Women Behind Bars

Celeste Fox is charged with the first-degree murder of her grandmother.

Stacey Lannert, from St. Louis, is convicted of murdering her father; Charity White and her boyfriend become involved with a murder in a drug deal gone bad.

A financially strapped Deborah Pierenger is jailed for the murder of her parents.

Susan D'Aquila is sentenced to 60 years in prison for the murder of her husband.

Delpha Spunaugle is serving a life sentence for the capital murder of her husband Dennis; Carmen Ortiz is serving 25 years for felony murder.

Virginia Twenter; Diane Metzger.

Patricia Johnson; Rebecca Bivens.

In 2004, Cindy Countess is found guilty of her mother's murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison; in 2002, Jennifer Blake is found guilty of suffocating and strangling her mother with the aid of her boyfriend.

Celeste Johnson; Bernice Ahrens.

Roena Ashing is sentenced to 40 years in prison for enlisting a group of friends to murder a mentally disabled man; Connie Keel is convicted of armed robbery and murder and sentenced to 25 years to life without parole.

Leslie Demeniuk; Deana Fairchild.

Rita Nitz; Chanel Boyd.