This Woman Poisoned Her Daughter & Husband | The New Detectives | Real Responders

As a young

woman

slowly weakens, a murder investigation gains steam to solve it. Detectives must extract a dark family secret from the tomb. A tight circle of friends shrinks as one by one its members mysteriously die. The circumstances are suspicious, but there is little evidence of murder. A

woman

is

poisoned

to death Her survivors point each other to find the killer Investigators must get to the source of the bad blood Even when its symptoms are dramatic The poison is a subtle threat The poisoner is a two-faced monster whose Loved ones become Victims of tainted trust On September 19, 1979, Marie Hilly was rushed to the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham.

Her 19-year-old

daughter

Carol has been very ill for the past five months. She had suffered severe vomiting, stomach cramps, deterioration of the nervous system and paralysis in her legs. Her hands became clawed and almost useless. Marie, a widow who adored her only

daughter

, was desperate to find a cure for Carol's serious illness. After months of taking Carol from doctor to doctor, she rarely left her bed. Marie was at the end of her rope. After her death, doctors told her that Carol could have a virus or some other condition, but she had not yet received a clear diagnosis about what was paralyzing her daughter.

Carol's illness was also taking its toll on Marie. On Carol's first day at the University of Alabama hospital, a plainclothes police officer. He came looking for Marie, what can I do? He asked if he could talk to her in private. The truth. Carol's mounting medical bills were wreaking havoc on Marie's finances. A bank and a furniture store in nearby Anniston filed complaints against her for passing bad checks. The officer handed Marie over. with an arrest warrant he took her to jail not wanting to alarm her daughter marie made up a story about why she had to leave she was unaware of her mother's arrest the next day when carol couldn't reach her mother she called her aunt freda who came to see her and told her about Marie Freda also had news for the doctors and expressed concern about Marie's care of Carol.

He said Marie moved Carol from one hospital to another before the young woman could be properly diagnosed. He also claimed to have witnessed Marie. By giving Carol injections, she feared that Marie's desperate attempts to cure her daughter were only making her sicker. This possibility caused Carol's doctor to reconsider her diagnosis. Maybe her illness was caused by a toxin rather than a virus. She

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ized that her symptoms matched most cases of heavy metal poisoning. arsenic is commonly called the great imitator arsenic routinely escapes early diagnosis disguised as food poisoning or the flu miscalculation could be fatal according to forensic toxicologist chip wall now laboratory director at the university of medicine school Miami In many cases chronic arsenic poisoning has been overlooked in the early stages and the person continues and improves or dies from chronic poisoning.

Mr. Milly, we will take a sample of the nail, but once long-term arsenic poisoning is suspected it is easy to diagnose. Carol's nails showed the broad white lines called knee lines indicating the presence of arsenic in the bloodstream for more than six weeks. After

this

crucial discovery, nail and hair samples were sent to the laboratory to determine the extent of her poisoning, which would help determine the source of her poisoning. exposure and how long she was exposed. The samples are carefully weighed before being placed in what is called a digestion flask. The nitric and sulfuric acid are mixed with the sample and heated.

The digested sample is then ready to be analyzed. The first readings showed high levels. of poison in carol samples, but it would take weeks to get more detailed results because arsenic occurs in nature and is a common ingredient in pesticides. Her exposure could have been accidental, but not everyone believed that while the samples were being analyzed, Aniston's police received a letter from Carol's brother who believed that Marie Hilly may have killed her

husband

four years earlier and was now poisoning her daughter on lieutenant gary carroll now the chief investigator went to talk to carol hilly during the interview carol had summarized a series of events that had happened to her beginning sometime in, I believe, mid-April 1979.

Carol explained that in one month she had endured two hospital stays and enjoyed a brief recovery until August, when his illness worsened and he told

detectives

the change came just after he moved. from her mother's house to her own apartment, although Carol had hoped to live alone, Marie practically moved in with her from day one taking care of the house and doing most of the cooking for Carol, honey, we're ready to leave in a few days, she fell seriously ill. Marie was suffering from severe nausea and cramps and was rushed to a hospital where she stayed for a week, but when the doctors did not offer a quick solution, Marie suddenly transferred Carol to another hospital.

