Judi Buenoano

0:00 Hi. I'm Tina and I'm Rich. And if there's one thing we've learned in over twenty years of marriage, it's that some days you'll feel like killing your wife and some days you'll feel like killing your husband. Welcome to love, Mary kill Ay Rich, Hey Tina, how are you? I'm okay? How are you just okay today? Yeah? I just came from the dental the oral surgeon. Oh yeah, I gotta have some stuff done. Yeah, it's not going to be fun. What stuff are you having done?

0:43 Just to tell our listener friends, you already told me, but I have to have an implant. Like one of my teeth, the root is I don't know, decaying or something. So they have to basically pull out the tooth and then do an implant. And it's a process that takes like three months. Like they have to pull out the twoth, they have to put like a bone graft in there, which they told me today. The bone graft they put in it's from a cadaver. It's like, oh, it don't worry though, it's it's sanitized and it's fun that they had to tell you it was sanitized. Yeah. But then while I was there, they also said, you know what, you have a wisdom tooth that should probably come out too, because it's just like a ticking time bomb in your mouth. So so we should discuss this off air. But I thought that you had all of your wisdom teeth, but you're saying you only have one.

1:29 I don't. I don't know. I know I at least have one. I might have more than one, but you'd never had them removed. I never had them removed. But I don't think I have like four of them, or however many you're supposed to have. I mean, everyone has four. I don't know why you wouldn't unless they're deeply impacted. That is actually a question you should ask your dentist, just for my curiosity, because I think it would be highly unusual for you not to have four wisdom teeth. Yeah. I don't think I have four. I think I may have three. Well, we could go on about your teeth. It would be so much fun. Oh, so fall is upon us, Fall is upon us. It's very fall like here, some snow flurries in the air. We had Halloween, kind of boring, real quiet around here. Normally we have way more trigger treaters. Yeah, it was very quiet, kind of strange speaking of Halloween. This doesn't it's not a really good segue. But I brought a snack. Oh good, do you want it? Do I want it? We don't know what it is, of course, speaking of it, I just wanted to say, one of our lovely listeners, should we talk about this real quick? Sure, we have a po box where you know, people can send us stuff, and not a lot of people have wanted to send us out, which is fine. But one of our listeners did send us something. And we thought that our post office, our small town post office, would notify us if we received something, and they didn't. No, they sure didn't. And we hadn't checked it in a long time. And so our lovely friends sent us some cookies. And I'm still going to eat them, but she was like, oh, you don't have to, they're probably staying. I'm like, no, I have I

3:00 will eat anything. So we will do that on the next episode. So I made you something called date Bark, and I know you're gonna be like, oh, it's delicious. Yeah, but it's a viral recipe. It's a TikTok recipe. And I know you love a good food trend, but you take dates and you pit them if and then you like take a rolling pin and you kind of squish them into whatever shape, and you like cobblestones, you want them to stick together. And then I put melted peanut butter, which melted peanut butter is delic Yeah, that sounds good. And then I chopped up you can use I think this is one of those recipes it's highly adaptable. Use whatever you want. I used chopped up what are cashews, and then melted some chocolate chips and put that on top of the cashews.

3:53 And then there's a little bit of like a flaked salt on it. Okay, wells starting to sound more interesting the first part. It sounds like, I mean, it looks good. Yeah, I did taste it already, but we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Well, I liked everything about that except the date. If you could just do it without the date, I think it'd be perfect. Well, the date is supposed to deliver a little bit of fiber and you know, healthiness to it helps you feel good about you. Didn't like the date part at all. I mean it didn't bother me much, but I didn't love that part. I thought it was pretty good. But our dates are they're so old that I couldn't even read the use best buy to date on the bottom of the package. So I think maybe it would be better if the date was free Maybe maybe, Yeah, I would have made all the difference in the world. I forgot to mention. I did put a little bit of coconut oil into the chocolate chip so it hardened on the top, and then I put it in the freezer. I don't know if it needs to stay in the freezer, but I think it was pretty good cold, Yeah, very good. Okay, enough about that, So yeah, one more thing before we get into today case. When we started doing advertising and our Patreon, we committed to giving at least twenty five percent of all our proceeds to charity, and every month we pick a new charity. So as it's our first episode that we're recording in November, we wanted to share that we were able to donate one hundred and fifty dollars to Randy's House of Angels and that is a charity associated with the Randy Randy Randy Trim Trimble. Yeah, we

5:26 did that case several months ago and her mom, I'm in a cheer of talking about our because just admire her so much. Yeah, her name, her mom's name is Nancy Chavaz and she started Randy's House of Angels, which supports children of domestic domestic abuse. Yeah. So it's a great cause and we're so happy to be able to do that, and we owe it to all of you who are listening. Whenever you hear an ad on our podcast, just know that we're giving back as much as we can and it means so much to us, and we're so proud and happy to do it, and we're so grateful to you, our listeners, for hanging in there with us. Us. Today, I'm going to tell you the story of Judy Bueno Anno. And she is a horrible person. Do you know. Do you know Judy? Judy also heard the name. She's also called the black widow, but a lot of ever man, any woman that kills her husband is called a black widow. It's true, it's true. And I was like, oh, she's the black No, there's a lot of black widows.

6:21 I think I saw a list of like the top ten ten black widows. Speaking of black widows, they are named such because the female commonly eats her partner after mating. Many spiders do this. Female black widow spiders are shiny and black when mature. Black widow spiders have an hourglass shaped marking on the underside of their abdomen, which, although most commonly red, may range in color from white to yellow to various shades of orange and red. Black widowed spiders also have a small, usually red colored dot near their spinnerets, which is separate from the hourglass. Males bear similar marks, however the marks are smaller, less prominent, and dully colored. A large female black widow spider can grow to one point five inches including leg span. Male black widow spiders are half the size. They are usually dark brown with varying colors of stripes or dots, with no hourglass mark. Eating a black widow spider will not normally kill a small predator like a bird. However, the sickness that follows digestion is enough for the creature to remember that the bright red marking means do not eat male black widow spiders, being less venomous or less of a threat to predators. Some large birds can eat male widows without adverse effects, and so only avoid female spiders. Female black widow spiders can produce four to nine eggsacs in one summer, each containing about four hundred to three thousand, six hundred eggs. I can tell I'm losing you or right, I'm going to wrap this up. Incubation is twenty to thirty days. Rarely do more

7:51 than one hundred spider links survive this process. An average thirty will survive through the first molting due to cannibalism, lack of food, or lack of proper shelter. Man. My point in telling you this is that if only judaiis Anna lou Welty Shultz Goodyear, Morris Buenano was marked to warn her prey from her web of lies and deceit. Oh, bringing it all back. That's great. I always learned so much. I mean I was going somewhere. Yeah, no, it's very interesting stuff. I'm just glad I am not. I could tell you were totally glazed, so I apologize. No, not all. Sometimes I think things are interesting, irrelevant, and yeah, you mistook my look of interest for being glazed over. But I'm just thankful that I am not a male black widow spider. It is interesting to me that they're so much smaller and weaker than the females. Yeah, Judy wrote the following in a scrap book while in prison. Don't be fooled by me.

