Judi Buenoano

Born Anna Lou Welty in 1943, Judi Buenoano had many names and many lovers over her 54 years. Men in Judi’s life had a way of suffering a tragic fate when their affairs fizzled out; her husband, boyfriend, and even her son all died by her hand, which earned her the title “Black Widow”. A fourth man survived an attempt on his life which led to Judi’s ultimate demise and eventual execution in 1998.

Original Love Marry Kill air date: 11/6/2023

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Sources:

1. https://allthatsinteresting.com/judy-buenoano
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_executed_in_the_United_States_since_1976
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Tina and I'm Rich. Welcome to Love Mary Kill.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Just the facts.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Today. I'm going to tell you the story of Judy
Bueno Anno. And she is a horrible person. Do you know?
Do you know.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Judy also heard the name.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
She's also called the black widow. But a lot of ever.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Man, any woman that kills her husband.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
It is called a black widow. It's true, it's true.
And I was like, oh, she's the black No, there's
a lot of black widows. I think I saw a
list of like top ten ten black widows. Speaking of
black widows, they are named such because the female commonly
eats her partner after mating. Many spiders do this. Female
black widow spiders are shiny and black when mature. Black

(00:57):
widow spiders have an hourglass shaped marking on the under
of their abdomen, which, although most commonly red, may range
in color from white to yellow to various shades of
orange and red. Black widow spiders also have a small,
usually red colored dot near their spinnerets, which is separate
from the hourglass. Males bear similar marks, however, the marks
are smaller, less prominent, and dully colored. A large female

(01:20):
black widow spider can grow to one point five inches
including legspan. Male black widow spiders are half the size.
They are usually dark brown with varying colors of stripes
or dots, with no hourglass mark. Eating a black widow
spider will not normally kill a small predator like a bird. However,
the sickness that follows digestion is enough for the creature
to remember that the bright red marking means do not eat.

(01:44):
Male black widow spiders, being less venomous, are less of
a threat to predators. Some large birds can eat male
widows without adverse effects and so only avoid female spiders.
Female black widow spiders can produce four to nine eggs
saxon one summer, each containing about four hundred to three thousand,
six hundred eggs. I can tell I'm losing you or

(02:07):
I'm gonna wrap this up. Incubation is twenty to thirty days.
Rarely do more than one hundred spider links survive this process.
On average, thirty will survive through the first molting due
to cannibalism, lack of food, or lack of proper shelter.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
My point in telling you this is that if only
judaiis Anna lou Welty Shultz Good Year. Morris Buinano was
marked to warn her prey from her web of flies
and deceit.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh, bringing it all back, that's great. I always learned
so much.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I mean I was going somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, no, it's very interesting stuff. I'm just glad I
am not.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I could tell you were totally glazed, so I apologize.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, not all.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Sometimes I think things are interesting, irrelevant, and yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
You mistook my look of interest for being glazed over.
But I'm just thankful that I am not a male
black widow spider.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
It is interesting to me that they're so much smaller
and weaker than the females. Judy wrote the following in
a scrap book while in prison. Don't be fooled by me.
Don't be fooled by the face I wear, for I
wear a thousand masks, masks I'm afraid to take off.
None of them are me. Pretending is an art that's
second nature to me. Don't be fooled. I give the

(03:21):
impression that I'm secure, that all is sunny and rough,
unruffled with me within as well as without. That confidence
is my name, and coolness my game. That the water's calm,
and I'm in command, and that I need no one.
But don't believe me. Please.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh it's like a regular old pullet.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
She kept herself busy. On March thirtieth, nineteen ninety eight,
five days before her fifty fifth birthday, Judy Bueno Ano,
also known as Anna lou Weldy Anna Schultz, Judaius Goodyear,
Judy Morris, Judias Buenoano, and Judy Goodyear, was given her
final meal of steamed broccoli and asparagus, fresh strawberries, and

(04:03):
hot tea. What would your last meal be?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
It definitely wouldn't be schemed.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
No, I was really shocked by that.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's really weird. Probably a big old cheeseburger, you think, Yeah, probably,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'll let you know. Her legal team's last minute appeals
fell on deaf years and were unsuccessful. A small circle
at the top of her head was shaved, where later
an electrode would be placed. Judy slowly walked the thirty
feet from her cell, where she had sat watching a
small black and white TV, to the darkened execution chamber.
Various clergy members in her family had visited her through

(04:39):
the morning and the curtain gallery sat twenty four uneasy people,
twelve witnesses and twelve members of the press who watched
through a glass partition. As Judy was strapped into the
hideously medieval looking electric chair, her normally impassive face was
a wash in fear. The death warrant, freshly signed by
the governor, was read to her before she was asked

(04:59):
if she had any final words. She simply said, no, sir.
The electrode was then placed on the bald patch on
her head that would deliver an excruciating jolt of electricity
to her brain. A black veil was placed over her
head of short salt and pepper great hair before the
switch was flipped, delivering two thousand volts of electricity through
her body. It only took thirty eight seconds before Judy

(05:22):
took her last breath and was declared dead. Judy was
the third woman executed in the US after the Supreme
Court had reinstated the death penalty in nineteen seventy seven.
Only eighteen women have been executed in the US since
nineteen seventy seven, the most recent in January of twenty
twenty three. Judy and Linda Lyon Block were the only
two that died by electric chair. All others have died

(05:45):
by lethal injection. Judy was the first woman to be
put to death in Florida since eighteen forty eight. She
died a born again Christian and maintained her innocence to
the very end.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Interesting, you said only thirty eight seconds. That sounds like
an eternity to me. I can't. It's just it's so
terrifying to think about that type of thing.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
But well, gratefully, I think the odds of you dying
in the electric chair are pretty much zero. Well, because
you're a good person.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
To be pretty close to zero, you'd never know.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
I should caution the listener that Judy was a pathological liar,
so her story is difficult to tell. It's hard to
know where facts end and fiction begins. Judias Anna lou
Welty was born in April fourth, nineteen forty three, and Kuana, Texas,
just below the Panhandle near the Oklahoma border. There is
some confusion to her real name. Her father said her

(06:35):
birth name was Anna lou Welty. Although she had many aliases,
like we've already discussed, she most often went by Judy,
so that's what we will call her. Judy is sometimes
spelled with an I and sometimes spelled with a y.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
So it's okay.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Her name is just all over the place I went
with Ie. She was the third child of four, the
only girl. Judy's mother, Judias Mary lou Northam, died before
Jude each turn two from tuberculosis. Judy claimed she was
a full blooded Mesquite Apache Indian and that Geronimo was
her great great grandfather. Judy's father, Ziah Jesse Otto Welty,

(07:11):
who later went by Jesse wain Welty, was an itinerant
farm worker. After her mother's death, Judy and her brother, Robert,
who was an infant, were sent west to live with
her grandmother, while the two older brothers were put up
for adoption. Judy and Robert lived with various relatives and
sometimes in foster homes, frequently suffering through physical and sexual abuse.

