Ma Barker is best known for supposedly leading the criminal behavior of her four sons.
Lorena Bobbitt is best known for severing her husband's penis while he slept, in retaliation for his sexual assaults against her.
Lizzie Borden is best known for her arrest and trial for the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother. She was acquitted in 1893.
Con artist Sandra Bridewell, known as the "Black Widow," collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from lovers and friends, and was suspected of being connected to several mysterious deaths.
Ruth Ellis is best known for the murder of her lover, leading to her execution, the last of a woman in England.
Teenage Amy Fisher had an affair with mechanic Joey Buttafuoco in the early 1990s. When Buttafuoco refused to leave his wife, Fisher attempted to kill her.
In 1982, Jean Harris shot and killed author and cardiologist Herman Tarnower, who wrote the international best-seller The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.
Myra Hindley was an serial killer of small children, murders she committed in partnership with boyfriend Ian Brady.
Susan Smith is best known for her murder of her two sons in order to carry on a relationship with a man.
An abused child who later earned her living as a sex worker, Aileen Wuornos was found guilty of killing six men and was later executed in a Florida prison.