8:50 Don't be fooled by the face I wear, For I wear a thousand masks, masks I'm afraid to take off. None of them are me. Pretending is an R that's second nature to me. Don't be fooled. I give the impression that I'm secure, that all is sunny and unruffled with me within as well as without. That confidence is my name, and coolness my game, that the water's calm and I'm in command, and that I need no one. But don't believe me, please. Oh it's like a regular old poet. She kept herself busy. On March thirtieth, nineteen ninety eight, five days before her fifty fifth birthday, Judy Bueno Ano, also known as Anna Lou Welty, Anna Schultz, Judaias Goodyear, Judy Morris, Judaias Bueno Ano and Judy Goodyear, was given her final meal of steamed broccoli and asparagus, fresh strawberries, and hot tea. What would your last meal be?

9:48 Definitely wouldn't be steamed no, I was really shocked by that. It's really weird. Probably a big old cheeseburger, you think, Yeah, probably, I don't know. I'll let you know. Her legal team's last minute appeals fell on deaf years and were unsuccessful. A small circle at the top of her head was shaved, where later an electrode would be placed. Judy slowly walked the thirty feet from her cell, where she had sat watching a small black and white TV, to the darkened execution chamber. Various clergy members in her family had visited her through the morning, and the curtain gallery sat twenty four uneasy people, twelve witnesses and twelve members of the press who watched through a glass partition. As Judy was strapped into the hideously medieval looking electric chair, her normally impassive face was a wash in fear. The death warrant, freshly signed by the governor, was read to her before she was asked if she had any final words. She simply said, no, sir.

10:45 The electrode was then placed on the bald patch on her head that would deliver an excruciating jolt of electricity to her brain. A black veil was placed over her head of short salt and pepper great hair before the switch was flipped, delivering two thousand volts of electricity through her body. It only took thirty eight seconds before Judy took her last breath and was declared dead. Judy was the third woman executed in the US after the Supreme Court had reinstated the death penalty in nineteen seventy seven. Only eighteen women have been executed in the US since nineteen seventy seven, the most recent in January of twenty twenty three. Judy and Linda Lyon Block were the only two that died by electric chair. All others have died by lethal injection. Judy was the first woman to be put to death in Florida since eighteen forty eight. She died a born again Christian and maintained her innocence to the very end. Interesting, you said only thirty eight seconds. That sounds like an eternity to me. I can't. It's just it's so terrifying to think about that type of thing. But well, gratefully, I think the odds of you dying in the electric chair are pretty much zero. Well, because you're a good person, pretty pretty close to zero. You'd never know I should caution the listener that Judy was a pathological liar, so her story is difficult to tell. It's hard to know where fax end and fiction begins. Judias Anna lou Welty was born in April fourth, nineteen forty three, in Kuana, Texas, just below the Panhandle near the Oklahoma border. There is some confusion to her real name. Her father

12:16 said her birth name was Anna Lou Welty. Although she had many aliases, like we've already discussed, she most often went by Judy, so that's what we will call her. Judy is sometimes spelled with an I and sometimes spelled with a Y, so it's okay. Her name is just all over the place I went with I. She was the third child of four, the only girl. Judy's mother, Judias Mary lou Northam, died before Jude each turn two from tuberculosis. Judy claims she was a full blooded Mesquite Apache Indian and that Geronimo was her great great grandfather. Judy's father, Isiah Jesse Otto Welty, who later went by Jesse wain Welty, was an itinerant farm worker.

12:56 After her mother's death, Judy and her brother Robert, who was an infant, were sent west to live with her grandmother, while the two old older brothers were put up for adoption. Judy and Robert lived with various relatives and sometimes in foster homes, frequently suffering through physical and sexual abuse. When Judias was twelve and old enough to be sent to the orphanage, her father remarried for what Judy later said was about the seventh time she and her younger brother were well. She says, but you can't believe anything. Don't remember, you can't believe anything that, she says. She and her younger brother were taken to live with her father and his new wife and her children in Roswell, New Mexico. She and Robert were badly abused by their father and stepmother, Beaten, starved, and burned with cigarettes. Judy was treated like a servant and forced to miss meals. If a spot of grease was found on the stove she had cleaned, she was forced to sit at the table and watch her family eat while her stomach grumbled hungrily. One night, when she was fourteen, Judy became so enraged she poured hot grease from the iron skillet on her stepsisters, and then walloped her stepmother with it, who her father drove her to the county jail, where she spent the next sixty days among the town drunks and prostitutes. How old was she? Fourteen? Wow, that's some punishment right. When her sentence was served, Judy opted to live at a juvenile detention center rather than return home, and attended Foothills High School in Albuquerque, a juvenile detention center. She graduated at age sixteen in

14:28 nineteen fifty nine. She remained estranged from her family. She once said of her brother Robert, I wouldn't spit down his throat if his guts were on fire, Okay. In nineteen sixty Judy changed her name to Anna Schultz and worked as a nurse's aide. She became pregnant age seventeen by a pilot from a nearby Air Force base. Michael Arthur Schultz was born in March nineteen sixty one to a teen mother who was ill equipped to handle motherhood, never having had a loving relationship in her life. Michael had a history of developmental delays and medical issues dating back to his early childhood, along with a lower than average IQ ranging from eighty five to ninety one. Do you know anything about the IQ other than your one hundred exceptionally? Well, yeah, other than that one hundreds average from hundreds average. An IQ below seventy is considered intellectually disabled. So he was, you know, not super low, but yeah, lower than average. Yeah. Everyone who knew him said he was slow.

15:28 He had suffered from pica. Do you know what that is? I do not. Pika is a pregnant women get it sometimes, but he'd had it from childhood. It's eating non food items such as dirt or clay. Oh, and as a young child, he'd eaten paint chips from a house they lived in that was built in the nineteen twenties. Michael also had chronic respiratory infections asthma and inuysis into adulthood. Poor kid, you know what in eurysis is? Uh? Not exactly Okay. He was violent and hard to discipline, according to his mother, but other people said he was very sweet and kind. Judy sent Michael to the Montenari Residential Treatment Center for Disturbed Children for children with psychiatric problems due to his hyperactivity and acting out, and he lived there from about age eight to age thirteen. Michael likely acted out to get his mother's attention, though he loved her and wanted her approval, but he would never get it. Judy fell in love a twenty eight year old man named James Goodyear, an Air Force mechanic who had reached the rank of sergeant. They married in November nineteen sixty two, after knowing each other for only three months. Judy was just nineteen. They lived in Roswell, New Mexico, and occasionally saw Judy's father and brother, Gerald. James adopted young Michael, who changed his last name to Goodyear. In nineteen sixty six, Judy and James welcomed another son, James Goodyear Junior. A daughter, Kimberly,

16:59 came along shortly after in nineteen sixty seven. Judy thought Michael was disruptive towards James and Kimberly and kept him away as much as possible. A friends or family came for a visit, Judy made Michael stand a room by himself. Isn't that sad? I think he had like sometimes he would have like a nanny or a helper, and Judy would tell the nanny to take Michael for a ride in the car until the company left the family moved to Orlando, Florida, where Judy opened a daycare called Conway Acre's Childcare Center. James, still in the Air Force, left for a tour in Vietnam. Judy carried on an affair while he was away. When he returned home, he quickly fell ill and was hospitalized for extreme nausea, tingling in his extremities, hallucinations, and lightheadedness. Doctors repuzzled what was causing this healthy young man's illness.

