Status: Incarcerated Patricia Olsen 's story is told in Oygen's Snapped, Season 16, episode 13. The show is described as Patricia Olsen manipulates her son, Christopher into shooting and beating her husband Neil Olsen to death in January 2005 to collect on his life insurance policy. The murder of her husband Neil Olsen is depicted in the state of Massachusetts . Christopher Robinson The victim, Neil Olsen, died as a result of blunt force trauma and multiple gunshot wounds inflicted by the defendant's son, the victim's stepson, on the evening of January 9, 2005. Thereafter, in connection with this killing, a jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree, as a joint venturer, on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. Represented by new counsel on appeal, the defendant argues that the trial judge erred in excluding evidence of the defendant's son's reputation for lying, and in admitting ...