Velma Barfield: Death Row Granny or Just...

<p>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 ... Show More

<p>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 ... Show More

<p>Belle Gunness wanted what every American wants: the American Dream. And through insurance fraud and murder, she eventually found it. "Hell's Belle," as she was known, used strychnine -- and a meat cleaver -- to kill an estimated 40 victims she met through personal ads, almost ... Show More

<p>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 ... Show More

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

<p>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 ... Show More

<p>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 ... Show More

In 1969, a 23-year-old law student at the University of Michigan was found murdered in a cemetery outside of Ann Arbor. Jane Mixer’s death was considered part of a string of violent killings known as the Michigan murders, thought to be the work of a serial killer. That changed wh ... Show More

<p>Does a concrete wall in a Pennsylvania home hold the remains of a woman missing since 1989? Police suspect the killer used a wood chipper to grind up the body, which was then mixed into concrete. Major crimes scene investigator Karen Smith and RadarOnline reporter Alexis Teres ... Show More

During the funeral of his wife, Allene, David Lamson sat in a jail cell, the prime suspect in her murder. A forensics pioneer came to his defense in an attempt to prove that her death was an accident. But prosecutors felt that between his temper and his alleged affair, he had a m ... Show More

Ex-wife arrested in murder of Microsoft executive in Florida, Utah mom and grief box author will not face death penalty if found guilty, and People’s Court case turns into a missing person case https://linktr.ee/risencrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co ... Show More

A West Virginia woman who married her father after they tortured and killed her boyfriend in 2019 pleads guilty to murder. The victim was beaten with a wine bottle, injected with meth, and strangled with a garbage bag. Plus, updates on Nebraska’s Sydney Loofe case, whose body par ... Show More

An Alabama woman who pleaded guilty to murdering her accused rapist was sentenced to 20 years after her Stand Your Ground self-defense appeal was denied. Brittany Smith had more than 30 injuries on her body, and her alleged assailant had “very high amounts of methamphetamine in h ... Show More