Women Behind Bars

In 1986, Rose Parker is convicted of the murder of Art Boga; Celeste Fox is charged with the first-degree murder of her grandmother and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Stacey Lannert, from St. Louis, is convicted of murdering her father; Charaty 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.

Peggy Hilt is convicted of the murder of her two-year-old adopted daughter; 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 is serving two life terms without parole for the double murders of her father and stepmother; Diane Metzger is serving a life sentence without parole for first-degree murder, kidnapping and burglary.

Patricia Johnson is found guilty in 1991 of the shooting death of her third husband; Rebecca Bivens is serving 40 years for fatally beat her five-year-old stepdaughter.

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 is convicted and sentenced to life in prison; Bernice Ahrens is found guilty of murder and sentenced to 80 years in prison.

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 is sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of her twin sons; Deana Fairchild is sentenced to three life sentences for murder.

Rita Nitz is convicted and sentenced to life in prison for her participation in the murder of a local college student; Chanel Boyd is sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of her daughter.