(07:35):
When Judias was twelve and old enough to be sent
to the orphanage, her father remarried for what Judy later
said was about the seventh time she and her younger
brother were well. She says, but you can't believe anything.
But remember you can't believe anything that she says. She
and her younger brother were taken to live with her
father and his new wife and her children in Roswell,

(07:55):
New Mexico. She and Robert were badly abused by their
father and stepmother, Beaten, starved, and burned with cigarettes. Judy
was treated like a servant and forced to miss meals.
If a spot of grease was found on the stove
she had cleaned, she was forced to sit at the
table and watch her family eat while her stomach grumbled hungrily.
One night, when she was fourteen, Judy became so enraged

(08:17):
she poured hot grease from the iron skillet on her
stepsisters and then walloped her stepmother with it. Woo her
father drove her to the county jail, where she spent
the next sixty days among the town drunks and prostitutes.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
How old was she?

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Fourteen?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Wow, that's some punishment right.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
When her sentence was served, Judy opted to live at
a juvenile detention center rather than return home, and attended
Foothills High School in Albuquerque, a juvenile detention center. She
graduated at age sixteen in nineteen fifty nine. She remained
estranged from her family. She once said of her brother Robert,
I wouldn't spit down his throat if his guts were

(08:56):
on fire.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
In nineteen sixty Judy changed her name to Anna Schultz
and worked as a nurse's aide. She became pregnant age
seventeen by a pilot from a nearby Air Force base.
Michael Arthur Schultz was born in March nineteen sixty one
to a teen mother who was ill equipped to handle motherhood,
never having had a loving relationship in her life. Michael

(09:19):
had a history of developmental delays and medical issues dating
back to his early childhood, along with a lower than
average IQ ranging from eighty five to ninety one. Do
you know anything about the IQ other than exceptionally.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, yeah, other than that one hundreds average from.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
One hundreds average. An IQ below seventy is considered intellectually disabled.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
So he was, you know, not super low, but lower
the average. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Everyone who knew him said he was slow. He had
suffered from pica. Do you know what that is?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I do not.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Pika is a pregnant women get it sometimes, but he'd
had it from childhood. It's eating non food items such
as dirt or clay. Oh, and as a young child,
he'd eaten paint chips from a house they lived in
that was built in the nineteen twenties. Michael also had
chronic respiratory infections asthma and inurysis into adulthood. Poor kid,

(10:12):
you know what in eurysis is? Uh?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Not exactly bed wedding? Oh okay.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
He was violent and hard to discipline, according to his mother,
but other people said he was very sweet and kind.
Judy sent Michael to the Montonari Residential Treatment Center for
Disturbed Children for children with psychiatric problems due to his
hyperactivity and acting out, and he lived there from about
age eight to age thirteen. Michael likely acted out to

(10:41):
get his mother's attention, though he loved her and wanted
her approval, but he would never get it. Judy fell
in love a twenty eight year old man named James Goodyear,
an Air Force mechanic who had reached the rank of sergeant.
They married in November nineteen sixty two, after knowing each
other for only three months. Judy was just nineteen. They

(11:02):
lived in Roswell, New Mexico, and occasionally saw Judy's father
and brother, Gerald. James adopted young Michael, who changed his
last name to Goodyear in nineteen sixty six. Judy and
James welcomed another son, James Goodyear Junior. A daughter, Kimberly,
came along shortly after in nineteen sixty seven. Judy thought
Michael was disruptive towards James and Kimberly and kept him

(11:25):
away as much as possible. A friends or family came
for a visit, Judy made Michael stand a room by himself.
Isn't that sad? I think he had like sometimes he
would have like a nanny or a helper, and Judy
would tell the nanny to take Michael for a ride
in the car until the company left. The family moved

(11:45):
to Orlando, Florida, where Judy opened a daycare called Conway
Acres Childcare Center. James, still in the Air Force, left
for a tour in Vietnam. Judy carried on an affair
while he was away. When he returned home, he quickly
felt ill and was hospitalized for extreme nausea, tingling in
his extremities, hallucinations, and lightheadedness. Doctors repuzzled what was causing

(12:09):
this healthy young man's illness. He died in September nineteen
seventy one, at age thirty four. His cause of death
was listed as pulmonary congestion, cardiovascular collapse, and renal failure.
Judy collected twenty eight thousand dollars in life insurance and
sixty four thousand dollars in veterans administration benefits, which would
add up to about seven hundred thousand dollars today. Soon

(12:33):
after her husband's untimely death, Judy's house burned down. She
collected about ninety thousand dollars or six hundred and eighty
thousand dollars today in insurance money.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'm a little suspicious, so she's got.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Some bad luck. Yeah, Judy packed up her three kids
and moved to Pensacola, Florida. I believe this was one
of Judy's lies, but she claimed that she had gone
to nursing school on scholarship and then continued her education
and earned PhDs in biochemistry and psychology. Because it's not
a big deal to or a PhD and biochemistry and psychology.

(13:06):
That's easy to do.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh yeah, I don't know why you're so skeptical.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Judy would later buy a a beauty salon called Fingers
and Faces, which is one of the worst names I've
ever heard of anything in my life. She also claimed
that she had been a head nurse at a West
Florida hospital. But Judy stood about five feet six inches
tall and weigh about one hundred and thirty pounds, with
dark hair that she liked to keep short with an

(13:31):
olive complexion. Her sharp features and small eyes kept her
from being described as beautiful, but her business was beauty,
and she was always impeccably dressed and presented herself as
confident and well put together. She spared no expense in
keeping her appearance. Owning a salon, she had to have
the perfect manicure at all times. She loved to drive

(13:52):
her new, flashy white corvette around town. Judy was typically
stoic and devoid of emotion, but she could turn fire
at a moment's notice. Now a word about arsenic. Arsenic
is a natural occurring substance, but it also can be
produced in lab It is used in agriculture, mining, and manufacturing.

