Due To Self-Defense, Mercy Or Rage, Here Are 10 Times Women Brutally Slayed Famous Men

9. Fred Lane

Fred Lane was unassumingly walking in the front door when he was shot in the chest and head . His estranged wife Deidra Lane “laid in wait” to pull the trigger on the former Carolina Panthers running back, prosecutors said. Deidra was waiting for Fred to return to North Carolina after visiting his relatives in Nashville, Tennessee. The woman claimed she shot him in self-defense, but prosecutors said she was a manipulative woman who ended her husband’s life for insurance money. Friends and family claimed Deidra and Fred were having money problems. “He was going to sell [a] motorcycle, so he would have some money,” his father Fred Lane Sr. said Saturday in 2000. “She wouldn’t tell him where [the couple’s money] was.” In 2009, Deidra was released from prison after serving nearly six years behind bars for her conviction of voluntary manslaughter.