Female Criminals

A New Year’s Eve at a quiet Florida retirement community ended in horror when Darryl and Sharon Getman were found dead inside their Mount Dora home. Their garage sat empty, and their car was gone. Residents had been talking for days about a stranger wandering the grounds of Waterman Village. She had been escorted off the property by security, but she came back that night. Days later, a woman sleep...

A year-long neighborhood feud in Florida reached its breaking point on a June night in 2023, when the sound of children playing outside turned into gunfire through a locked front door. Susan Lorincz spent months complaining about the kids next door, calling police again and again. When their mother, Ajike Owens, finally came to confront her, Lorincz answered with a single shot. Get the full story...

A Wisconsin mom picked up her kids from a babysitter’s house as usual after a night out. When she noticed her infant was unresponsive, she panicked and called 911 while performing life-saving measures. Investigators quickly determined the baby was already deceased when the mother picked him up from Marissa Tietsort. It later came out that Tietsort knew the child was dead and tried to hide the deat...

The 911 dispatch in North Olmsted erupted with numerous calls from witnesses claiming a woman attacked a mother and child outside a grocery store in broad daylight. Bionca Ellis stole two knives from a thrift store and attacked the victims at random, killing the 3-year-old child. When police tracked down Ellis, the motive was unclear. Get the full story on this episode of Female Criminals with Eli...

It was supposed to be the happiest night of Samantha Miller’s life, but moments after her wedding reception, a speeding car slammed into a golf cart carrying the newlyweds. Miller was killed, while her new husband, Aric Hutchinson, and two others were left seriously injured in the devastating crash. Behind the wheel was Jamie Lee Komoroski, whose night of drinking would end with a 25-year prison s...

Behind the glamorous online persona of a rising OnlyFans star was a relationship spiraling out of control. When Courtney Clenney’s boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, is fatally stabbed inside their Miami condo, investigators are left piecing together years of volatile, publicly-documented fights to determine what really happened that night. Was it a desperate act of self-defense, or something else ent...

A quiet home in Roseville, Michigan became the scene of a slow-motion cover-up when a family's welfare check turned into something far darker. For months, relatives believed 69-year-old Patricia Bennett was simply out of touch, yet texting back, seemingly alive and well. They later learned those messages weren't coming from her. By the time police forced their way into the garage, they found her b...

A quiet night at a Texas woman’s home was abruptly interrupted by an ambush in her own household. By the time law enforcement found Reagan Simmons-Hancock deceased, her attacker was long gone. In that same time window, police in another area conducted a traffic stop on a woman who had a newborn in her arms, claiming she was rushing to a hospital. It wasn’t long before law enforcement connected the...

A famous exotic snake breeder was found dead at his own reptile farm in Missouri. Ben Renick was seemingly killed by the very animals her cared for, at least that’s what his wife and brother initially believed about his tragic passing. As investigators dug deeper, they realized the real “snake” was closer to home. Get the full story on this episode of Female Criminals. Learn more about your ad cho...

To her New Jersey community, Marylue Wigglesworth was seemingly a quiet, devoted wife living a seemingly ordinary suburban life. On a December night in 2022, a heated violent argument spiraled out of control, leaving her husband, David, dead from a single gunshot wound as he lay naked in their bed. Beneath the facade of their marriage lay a toxic dynamic of domestic turmoil, raising the haunting q...

A Georgia home erupted into flames and a frantic 911 call broke the air during a quiet Summer night in June 2022. Police were told a woman was inside her burning home attacking her own family. Darlene Brister, a mother of seven, snapped. Find what happened in the Brister household on this episode of Female Criminals with Elizabeth Millner, presented by Law&Crime. Learn more about your ad choices....

A cyclist was shocked when they found a teenage girl battling for her life on the side of a rural Wisconsin road. The young girl was rushed to a hospital and survived what was clearly an attempted murder. Waukesha investigators found her attackers a few hours later — Morgan Geyser and Anissa E. Weier, her classmates. Geyser and Weier said Slender Man, a fictional character, told them to do it. Get...

A Florida woman seemingly vanished from the Carrollwood home she shared with her sister in May 2021. Karen Pais told her friends if anything ever happened to her, it was her sister, Debra Patton. Investigators would later find Karen dead, buried in her own backyard. Law&Crime’s Elizabeth Millner explores Debra Patton’s dark secret on this episode of Female Criminals. Learn more about your ad choic...