(14:13):
We all have some level of arsenic in our bodies.
It also exists in soil and water, which we need
to get our water tested. Again, by the way, we
have like a problem in our neighborhood with arsenic.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
We do have arsenic in our water.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
It is carcinogenic and toxic at high levels. Arsenic is
odorless and tasteless, making it the perfect poison. Blood, fingernails, hair,
and urine can be tested to determine the amount of
arsenic in your body. Symptoms of arsenic poisoning include red
or swollen skin, skin changes such as new warts or lesions,
abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, abnormal heart rhythm, neuropathy,

(14:50):
muscle cramps, white lines on your nails, and tingling of
fingers and toes. Symptoms of lead and mercury poisoning mirror
those of arsenic poisoning as well.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I don't know why you're talking to me about arsenic poisoning,
you know me.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I just like a good factoid here and there, you do.
Michael dropped out of high school after the tenth grade.
He joined the Army in June of nineteen seventy nine.
After basic training, he visited his family in Florida for
ten days. When he returned to Fort Benning and Georgia
to begin his job as a water purification specialist, he
began experiencing tingling and numbness in his extremities, along with nausea.

(15:27):
Vomiting and diarrhea.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Those symptoms sound familiar.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
He checked himself into the hospital. His condition quickly worsened,
and by January he was largely paralyzed, unable to use
his legs or hands, and his weight plummeted from one
hundred and sixty seven pounds to one hundred and twenty
three pounds. In hopes of walking again, Michael moved to
the Walter Reed Medical Center and began physical therapy and

(15:51):
was fitted with heavy leg braces and a prosthesis attached
to his right arm that was controlled by his still
mobile left shoulder muscle, so he could feed himself and
do other basic tasks. So his extremity is like the
his I think you would say distal extremities had no feeling,
but his upper extremities did. Interesting, So he could he

(16:13):
could move, and he could kind of walk. But because
of the braces helped him walk. Yeah, but because his
thigh muscle still worked. Does that make sense.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
A hair test revealed that the arsenic in Michael's body
was seven times above the normal limit. Mee's lines were
present on his fingernails. Mee's lines are white horizontal lines
on the nail bed that can indicate a serious illness
such as cancer, heart failure, or arsenic poisoning. And I
know everyone's looking at your fingers fingernails right now to

(16:45):
see white lines. And it doesn't mean like those little
white marks, but it's it's actually like a white line.
It's like a straight line.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Doctors were refuddled, unable to find the cause of his paralyzation.
What thought, but it might be due to his unusual
eating habits or from his previous let exposure. During his
training as a water purification specialist, Arsenic was among the
chemicals he frequently used. Michael's condition failed to improve, and
he was discharged from the hospital on May twelfth, nineteen

(17:16):
eighty into his mother's care. She was like, I'm a nurse.
I can take care of him, no worries. And she
even said to the doctors, I have plans. I'm going
to put this forty thousand dollars edition on the house
for Michael. You know I'm gonna I've got it. Don't
worry about it.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I'm a little dubious.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Michael was depressed and required a full time caregiver. Doctors
were hopeful his health would improve over time, but there
was new nerve damage, so it was kind of unlikely
that he was ever going to be able to walk
normally again.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Poor guy.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
On May thirteenth, nineteen eighty, the day after Michael's release
from the hospital, Judy and her two sons set out.
This is going to make you really mad. Judy and
her two sons set out in a sixteen foot canoe
for a day of son and fishing in an attempt
to improve Michael's mood. He was placed in a lawn
chair that was tied to the bottom of the canoe.
Oh boy, can you picture this?

Speaker 2 (18:09):
I ken it seems like a really bad idea.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
So canoe is in general? Are they mostly for two people?
Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I think you can have a longer canoe.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
But okay, this was a sixteen foot canoe, which was
pretty long, but the book that I read said it
was pretty much a two person canoe, but definitely not
room for like a lawn chair in the middle of it, which.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Is going to make it unbalanced too, because the lawnchair,
he's going to be sitting up higher. And yeah, it's
a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Very bad idea. So the lawn chair was tied to
the bottom of the canoe. Kim Kim is the little sister.
She's twelve, and poor Kim had to sit on the
dock for six hours and waited for her family to return.
She said she was allergic to the sun and kind
of like me, and she was like, I don't want
to be in the boat all day, so she just
sat on the dock and fished and read a book

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or whatever. The day ended in tragedy when, according to Judy,
the canoe capsized after it hit a log in the water.
Judy and James were able to swim a quarter mile
to safety and were pulled aboard a nearby boat. Michael,
who wasn't wearing a life veest, was weighed down by
his leg braces and arm prosthesis and drowned. Judy insisted

(19:19):
all three of them had been wearing water ski belts,
but when Michael's body was found, he was not wearing one.
Do you know what a water ski belt is?

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Uh? Not really, It's just like.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
A life preserver, like a narrow thing that goes around
your waist. It doesn't reply a little bit of buoyancy exactly,
but it doesn't really take the place of a life jacket.
So later only two of those water ski belts were
found in the water. Michael was found several hours later,
almost a mile upstream, where the water was about twelve
to fifteen feet deep, and he was just nineteen at

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the time of his death. Police noted on the incident
report that quote the mother was very calm, with no
outward emotion. The report also noted that Michael was shirtless
and without a life fest and he wore shorts and
heavy black orthopedic shoes with no socks. The report described
Judy as a clinical physician at the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center

(20:11):
at Fort Walton Beach. She was not can you believe that?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
No, you're right, I'm angry.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Was just disgusting. Yeah, she had literally plotted her like
you know, she poisoned him, she paralyzed him, and then
she threw him over the canoe.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, that's horrible.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
We'll be back after a quick break. Okay, So we
left off and Michael drowned. But we're going to go
back in time a little bit to nineteen seventy three
when Judy met Bobby Joe Morris in Pensacola. Bobby was

(20:56):
the life of the party and everyone loved him. He
was Judy's best friend boyfriend, but not for long. Judy
and Bobby were a good match and they had a
lot of fun together. He moved in with Judy and
her children. When things started to be less fun, Bobby
relocated to Colorado for a new job in nineteen seventy seven.
His mother said he moved to escape Judy. Bobby's mother

(21:19):
was no fan of Judy's. She made Bobby promise he
would never marry her, to which he obliged. Six months later,
Judy and her children, including Michael, joined him in Colorado
after her home in Pensacola burned down. Another bad stroke
of luck.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh this is another house burned.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Another fire. Yeah, she once again collected insurance money. And
then when she moved, they moved to Colorado and she
attended nursing school there and she began using the name
missus Judy Morris.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
But they were they weren't married.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Though they weren't married. Just wanted to say a quick
word about Judy's kids, Like we know Michael was a
little slow, but the other two kids were kind of nightmares.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
James was kind of a delinquent, Like he was like
thirteen and fourteen. He was drinking and smoking and getting high,
and Judy was permissive and let it happen. Their relationship
was peculiar too, because he would sleep in her bed
and when she took a bath, he would like sit
in the bathroom with her.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Oh, that's not creepy at all.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
It was very strange. So just your teenage kids are
just very disrespectful to her, and James would call her
a whore and things like that. Just kind of a nightmare.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, sometimes if you're an awful parent, you're probably gonna
have awful kids too.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well, she was very permissive, like I said, and she
spoiled them and bought them everything, Like James had a
motorcycle and for his fourteenth birthday, she bought him a
shotgun and then he saw it off the shotgun and
just it just sounds like a very crazy household.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Bobby was six feet three inches tall and two hundred
and twenty pounds and in good health despite being a
raging alcoholic. But on January fourteenth, nineteen seventy eight, he
went to the hospital after he became violently ill with
what do.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
You think, I'm guessing he had arsenic poisoning.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Well, he had severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and hallucinations. Bobby
developed delirium delirium tremens while in the hospital, you know,
like the DTS. Yeah, Like when you're an alcoholic and
you stop drinking, you just go it. Your body goes
into withdrawal and shock. Bobby was also diagnosed with pancreatitis,

