthington

E40 | Washington v. Foos

E39 | Washington v. Haq

E37 | Michigan v. Seaman

E34 | Washington v. Letourneau

E32 | Michigan v. Pyne