Carol recalled that in September, while she was in the hospital, her mother gave her two orange pills. and two injections marie told her daughter that they would relieve the paralysis of her legs but her illness still progressed marie hilly's behavior led lieutenant carol to request the police file on her he knew that she had been the victim of a series of strange events since her her

husband

died carol was hoping that the files might reveal some pattern back in 1977 our police department had received numerous complaints from marie hilly regarding vandalism harassment phone calls robberies fires and etc. many things happening at her residence marie collected significant insurance claims for damage to her home her daughter's car and the death of her husband frank seeing a possible motive lieutenant marie was the beneficiary but the policy had expired i will meet with you tomorrow According to the insurance company Marie had made several desperate attempts to reinstate her but each of her checks bounced, yes, following letters sent by Carol Hilly's brother, Lt.

Carol received a copy of Frank Hilly's medical records Frank and Marie Hilly seemed to be your average happy couple, they were married for 25 years and raised two children, Mike and Carol, as were their children. Growing up, Marie maintained an active social life. Frank enjoyed his role as a hard-working, active, healthy breadwinner and rarely missed a day of work, but one night in May 1975, Frank came home dying from an upset stomach and stayed home for the most part. of the following week. Marie cared for him 24 hours a day, but Frank's condition rapidly worsened in a matter of days.

He was dead at the time. The circumstances were considered tragic but not criminal, and even now it seemed inconceivable that a woman could be so cold-blooded as to poison herself. Marie Hilly's family simply didn't fit the mold of a murderer, but in retrospect Frank Hilly's symptoms suggested a classic case of arsenic poisoning to be sure investigators needed to exhume her body at any time she was still in custody for issuing bad checks and denied any involvement in her husband's death and the person at the hospital was granted permission for her exhumation and autopsy. When asked about Carol, she denied poisoning her or even giving her medication, but investigators ultimately persisted. .

When confronted about giving Carol injections uh, she finally admitted that she did. She gave Carol some injections, she said she received, it was a medicine that a nurse who worked at one of the hospitals gave her. He pleads guilty, but the police were unable to locate a nurse who matched the name or description Marie gave. A week later, authorities exhumed Frank Hilly. body it is said that dead men tell no stories but only frank could tell them if his devoted wife and mother of his children was a murderer while investigators in alabama collected hair and nail samples from the exhumed remains of frank hilly the results of the carol hilly arsenic testing Upon returning from the lab, analysis showed abnormal levels of arsenic throughout her hair, demonstrating prolonged exposure to the poison.

The hair closest to Carol's scalp had 35 times more arsenic than on the outside, revealing that she had recently received high doses. Her mother, Marie Hilly, remained the prime suspect in her daughter's slow and painful poisoning. What remained was the evidence that soon arrived on the morning of October 8. The police received a note from Frida, Carol's aunt, along with a prescription bottle containing a clear liquid. The note said that she found the bottle in Carol's jewelry box. marie detective carol sent the vial for analysis half an hour later the laboratory confirmed that the vial contained arsenic a similar file was taken from marie's purse when she was first arrested for control When bounced it looked empty, but investigators suspected it might contain some residue.

They rinsed it with distilled water and then tested the rinse water one more time. They found arsenic. Mrs. Hilly. She is arrested for the attempted murder of her daughter on October 9, 1979. Marie Hilly was turned in. with arrest warrants accusing her of trying to poison carol made no statement at all any statement you make additional arrest warrants were served for passing more bad checks but these charges paled in comparison to what the police still suspected marie hilly of having murdered your husband they still did not have proof to hire a lawyer, you have the right to have a lawyer appointed for you.

We had not received any information from the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences about the results of Frank's autopsy, so we were waiting for them and in the meantime, she made a bond and got out of the attempt. she to the poisoning charge and also to the two control charges, but Marie couldn't feel much relief. The same tests that found arsenic in her daughter's system were being used on samples taken from her late husband and with the same result that Frank Hilly had been

poisoned

, the evidence showed. that the poison was taken little by little with a large dose in the end, on january 11, 1980, the calhoun county grand jury indicted marie hilly for first degree murder. hilly received a life sentence plus 20 years for trying to poison her daughter, but marie hilly ended up serving only a fraction of that time after three years, she had manipulated the warden into giving her a three-day leave when it was time to return, It was clear that Marie Hilly had escaped, but her escape did not last a week. she was later discovered apparently trying to break into a house her clothes were soaked and she acted delirious she suffered a massive heart attack and died that night marie hilly was buried next to her husband frank the man she poisoned to death why a wife apparently devoted? and her mother poisoned members of her family perhaps money was the original motive but since her daughter Carol's life insurance policy had expired there was no financial reward for killing her perhaps in Marie Hilly's mind murder became Her own reward in that regard.