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renal failure, metabolic acidosis, and a kidney infection. Judy was
working as a licensed practical nurse at the hospital where
Bobby was admitted and helped with his care while he
was hospitalized. She would pry his mouth open and help
him drink his favorite drink, Hawaiian punch through a straw.
By January ninth, he was in congestive heart failure, but

(23:59):
his condition gradually improved and he was eventually released on
January twenty first. Two days later, he returned to the
hospital in severe shock, along with dangerously low blood pressure,
uncontrollable diarrhea, and vomiting. This poor guy just sounds like
he had every ailment that you could possibly have. He
died on January twenty eighth, nineteen seventy eight. His cause

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of death, according to the autopsy, was cardiac arrhythmia with
contributing factors such as severe sepsis, septic shock, metabolic acidosis,
and pancreatitis. Judy, acting as Bobby's wife, tried to have
his body quickly cremated, but his mother intervened and had
him buried in his hometown of Bruton, Alabama. Judy did

(24:42):
not attend the refuneral. She is just horrible. Despite assuring
his mother that he would never marry Judy or make
her the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, Judy cashed
in Bobby's three life insurance policies, valued at thirty thousand
dollars one hundred and forty thousand dollars today. On his
deathbat in a state of delirium, Bobby Joe blurted out, quote, Judy,

(25:06):
we should never have done that terrible thing. End quote.
In nineteen seventy four, the couple were visiting Alabama when
a Florida man was found dead in a motel. An
anonymous call from a payphone led police to the hotel,
where the victim was found shot in the chest and
his throat slashed. Days after, Bobby Joe's mother overheard Judy

(25:26):
telling Bobby Joe quote the son of a bitch. Shouldn't
have come up here in the first place. He knew
if he came up here it was going to die.
End quote. Police were never able to link Judy or
Bobby Joe to the crime. After Bobby Joe's death, Judy
changed her name again to Judy Bueno Anno. She changed
her children's last names too. Do I think people were like,

(25:48):
why did you change your name to yeah Anna when
it was good Year? Well you even the other day
you never had Spanish, but Spanish is kind of like
I think everyone knows a little Spanish, but you even like,
doesn't that mean goodyear? Yeah, So you kind of have
the idea, like Judy's change your name, she's moving.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
A lot of people around her are dying regularly of
mysterious causes. Houses are burning down.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Bad luck. John Wesley Gentry the Second was born in
his family home with a midwife by his mother's side,
on June sixteenth, nineteen forty six, in Pensacola, Florida. He
was a fourth generation Pensacolon. John was the second oldest
of five boys. He became a Mormon when, at the
age of sixteen, missionaries knocked on the door and talked

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him into joining their church. He said it just made
sense to him. He'd been looking for higher meaning in life.
He was just sixteen, and he said that. John was
tall at six feet three inches and in good shape.
He had been an active duty marine in Vietnam. He
had seen some horrible things that lingered at the margins
of his consciousness. He still had shrapnel in his body

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from standing nearby when a friend stepped on a landmine.
His first marriage had not ended amicably. He had two
sons that his ex wife wouldn't let him see. John
ran a successful wallpaper and carpet store. Judy had given
him a loan to open a second store that he
had paid back with the insurance settlement she had received
after Bobby Joe's death. Judy had purchased a salon called

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Fingers and Faces. She loved, having perfectly quaffed hair and
flawless nails. The salon was doing well, and Judy was
finally living the high life she had always dreamed of.
So Judy has what my mom would say was a
beer pocket book and champagne tice.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Okay, I've heard that.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
On June twenty fifth, nineteen eighty three, John was on
his way to a flea market to get new speakers
for his nineteen eighty one Ford Futura. Should I say
that right?

Speaker 2 (27:50):
I have no idea, but it sounds right.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
You nowhere? What cars that I do? Judy's son James,
was going to help him install them later in the day.
When he returned to the home he shared with Judy, Kim,
and James, he was surprised to find her there. She
was normally at work during the day. Forty year old
Judy blurted out that she had meant the doctor that
morning and she was pregnant. John was overjoyed. He was

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only thirty eight and yearned for a second chance at
being a father. They decided to go to a movie
and lunch to celebrate. They saw the Stephen King movie
Dead Zone, which I've never seen.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Oh really, I love that movie.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Later that night, they were hosting a going away party
at the upscale Driftwood restaurant for Judy's employee at the
beauty salon. About twenty people were expected. Judy loved the
girls that worked at her salon. She was very generous
to them and frequently bought them gifts and paid them well.
She asked them to call her mother. Judy had returned

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to the salon after the movie to tie up some
loose ends. John's job was to greet the guests and
get the party started until Judy arrived. She arrived at
about eight forty five pm. The party was a success.
At about ten thirty, as the party winded down, Judy
as John if he minded if she and the girls
went to another bar. He was tired from a long

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day and told her to have fun and gave her
a kiss. Judy handed John a baggy of marijuana and
asked him to give it to her son when he
got home. He walked to the empty, darkened parking lot,
found his car, cranked the engine, and then turned the
headlights on. Judy had reminded John earlier to park in
this dark, remote parking lot because vagrants frequented the other

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parking lot closer to the restaurant. A deafening blast rang
out into the night. The roof of the car blew off,
and both the front and rear windows shattered. It happened
so suddenly John was unable to process the situation. Blood
ran down his face in rivulets, and his ears rang
loudly vibrating in his head. Surprisingly, he was still conscious.

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He shakily opened his car door and noted through the
black smoke that his shoes were were missing. He stumbled
to the sidewalk, taking a few disoriented steps, and crumpled
to the ground. The partygoers surrounded him as paramedics cut
his burnt clothes from his charred body. Judy cried out,
my god, my god, what happened? Jackie Morgan did this?

