
What drove her to this final, desperate act?Įlena Kiejliches, the wife of a wealthy Russian businessman, shot her husband in their Staten Island mansion before taking a trip to Disney World. Her fatal mistake was ditching the sapphic spouse slayer soon after the crime.ĭid Virginia Larzelere, the wife of a Florida dentist convince her own sons to kill her husband for the insurance money?Ĭlara Harris, a successful dentist, mowed down her philandering orthodontist husband with her Mercedes. The frustrated wife of a multi-millionaire convinced her lesbian lover to kill her husband. Episodes Ī complete list of Snapped episodes: Season 1 (2004) Snapped season 1 episodes No. The event culminated in the airing of the 500th episode, focusing on the murder of Randy Sheridan, on November 22, 2020. In October 2020, Oxygen announced-in celebration of the series' 500th episode-it would air a two-week experience, billed as " Snapped: The Killer Women Event." The event will include original pilot episode and a never-before-seen episode. The new narrator is actress Jody Flader, according to the end-of-episode credits and Flader's web site. In February 2018, Martin announced she would no longer narrate the series. She acquired an additional credit as a supervising producer of the series. Sharon Martin took the role of narrator in its third season, with a distinctive and pronounced oral cadence. Īctresses Laura San Giacomo and Ronnie Farer narrated the first and second seasons, respectively.
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Snapped first aired on August 6, 2004, with the pilot episode, "Celeste Beard Johnson" The series is currently in its thirty-first season of production at Jupiter Entertainment. A few rare episodes during the series run have centered on male perpetrators, while a larger number of episodes have featured men who conspired with the central female perpetrator in the crime. The program is edited in a documentary style, using a central voice-over narration by actress Jody Flader, as well as interviews with people in possession of first-hand knowledge of the case, including law-enforcement officials, lawyers, journalists, friends and family members of both the victims and the accused, and at times the criminals or victims themselves. Often the target is the individual's spouse. The series features non-fiction narratives of people who have committed murder or attempted murder or have been accused of committing or attempting to commit murder. As of November 22, 2020, 500 original episodes of Snapped have aired.

The show also played a large role in the decision by parent company NBCUniversal to relaunch Oxygen as a crime network in 2017.

It has since become the network's longest-running original series, with its 28 defined seasons and sixteen years in production (and two spin-offs) outlasting the seventeen seasons and thirteen years of the Bad Girls Club. Each episode outlines the motivation for murder, whether it be revenge against a cheating husband or lover, a large insurance payoff, or the ending to years of abuse, with each murder's circumstances as unique as the women profiled. The series depicts high profile or bizarre cases of women accused of murder. Snapped is an American true crime television series produced by Jupiter Entertainment.