17:52 He died in September nineteen seventy one at age thirty four. His cause of death was listed as pulmonary congestion, cardiovascular collapse, and renal failure. Judy collected twenty eight thousand dollars in life insurance and sixty four thousand dollars in veterans administration benefits, which would add up to about seven hundred thousand dollars today. Soon after her husband's untimely death, Judy's house burned down. She collected about ninety thousand dollars or six hundred and eighty thousand dollars today in insurance money. I'm a little suspicious, so she's got some bad luck. Yeah. Judy packed up her three kids and moved to Pensacola, Florida. I believe this was one of Judy's lies, but she claimed that she had gone to nursing school on scholarship and then continued her education and earned PhDs in biochemistry and psychology. Because it's not a big deal to earn a PhD in biochemistry and psychology. That's easy to do. Oh yeah, I don't know why you're so skeptical. Judy would later buy a beauty salon called Fingers and Faces, which is one of the great worst names I've ever heard of anything in my life. She also claimed that she had been a head nurse at a West Florida hospital. But Judy stood about five feet six inches tall and weigh about one hundred and thirty pounds, with dark hair that she liked to keep short with an olive complexion. Her sharp features and small eyes kept her from being described as beautiful, but her business was beauty, and she was always impeccably dressed and presented herself as confident and well put together. She spared no expense

19:26 in keeping her appearance. Owning a salon, she had to have the perfect manicure at all times. She loved to drive her new, flashy white corvette around town. Judy was typically stoic and devoid of emotion, but she could turn fiery at a moment's notice. Now a word about arsenic. Arsenic is a natural occurring substance, but it also can be produced in the lab. It is used in agriculture, mining, and manufacturing. We all have some level of arsenic in our bodies. It also exists in soil and water, which you need to get our water tested. Again, by the way, you have like a problem in our neighborhood with arsenaly, We do have arsenic in our water. It is carcinogenic and toxic at high levels. Arsenic is odorless and tasteless, making it the perfect poison. Blood, fingernails, hair and urine can be tested to determine the amount of arsenic in your body.

20:18 Symptoms of arsenic poisoning include red or swollen skin, skin changes such as new warts or lesions, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, abnormal heart rhythm, neuropathy, muscle cramps, white lines on your nails, and tingling of fingers and toes. Symptoms of lead and mercury poisoning mirror those of arsenic poisoning as well. I don't know why you're talking to me about arsenic poisoning, you know me. I just like a good factoid here and there, you do. Michael dropped out of high school after the tenth grade. He joined the Army in June of nineteen seventy nine. After basic training, he visited his family in Florida for ten days. When he returned to Fort Benning and Georgia to begin his job as a water purification specialist, he began experiencing tingling and numbness in his extremities, along with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

21:10 Those symptoms sound familiar. He checked himself into the hospital. His condition quickly worsened, and by January he was largely paralyzed, unable to use his legs or hands, and his weight plummeted from one hundred and sixty seven pounds to one hundred twenty three pounds. In hopes of walking again, Michael moved to the Walter Reed Medical Center and began physical therapy and was fitted with heavy leg braces and a prosthesis attached to his right arm that was controlled by his still mobile left shoulder muscle. So he could feed himself and do other basic tasks. So his extremities, like the his I think you would say distal extremities, had no feeling, but his upper extremities did. Interesting, So he could he could move and he could kind of walk. But because of the braces helped him. Yeah, but because his thigh muscle still worked.

22:03 Does that make sense. Yeah. A hair test revealed that the arsenic in Michael's body was seven times above the normal limit. Mee's lines were present on his fingernails. Mee's lines are white horizontal lines on the nail bed that can indicate a serious illness, such as cancer, heart failure, or arsenic poisoning. And I know everyone's looking at your fingernails right now to see white lines. And it doesn't mean like those little white marks, but it's actually like a white line. It's like a straight line. Yeah. Doctors were refuddled unable to find the cause of his paralyzation, but thought it might be due to his unusual eating habits or from his previous let exposure. During his training as a water purification specialist, Arsenic was among the chemicals he frequently used.

22:52 Michael's condition failed to improve, and he was discharged from the hospital on May twelfth, nineteen eighty, into his mother's care. She was like, I'm a nurse. I can take care of him, no worries, And she even said to the doctors, I have plans. I'm going to put this forty thousand dollars edition on the house for Michael. You know I'm gonna I've got it. Don't worry about it. I'm a little dubious. Michael was depressed and required a full time caregiver. Doctors were hopeful his health would improve over time, but there was new nerve damage, so it was kind of unlikely that he was ever going to be able to walk normally again. Poor guy. On May thirteenth, nineteen eighty, the day after Michael's release from the hospital, Judy and her two sons set out. This is going to make you really mad. Judy and her two sons set out in a sixteen foot canoe for a day of sun and fishing in an attempt to improve Michael's mood. He was placed in a lawn chair that was tied to the bottom of the canoe. Boy, can you picture this? I can. It seems like a really bad idea. So canoe is in general, are they mostly for two people? I think you can have a longer canoe, but okay, this was a sixteen foot canoe, which was pretty long. But the book that I read said it was pretty much a two person canoe, but definitely not room for like a lawn chair in the middle of it, which is going to make it unbalanced too, because the lawnchair, he's going to be sitting up higher. And yeah, it's a bad idea, very bad idea. So the lawnchair was tied to the bottom of the canoe.

24:22 Kim Kim is the little sister. She's twelve, and poor Kim had to sit on the dock for six hours and waited for her family to return. She said she was allergic to the sun and kind of like me, and she was like, I don't want to be in the boat all day, so she just sat on the dock and fished and read a book or whatever. The day ended in tragedy when, according to Judy, the canoe capsized after it hit a log in the water. Judy and James were able to swim a quarter mile to safety and were pulled aboard a nearby boat. Michael, who wasn't wearing a life vest, was weighed down by his leg braces and arm prosthesis and drowned. All three of them had been wearing water ski belts, but when Michael's body was found, he was not wearing one.

25:06 Do you know what a water ski belt is? Uh? Not really, It's just like a life preserver, like a narrow thing that goes around your waist. Okay, it doesn't reply a little bit of buoyancy exactly, but it doesn't really take the place of a life jacket. So later only two of those water ski belts were found in the water. Michael was found several hours later, almost a mile upstream, where the water was about twelve to fifteen feet deep, and he was just nineteen at the time of his death. Police noted on the incident report that quote the mother was very calm, with no outward emotion. The report also noted that Michael was shirtless and without a life vest, and he wore shorts and heavy black orthopedic shoes with no socks. The report described Judy as a clinical physician at the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center at Fort Walton Beach. She was not can you believe that? No, you're right, I'm angry. That's it was just disgusting. Yeah, she had literally plotted her like you know, she poisoned him, She paralyzed him, and then she threw him over the canoe. Yeah, that's horrible.