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It was Jackie Morgan? Then she fainted. Jackie Morgan was
a former business associate of John's Fromobile, Alabama. They had
a store called Wallpaper Mill Outlet. John and his brother
pulled their investment out of the Mobile store to open
a new store in Pensacola. The Mobile store had closed
and resulted in a legal battle. Jackie Morgan was never

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a serious suspect. She was angry, but not murderous. Judy
and John, however, had mutual life insurance policies on each other.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Of course, I'm confused though, was it a bomb or what? Like?
What actually happened? I wasn't sure. Was it a gunshot
or a bomb or what was this?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
It was an explosion? Okay, Well, get just hang onto
your pants. John was in rough shape. He was rushed
by ambulance to the Sacred Heart Hospital about ten miles away.
He had multiple laceration mounds caused by shrapnel. Poor John,
like he needs more shrapnel in his body. Some pieces

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were as big as seven to eight centimeters in diameter.
They were in his skull, ears, chests, abdomen, and flanks.
John was no stranger to shrapnel from his time in Vietnam.
His body was riddled with multiple fragments of foam, rubber, plastic,
and cloth. So the car is like it exploded, Like
there's just pieces everywhere. Yeah, his colon was severed by

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a metal fragment that had traveled through the kidney, causing
damage there too. He was sent to surgery to remove
as much of the shrapnel as possible and to repair
internal organs and staunch bleeding. So you probably know this,
but a lot of shrapnel just can't be removed from
your body, which is horrible. It must be so really painful. Yeah,

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I think some of it just kind of sits there.
But it's just some of it such little pieces that
it just have to live with it. He remained in
a coma for several days, but was expected to fully recover.
Police guarded his room, afraid the drug dealers they suspected
of bombing John's car would return and finish him off.
Pensacola had a relatively high crime rate. The Attorney General

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would tell you that it was because they caught and
prosecuted more criminals, but there were no history of bombings,
especially car bombings. By the way, as a side note,
Ted Bundy was apprehended in Pensacola in nineteen seventy six,
coincidentally the same year that the death penalty was reinstated.

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So the investigation into this bombing found two sticks of
dynamite that had been placed in the trunk of John's car,
and it had been wired to the tail lights. The
wire was orange and white. Experts later said that John
was lucky it was a sloppy amateur job. If the
dynamite had been placed under the seats, John definitely would

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have died. John was recovering from surgery and in Nacoma.
He wasn't able to be interviewed for several days, but
police were able to interview Judy, who once again named
Jackie Morgan as a suspect. She told him that she
was the owner of a successful beauty boutique for ladies
in the mall called Fingers and Faces. She said, quote,
I have degrees as long as my arm I make

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five hundred thousand dollars a year. On July first, nineteen
eighty three, Detective Rick Steele asked Judy if she would
come to the station for a light detector test. She
agreed haltingly, but twenty minutes later, her lawyer, who identified
himself as Perry Mason, called the police station and said

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she would not be taking the test.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Wow, can't believe she got Perry Mason to be your lawyer.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah. An officer recreated the drive that John Gentry took
on the night of the party and confirmed what he
had suspected. John had not needed to turn his lights
on when he drove to the party. That explained why
his car hadn't blown up before the party. On June
twenty ninth, police were finally able to interview John. He

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was pale and weak and had a hard time talking,
but he was clear that he had no idea who
would want him dead, not even Jackie Morgan. Police asked
if he had a life insurance policy, and he admitted
that he and Judy both initiated a one hundred thousand
dollar policy on each other about six months before the bombing.
John assumed that Judy was just covering their assets in

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the event of one of their deaths, but he didn't
know anything about a five hundred thousand dollar policy. The
police told him that he owned. The policy had originally
been taking out taken out for one hundred thousand, but
Judy increased it to five hundred thousand dollars, valued at
about one point five million dollars today, without John's knowledge.
Judy had been and quietly paying the two hundred dollars

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a month premium on her own. The insurance company requested
proof that their businesses were actually worth that much money,
and Judy provided them with the necessary documents and the
policy was activated without John's knowledge. As the police questioned him,
John began to rethink his life with Judy. His foggy

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brain was coming alive. He recalled vomiting uncontrollably in December
of the previous year after she'd given him some extra
strength the vitamin C, and another time he vomited after
she'd made him a special salad just for him. He
was hospitalized with dizziness nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and severe stomach pains.

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Keep saying those words yeah. Doctors never determined the cause
of his illness, but by the time of his release
two weeks later, he was asymptomatic. When he returned home,
Judy began giving him the vitamin C pills again. She
just really wanted him to be healthy him and see
is really good for you. He again became violently ill

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and refused to take the vitamins. After that, he was like,
I'm done with you. Judy and John's relationship had started
hot and heavy, but fizzled out quickly. Judy never told
him she loved him. They had been engaged for two
years and they had made no plans to make it official.
John had saved a couple of the orange and white
so called vitamins in his briefcase Smart move John. Police

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went to the wallpaper mill outlet with a search warrant
to seize the pills. When the pills were analyzed at
the local lab in Pensacola, it was obvious that the
pills had been tampered with. They were sent to the
FBI lab and found to be filled with arsenic and
para for meldehyde para for meldehyde is a Class three
poison with no known medical use and undetectable and autopsies.

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It slowly shuts down shuts down the internal organs, and
eventually causes death. John was released from the hospital on
July fourteenth, about three weeks after bombing, So that's pretty
good because he had a lot of injuries, so three
weeks I would expect he would have been there longer.
After the incident, John's panicked brother, Albert, came to Judy.
The business was not going well and with John's absence,

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things would only get worse. He asked Judy for a
ten thousand dollars loan to cover him until John returned.
Despite her business being successful and the multiple insurance settlements,
Judy was broke. She spent money as fast as she
got it. She was in a real pickle. She went
to the bank and mortgaged her house. She had paid
fifty thousand dollars in cash for her house in nineteen

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seventy eight. She took out a twenty thousand dollars mortgage
and gave ten thousand dollars to Albert and kept the
rest for herself. She just needed a little more time
for her plan to work. She knew John was getting
cold feet about their engagement. He told her he wasn't
coming back to her house to rehabilitate. He was going
to his mother's house. Smart Judy blew up and stormed out.