She was not alone. On the afternoon of June 28, 1987, Carrie Middleton responded to a call to check on Lisa K Chandler, 30, in Odessa, Texas. Lisa had been severely depressed and her Friends were worried, Carrie found Lisa dead in her room and ran to call the police so she wouldn't call. a suicide, but to report a murder, the police found no evidence of a crime, there was no forced entry or signs of a struggle, in fact, there did not appear to be any cause of death, you need to keep

this

note in a bag. At dawn, on the nightstand there was a piece of paper with scribbled notes on it, but it did not mention suicide or anything else that could be related to Lisa's death.

A washcloth on the floor had no stains or other visible clues. It seemed that the victim had died peacefully and mysteriously in his sleep good morning how do they swear according to detective mickey brown now a chief of police okay that was reason enough to investigate further. Thank you, you have a victim here that apparently there is no reason for the cause of death and this is a young woman, there is no trauma, so I immediately suspect what caused this young woman. Lady's death was painfully out of her mind. Kerry Middleton insisted to the police that her friend was murdered, but without any evidence, her best strategy was to wait for the autopsy report.

Tissue samples were sent to the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, where forensic toxicologist Gary Wimbisch analyzed them. We look for the drugs or substances with the greatestlikelihood of having an association with the cause of death, for example, ethyl alcohol, carbon monoxide, other volatile substances or alcohols that may have been involved. Drugs of abuse would be a high priority and then second to routine prescription medications. Blood samples revealed a high concentration of ethyl alcohol found in wine or beer, although it may have contributed. Alcohol could not have caused Lisa's death on its own, as the victim's death remains a mystery.

Detective Brown could not rule out the possibility of foul play. I had learned from Carrie Middleton that Lisa was in the middle of a bitter divorce from her husband. Kyle Harry also said that Lisa was having an affair with David Dowler. A mutual friend with an exotic lifestyle. Well, the more he talked, the more he got into telling us about. dollar and it started to read like a Tom Clancy novel, you know, he said he worked for the government, worked for the CIA, was a spy hunter, things of that nature and she was very sincere in what she was telling us, but Did it seem distant at the time when Dowler was the last person to be seen with the victim?

An interview was arranged. He was cooperative and seemed friendly and personable. Dowler claimed that Kerry was wrong about his work for the CIA, but he shared Lisa's opinion. chandler was the victim of foul play he also had an idea who her killer was kyle chandler's husband lisa said kyle was furious because she was cheating on him good morning kyle chandler was next on the list to be interviewed for fear of being the main suspect in his wife's death chandler brought his lawyer with him kyle also felt that lisa was murdered but pointed the finger at his accuser david dowler her names his closest friend kyle chandler portrayed dollar as an unusual mancon a sinister touch, he owned and operated a one-hour photoshop workshop, but claimed it was just a cover for his

real

job as a CIA agent, as a member of the government.

Dowler claimed that he knew in advance which friends were in danger, he seemed to be right according to kyle chandler dowler knew more than he let on about the death of lisa chandler and the unexplained deaths of two of her other friends the investigation into the death of lisa chandler was taking an unexpected turn when Detective Mickey Brown reviewed the files and discovered that Lisa Chandler was the third person in her circle of friends to die mysteriously and in each case David Dowler was mentioned as one of the last people to see the victim. alive four years before Lisa Chandler's death another of Dowler's girlfriends suffered a similar fate Lisa Craig She was found lying as if she had died in her sleep.

There were no signs of forced entry into her home and no signs of trauma to her body. The only suspicious things were notes scribbled in the margins of her Bible. Craig believed someone wanted to kill her. She had a history of anorexia nervosa, an autopsy found no other evidence, so the medical examiner concluded that she died as a result of that condition; However, as there was no specific cause of death, she left her file open and kept the tissue samples from her three years later, the following year. die was Dowler's business partner Juan Casillas after Dowler was fired from his job at an oil company.

