in 1991 wanda holloway was upset her daughter shanna was always losing to amber heat. when shanna lost to amber she hired her ex-brother-in-law to kill amber's mother. the plan made headlines and her story was turned into two tv movies. >> when you're sitting there and there's 300 people around you and you're listening to people laugh at your mom, it is traumatic. >> wanda holloway only served six months. >>> all new at 5:30, history is being made in baltimore county. the fire department there is celebrating a first and it's good news. abc2 news manny locke explains. >> reporter: first responders are going on a service call. normally ems thompson would be following. but with her new promotion as the first african-american female lieutenant in the baltimore county fire department, she now has more responsibilities and administrative duties that take her away from her first love. >> i'm going to miss actually being on the truck and the patient interact. like you said, it's my heart. >> reporter: lieutenant thompson is trained and feels this will help her with her new adm

reporter: holloway was determined to have her daughter wince a team continued spot on the cheerleading squad. and her neighbor and daughter were standing in the way. >> we, the jury, find the defendant wandaporter: she was convicted of solicitation of capital murder in 1991 but her case was overturned after it was discovered that one of the jurors was on probation. once charged again, holloway pleaded no contest and served six months of a ten-year sentence. a deadly scheme that shattered a family and stunned a small texas community. for "today," michelle franzen, nbc news, new york. >> nancy jeffrey is a senior editor for "people" magazine. she joins us this morning. good morning, nancy. >> good morning. >> so it's been 20 years since this all happened. and jenna's now a teacher. she's a wife, a mother as well. you spoke with her. why did she choose to tell her story now? >> well, we had been curious about what had happened to her, and people reached out to her. and after many years of suffering in silence, she had begun journaling to deal with her painful feelings and finally was ready to tell her story. >> and i know that obviously we showed there, there was a media firestorm surroundin

an american example, wanda holloway. there was a movie made. this woman in the 1990s, texas, town in texas. her daughter does not make it on the high school cheerleading squad, but the neighbor's daughter does. so what does mrs. holloway do? she hires a hitman who was an undercover fbi agent to go -- not kill the neighbor's daughter, no, to kill the neighbor lady, the mother of the daughter. it's the resentment against the person who has, who has the daughter on the team. not this sort of functional relationship of wanting something and going out to either buy it or steal it. this is very disruptive. societies know that envy is a universal emotion. they have to tailor themselves to dealing with it. and every society's found it own way. we in america have probably a way at the outer extreme of dealing with it, of suppressing the expression of envy. letting anybody flaunt what they've got. go ahead and do it we consider it an incentive for others to try, and because we have considerable still to this day social mobility and economic mobility comp

wanda's plan against verna heath spawned movies. >> you know, i would like to see dead? verna heath. >> reporter: holloway when shanna lost the final spot to amber, holloway snapped and tried to hire her exbrother-in-law to help her kill amber's mother. she believed it would force amber to quit the squad. her former broe eer brother-in-d her in to police. how did it feel when it all exploded? >> you're siting at the movie premier and holly hunter is on the screen. there's 300 people around you. you're listening to people laugh at your mom, it was traumatic. >> having found the defendant guilty, she will serve 15 years. >> i felt like i had a flashing neon sign that said i was my mom's daughter. i would get sick to my stomach. >> so some 20 years after her world turned upside down, shanna is breaking her silence and is here. good to meet you. >> thank you. >> how was that looking and watching and reliving that moment in time? >> well, it's getting easier. now that i'm starting to talk about it. >> that's why you wanted to talk, partly. you've been in therapy. it's something that doesn't go way. how is your