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The police trailed Judy for a month, but didn't catch
her doing anything of note. But on July twenty seventh,
nineteen eighty three, Judy was served with search warrants at
her home and business. Police were looking for the vitamin
sea appills and explosive materials. Judy was at the Finger
and Face of Salon, but her kids, James seventeen and

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Kim fifteen, were at home. During the search of their house,
in James's room, orange and white wires matching the wires
used in the bomb in John's car were found, along
with black electrical tape and other tools that could have
been used in making a bomb. In Kimberly's room, a
bottle containing mega vitamin C, marijuana, and an illegal sod

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off shotgun were seized. Judy was arrested for the first
degree attempted murder by poisoning of John Gentry. Her friend
Robert Hill, posted Judy's fifty thousand dollars bail and she
was released. She waved her right to a speedy trial.
Investigators couldn't figure out where Judy had purchased the dynamite.
Dynamite isn't exactly easy to secure for the average person.

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It's illegal unless you have a blaster's license. Police were
able to trace the purchase to an explosive dealer in Alabama.
He confirmed the purchase of fifty sticks of dynamite for
seventy five dollars on June seventeenth by Johnny Rawell and
his friend Rayford Odom. There were more than twenty phone
calls between Johnny, Raowell and Judy. Odom failed a polygrapht

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and then confessed and signed a statement that he only
accompanied Raoul and didn't know what had happened to the dynamite.
Police discovered that Raoul had been friends with Judy's diste's boyfriend,
Bobby Joe Morris. So they had fifty sticks of dynamite.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
That's a lot of diya a lot and she'll use
two and.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
They only used two. Police interviewed Judy's employees at Fingers
and Faces. I might have to open a salon and
still it's horrible and learned some interesting things. They told
that Judy had made plans for a world cruise for
herself and her children without John. Judy told several employees
that John was suffering from terminal cancer and did not

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have long to live. Police reviewed Judy's medical records and
discovered that she'd had tubal ligation in nineteen seventy five,
making it almost impossible that she had ever been pregnant
with John's baby. Yet another lie. With Judy safely in jail,
investigators began digging into her previous relationships and discovered how

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unlucky she had been in love. They began with Bobby
Jo Morris. His autopsy report was re examined. The coroner
had noted thorazine in his body, but it had never
been administered to him in the hospital. When contacted by police,
the coroner remembered the autopsy because he'd had to perform
it after Bobby had been embalmed and in his casket

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due to Judy trying to rush things along. Bobby Jo's
mother had intervened and requested the hoe autopsy at the
eleventh hour. However, he was not tested for arsenic poisoning.
James Goodyear's autopsy was also reevaluated and found that while
his symptoms were consistent with arsenic poisoning, his arsenic levels

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were never checked either. Michael Buenoano's records were examined. Next,
was it possible that Judy was involved in the death
of two of her former loves and her son. No
one could believe she was that heart cold hearted I
can separate you, yeah. Investigators issued warrants to exhume the

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remains of Bobby Joe Morris. Tissue samples had been saved
from James Goodyear's autopsy by the Navy. Police wanted to
be able to charge Judy with the first degree murder.
All they had so far was the attempted murder of
John Gentry.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Can you test for arsenic after like years have passed?

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yes. Forensic accounting of Judy's assets revealed that she had
benefited after Bobby's death to the two of eighty thousand
dollars three hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars today on
three life insurance policy she'd taken out shortly before his death.
Investigation until Michael's death included a statement by the intern

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who oversaw his care He was emphatic that he told
Judy that Michael should not be taken on a boat
under any circumstances. There was no way that he would
be able to swim, a fact he had reiterated to
her on three separate occasions. I don't think you need
to be a medical professional to tell someone you probably
shouldn't take your paralyzed son in a canoe on a launchair.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, especially an unstable Yeah, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
He found her to be cold and thought it was
possible that she saw her son as a problem and
wanted him dead. Judy described the current on the day
of Michael's death as very fast and hard to swim against,
but in reality the current was slow and it was
unlikely that hitting a log would capsize the vessel. Michael
was a member of the army and he was insured
for twenty thousand dollars, and Judy was the beneficiary. She

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was issued a check for two four hundred and fifty
one dollars and twenty cents, including interest. Investigator subpoenaed bank
records from twenty four local banks to find any deposited
checks over twenty five thousand dollars, sure that there were
multiple insurance policies on Michael, and likely that Judy had
opened a new bank account. Sure enough, they found two

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deposited checks, one for forty five thousand dollars and one
for forty thousand dollars, bringing the total windfall from her
son's death, including the Army payout, to over one hundred
and five thousand dollars nearly four hundred thousand dollars today.
Judy had taken out two insurance policies on Michael. One

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policy purchase for fifteen thousand dollars had a double indemnity
clause and ended up paying forty five thousand dollars. Wow,
double indemnity. Do you want to say that? That is really quick?

Speaker 2 (43:56):
No idea?

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Oh you don't. I've never heard of double indemnity. So
if there's a clause in your life insurance policy for that,
it's like if there is an accident, you get more money,
and if there's a double indemnity, you get twice as
much of your policy.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Oh okay, and if.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
There's a single indemnity, it's just double.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
I just did our benefits enrollment today, so this is
really timely.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Are you? Oh, did do how much life insurance did
you put on me.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
I didn't put any I'm worthless. We know how that
turns out, you know.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Prosecutors knew that they had an uphill battle in charging
Judy and Michael's death. A grand jury convened on January eleventh,
nineteen eighty four, and subpoena James and Kim, escorting them
from their high school to the courthouse. Their testimony, in
addition to the financial records indicating insurance fraud, was enough
for the grand jury to indict Judy for Michael's first
degree murder. Three and a half years after his death,

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she was arrested for the second time that day. She
was placed in the back of a police cruiser, where
her body began to convulse uncontrollably. Judy was taken to
the hospital and given a mild sedative. It was determined
that she was play acting and was taken to the
Pensacola County Jail and booked to be held without bond
until her arraignment. Meanwhile, police headed down to Alabama to

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exume Bobby Joe Morris's grave after his mother had given
her approval. She knew Judy had something to do with
his death. I am going to get a little graphic here,
so if you don't want to hear about exhumations, just
fast forward like two minutes. It had been six years
since Bobby Joe died, but his corpse was in relatively

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good condition. His face was covered with a thick white mold,
disguising his facial features, making him look like melted wax.
His skin was leather like and flesh remained on his bones.
The satin lighting of his casket was molded and deteriorated.
The coffin was transported to a nearby armor base where
the autopsy would be performed. The doctor took samples of

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Bobby's still intact hair, fingernails, and removed his toenails. Tissue
samples were taken from his organs, including his liver, kidneys,
and brain. Some of his teeth were removed as well
to be tested for arsenic poisoning. The samples were sent
to the lab. The results were shocking. Bobby's body contained
arsenic levels high enough to kill eleven men. The analysis

