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Serial Killers, Black Widows — the Most Shocking Cases Ever Seen on Snapped Pt. One · Murder Files Unsealed

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  For two decades, Snapped has enthralled audiences with the tales of how seemingly ordinary
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  women can transform into ruthless murderers. How to watch Tune into Snapped on Oxygen
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  every Sunday and catch up on the Oxygen app the following day. Throughout its
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  thirty three seasons, this beloved true crime series has delved into the lives of
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  killers. Although suspected of being killers from diverse backgrounds, regardless of age or
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  race. Motivated by jealousy, greed, revenge, or even a misguided sense
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  of loyalty, these women are willing to jeopardize their freedom and reputation to carry
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  out their sinister deeds. During its extensive run on television, Snapped has showcased
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  numerous cases, but a few of these femme fatales have left an indelible mark
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  due to the sheer brutality of their crimes or the infamy that ensues. Before
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  Snapped presents its special two hour twentieth anniversary episode, premiering on Sunday May twelfth,
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  on Oxygen, let's revisit nine of the most notorious cases ever featured in
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  Snapp's twenty year history. Pamela Smart, Pamela Smart had always aspired to achieve
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  fame, but she could never have foreseen that her time in the limelight would
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  be associated with a shocking and brutal crime. At the age of twenty two,
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  the young woman, who worked as a media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School
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  in Hampton, New Hampshire, persuaded her teenage boyfriend William Billy Flynn to murder
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  her twenty four year old husband, Greg Smart. This tragic incident, which
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  was detailed in season two of Snapped, unfolded when Smart, who was involved
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  in an affair with Flynn, orchestrated the murder with the help of Flynn's friend
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  and Patrick Randall. The crime took place on May first, nineteen ninety,
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  as Flynn and Randall broke into the Smart's home and killed Greg in an attempt
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  to make it appear as a botched robbery. Meanwhile, Vance Letim Junior and
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  Raymond Fowler were waiting in a getaway car. Smart consistently argued that Flynn,
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  the one who fired the gun, acted independently in an effort to impress her,
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  Yet she was found guilty of aiding and a betting first degree murder.
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  Following student Cecilia Pierce's recordings of incriminating discussions with Smart orchestrated by law enforcement,
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  which implied her involvement in planning the murder. As reported by w m U
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  R, if you tell the expletive truth, you'll send me to the slammer
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  for the rest of my life. Smart was recorded telling the teen. The
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  sensational story would later inspire the one thousand, nine hundred ninety five hit movie
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  To Die For Nicole Kidman. Today, Smart is serving out a life sentence
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  without the possibility of parole at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. While she admits
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  to having an affair with Flynn, Smart still insists she did not help plan
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  her husband's murder. Margaret Rudin Margaret Rudin, known as the Las Vegas Black
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  Widow, had her murder conviction overturned in twenty twenty two. Rudin, who
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  was featured on Snapped in season five, was found guilty of killing her husband
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  Ron Rudin in two thousand one. Authorities suspected that Margaret shot Ron while he
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  was sleeping in December nineteen ninety four, and his burned body was discovered in
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  the desert. The following month. Investigators believed that Margaret committed the murder to
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  inherit her husband's fortune as their marriage was deteriorating. Despite being formally charged in
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  nineteen ninety six seven, Margaret went on the run and assumed new identities to
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  evade capture. She was eventually apprehended in Massachusetts in nineteen ninety nine and sentenced
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  to two life terms in prison in two thousand four. Following years of incarceration,
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  Rudin's conviction was overturned in twenty twenty two due to inadequate legal representation.
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  Prosecutors decided not to pursue a retrial. Rudin, who proclaims her innocence,
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  expressed gratitude for the court's decision and revealed plans to document her story in a
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  book. Jody Arrius, the shocking murder committed by Jody Arrius against her ex
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  boyfriend Travis Alexander was so disturbing that it required two episodes to fully recount in
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  season eleven of Snapped. Additionally, the infamous murder was revisited in a one
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  hundred twenty minute episode that provided updates on the case. In season twenty six,
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  the tragic events unfolded in June two thousand eight, when Alexander, a
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  handsome Mormon businessman, was found dead in the bathroom of his Mesa, Arizona
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  residence. The Arizona Republic reported that he had been shot, stabbed nearly thirty
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  times, and had his throats slit. Investigators swiftly turned their focus towards Alexander's
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  former partner, Jodi Arias, who was described by Alexander's friend Sky Lovinger Hughes
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  as possessive and completely obsessed with him during an interview with twenty twenty. Although
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  their toxic relationship had ended, Arius and Alexander remained entangled, and friends claimed
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  that Arius had been stalking him prior to his untimely demise. Arius was implicated
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  in the brutal crime scene when investigators discovered long brown hairs and her fingerprints.
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  Furthermore, a digital camera containing photos of the couple together on the day of
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  the murder was found in a washing machine. These pieces of evidence linked Arius
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  to the crime. Consequently,