Taylor Schabusiness, born Taylor Coronado, killed her friend Shad Thyrion in Green Bay, Wisconsin on February 21, 2022, during a drug-fueled sexual encounter. Officers discovered Shad's severed head in a basement bucket, with remaining body parts found in Taylor's van. Get the full story on this episode of Female Criminals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alicia Andrews, 21, traveled from Jacksonville to Tampa with her boyfriend Isaiah Chance and four others in June 2024. Rapper Charles "Julio Foolio" Jones was ambushed and killed outside his hotel during his birthday. Prosecutors say Andrews helped track the victim; she says she knew nothing. Get the full story on this episode of Female Criminals with Law&Crime’s Elizabeth Millner. Watch on Spotif...

Hannah Payne, 21, witnessed a car accident in Clayton County, Georgia on May 7, 2019, and chased down 62-year-old Kenneth Herring, who may have been suffering a diabetic emergency. She blocked his truck, confronted him with a gun, and shot him in the stomach. Herring died. In 2023, Payne was convicted of felony murder. Get the full story on this episode of Female Criminals with Law&Crime’s Elizabe...

Dan Markel, a Florida State University law professor, was shot in his driveway in 2014. Investigators linked Katherine Magbanua, the girlfriend of suspected mastermind Charlie Adelson and ex-partner of hitman Sigfredo Garcia, to the Adelson family, ultimately convicting her of orchestrating the murder-for-hire killing. Get the full story on this episode of Female Criminals with Law&Crime’s Elizabe...

Lynn Hernan, 61, trusted Jessy Kurczewski like a daughter, making her caretaker, power of attorney, and co-beneficiary of her estate. But after Lynn was found dead on October 3, 2018, in her Pewaukee, Wisconsin home, toxicology revealed a fatal level of tetrahydrozoline, the active ingredient in Visine eye drops, in her system. Investigators determined Kurczewski had loaded a water bottle with six...

Arkansas police rushed to a Fort Smith home to investigate the brutal murder of 72-year-old retired teacher and Army veteran, Bill DuBois, in July 2019. Officers traced his missing car using a Verizon tracking app to a known drug house, where two men implicated 22-year-old Taylor Elkins, a former student of his while he was substitute teaching. Get the full story on this episode of Female Criminal...

Behind the manicured lawn of a quiet Mississippi suburb, a 14-year-old stepped through her front door and into a nightmare of her own making that ended with her mother’s death and a heartbroken stepdad. Get the full story of Carly Gregg on this episode of Female Criminals with Law&Crime's Elizabeth Millner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When a woman walked into a Kentucky emergency room claiming she had just given birth, the medical staff was immediately met with a scene that defied every law of nature. Kathy Coy arrived with a newborn in her arms and biological evidence of a delivery, yet her own body told a chillingly different story that left doctors paralyzed with suspicion. What started as a celebratory arrival quickly spira...

In the shadows of Georgia’s "Nowhere Road," a volatile romance between Heather McCall and Jeremy Howard reached a shattering point that left a young father dead and a community in shock. What began as a desperate 911 call reporting an accidental discharge soon unraveled into a complex investigation. As body camera footage captured the raw, immediate aftermath of the shooting, investigators were fo...

What began as a drunken game of hide-and-seek ended in a claustrophobic nightmare that shocked the nation. While Sarah Boone claimed the death of Jorge Torres was a tragic accident, her own cell phone footage told a much more sadistic story of taunting and intentional neglect. We unpack the chilling "suitcase tapes" and the legal battle that eventually led to a life sentence for one of Florida's m...

In 2015, a quiet Texas neighborhood became the backdrop for a mother’s worst nightmare. Samantha Wohlford, a mother of five and YouTuber, told police a harrowing story: three masked intruders had stormed her home, tied her up, and kidnapped her husband, Ernie Ibarra. The search for Ibarra ended in tragedy just 24 hours later when his body was discovered in a remote location. However, as detectives...

When a high-speed collision into a brick building left two young men dead, the community of Strongsville, Ohio, initially mourned a horrific accident. However, investigators soon uncovered a chilling trail of digital evidence and a toxic relationship that transformed a tragic crash into a calculated double murder. This documentary explores the harrowing 100-mph impact and the "hell on wheels" conv...