They are among the most shocking of crimes: Teenagers killing parents. Recently, a rash of high-profile murders of parents, some committed by their own children, have rocked communities from New Mexico to Alaska.

Sixteen-year-old Rachelle Waterman, an honor student at her remote Alaska high school, is accused of conspiring with two former lovers to murder her mother, Lauri, in November 2004. Waterman admits falsely telling the men that her mother was physically abusing her.

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