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When Fred Jablin, a Richmond (Va.) University professor and devoted father was gunned down in his driveway on Oct. 30, 2004, his ex-wife, Piper was the prime suspect. When the couple divorced after 19 years of marriage, Jablin won custody of the their three children, and, at the time of Jablin's murder, Piper owed him about $7,000 in back child support. Circumstantial evidence including -- an airline ticket, two wigs and gas purchased in the Richmond, Va. Area -- all with a credit in card in the name of Piper?s former boyfriend -- indicated that Piper had masqueraded as her older sister Tina in order to kill her husband. It was also found that she had practiced with a 38-caliber revolver at a Houston shooting range four days before the murder. Piper Rountree was arrested, tried, found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Her sister, Tina, was charged with evidence tampering.