26:14 We'll be back after a quick break. Okay, so we left off and Michael drowned. But we're going to go back in time a little bit to nineteen seventy three when Judy met Bobby Joe Morris in Pensacola. Bobby was the life of the party and everyone loved him. He was Judy's best friend's boyfriend, but not for long. Judy and Bobby were a good match and they had a lot of fun together. He moved in with Judy and her children. When things started to be less fun, Bobby relocated to Colorado for a new job in nineteen seventy seven. His mother said he moved to escape Judy.

26:59 Bobby's was no fan of Judy's. She made Bobby promise he would never marry her, to which she obliged. Six months later, Judy and her children, including Michael, joined him in Colorado after her home in Pensacola burned down. Another bad stroke of election. Oh this is another house burned another fire. Yeah, she once again collected insurance money. And then when she moved, they moved to Colorado and she attended nursing school there and she began using the name missus Judy Morris, but they weren't married. Though they weren't married. Just wanted to say a quick word about Judy's kids, Like we know Michael was a little slow, but the other two kids were kind of nightmares. Okay. James was kind of a delinquent, like he was like thirteen and fourteen. He was drinking and smoking and getting high, and Judy was permissive and let it happen. Their relationship was peculiar too, because he would sleep in her back and when she took a bath, he would like sit in the bathroom with her. Oh that's not creepy at all. It was very strange. So just her teenage kids were just very disrespectful to her, and James would call her a whore and things like that. Just kind of a nightmare. Well, sometimes if you're an awful parent, you're probably gonna have awful kids too. Well, she was very permissive, like I said, and she spoiled them and bought them everything like James had a motorcycle,

28:29 and for his fourteenth birthday, she bought him a shotgun and then he saw it off the shotgun and just it just sounds like a very crazy household. Yeah. Bobby was six feet three inches tall and two hundred and twenty pounds and in good health despite being a raging alcoholic. But on January fourteenth, nineteen seventy eight, he went to the hospital after he became violently ill with what do you think, I'm guessing he had arsenic poisoning. Well, he had severe nausea, vomiting, dire and hallucinations. Bobby developed delirium delirium tremens while in the hospital, you know, like the DTS, Like when you're an alcoholic and you stop drinking, you just go what your body goes into withdrawal and shock. Bobby was also diagnosed with pancreatitis, renal failure, metabolic acidosis, and a kidney infection. Judy was working as a licensed practical nurse at the hospital where Bobby was admitted and helped with his care while he was hospitalized. She would pry his mouth open and help him drink his favorite drink, Hawaiian punch through a straw by January ninth, he was in congestive heart failure, but his condition gradually improved and he was eventually released on January twenty first. Two days later, he returned to the hospital in severe shock, along with dangerously low blood pressure, uncontrollable diarrhea, and vomiting. This poor guy, it just sounds like he had every ailment that you could possibly have. He died on January twenty eighth, nineteen seventy eight. His cause

30:00 of death, according to the autopsy, was cardiac arrhythmia, with contributing factors such as severe sepsis, septic shock, metabolic acidosis, and pancreatitis. Judy, acting as Bobby's wife, tried to have his body quickly cremated, but his mother intervened and had him buried in his hometown of Bruton, Alabama. Judy did not attend the refuneral. She's just horrible. Despite assuring his mother that he would never marry Judy or make her the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, Judy cashed in Bobby's three life insurance policies, valued at thirty thousand dollars one hundred and forty thousand dollars today on his deathbat. In a state of delirium, Bobby Joe blurted out, quote, Judy, we should never have done that terrible thing. End quote. In nineteen seventy four, the couple were visiting Alabama when a Florida man was found dead in a motel.

30:56 An anonymous call from a payphone led police to the hotel, where the victim was found shot in the chest and his throat slashed. Days after, Bobby Joe's mother overheard Judy telling Bobby Joe quote, the son of a bitch shouldn't have come up here in the first place. He knew if he came up here was going to die. End quote. Please were never able to link Judy or Bobby Joe to the crime. After Bobby Joe's death, Judy changed her name again to Judy Bueno Anno. She changed her children's last names too. Do you think people were like, why did you change your name to yeah Anna when it was Goodyear? Well you even the other day you never had Spanish, but Spanish is kind of like, I think everyone knows a little Spanish, but you even like, doesn't that mean goodyear? Yeah, So you kind of have the idea, like Judy's changed her name. She's moving. A lot of people around her are dying regularly of mysterious causes.

31:52 Houses are burning down. Bad luck. John Wesley Gentry the second was born in his family home with a midwife by his mother's side, on June sixteenth, nineteen forty six, in Pensacola, Florida. He was a fourth generation Pensacolon. John was the second oldest of five boys. He became a Mormon when, at the age of sixteen, missionaries knocked on the door and talked to him into joining their church. He said it just made sense to him. He'd been looking for higher meaning in life. He was just sixteen and east of that. John was tall at six feet three inches and in good shape. He had been an active duty marine in Vietnam. He had seen some horrible things that lingered at the margins of his consciousness. He still had shrapnel in his body from standing nearby when a friend stepped on a landmine.

32:42 His first marriage had not ended amicably. He had two sons that his ex wife wouldn't let him see. John ran a successful wallpaper and carpet store. Judy had given him a loan to open a second store that he had paid back with the insurance settlement she had received after Bobby Joe's death. Judy had purchased a salon called Fingers and Faces. She loved, having perfectly quaffed hair and flawless nails. The salon was doing well and Judy was finally living the high life she had always dreamed of. So Judy has what my mom would say was a beer pocket book and champagne tas Okay, I've heard that. On June twenty fifth, nineteen eighty three, John was on his way to a flea market to get new speakers for his nineteen eighty one Ford Futura.

33:30 Should I say that right? I have no idea, but it sounds right. You know where what cars that I do? Judy's son James, was going to help him install them later in the day. When he returned to the home he shared with Judy, Kim and James, he was surprised to find her there. She was normally at work during the day. Forty year old Judy blurted out that she had meant to the doctor that morning and she was pregnant. John was overjoyed. He was only thirty eight and yearned for a second chance at being a father. They decided to go to a movie and lunch to celebrate. They saw the Stephen King movie Dead Zone, which I've never seen. Oh really, I love that movie. Later that night, they were hosting a going away party at the upscale Driftwood restaurant for Judy's employee at the beauty salon. About twenty people were expected. Judy loved the girls that worked at her salon. She was very generous to them and frequently bought them gifts and paid them well. She asked them to call her mother.

