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The movie ends with Donna's voiceover stating the lopsided average prison sentences for a woman killing her husband (30–40 years) compared to a man killing his wife (2–6 years), and that she was eligible for parole after 18 years served.
Melanie Lyn McGuire (née Slate; born October 8, 1972) [3] is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband on April 28, 2004, in what media dubbed the "suitcase murder". [4] She was sentenced to life in prison on July 19, 2007, and is serving her sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New ...
"Till Death Do Us Part: The Barbara Stager Story", is an episode of A&E's television series American Justice, which profiled the case. [7] [8] Jerry Bledsoe wrote a book in 1994 about the case, entitled Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder, [9] which was later made into a TV movie in 1998 with the same title starring Jaclyn Smith.
Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
32-years-to-life in prison Elisabeth Anne Broderick (née Bisceglia ; born November 7, 1947) is an American woman who murdered [ 1 ] her ex-husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, on November 5, 1989. Betty Broderick committed the murder as an act of revenge after Daniel left her and divorced her.
Her brutal experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, transform her from a meek, naive woman into a hardened convict. [4] The film's subplot includes massive prison corruption. [citation needed] Caged was adapted by Virginia Kellogg from the story "Women Without Men" by Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld.
Marie began serving her sentence in 1983 at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama, a maximum security prison. Due to her clerical career, she was often assigned to perform paperwork and was considered a quiet model prisoner. This good behavior earned her several one-day passes from prison, from which she returned as scheduled.
Pamela Ann Smart (née Wojas; born August 16, 1967) is an American woman who was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to murder, and witness tampering in the death of her husband, Greggory Smart, in 1990.