He and Casius opened a photography store together in 1986. Kyle Chandler found Cassius in his house dead on the kitchen floor. The autopsy revealed an unidentified substance in his tissues. The samples were stored in accordance with hospital policy, but the cause of death was not determined. Detective Brown now wondered if Kyle Chandler did anything more than discover the death of Juan Casius. He began to think that maybe he caused it. Brown learned that Juan Cassius was married to Lisa Chandler before Kyle. She married her first Cassius died and now Lisa was dead too, giving Kyle Chandler a direct connection to two of the three mysterious deaths in her tight circle of friends, but Kyle Chandler wasn't the only suspect in each of them. the three deaths that david dowler did. phone call that led to the discovery of the body detective brown had three deaths and two probable suspects needed help solving them she remembered an offer that carrie middleton made to her about david dowler she was convinced that dowler was the killer living a deranged fantasy that she wanted to have the opportunity to demonstrate it during the interview with Kerry.

I expressed some reservations about the story she was telling me and she volunteered that she would be more than happy to use a microphone or cable where I could listen firsthand. David Doubter telling these stories David Dowler may have pretended to be a government agent, but Kerry Middleton was about to go undercover so the police could listen in on her conversations with David Dowler, let's make sure she doesn't show up. Detective Mickey Brown also had surveillance cameras installed in Carrie's apartment so the police could see them and hear me during all of this. Yes, yes, make sure we'll test it before we press a couple of buttons.

Brown knew that his time here would either help the investigation or lead him to the completely wrong conclusion. Along the way we had a total of 16 hours of recordings on him on approximately three occasions. He totally dominated the conversations. He talked constantly. Most of the conversation was idle banter, but in one of these conversations he described how to murder someone by putting chloroform in the vent of his car. He then described a likely method the killer would have used to kill Lisa Chandler with chloroform. Dollar offered detailed descriptions of how Lisa Craig and Juan Cassius were likely murdered using cyanide and told Carrie that he feared she might be next. of a mad serial killer, the ramblings of a man desperate for attention or his own words made Dowler the prime suspect, but the proof of those words had to be verified in the laboratory.

Tissue samples from Lisa Craig and Juan Casius were sent to Gary Wimbish for cyanide testing. The test we used to test for cyanide is actually a testing protocol that is not ancient, but has certainly been around for a while called diffusion cell. by Conway, is a simple device that contains a blood sample in a compartment. trapping solution in the center and sulfuric acid on the other side, then the container is sealed and rotated so that the blood and acid mix. The acid releases the cyanide from the blood in its gaseous form, which is then trapped by the solution in the central compartment.

The solution changes color to indicate the amount of cyanide present. We found quite large amounts of cyanide present in the blood samples of Soda and Craig. The concentrations were between seven and ten times the amount often found in lethal cases. The results were indisputable. Both Craig and Cassius were killed with cyanide for testing. Lisa Chandler Wimbisch used a gas chromatograph to detect traces of chloroform. A microscopic tissue sample was placed in the apparatus that was calibrated to show the unique spectroscopic signature of chlorine compounds. is the internal standard and this is where The test revealed that Lisa Chandler had enough chloroform in her system to kill seven people unmasked by her own incessant talking.

The real David Dowler was finally revealed and then once we verified through the autopsy and toxicology results, this was how the victims had died. Then we knew we had our predator, we knew who we had, so David Dowler was neither a concerned friend nor a government agent, but a very sick and dangerous serial killer, armed with toxicology reports and information gleaned from detective Brown's surveillance obtained a warrant for Dowler's residence, but it was not over yet. He wanted to be sure that he had enough to win this case. He expected a confession, if not to the police, then to Kerry Middleton.

We decided to have one more conversation to try to get as much evidence as possible. By moving forward with another meeting, Brown was using his key witness as live bait for a known killer, Kerry was putting her life at risk now, Dowler might have suspected she was talking to the police, even with officers outside, she would be alone If Dollar moved quickly with a knife or gun as an extra precaution, Detective Brown wired Carrie's entire house and had extra police waiting just in case that night, when Dowler arrived at Carrie's house, the two spoke amicably at first. , concentrating on small talk, then Dowler began.

Talking about how the police were botching the investigation into Lisa Chandler's death, he mentioned that he had a gun in his car and once again told Kerry that she was in danger and suddenly announced that he had to leave for a moment, but that would be right. But that was enough for Detective Brown not to want to risk his life anymore, he had his officers move in and arrest them based on the evidence recovered at the scene. Detective Brown may have acted as anything in that we arrested the skeptic shortly after he left the witness' residence and found in his possession a pistol and silencer ammunition.

