User Reviews

I remember watching these 2 true stories on Lifetime. How The Pasters Wife Mary Winkler took the life of her husband Matthew Winkler & How Susan Wright took the life of her husband Jeffrey Wright. These 2 cases for some reason reminded me of the simularity of each other. Along with these other cases as well! I'm not sure maybe it was the image that they all represented! How everyone that they represented that fake upfront to the public! That perfect images being just that unreal!! & How they said they were in abusive relationships. But I do feel they were very herendish crimes. That took place! I'm not sure whatever took place to Mary Winkler & Susan Wright today! If anything it also reminds me of the Jodi Arias case towards how she ended Travis Alexander's life! I do feel these cases would be considered up there with the Lizzie Borden case by how gruesome their deadly Women act!! It's the same as the true story of A Killing In A Small Town: Candy Morrison taking her friends life Betty Gore after an affair with her husband! . And The same as The Burning Bed: Francine Hughes taking the life of Mickey her husband!

This program could have been informative without being exploitative. Yet, it's just the opposite. The acting is mostly over the top, the scripts are wooden & corny. It's more like a horror series aimed at ramping up public rage & fear rather than conveying the truth about such crimes & why they occur. The real problem with shows like this is that they leave the general public ill informed. One frequently hears the refrain that "women can be just as deadly as men," which is not entirely honest.

While women make up more than half of the population, they are only responsible for a fraction of crime, including violent crime, committed by their male counterparts. As a general rule, women kill those they "love" like family members, coworkers, and romantic interests or rivals. They commit more crimes of "betrayal" for want of a better word. Unlike men, women do not usually commit random violence/murders against people they don't know. They are almost never the public menace that males can be.

While violent crime has been dropping for decades, the public is left thinking there are predators around every corner. I think this might explain, at least partially, why the US only provides roughly 4.5 % of the world population yet incarcerates roughly 22% of the world's prisoners. Bottom line - our main industry here in the US is locking up human beings in cages.