34:30 Judy had returned to the salon after the movie to tie up some loose ends. John's job was to greet the guests and get the party started until Judy arrived. She arrived at about eight forty five pm. The party was a success. At about ten thirty, as the party winded down, Judy s John if he minded if she and the girls went to another bar. He was tired from a long day and told her to have fun and gave her a kiss. Judy handed John a baggy of marijuana and asked him to give it to her son. When he got home. He walked to the empty, darkened parking lot, found his car cranked the engine and then turned the headlights on. Judy had reminded John earlier to park in this dark, remote parking lot because vagrants frequented the other parking lot closer to the restaurant.

35:15 A deafening blast rang out into the night. The roof of the car blew off, and both the front and rear windows shattered. It happened so suddenly. John was unable to process the situation. Blood ran down his face in rivulets, and his ears rang loudly vibrating in his head. Surprisingly, he was still conscious. He shakily opened his car door and noted through the black smoke that his shoes were missing. He stumbled to the sidewalk, taking a few disoriented steps, and crumpled to the ground. The partygoers surrounded him as paramedics cut his burnt clothes from his charred body. Judy cried out, my god, my god, what happened. Jackie Morgan did this? It was Jackie Morgan. Then she faced. Jackie Morgan was a former business associate of John's Fromobile, Alabama. They had a store called Wallpaper Mill Outlet. John and his brother pulled their investment out of the Mobile store to open a new store in Pensacola. The mobile store had closed and resulted in a legal battle.

36:19 Jackie Morgan was never a serious suspect. She was angry, but not murderous. Judy and John, however, had mutual life insurance policies on each other. Of course, I'm confused. Was it a bomb? Like what actually happened? I wasn't sure was it a gunshot or a bomb or what was it? It was an explosion? Okay, Well get just hang on looking into your pants, okay. John was in rough shape. He was rushed by ambulance to the Sacred Heart Hospital about ten miles away. He had multiple laceration mounds caused by shrapnel or John like he needs more shrapnel in his body. Some pieces were as big as seven to eight centimeters in diameter.

37:00 They were in his skull, ears, chests, abdomen, and flanks. John was no stranger to shrapnel from his time in Vietnam. His body was riddled with multiple fragments of foam, rubber, plastic, and cloth. So the car is like it exploded, like there's just you know, pieces everywhere. Yea. His colon was severed by a metal fragment that had traveled through the kidney, causing damage there too. He was sent to surgery to remove as much of the shrapnel as possible and to repair internal organs and staunch bleeding. So you probably know this, but a lot of shrapnel just can't be removed from your body, which is horrible, must be so really painful. Yeah, they think some of it just kind of sits there, but it's just some of it such little pieces that it just have to live with it.

37:49 He remained in a coma for several days, but was expected to fully recover. Police guarded his room, afraid the drug dealers they suspected of bombing John's car would return and finish him off. Pensacola had a relatively high crime rate. The Attorney General would tell you that it was because they caught and prosecuted more criminals, but there were no history of bombings, especially car bombings. By the way, As a side note, Ted Bundy was apprehended in Pensacola in nineteen seventy six, coincidentally the same year that the death penalty was reinstated. So the investigation into this bombing found two sticks of dynamite that had been placed in the trunk of John's car. And it had been wired to the tail lights. The wire was orange and white. Experts later said that John was lucky. It was a sloppy amateur job. If the dynamite had been placed under the seats, John definitely would have died. John was recovering from surgery and in a coma. He wasn't able to be interviewed for several days, but police were able to interview Judy, who once again named Jackie Morgan as as suspe. She told him that she was the owner of a successful beauty boutique for ladies in the mall called Fingers and Faces. She said, quote, I have degrees as long as my arm I make five hundred thousand dollars a year. On July first, nineteen eighty three, Detective Rick Steel asked Judy if she would come to the station for a light detector test.

39:21 She agreed haltingly, but twenty minutes later, her lawyer, who identified himself as Perry Mason, called the police station and said she would not be taking the test. Wow, can't believe she got Perry Mason to be your lawyer. Yeah. An officer recreated the drive that John Gentry took on the night of the party and confirmed what he had suspected. John had not needed to turn his lights on when he drove to the party. That explained why his car hadn't blown up before the party. On June twenty ninth, police were finally able to interview John. He was pale and weak and had a hard time talking, but he was clear that he had no idea who would want him dead, not even Jackie Morgan. Police asked if he had a life insurance policy, and he admitted that he and Judy both initiated a one hundred thousand dollar policy on each other about six months before the bombing. John assumed that Judy was just covering their assets in the event of one of their deaths, but he didn't know anything about a five hundred thousand dollar policy.

40:25 The police told him that he owned The policy had originally been taking out taken out for one hundred thousand, but Judy increased it to five hundred thousand dollars, valued at about one point five million dollars today. Without John's knowledge, Judy had been quietly paying the two hundred dollars a month premium on her own. The insurance company requested proof that their businesses were actually worth that much money, and Judy provided them with the necessary documents and the policy was activated without John's knowledge. As a police John began to rethink his life with Judy. His foggy brain was coming alive. He recalled vomiting uncontrollably in December of the previous year after she'd given him some extra strength the vitamin C, and another time he vomited after she'd made him a special salad just for him. He was hospitalized with dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and severe stomach pains.

41:24 Keep saying those words yeah. Doctors never determined the cause of his illness, but by the time of his release two weeks later, he was asymptomatic. When he returned home, Judy began giving him the vitamin Sea pills again. She just really wanted him to be healthy and vitamin C is really good for you. Yeah. He again became violently ill and refused to take the vitamins. After that, he was like, I'm done with you thinking. Judy and John's relationship had started hot and heavy, but fizzled out quickly. Judy never told him she loved him. They had been engaged for two years and they had made no plans to make it official. John had saved a couple of the orange and white so called vitamins in his briefcase. Smart move.

42:07 John. Police went to the wallpaper mill outlet with a search warrant to seize the pills. When the pills were analyzed at the local lab in Pensacola, it was obvious that the pills had been tampered with. They were sent to the FBI lab and found to be filled with arsenic and para for meldehyde. Para for meldehyde is a Class three poison with no known medical use. In undetectable and autopsies, it slowly shut shuts down the internal organs and eventually causes death. John was released from the hospital on July fourteenth, about three weeks after the bombing. So that's pretty good because he had a lot of injuries, so three weeks. I would expect he would have been there longer. After the incident, John's panic brother, Albert, came to Judy that business was not going well and with John's absence, things would only get worse.

42:57 He asked Judy for a ten thousand dollars loan to cover him in till John returned. Despite her business being successful and the multiple insurance settlements, Judy was broke. She spent money as fast as she got it. She was in a real pickle. She went to the bank and mortgaged her house. She had paid fifty thousand dollars in cash for her house in nineteen seventy eight. She took out a twenty thousand dollars mortgage and gave ten thousand dollars to Albert and kept the rest for herself. She just needed a little more time for her plan to work. She knew John was getting cold feet about their engagement. He told her he wasn't coming back to her house to rehabilitate. He was going to his mother's house. Smart Judy blew up and stormed out.

