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The Bloody Crimes and Execution of the Texas Black Widow
Narrator
George Newbern
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Length
8 hours 15 minutes
Language
English
1985. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before investigators unearthed the terrible truth.
As Betty Lou's sordid past emerged, so did her chilling trail of marital violence. She shot her second husband, Billy York Lane, in the back. She tried to run over her third husband, Ronnie Threlkeld, with a car. Both survived to tell their horrific stories. But Barker and Beets, spouses four and five, weren't so lucky. After a sensational trial, Betty Lou Beets was sentenced to die by lethal injection. Fifteen years later, on February 24, 2000, she again drew national attention by becoming the second woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War.
Irene Pence was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She graduated from the University of Nebraska with a BS in business administration and Arizona State University with an MA in education. She has also taken many creative writing courses from Southern Methodist University. Irene has won the Dallas Morning News's Golden Pen Award and is published in business education journals. She is the author of A Clue from the Grave, Triangle, and No Daddy, Don't. Irene lives in Dallas, Texas.
Actor George Newbern has appeared in Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride II, Evening Star, Adventures in Babysitting, and many other films. On television, he has had roles on Friends, Nip/Tuck, Hot in Cleveland, CSI, and more. George is also known for providing the voice of Superman in Justice League.