Confessions of Crime

Edith Mendez never experienced love in a relationship till she met Carlos. Passion turned to violence when she became victim of numerous beatings. One fateful night, she stabbed Carlos to death. The judge sentenced her to 2 years in prison.

Oliver Petrovich had long been sneaking his girlfriend in his closet to spite his parents dissaproval of her. When his parents found out, he shot both of them dead in a rage. Oliver is serving a 50 year prison sentence while Angel waits, still in love.

Where does free will end and mind control begin? Can someone be guilty of a crime they may only have set in motion? These are the life and death questions that confront a woman, accused of a shocking multiple murder.

Brian Britton - a seemingly normal 16 year old, until his passion for guns and Rambo-like violence got out of control. In March 1989, without unknown provocation, Brian murdered his parents and 8 year old brother.

Karen and Michael Diehl adopted 13 emotionally and physically disabled children over a 13 year period. In 1986, they used harsh methods to control one disturbed child, chaining him to the floor and beating him several hundred times leading to his death.

It started out as an unfortunate mistake that turned into 16 years of serial murder, leaving 54 people dead in various hospitals. Donald Harvey, posing as a nurses aid, killed the patients by obstructing their oxygen supply. He was convicted in 1987.

Manny Pardo, a much decorated police officer, committed execution style murders of citizens in the Florida county of Dade. In the trial, he described himself as the real life Charles Bronson.

Linda Culbertson, desperate to end the affair she was having with her boss Don Pierce, a Kansas City attorney, hired a gunman to kill him. When he botched the job, Culbertson finished it herself.

Johnny Jones and Jason Rose were troubled youths, drawn together by scarred backgrounds. The teenagers took to playing the fantasy board game Dungeons and Dragons, convincing themselves they needed to sacrifice for their evil god.

Elizabeth Haysom developed a taste for drugs and a love affair with Jens Soering which developed into an insane passion. Haysom, later described as schizophrenic, persuaded Jens to murder her parents and cover it up.

Darcy Pierce, a young married woman yearing to be a mother, convinced her husband for 9 months that she was pregnant. She claimed to give birth to the baby in the desert. Truth is she had cooly killed another young mother and stolen the baby.

One teen worked part time as a babysitter for family and friends in a small community. Problem is, almost every child in her care wound up dead, asphyxiated as coroners reports later showed. Her reason will surprise you.