43:40 The police trailed Judy for a month, but didn't catch her doing anything of note. But on July twenty seventh, nineteen eighty three, Judy was served with search warrants at her home and business. Police were looking for the vitamin seapills and explosive materials. Judy was at the Finger and Faces salon, but her kids, James seventeen and Kim fifteen, were at home. During the search of their house, in James's room, orange and white wires matching the wires used in the bomb and John's car were found, along with black electrical tape and other tools that could have been used in making a bomb. In Kimberly's room, a bottle containing mega vitamin C, marijuana, and an illegal sod Off shotgun were seized. Judy was arrested for the first degree attempted murder by poisoning of John Gentry. Her friend Robert Hill posted Judy's fifty thousand dollars bail and she was released. She waived her right to a speedy trial.

44:38 Investigators couldn't figure out where Judy had purchased the dynamite. Dynamite isn't exactly easy to secure for the average person. It's illegal unless you have a blaster's license. Police were able to trace the purchase to an explosive dealer in Alabama. He confirmed the purchase of fifty six of dynamite for seventy five dollars on June's seventeenth by Johnny Rawell and his friend Rayford Odom. There were more than twenty phone calls between Johnny, Raoul and Judy. Odum failed a polygraph and then confessed and signed a statement that he only accompanied Raoul and didn't know what had happened to the dynamite. Police discovered that Raoul had been friends with Judy's diste's boyfriend, Bobby Joe Morris, So they had fifty sticks of dynamite.

45:25 That's a lot of dynais a lot, and she used two and they only used two. Police interviewed Judy's employees at Fingers and Faces. I might have to open a salon and still today that's horf and learned some interesting things. They told police that Judy had made plans for a world cruise for herself and her children without John. Judy told several employees that John was suffering from terminal cancer and did not have long to live. Police reviewed Judy's medical records and discovered that she'd had tubal ligation in nineteen seventy five, making it almost impossible that she had ever been pregnant with John. Stady lied yet another lie.

46:07 With Judy safely in jail, investigators began digging into her previous relationships and discovered how unlucky she had been in love. They began with Bobby jo Morris. His autopsy report was re examined. The coroner had noted thorizine in his body, but it had never been administered to him in the hospital. When contacted by police, the coroner remembered the autopsy because he'd had to perform it after Bobby had been embalmed and in his casket due to Judy trying to rush things along. Bobby Jo's mother had intervened and requested the autopsy at the eleventh hour. However, he was not tested for arsenic poisoning. James Goodyear's autopsy was also reevaluated and found that while his symptoms were consistent with arsenic poising, his arsenic levels were never checked either. Michael buenoannual those records were examined. Next.

47:01 Was it possible that Judy was involved in the death of two of her former loves and her son. No one could believe she was that heart cold hearted. I can separate you, yeah. Investigators issued warrants to exhume the remains of Bobby Joe Morris. Tissue samples had been saved from James Goodyear's autopsy by the Navy. Police wanted to be able to charge Judy with the first degree murder. All they had so far was the attempted murder of John Gentry. Can you test for arsenic after like years have passed? Yes. Forensic accounting of Judy's assets revealed that she had benefited after Bobby's death to the tune of eighty thousand dollars three hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars today on three life insurance policy she'd taken out shortly before his death. Investigation until Michael's death included a statement by the intern who oversaw his care. He was emphatic that he told Judy that Michael should not be take and on a boat under any circumstances.

48:01 There was no way that he would be able to swim, a fact he had reiterated to her on three separate occasions. I don't think you need to be a medical professional to tell someone you probably shouldn't take your paralyzed son in a canoe on a launchair. Yeah, especially an unstable Yeah, that's ridiculous. He found her to be cold and thought it was possible that she saw her son as a problem and wanted him dead. Judy described the current on the day of Michael's death as very fast and hard to swim against, but in reality the current was slow and it was unlikely that hitting a log would capsize the vessel. Michael was a member of the army, and he was insured for twenty thousand dollars, and Judy was the beneficiary. She was issued a check for twenty four hundred and fifty one dollars and twenty cents including interest. Investigator subpoenaed bank records from twenty four local banks to find any deposited checks over twenty five thousand dollars, sure that there were multiple insurance policies on Michael, and likely that Judy had opened a new bank account. Sure enough, they found two deposited checks, one for forty five thousand dollars and one for forty thousand dollars, bringing the total windfall from her son's death, including the army payout, to over one hundred and five thousand dollars nearly four hundred thousand dollars today. Judy had taken out two insurance policies on Michael. One policy purchase for fifteen thousand dollars had a double indemnity clause and ended up paying forty five thousand dollars. Wow, double indemnity. Do you want to say

49:35 what that is really quick, no idea, Oh you don't. I've never heard of double indemnity. So if there's a clause in your life insurance policy for that, it's like if there is an accident, you get more money, and if there's a double indemnity, you get twice as much of your policy. Oh okay, and if there's a single indemnity, it's just double. I just did our benefits enrollment, so this is really timely. Are you? Oh did do how much life insurance did you put on me? I didn't put any I'm worthless. We know how that turns out. You know. Prosecutors knew that they had an uphill battle in charging Judy and Michael's death. A grand jury convened on January eleventh, nineteen eighty four, and subpoena James and Kim, escorting them from their high school to the courthouse.

50:27 Their testimony, in addition to the financial records indicating insurance fraud, was enough for the grand jury to indict Judy for Michael's first degree murder. Three and a half years after his death, she was arrested for the second time that day. She was placed in the back of a police cruiser, where her body began to convulse uncontrollably. Judy was taken to the hospital and given a mild sedative. It was determined that she was play acting and was taken to the Pensacola County Jail and booked to be held without bond until her arraignment. Meanwhile, while police headed down to Alabama to exzume Bobby Joe Morris's grave after his mother had given her approval. She knew Judy had something to do with his death. I'm going to get a little graphic here, so if you don't want to hear about exhumations, just fast forward like two minutes. It had been six years since Bobby Joe died, but his corpse was in relatively good condition. His face was covered with a thick white mold, disguising his facial features, making him look like melted wax. His skin was leather like and flesh remained on his bones. The satin lighting of his casket was molded and deteriorated. The coffin was transported to a nearby army base where the autopsy would be performed. The doctor took samples of Bobby's still intact hair, fingernails, and removed his toenails. Tissue samples were taken from his organs, including his liver, kidneys, and brain. Some of his teeth were removed as well to be tested for arsenic poisoning. The samples were sent to the lab.

52:01 The results were shocking. Bobby's body contained arsenic levels high enough to kill eleven men. The analysis from James Goodyear's samples also revealed arsenic and let were in his tissues, enough for a judge to order an exhumation of his body that had been buried for twelve and a half years. Okay, end of the gross stuff. Okay. I've always been kind of curious though, what you find when a corpse is exact. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is interesting, and there's more flesh on the body than you would think. I guess I always just pictured, you know, like a skeleton. But I guess if you're in a casket kind of delays the deterioration and embalming too, I would imagine, delays things. Yeah. Gerald Dossett was a forty eight year old Florida man who had dated Judy for a year in nineteen eighty. His brother Donald thought his death was suspicious and asked police to investigate.

