'Widow of Her Own Making' Sentenced in 5th Husband's Insulin Overdose Murder | Crime Alert 6AM 10.10.25

A Texas woman was convicted and sentenced this week for the murder of her diabetic husband in 2023 by neglect as he suffered from an insulin overdose.

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Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
A Texas woman was convicted this week of killing her
diabetic husband in twenty twenty three through neglect as he
suffered from an insulin overdose. A jury found Sarah Jean Hartsfield, fifty,
guilty of murder on Wednesday. Hartsfield was arrested after staff
at Houston Methodist Hospital noted suspicious circumstances surrounding Joseph's death

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in January twenty twenty three. Prosecutors presented evidence showing that
Joseph's blood sugar dropped in dangerously low levels over several
hours on January seventh. Sarah Hartsfield claimed she was sleeping
while this happened, but her cell phone activity showed her
on several apps during that time, and step tracking software
showed her up and moving around. Additionally, Joseph's glucose monitor

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went off more than one hundred times, each time alerting
Hartsfield's cell phone. Prosecutors acknowledged that they could not prove
Sarah Jean Hartsfield had given her husband an overdose of
insulin herself, but witnesses testified they believed that that's what happened.
The jury took less than an hour to convict. Joseph
Hartsfield was Sarah Jean Hartsfield's fifth husband. She previously shot

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a fiancee to death in Minnesota. She claimed self defense
and was never charged for David Bragg's death. Hartsfield was
also accused of pressuring an earlier husband to kill the
new wife of an ex husband in twenty twenty one
in Arizona, and made a custody dispute over their children.
Hartsfield has a history of allegations that she abused and
threatened former lovers. In nineteen ninety six, police in Houston

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arrested Hartsfield after she and her then second husband got
into a physical argument in their apartment. Hartsfield was charged
with assault, but prosecutors dropped the case a week later
for unknown reasons. The woman's husband at the time, who
had been bruised and scraped, received a citation. He said
the pair were married between nineteen ninety six and nineteen
ninety seven and that he wanted to forget that period

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of his life, which he described as miserable. The jury
sentenced Sarah Hartsfield to life in prison and to pay
a ten thousand dollars fine more crime and justice news
After this, A federal grand jury has indicted a Tennessee
cop on charges of kidnapping and stocking his estranged girlfriend
while he was on duty and in uniform in August.

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Alan James Greenman, thirty eight, was arrested for the incident
on August twenty first, and lost his job with the
Clarksville Police Department. Court documents say that Greenman used a
utility company gatecode, something not available to the general public,
to access his ex girlfriend's gated apartment complex in the
early morning of August twentieth. The document showed Greenman entering

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the complex in his patrol vehicle at five thirty seven am,
starting his shift at five thirty eight am while inside
the complex, than leaving about five minutes later. He returns
at six ten am, and leaves again at six twenty
three am. The court document say the ex girlfriend had
told Greenman she didn't want him at her home while
she wasn't there, and she had seen him there on

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her doorbell camera that morning, texting him and calling him
to leave. She returned to her complex just after Greenman
had left the second time, but he followed her in
still in his patrol vehicle and on duty. Then he
parked and followed her into the apartment, where they argued.
The complaint says that Greenman accused her of cheating on him,
even though they were not together at the time, and

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demanded that she give him her cell phone. She told
him to get out, saying this isn't worth your job
or mine. At that point, the on duty in uniform
police officer grabbed a screwdriver and stabbed the victim's television.
Greenman then fought the victim over her personal cell phone
and broke it. She tried to escape the apartment, but
Greenman threw her across the room and onto the bed,

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punching her in the head several times. When she tried
to leave again, Greenman drew his service weapon and pointed
it at her, telling her, I'm going to kill you.
The woman said she begged for her life as her
four year old son slept in the next room. She
told investigators she tried multiple times to get out, but
every time Greenman would threaten her and break more of

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her belongings. Ultimately, she grabbed her work cell phone, grabbed
her son from his bed, and Greenman let her leave.
According to the court documents, Clarksville police officers have censors
on their holsters that activate their patrol vehicle's camera when
the weapon is drawn. The footage from Greenman's vehicle pointed
directly at the apartment and triggered when he pulled his gun.

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Activated at six fifty eight am. About thirty minutes later,
the victim exits the apartment carrying the child. Greenman remained
in the apartment for about forty five more minutes before
leaving and driving away. While in the vehicle, Greenman had
a conversation with someone, probably on his phone. The documents say,
he appeared to be contemplating suicide. Quote everything is way

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past being fixed because I broke all her phone. She
was crying like cray. I attacked her multiple times, pulled
a gun on her like there's no coming back from
any of this. Although he later denied pulling his gun,
both the holster censor and this conversation contradict that claim. Meanwhile,
till the victim had contacted Clarksville police, who began looking

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for him. They eventually found him back in the woman's apartment,
hiding under her clothing. In her closet, he had his
personal pistol and was no longer in uniform. When interviewed
by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, he told agents he
had driven home, changed out of his uniform, and taken
an uber back to the victim's home to get some
of his belongings. Clarksville Police said Greenman was placed on

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administrative leave immediately after his arrest and fired on September fifth.
The federal indictment charges Greenman with kidnapping, stocking, and deprivation
of rights. He also faces state charges of domestic related
aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping. When he was arrested in August,
Greenman was given a seventy five thousand dollars bond. He

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does not currently appear on an inmate roster at the
Montgomery County Jail. His next court appearance is December fourth.
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