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from James Goodyear's samples also revealed arsenic and let were
in his tissues, enough for a judge to order an
exhumation of his body that had been buried for twelve
and a half years. Okay, end of the gross stuff.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
I've always been kind of curious though, what you find
when a corpse is exist.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is interesting.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
And there's more flesh on the body than you would think.
I guess I always just pictured, you know, like a skeleton.
But I guess if you're in a casket.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Kind of delays the deterioration. Embalming too, I would imagine,
delays things. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Jerald Dossette was a forty eight year old Florida man
who had dated Judy for a year. In nineteen eighty,
his brother Donald thought his death was suspicious and asked
police to investigate. His body was added to the list
of bodies to be exhumed. So I want to quickly
go through Judy's crimes and insurance settlements. The first crime

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that we know of was nineteen seventy one, when Judy
poisoned her husband, James Goodyear after he returned from Vietnam.
I should say allegedly, but let's not even yeah, let's
not even pretend. In nineteen seventy four, there was that
murder that we had talked about in Alabama that Judy
was allegedly involved in Judy and Bobby Joe, where he

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confessed on his deathbed. In nineteen seventy eight, we have
the poisoning of Bobby Joe in Colorado. Nineteen eighty was
the droning of Michael Goodyear. Nineteen eighty was also the
year that Jerry Dossett was murdered or I should say
he died. We don't know if he was murdered and
if Judy was involved or not. And nineteen eighty three

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is the attempted murder of her boyfriend, James Gentry. So
the insurance settlements, I'm just going to give you today's money.
So James Goodyear her husband, the only man that she
actually ever officially married. She got about seven hundred thousand
dollars from that. Then there was the home fire, which
she got about six hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For

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Michael Goodyear, her son, four hundred thousand dollars. There was
the second home fire. I couldn't find an amount. I
just went with like a average priced home. We're going
to say it's two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Bobby
Joe Morris she received four hundred thousand dollars. So all
together she has about two point five million dollars and

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she stood to make another one point five million dollars
if John Gentry had died.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
So that's an awful lot of money.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
The trial for the murder of Michael Goodyear began in
March nineteen eighty four in Milton, Florida. The courtroom was
full of people clamoring to get a glimpse of the
woman coined the Black Widow by the media. It only
took half a day for the jury to be chosen
eight men and four women. That judge decided to sequester them.
Court documents revealed that Judy had quickly spent the money

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from Michael's settlement on a new car, boat, motor home, furniture,
and lavish trips. Judy opened savings accounts for her other
two children as well, James and Kim. She had almost
immediately quit her job as a nursing assistant that had
only paid three dollars and seventy cents an hour, and
then she had bobbed the fingers and faces salon. The

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prosecution alleged that Michael was an embarrassment to Judy, Unlike
James and Kim, he was slow mentally and his motor
skills were never fully developed, making him clumsy. He wore
thick glasses, frequently misbehaved, suffered from inurysius, and a chronically
runny nose. Judy had sent him away from much of
his childhood, allowing him only to visit occasionally. She sometimes

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sometimes told people he was her step son. The first
witness to testify was Ricky Hicks, who had been fishing
nearby on the day of Michael's drowning when he heard
screams for help and pulled Judy and James to safety.
He testified that Judy didn't seem too concerned about finding Michael,
and even cracked open a bier before the police arrived.
Ricky recalled seeing sandwiches and other debris near the canoe,

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calling into question how Michael's body had gotten so far
downstream in the nearly currentless water. His glasses were found
about twenty five feet from his body. The prosecution alleged
that Judy and James had quickly overturned the boat when
they'd heard Ricky's boat coming, and feigned needing to be
rescued after they dumped Michael overboard upstream, letting him drown.

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The debris from the canoe, the cooler, paddles, shoes, and
sandwiches were found downstream near the overturned canoe. Does that
make sense?

Speaker 2 (50:56):
It does, Yeah, it's really cold.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
The state also had of it that Judy had profited
greatly in the death of both Michael and Bobby, and
both had extreme amounts of arsenic in their bodies of death.
The problem was that there was no direct evidence that
Judy had possession of arsenic. One damning witness was Kim's
ex boyfriend, who claimed that she had told him that
Judy killed Michael for the insurance money. Judy told Kim

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that Michael was already dying, so why not get some
insurance money out of it. On Michael's twenty third birthday, Friday,
March thirtieth, nineteen eighty four, just before seven pm, the
jury began its deliberation on the guilt or innocence of
his mother and his cruel death. That same night, seventeen
year old James was arrested while drinking beers on the

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roof of his mother's beloved white Corvette for the attempted
murder of John Gentry, Judy's ex fiance. In June nineteen
eighty three, Judy was also charged. As she waited the
verdict in her cell, The jury worked laid into the
night and reached a verdict as Friday turned into Saturday, surprisingly,
where it was reconvened to read the verdict in the

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early morning hours. Judy was found guilty on both counts
murder of her son and grand theft due to insurance fraud.
The penalty phase began on Monday, April second. The state
fought for Judy to receive the death penalty. She testified
on her own behalf, proclaiming her love for Michael publicly,
she said she actually loved him more than the other two.

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After a quick deliberation, the jury returned a recommendation that
the court sentenced Duty to life in prison. The judge
delayed the sentencing until June and remanded Judy back to
custody without bond. The judge intended to go with the
jury's recommendation. He knew that there would be another trial
and a death sentence would result in years, if not decades,
of appeals. Things weren't going well for Judy. The investigators

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received a letter from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, stating
that not only was Anna lou Welty not a relative
of Geronimo, but the Mesquite Apache tribe she claimed to
be a descendant of never existed. In June, Judy was
officially sentenced to a term of twenty five years. In July,
the body of Judy's ex boyfriend, Gerald Dosett was exhumed

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and tested for arsenic poisoning. James's trial for the attempted
murder of John Gentry began in August of nineteen eighty four.
The evidence against him was sparse, but James was surprised
when he was acquitted of the crime. John Gentry was
not surprised since the attempt on his life. Things had
not been going his way. He was forced to claim

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bankruptcy after his business collapsed. He had bucket loads of
medical debt and his body was full of shrapnel. Despite
being the victim, his reputation was ruined from being attached
to Judy, and he couldn't find a job. The marijuana
police had found on him at the time of the
explosion made people think he was a drug dealer, but
he was happy because he reconnected with a former flame

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and they were now married, She had a son, and
John was overjoyed to be a father again. At least
at least he had love. The exhumation of James Goodyear
resulted in an additional charge for Judy after arsenic poisoning
was discovered to be the cause of his death. A
bit of good news for Judy was that she was
not charged in the death of her ex boyfriend, Gerald Dosett.

