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Women Behind Bars Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2010 - 2010
Episode 1
Melissa Harris & Angela Rocka
Tue, Jun 15, 201042 mins
A single mother of three was convicted of killing two women along with her white supremacist boyfriend but claims innocence. A bipolar woman and her boyfriend beat, raped, and robbed a woman then left her tied up in her own closet to die.
Episode 2
Holly Coomber & Renay Lynch
Tue, May 11, 201042 mins
Holly Coomber was adopted at 18-months-old by the Coomber family. After they had a child of their own, she was told they didn't love her and her mother began to physically abuse her. At 11-years-old, she was allegedly sexually abused by her brother. These events caused her to act out, looking for any kind of attention and love. She was given up by her adoptive parents and eventually sent to live with a foster family (the Allens) at age 15. Her foster father (William Allen) began to sexually abuse her causing his wife to leave him, and Coomber with him. He wanted to teach Coomber how to be a woman and cure her of "her lesbianism and how best to do that would be to have sex with her." He had her emancipated at age 16 so that what he was doing was "not breaking the law in any way." She became pregnant with his child and gave birth to a daughter at age 17 but she reluctantly gave the baby up for adoption. Her and her foster father turned lover walked into the Jiffy convenience store in Brunswick, Georgia on October 19, 1986 where he proceeded to rob it and fatally shoot 48-year-old Emily "Sue" Moore, the clerk. Then, on November 6, 1986, the two entered the Kwik Fill convenience store in Seneca Falls, New York where they robbed the store and he fatally shot the stork clerk, 27-year-old Donna Guerriri. Renay Lynch grew up in a poor, dysfunctional family with an alcoholic mother and absent father. She began pregnant at 15-years-old by an older man. After finishing high school, her aspirations of becoming a runway model were crushed, being told she was too short. At 20-years-old, she moved in with a man she was dating and began using drugs. After their son was born, he kicked his drug habit but Lynch did not. She eventually left him and supported her son and her drug addiction through shoplifting and prostitution. After several arrests and some time behind bars, Lynch and her son moved to Buffalo, New York. Her landlady was 81-year-old Louise Cicelsky, a widow who owned the house. On May 19, 1995, Cicelsky was found dead in her ransacked home, stabbed eight times in the neck. Police first became suspicious of Lynch when she called Cicelsky's residence while they were processing the scene, claiming to be the victim's niece and wanting to know what was going on. She was eventually charged with the murder after being arrested for theft of a fur coat and confessing. She is now clean and sober but claims she is innocent.
Episode 3
Patricia Sexton & Willie Mae Hampton
Tue, May 18, 201042 mins
A young mother of three was convicted of killing her husband with her lover who was also his friend and co-worker. Another woman had a witness in her nephew's murder trial killed when he wouldn't testify. Both women claim innocence.
Episode 4
Lori McLuckie & Teresa Roever
Tue, May 25, 201042 mins
One woman murdered her boyfriend and dismembered his body while she was pregnant (possibly his baby). Another woman was found guilty of death of her 67-year-old mentally handicapped roommate but claims that she was framed.
Episode 5
Deion Smith Harris & Jennifer Freels
Tue, May 4, 201042 mins
A young mother of two is convicted in the murder of a 19-year-old boy after his mutilated body is found in a burning truck. Another woman fatally shot her third husband while they were having an argument but claims self-defense.
Episode 6
Dawn Amos & Lourdes Valdes-Fuerte
Tue, Jul 27, 201042 mins
One woman was involved with the death of a jailer during her escape while the other woman was convicted of killing her husband.
Episode 7
Courtenay Savage & Lorri Worley
Tue, Jul 13, 201042 mins
This episode gives the lives of a murderer named Courtenay Savage, a former policewoman and Lorri Worley, w mother whose daughter had just died from an overdose. Savage's story and background are that of a spoiled child who only values money and materials. When things that she value start to disappear, she goes after the people she blames for her lose; once again repeating her love of money and status over human beings. Worley's daughter dies of a drug overdose and leaves behind a baby and a baby daddy who is said to worship Satan. When Worley realizes that she won't have say in her granddaughter's life, she takes the matter into her own hands.
Episode 8
Jocelyn Cantu & Gwen Hendricks
Tue, Jun 22, 201042 mins
Jocelyn was found guilty of murder in the 2003 fatal stabbing of her lover, 23-year-old Melanie. Gwen pled not guilty to murder in the 1991 death of her husband. She claimed she was hearing voices that told her to sacrifice her husband to God. The jury convicted her and she was sentenced to life in prison.
Episode 9
Helen Shreves & Jennifer Latham
Tue, Jun 29, 201042 mins
Helen was convicted, along with a former employee, in the 1986 murder of her son-in-law, Tony, who was shot execution-style in the back of the head. In, 2008, 39-year-old Jennifer walked into the maternity ward of a Florida hospital and smuggled a 1-day-old baby out of the facility in a duffle bag. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Episode 10
Alice Knestaut & Sarah Allen
Tue, Jun 29, 201042 mins
Alice was convicted and received two life sentences for her role in the slaying of two men in a drug robbery gone wrong. Sarah was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 40-year old drifter in Sarasota, Florida.
Episode 11
Virginia Warden & Angela Ferguson
Tue, Jul 20, 201042 mins
Virginia was convicted of second degree murder in the 1993 stabbing death of 81-year-old housekeeper Clarizetta. In 2006, Angela was arrested for fatally shooting her husband. She pled guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to 26 years and eight months in prison.
Episode 12
Donna Duggins & Jeannie Moore & Evelyn Jackson
Tue, Jun 1, 201042 mins
Sisters Donna Duggins and Jeannie Moore along with Moore's boyfriend were convicted for the 1996 attempted murder of Duggins's husband. In 1999, Evelyn Jackson and her two friends kidnapped, assaulted, and murdered another young woman. She was sentenced to 45 years in prison.