52:54 His body was added to the list of bodies to be exhumed. So I want to quickly go through Judy's crimes and insurance settlements. The first crime that we know of was nineteen seventy one when Judy poisoned her husband, James Goodyear after he returned from Vietnam. I should say allegedly, but let's not even let's not even pretend. In nineteen seventy four there was that murder that we had talked about in Alabama that Judy was allegedly involved in. Judy and Bobby Joe, where he confessed on his deathbed. In nineteen seventy eight, we have the poisoning of Bobby Joe in Colorado. Nineteen eighty was the droning of Michael Goodyear. Nineteen eighty was also the year that Jerry Dosette was murdered, or he should say he died. We don't know if he was murdered and if Judy was involved or not. And nineteen eighty three is the attempted murder of her boyfriend James Gentry. So the insurance settlements, I'm just going to give you today's money. So James Goodyear, her husband, the only man that she had actually ever officially married. She got about seven hundred thousand dollars from that. Then there was the home fire, which she got about six hundred and eighty thousand dollars for Michael Goodyear, her son, four hundred thousand dollars. There was the second home fire. I couldn't find an amount.

54:16 I just went with like a average priced home. We're going to say it's two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Bobby Joe Morris she received four hundred thousand dollars. So all together she has about two point five million dollars and she stood to make another one point five million dollars if John Gentry had died. That's crazy. So that's an awful lot of money. Yeah. The trial for the murder of Michael Goodyear began in March nineteen eighty four in Milton, Florida. The courtroom was full of people clamoring to get a glimpse of the woman, coined the Black Widow by the media. It only took half a day for the jury to be chosen eight men and four women. That judge decided to sequester them. Court documents revealed that she Judy had quickly spent the money from Michael's settlement on a new car, boat, motor home, furniture, and lavish trips. Judy opened savings accounts for her other two children as well, James and Kim. She had almost immediately quit her job as a nursing assistant that had only paid three dollars and seventy cents an hour, and then she had bobbed the fingers and faces Salon. The prosecution alleged that Michael was an embarrassment to Judy. Unlike James and Kim, he was slow mentally, and his motor skills were never fully developed, making him clumsy.

55:31 He wore thick glasses, frequently misbehaved, suffered from inurysus, and a chronically runny nose. Judy had sent him away from much of his childhood, allowing him only to visit occasionally. She sometimes told people he was her stepson. The first witness to testify was Ricky Hicks, who had been fishing nearby on the day of Michael's drowning when he heard screams for help and pulled Judy and James to safety. He testified that Judy didn't seem too concerned about finding Michael and even cracked open a bier before the police arrived. Ricky recalled seeing sandwiches and other debris near the canoe, calling into question how Michael's body had gotten so far downstream in the nearly currentless water. His glasses were found about twenty five feet from his body. The prosecution alleged that Judy and James had quickly overturned the boat when they'd heard Ricky's boat coming, and feigned needing to be rescued after they dumped Michael overboard upstream, letting him drown. The debris from the canoe, the cooler, paddles, shoes, and sandwiches were found downstream near the overturned canoe. Does that make sense It does, Yeah, it's really cold. The state also had evidence that Judy had profited greatly in the death of both Michael and Bobby, and both had extreme amounts of arsenic and their bodies of death. The problem was that there was no direct evidence that Judy had possession of arsenic. One damning witness was Kim's ex boyfriend, who claimed that she had told him that Judy killed Michael for the insurance money.

57:01 Judy told Kim that Michael was already dying, so why not get some insurance money out of it. On Michael's twenty third birthday, Friday, March thirtieth, nineteen eighty four, just before seven pm, the jury began its deliberation on the guilt or innocence of his mother and his cruel death. That same night, seventeen year old James was arrested while drinking beers on the roof of his mother's beloved white corvette for the attempted murder of John Gentry, Judy's ex fiance. In June nineteen eighty three. Judy was also charged. As she waited the verdict in her cell, The jury worked laid into the night and reached a verdict as Friday turned into Saturday. Surprisingly, court was reconvened to read the verdict in the early morning hours. Judy was found guilty on both counts murder of her son and grand theft due to insurance fraud. The penalty phase began on Monday, April second. The state fought for Judy to receive the death penalty. She testified on her her own behalf, proclaiming her love for Michael. Publicly, she said she actually loved him more than the other two. After a quick deliberation, the jury returned a recommendation that the court sentenced Duty to life in prison. The judge delayed the sentencing until June and remanded Judy back to custody without bond. The judge intended to go with the jury's recommendation. He knew that there would be another trial and a death sentence would result in years, if not decades, of appeals. Things weren't going well for Judy. The investigators received a letter from the Bureau of Indian Affairs

58:34 stating that not only was Anna lou Welde not a relative of Geronimo, but the Mesquite Apache tribe she claimed to be a descendant of never existed. In June, Judy was officially sentenced to a term of twenty five years. In July, the body of Judy's ex boyfriend, Gerald Dosett was exhumed and tested for arsenic poisoning. James's trial for the attempted murder of John Gentry began in August of nineteen eighty four. The evidence against him was sparse, but James was surprised when he was acquitted of the crime. John Gentry was not surprised since the attempt on his life. Things had not been going his way. He was forced to claim bankruptcy after his business collapsed. He had bucket loads of medical debt and his body was full of shrapnel. Despite being the victim, his reputation was ruined from being attached to Judy, and he couldn't find a job. The marijuana police had found on him at the time of the explosion made people think he was a drug dealer. But he was happy because he reconnected with a former flame and they were now married. She had a son, and John was overjoyed to be a father again. At least at least he had love. The exhumation of James Goodyear resulted in an additional charge for Judy after arsenic poisoning was discovered to be the cause of his death.

59:53 A bit of good news for Judy was that she was not charged in the death of her ex boyfriend Gerald Dosett. No arsenic was found in his body. It's likely, however, that she had poisoned him with para formaldehyde, which is used in the embalming process. Therefore, it would not be detectable as an intentional poisoning. Kind of brilliant. Judy's second trial for the attempted murder of her ex fiancee, John Gentry, began in October of nineteen eighty four. The trial was only a few days long, and the jury was quicker this time and deliberated for less than two hours. Judy was sentenced to an additional twelve years. While she was leaving the courtroom, one of the detectives who had investigated her case taunted her by waving and smiling at her.

