Each year, approximately 16,000 people are murdered in the United States. 7% of the killers are female. Who are these women and what drives them to kill? From socialites to secretaries, female killers share one thing in common: at some point, they all snapped. Each episode of Snapped chronicles the life of a woman who has been charged with murder. These shocking but true stories turn common assumptions about crime and criminals upside down, and prove that even the most unlikely suspects can be capable of murder.