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Jane Hurshman Corkum (January 25, 1949 – February 22, 1992) was a Canadian woman best known for having killed her abusive husband Lamont William "Billy" Stafford in 1982, [1] and for being acquitted of his murder. [2] The Crown appealed, concerned with the legal precedent, and Corkum pleaded guilty to manslaughter, receiving a six-month ...
Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
Susan Leigh Smith (née Vaughan; born September 26, 1971) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, in 1994 by strapping her children in their car seats, and rolling her car containing her two children into John D. Long Lake in South Carolina.
Amy T. Hebert [4] (née Talbot [5]) is a woman from Mathews, Louisiana, United States, who was convicted of murdering her two children in August 2007 in an act of revenge against her ex-husband; she also killed the family dog.
Joanna Simpson (1964 – 31 October 2010) was a 46-year-old woman who was killed by her ex-husband, Robert Brown, on 31 October 2010. Brown argued with Simpson and bludgeoned her to death before burying her body in a pre-dug grave in Windsor Great Park. Brown was arrested and charged with murder.
A Kentucky woman police say killed her husband and sister before being shot and killed by her brother last week suffered with mental health problems, according to a court motion filed nearly 15 ...
On June 30, 2006, Mary Winkler's bond hearing was held. A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent read a statement Winkler gave to authorities in Alabama, where she was arrested a day after her husband's body was found; in it, Winkler says she did not remember getting the gun but she did know her husband kept a shotgun in their home.
Julie Powers Schenecker (born January 13, 1961, in Muscatine, Iowa) lived in Tampa, Florida, with her husband, U.S. Army Colonel Parker Schenecker, and their two children. [3] The couple met in Germany during the 1980s, where Julie Powers was working as a Russian linguist. [4] At the time of Calyx and Beau's deaths, Parker Schenecker was overseas.