1:00:39 She lunged at him angrily and yelled, I'll see you in hell. After the verdict, Judy briefly talked to the media and said, quote, I just don't really feel in this area that I have gotten a fair trial in this case or the last case. The last trial should have been moved to anywhere, but Milton, I'm certain I won't receive a fair trial in or Lie, Orlando either. I don't think I will ever get a fair trial because of the poblicity. End quote. She's Judy, she's the victim. You said she only got twelve more years. Yeah, well it was an attempted murderer, Okay, all right. So Judy's third trial for the nineteen seventy one first degree murder of her husband, James Goodyear, began in October nineteen eighty five. Two old friends at the trial testified that Judy had offered to help them poison their husbands and had even confessed to them of killing her husband, James Goodyear. Another shocking testimony came from Kim, who at this point was eighteen years old and an expert witness on her mother. She had testified at the other two trials as well. Kim claimed that her deceased brother Michael, had poisoned Bobby Joe after he had sexually abused her. The trial took about two weeks and rehashed all of the unfortunate fates the men in Judy's past had suffered. The jury deliberated for ten hours over two days. Judy was found guilty of first degree murder because of the statute of limitations. If Judy had been found guilty of any charge lesser than first degree murder, she would have been acquitted. Judy, typically stoic, broke down in tears as

1:02:12 the verdict was read. She was all too aware that the maximum penalty of her first degree murder in Florida was the death penalty if she somehow evaded that fate, Colorado would most likely extradite her, where she would face another death penalty trial for the murder of Bobby Jo Morris. Two chaplains testified that since the time of her incarceration, Judy had come to them for counseling and considered herself a born again Christian. She had even earned a teaching certificate and taught Bible studies to the other women and croucheted blankets for sick babies. She was a model prisoner. It made no difference to the jury, who voted ten to two for Judy to receive the death penalty. When the judge asked her if she had anything to say, Judy replied, I didn't kill anybody ever, Judge. It was an accident with my son, kill my husband, and I didn't bomb mister Gentry's car, and that's the truth. I've never, to my knowledge, ever harmed anyone meaningly. I asked the court to spare my life, and I will contribute as much to the prison ministry as I possibly can. I just ask you for mercy. The judge sentenced her to death by electric chair. There were many appeals and three states stays of her execution, but Finally, on Monday, March thirteenth, nineteen ninety eight, after thirteen years on death row, fifty four year old Judy was put to death, born again and unafraid to die, maintaining her innocence to her last breath. And that is the end of Judy's story. But I have a little more for you. Jane Champion was the first woman executed in what

1:03:45 would become the United States and the Colony of Virginia in sixteen thirty two. She was married to a wealthy landowner, Percival Champion, when she had a scandalous affair with a man named William Gallopin. Adultery at the time was punished by death. Jane was accused of concealing the birth and subsequent death of her baby. She and Gallopin were both tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Little is known of the crime, and there is no evidence that Gallopin was executed. Judy Winoano was only the second woman executed in Florida. The first was a slave woman named Cecilia, who is hanged for killing her master after his cruel treatment of her. Almost done, the shortage of the drugs used in lethal injections has been ongoing for years. In the US, drug companies have refused to stock prisons to avoid being associated with the death penalty after many botched attempts of lethal injection causing the convict extended suffering. Three drugs are used during lethal injection. The first induces a coma, the second paralyzes the body, and the third stops the heart. As the drugs have become harder to secure, death row inmates are living longer. South Carolina, frustrated by the current state of executions, reintroduce the electric chair and death by firing squad in twenty nineteen, but have since added lethal injection as a means of execution.

1:05:11 The average death row inmate awaits execution for at least eighteen years. The longest inmate has been on death row for over forty years. Most of these inmates are kept away from the general population and are not allowed educational resources in other enrichment programs. And I should mention that the chair that Judy was executed in malfunctioned a couple if you think a few weeks before her death, which resulted in one more stay of execution. Oh boy, I know, it's just horrible. So that's the story of Judy. Well, I don't want to say all her names again. Yeah, I don't say all her names again. But yeah, horrible, horrible, horrible person. I can't.

1:05:53 Yeah, killing your son like that, just h it's horrible. I'm killing your son that you disabled. Yeah, I'm curious where she got the arsenic from. I don't know if it could have been from. I guess even her first husband, she'd she'd killed with arsenic. So I was gonna say, maybe it was. I think it might be used in beauty supplies sometimes, but I was wondering that. Yeah. So one interesting thing was James, Judy's son, was roommates with David Lackey. David Lackie is Kim's ex boyfriend who had testified Judy against Judy at the first trial. James came home from work one afternoon and discovered that David was dad from a self inflicted gunshot wound. The weapon that he'd used was James's gun. James had a solid alibi and there was a suicide note, but police had their suspicions, although James was never charged. Interesting, it's just a crazy story. Yeah, do you know what happened to the kids who I don't know. I tried.

1:06:50 I know that at least Kim was married and has children. That I look, I could not find anything. The main source I used for the case is a book called Bodies of Evidence by Chris Anderson and Sharon McGee. It was I don't know if it was because it was poorly transcribed to Kindle, but it had literally hundreds of mistakes. Oh really, yeah, it was really and I found a couple of like factual things that I thought might be wrong, but there were points of it that was really brilliantly written.

1:07:36 There are a lot of mistakes in the book. And also I watched very Scary People The Black Widow season five, episodes nine and ten. They're seeing very scary people. Well, yeah, I did a mini rant here, like every time we've watched a true crime show lately, like so much of it is like the first ten minutes they're going to tell you, show you everything about the case, thing about the case, and then it's it's just there was a lot of material that was rehashed over and over and it was just really frustrating. It probably could have been twenty minutes, but yeah, it was. So it was frustrating and I don't really recommend it, except for and I didn't have any clips in this episode. They did have Judy's voice, and I always love to hear it is inter Yeah, it was always good to hear the people's voices. She actually has a pretty nice voice.

1:08:33 Well, nice job telling the story as always a terrible story, terrible person though as usual. Yeah, I don't feel too bad that she is no longer with us. Same before we go, do you want to tell our listener friends about the new friend and our family, the one that's been hanging around here for the last month at our house and popping up in strange places. Yeah. So I saw something about instead of doing Elf on the shelf for Christmas, you do doll in the hall for Halloween. Yeah, and I actually purchased I'm very scary looking doll, very sweet looking young doll.

1:09:16 I posted about it on Instagram, so if you follow us on Instagram, you saw me post a couple of times about it. But we actually hit her several times around the house just to scare each other, and that was pretty fun. Yeah. The first time you did it definitely scared me. And then I put it. I thought I was very creative. I put it in our pantry, but I hung it up so it was like eye level. So as soon as you open the pantry door, she was right there looking out of the pantry door. And I don't think I think I was rather nonplussed. Yeah. Yeah, our daughter, on the other hand, she was evil, evil, evil evil. I wanted to send our love to our friend Deanna, who is going through some hard things right now. Deanna, we are thinking of you and rooting for you, and we love you always. Thank you for listening. Please rate, review, follow, and subscribe, and thank you so much if you have taken the time to leave a review. Looking at the reviews is always a little scary, but you guys are so abundantly kind and generous, and we just appreciate it. Yeah, we really do appreciate it. And if you want to support the podcast, if you want to consider following us on patreon dot com, slash Love Mary Kill five dollars a month. We keep it nice and simple. One extra episode a month, no ads, early access, and yeah that's about it. Yeah. So you and I yesterday went to the underground printing store and that was an exciting trip. Yeah, we talked about merch even threatening to do merch for a long time, but we haven't done it because I wanted to actually see the things in person. Yeah, and

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1:12:44 Speaking of black widows, black widows are spiders. Could go back to where I see black widows.