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No arsenic was found in his body. It's likely, however,
that she had poisoned him with para formaldehyde, which is
used in the embalming process. Therefore, it would not be
detectable as an intentional poisoning. Kind of brilliant. Judy's second
trial for the attempted murder of her ex fiancee, John

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Gentry began in October of nineteen eighty four. The trial
was only a few days long, and the jury was
quicker this time and deliberated for less than two hours.
Judy was sentenced to an additional twelve years. While she
was leaving the courtroom, one of the detectives who had
investigated her case taunted her by waving and smiling at her.
She lunged at him angrily and yelled I'll see you

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in hell. After the verdict, Judy briefly talked to the
media and said, quote, I just don't really feel in
this area that I have gotten a fair trial in
this case or the last case. The last trial should
have been moved to anywhere. But Milton, I'm certain I
won't receive a fair trial in Orlando either. I don't
think I will ever get a fair trial because of

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the pobolicity. End. Quote's Judy, she's the victim.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
You said she only got twelve more years.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Yeah, well it was an attempted murderer, Okay, all right.
Judy's third trial for the nineteen seventy one first degree
murder of her husband James Goodyear, began in October nineteen
eighty five. Two old friends at the trial testified that
Judy had offered to help them poison their husbands and
had even confessed to them of killing her husband James Goodyear.

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Another shocking testimony came from Kim, who at this point
was eighteen years old and an expert witness on her mother.
She had testified at the other two trials as well.
Kim claimed that her deceased brother Michael, had poisoned Bobby
Joe after he had sexually abused her. The trial took
about two weeks and rehashed all of the unfortunate fates
the men in Judy's past had suffered. The jury deliberated

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for ten hours over two days. Judy was found guilty
of first degree murder because of the statute of limitations.
If Judy had been found guilty of any charge lesser
than first degree murder, she would have been acquitted. Judy,
typically stoic, broke down in tears as the verdict was read.
She was all too aware that the maximum penalty of

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her first degree murder in Florida was the death penalty.
If she somehow evaded that fate, Colorado would most likely
extradite her, where she would face another death penalty trial
for the murder of Bobby Joe Morris. Two chaplains testified
that since the time of her incarceration, Judy had come
to them for counseling and considered herself a born again Christian.

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She had even earned a teaching certificate and taught Bible
studies to the other women and croucheted blankets for sick babies.
She was a model prisoner. It made no difference to
the jury, who voted ten to two for Judy to
receive the death penalty. When the judge asked her if
she had anything to say, Judy replied, I didn't kill
anybody ever, Judge. It was an accident with my son.

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I didn't kill my husband, and I didn't bomb mister
Gentry's car. And that's the truth. I've never, to my knowledge,
ever harmed anyone meaningly. I asked the court to spare
my life, and I will contribute as much to the
prison ministry as I possibly can. I just ask you
for mercy. The judge sentenced her to death by electric chair.

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There were many appeals and three states stays of her execution,
but finally, on Monday, March thirteenth, nineteen ninety eight, after
thirteen years on death row, fifty four year old Judy
was put to death, born again and unafraid to die,
maintaining her innocence to her last breath. And that is
the end of judy'ste But I have a little more

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for you. Jane Champion was the first woman executed in
what would become the United States and the Colony of
Virginia in sixteen thirty two. She was married to a
wealthy landowner, Percival Champion, when she had a scandalous affair
with a man named William Gallopin. Adultery at the time
was punishable by death. Jane was accused of concealing the

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birth and subsequent death of her baby. She and Gallopin
were both tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Little is
known of the crime, and there is no evidence that
Gallopin was executed. Judy Winoano was only the second woman
executed in Florida. The first was a slave woman named Cecilia,
who was hanged for killing her master after his cruel

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treatment of her Almost done. The shortage of the drugs
used in lethal injections has been ongoing for years in
the US. Drug companies have refused to stock prisons to
avoid being associated with the death penalty after many botched
attempts of lethal injection, causing the convict extended suffering. Three

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drugs are used during lethal injection. The first induces a coma,
the second paralyzes the body, and the third stops the heart.
As the drugs have become harder to secure, death row
inmates are living longer. South Carolina, frustrated by the current
state of executions reintroduced the electric chair and death by
firing squad in twenty nineteen, but have since added lethal

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injection as a means of execution. The average death row
inmate awaits execution for at least eighteen years. The longest
inmate has been on death row for over forty years.
Most of these inmates are kept away from the general
population and are not allowed educational resources in other enrichment programs.

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And I should mention that the chair that Judy was
executed in malfunctioned a couple you think a few weeks
before her death, which resulted in one more stay of execution.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Oh boy, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
It's just horrible. So that's the story of Judy. And
I don't want to say all her names again.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Yeah, I don't say all her names again. But yeah, horrible, horrible,
horrible person. I can't. Yeah, killing your son like that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Just uh, it's horrible. I'm killing your son that you disabled.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
I'm curious where she got the arsenic from too. Yeah,
I don't know if it could have been from. I
guess even her first husband she'd she'd killed with arsenic.
So I was gonna say maybe it was I think
it might be used in beauty supplies sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
But I was wondering that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
So one interesting thing was James, Judy's son, was roommates
with David Lackey. David Lackeye is Kim's ex boyfriend who
had testified Judy against Judy at the first trial. James
came home from work one afternoon and discovered that David
was dad from a self inflicted gunshot wound. The weapon
that he'd used was James's gun. James had a solid

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alibi and there was a suicide note, but police had
their suspense. Although James was never charged. It's just a
crazy story.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Do you know what happened to the kids?

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Who I don't know? I tried. I know that at
least Kim was married and has children. That that's I Look.
I could not find anything. The main source I used
for the case is a book called Bodies of Evidence
by Chris Anderson and Sharon McGee. It was I don't

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know if it was because it was poorly transcribed to Kindle,
but it had literally hundreds of mistakes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Oh really, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
It was really And I found a couple of like
factual things that I thought might be wrong, but there
were points of it that was really brilliantly written. There
are a lot of mistakes in the book. And also
I watched Very Scary People The Black Widow season five,

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episodes nine and ten. They're seeing very scary people. Yeah,
uh well, yeah, it did a mini rant here, like
every time we've watched a true crime show lately, like
so much of it is like the first ten minutes
they're going to tell you, show.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
You everything about the case.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
Everything about the case, and then it's it's just there
was a lot of material that was rehashed over and
over and it was just really frustrating. It probably could
have been twenty minutes, but yeah, it was so it
was frustrating and I don't really recommend it except for
and I didn't have any clips in this episode. They

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did have Judy's voice, and I always love to hear
it is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Inter Yeah, it was always good to hear the people's voices.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
She actually has a pretty nice voice.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Well, nice job telling the story as always a terrible story,
terrible person though, yeah as usual.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Yeah, I don't too bad that she is no longer
with us.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Same.

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