Yep, this was a thing that happened....

A Texas man allegedly held his girlfriend hostage to abuse her for at least six months at his apartment, where he bolted down the windows and locked the front door from the outside to prevent her from...

"Fairly unexceptional'' Aimee Betro of Wisconsin was convicted of attempted murder Tuesday after she was shockingly hired to kill a British storeowner -- and failed only because her gun jammed....