Ginnifer Goodwin as Beth Ann Stanton, Rob's subservient wife.The infidelity in each marriage sets off a chain of events that ends with a death caused by a woman. Beth Ann Stanton remains content as a housewife in 1963 until she learns of her husband Rob's unfaithfulness socialite Simone Grove discovers her third husband Karl's homosexuality and begins her own affair with a younger man in 1984 and in 2019, bisexual attorney Taylor Harding finds her open marriage tested when she and her husband Eli become attracted to the same woman, Jade. The first season of Why Women Kill follows three women from different decades who are connected through having all lived in the same Pasadena mansion and experiencing infidelity in their marriages. 6 Why Women Kill: Truth, Lies and Labels.