Meet Suzanne Basso

Suzanne Margaret "Sue" Basso was an American woman who was one of six co-defendants convicted in the August 1998 murder of Louis "Buddy" Musso, a mentally disabled man, who was tortured and murdered for his life insurance money. Buddy Musso had been married previously and had a son with his wife. She died of cancer in 1980. In 1997 Musso was living in an assisted living house in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, near New York City, and he worked as a bagger at a ShopRite. On  In 1997, at age 58, he met Suzanne Basso, who was 43 at the time, at a church bazaar near his house. They started a long-distance relationship and he planned to move to Texas with Basso. He moved to the Houston area on June 14, 1998. Musso's murder took place sixteen days after his arrival. According to James O'Malley (Basso's son and one of the conspirators) Musso was killed at the apartment of Bernice Ahrens Miller, another co-conspirator. The group beat Musso, stomped on him and burned him with cigarettes as he sat on a child's play mat. The group also used a wire brush on him. The group put him in a bathtub that was filled with kitchen cleaner and bleach. They put clothes on Musso's body before leaving it in Galena Park, Texas. A jogger found the body and called police. The Galena Park Police Department ruled that Musso's death was due to "multiple blunt impact trauma." The perpetrators included Basso, O'Malley, Miller, Miller's children: Craig Ahrens and Hope Ahrens, and Hope Ahrens' fiancé, Terence Singleton. Basso was executed on February 5, 2014 by lethal injection.

Meet Wanda Jean Allen

In 1981, Wanda Jean Allen was sharing an apartment with her childhood best friend, Dedra Pettus, who eventually became her girlfriend. On June 29, 1981, the two got into an argument which resulted in Allen shooting and killing Pettus. Allen pleaded guilty to a man slaughter charge and was given a four year sentence. Allen served two years of the sentence. Seven years after the death of Dedra Pettus, Allen was living with her girlfriend, Gloria Jean Leathers, whom she met while she was serving her time in prison. On December 2, 1988, Allen and Leathers had gotten into a dispute. A city officer escorted the two women to their apartment and waited while Leathers collected her belongings from their apartment. Leathers and her mother were on their way to file a complaint against Allen. Allen had been following them. As Leathers exited her vehicle Allen shot her in the abdomen. Gloria died from her injuries three days later. Allen was arrested and charged with first degree murder. Allen was sentenced to death on April 27, 1989. Allen was executed by lethal injection by the state of Oklahoma on January 11, 2001.

Meet Lois Nadean Smith

On July 4, 1982 Lois Nadean Smith, 61, also once known as " Mean Nadean", murdered the ex-girlfriend of her son, Greg Smith. On the morning of July 4, Louis Smith, Greg Smith, and another woman, picked up Cindy Baillee from a Tahlequah motel . As they drove to the home of Baillee, Smith confronted Baillee about rumors that Baillee had arranged for the death of her ex- boyfriend, Greg Smith, which Baillee denied. Louis Smith choked Baillee and stabbed her in the throat as they drove . At the house of Baillee, Smith forced Baillee to sit in a recliner and taunted her with a pistol, and eventually fired several shots. Baillee fell to the floor, and while her son reloaded the pistol, Smith laughed and jumped on Baillee's neck. She then fired four shots into Baillee's chest and two to the back of her head. An autopsy found that Baillee had nine gunshot wounds in her body.  Smith was sentenced to death December 29, 1982, and was excecuted on December 4, 2001.