- "An unusual romance ends a marriage, and a life. A serial bigamist wants one less husband. A mistress must win at any cost. These deadly women don't work alone. For them, it takes two to tangle."
- ―Episode's tagline
"Two to Tangle" is the fifth episode of Season 11 of Deadly Women. It premiered on Investigation Discovery on September 29, 2017. The episode profiles women who enlisted their lovers to help plan and commit murders.
Summary[]
After Donna Roberts is nearly killed in a car wreck, her personality changes drastically and she begins seeking sex outside her relationship with ex-husband Robert Fingerhut. In December 2001, she enlists her new, younger boyfriend, small-time crook Nathaniel "Nate" Jackson, to shoot Robert to death so that the couple can collect on Robert's life insurance. Both Donna and Nate receive death sentences.
In Jasper, Alabama, Shonda Johnson is already on her fifth marriage at age 28 - and has failed to divorce two of her previous husbands, making her a serial bigamist. When her third husband, Randy McCullar, finds out, he has Shonda arrested and goes for custody of their two-year-old son. In November 1997, while awaiting trial, Shonda has her fifth husband, Tim Richards, shoot Randy to death. Tim gets life without parole. Shonda gets the death penalty, but in 2014, it is commuted to life in prison without parole.
In Ottawa, Ontario, friends and neighbors Gurpreet Ronald and Jagtar Gill's marriages are both falling apart, and Gurpreet is partly to blame, as she is having an affair with Jagtar's husband, Bhupinder. Gurpreet separates from her husband, but Bhupinder fears a divorce will drain his finances and cost him custody of his kids, leaving murder as the only option for the couple. On the Gills' wedding anniversary in January 2014, Gurpreet bashes Jagtar 20 times with a barbell and then slashes her repeatedly. Both Gurpreet and Bhupinder are sentenced to 25 years.
Cast[]
- Janis Amatuzio (herself; forensic pathologist)
- Chris Benson (himself; Ottawa, ON police detective)
- Candice DeLong (herself; former criminal profiler)
- Gary Dimmock (himself; senior writer, Ottawa Citizen)
- Diane Fanning (herself; true crime author)
- Peggy Gallek (herself; reporter, Fox 8/WJW-TV, Cleveland)
- Ron Harris (himself; editor, Daily Mountain Eagle, Jasper, AL)
- M. William Phelps (himself; investigative journalist)
- Mike Raymond (himself; son of Donna Roberts)
- Lynnanne Zager (narrator)