We also found some sets of lockpicks and balaclavas. These suspicious items could not even begin to suggest the vast and deadly arsenal Dowler had at his disposal in his home. Detectives discovered explosives explosions. caps crude listening equipment plus homemade gun silencers and chemicals used to make explosives and poisons police needed a truck to haul it all away Dowler's lab was the incubator for three murders mixing chemicals into a lethal concoction that could concoct his deadly plans He denied killing Lisa Chandler and told investigators he was just trying to help her. First, he said he asked her to write down questions about their relationship and then said he would help her find a hypnotic state by pouring chloroform into a washcloth covering her face. expensive, according to Dowler. then she could answer her own questions with her subconscious he said she was getting tired Dowler claimed that she herself should have taken more chloroform to commit suicide the investigators did not believe it no bottle of chloroform was found at the scene the forensic report It also showed that the Dollar's story couldn't be true, that couldn't have happened because when Dr.

Wembice did the toxicology, she had seven times the toxic amount in her system and would have been fast asleep long before she could self-administer. that amount of chloroform his dowler had administered the fatal dose he may have lived a fantasy life as a secret agent but he played the role of a murderer in real life in january 1988 david dowler was sentenced to life in prison for the death of lisa Chandler, because he received the highest possible sentence, was not tried for the other two murders in which David Dowler is suspected of killing in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Investigators discovered that the poison was just one part of the elaborate master plan a killer Georgia Weaver had. recently arrived to live with her sister jeannie allen when jeannie had told her younger sister that her cozy house had become too much for her alone georgia was happy to move in and help out on december 19, 1992 jeannie suffered a sudden and intense illness georgia who She also felt sick, she took her sister to the hospital for two weeks, the doctors wondered the root of her symptoms, thinking it could be food poisoning, when her condition worsened, they ordered tests for heavy metal poisoning, the results showed that genie had almost 20 times the normal amount of arsenic in her system intentionally or by accident jeannie allen was being poisoned jeannie's son jerry allen reacted to the news by going to the he was sure that his mother's poisoning was not an accident told him that The situation was not always so rosy between his mother and his aunt Georgia Weaver.

Detective Steve Moore heard Jerry Allen's story and told us that years ago they had been involved in a dispute over the inheritance of his mother who had died and apparently Miss Weaver had spent some of the money without Miss Allen knowing. The sisters had not spoken for four years. Jeannie had recently decided to make amends and invite Georgia back into her life. Jeannie was lonely. Her husband, James Allen, was incapacitated. Due to a stroke and her children were older, Georgia began spending the night at Genie's house and cooking all the meals, but Jerry believed that Georgia was planning to take financial advantage of her mother once again, three months before Genie fell, Jerry confronted Georgia at her mother's house, which led to a huge argument, and Georgia called the police to have Jerry removed from the premises.

Bad blood clearly flowed within the family, but there was little to stop it.related to Genie's current condition when Jerry Allen first came to us. We were worried about whether we were in the middle of a family dispute. Was there really a crime here? Was it really something we needed? to participate but two days after jerry submitted his report jeannie allen died of arsenic poisoning now the police had to get involved although it was still unclear if genie's poisoning was intentional the death needed to be investigated the police began interviewing friends and genie's relatives one of the first was georgia weaver cordial and friendly her anger increased when she talked about her nephew jerry allen georgia told the police that jerry resented her because jeannie trusted her more she stated that if anyone poisoned the genie it would be jerry who would be vying to gain control of jeannie allen's money investigators now had two suspects and yet they weren't even sure a crime had been committed before they could determine they had to determine how long jeannie allen had been exposed to arsenic and how she had consumed it to find out if genie allen had been intentionally poisoned researchers examined her hair arsenic leaves a record along the growing strands hair samples are cut into segments and then securely wrapped in a form of paper that establishes the chain of evidence because plastic bags could contaminate biological samples laboratories use paper wrapping each segment is tested individually for arsenic the duration of a person's exposure can be determined by seeing how much of their hair contains the poison according to criminalist gary lawrence it is not unusual to find arsenic in any hair sample most people have a normal level of arsenic within the body and if they somehow receive an amount of arsenic that is abnormal for the body, I believe that the system has One way to figure out some of that is if arsenic were in the environment, researchers would expect to find tiny traces throughout the body. length of hair, if the poison were administered intentionally, it would usually appear as a large dose in the portion of hair closest to the scalp.

