Velma Barfield: Death Row Granny or Just Mama...

Bertha Gifford was well-known throughout her community for her cooking skills and her compassion. She acted in the role of nurse for her sick family and neighbors, and was eventually accused of murdering with arsenic a total of 17 people in her care. But what's most interestin ...

Hieronyma Spara, known as "La Spara," organized instruction in the uses of arsenic for married women who were considering bettering their station in life by becoming wealthy widows. After the church became suspicious of this secret society, they infiltrated her group -- and La ...

A college student and her father are accused of teaming up to kill the mother and staging it to look like a suicide. Karrie Neurauter, who is studying computer engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and her father, Lloyd, are charged with 2nd-degree murder for M ...

Three and a half years after her high-profile trial in which Amber Hilberling was convicted of second-degree murder in the March 2013 death of her husband, Josh Hilberling,the 25-year-old was found dead in her prison cell. Another inmate discovered Hilberling hanging from her bun ...  Show more

On November 2, 1984, fifty-two-year-old Velma Barfield was executed by lethal injection at North Carolina’s Central Prison, bringing an end to years of legal appeals and emotional debates over the death penalty and how, when, and to whom it gets applied. For six years, Barfiel ...

Stacey Castor killed two husbands for money. Her favored method of murder was poison. She even tried to poison her own daughter in an attempt to blame her for the murders. In 1999, her first husband of 14 years died and his death was ruled a suicide. Her second husband died in ...