The crimes for which Teresa Lewis pleaded guilty were horrendous. She plotted with two men, with whom she and her 16-year-old daughter were having a sexual relationship, to kill her husband and stepson. She provided the money to purchase the murder weapons.
The plan was to split the money from a $250,000 life insurance policy. She left the door of her trailer unlocked so that the two men could enter, with one man shooting her husband five times with a shotgun and the other man shooting her stepson three times while she watched.