I don't think it's very easy to hide arsenic poisoning, it can be done, but again, even when you wake up. At long-term doses, even at low levels, arsenic buildup within the body will eventually appear. The report showed normal levels of arsenic throughout most of the length of the hair, but in the segment closest to the scalp that contained the hair. 13 times the normal amount of poison, the results suggested that Genie Allen's death was not an accident, let's take everything out of her closet to find the source of the arsenic. The police searched her house and confiscated all the food and medicine they could find.

About 100 items in total at the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory each sample was bombarded with X-rays in a technique called X-ray fluorescence. Electrons in the samples are excited by emitting specific levels of energy. The lab looked for energy levels characteristic of arsenic. Testing for samples taken from Jeannie Allen's home would take several months to complete. It wasn't long before they narrowed their list of suspects from two to one. Many neighbors said mysterious changes occurred once Georgia Weaver moved out. Genie Allen went out less and less. Georgia picked up the mail and ran, Jeannie soon stopped calling her friends and when they tried to contact her, Georgia was always there blocking the way if anyone went or called there, Georgia answered the phone, Georgia came to the door and never I saw Jeannie again, it was like she didn't exist, Georgia basically checked the mail, Georgia basically took over the house, which made me suspect that an adult woman who was not in any medical condition at the time, no senility or anything, I would just let someone take over. her home so when suspicions began to focus on georgia weaver, investigators discovered more to incriminate her on december 22, just days after jeannie allen was admitted to the hospital, georgia went to the bank and using power of attorney closed jeannie's account.

Allen, took 1,300 and the The contents of her safe, Georgia was arrested at her job at a local motel, in her possession were about 1,000 of Jeannie Allen's cars, a credit card, and her power of attorney, upon further inspection. nearby, researchers noticed a strange detail about the power, yeah, let's see if you know, these guys in this document legally hand over the rights to genie to georgia weaver. Both the printed name and Jeanne Allen's signature were misspelled to obtain an actual sample of George's signature. The police made him sign his name and the geniuses several times in front of witnesses.

The signatures were sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory for analysis. Jeannie Allen's known signature was compared to the version of George's signature. The differences were greater. beyond the spelling errors according to dawn reed's question paper master papers there were pressure habits that were extremely different extreme differences were observed between the writer's spacing habits in the question paper and jeannie allen's known handwriting, the j capital letter was a two-stroke j that jenny allen used to write and on the question paper it was very flourished, but when reed compared the signatures written by georgia weaver with that of the power, she knew that she caught the forger without a doubt, i positively identified to georgia weaver writing jeannie allen's signature on the power of attorney, which is totally conclusive, there was no qualified opinion, she wrote that qualifies the probability that any other individual could have been void georgia was arrested for theft and forgery, she too She could have been a murderer if investigators could only prove it.

Georgia Weaver posted bail for her arrests for theft and forgery, but her troubles didn't end. A few weeks later, she was accused of stealing checks from employees of the motel where she worked and forging the signatures on them. , was arrested again even though she was proving to be a thief and forger. Investigators had nothing to link her to the murder of her sister Jeannie Allen, then a co-worker reported finding a bottle of rat poison hidden where Georgia always kept her purse. It was not a brand that the motel used. She was sent to police and turned over to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory for analysis.

The active ingredient was arsenic. This evidence was tangible but circumstantial. the first to link georgia to the poison now investigators needed to link the source of the poison to her sister in august 1993 extensive testing on items from genie allen's home was complete arsenic was discovered in two punch containers and a bottle of cold medicine The bond was established, Detective Moore, I just hoped it was strong enough at that point. I felt we had what we needed to bring her to justice. We knew it would be a battle to get her convicted, but we didn't feel like we could.

We had no choice but to try to get her imprisoned, where we believed she belonged. Based on the evidence, investigators surmised that after ingratiating herself with her sister, Georgia began adding the rat poison she kept hidden in her workplace to her medicines and drinks. work and finally killed her. with a big dose on may 4, 1994, georgia weaver was convicted of the capital murder of her sister jeannie allen. I think what motivated georgia was the power of greed and probably also a motivating fact was that she wanted what jeannie had in terms of a home, a family, the financial stability that she had while georgia was alone with no money and I think that perhaps he saw that the only way to get what he had was to take this route, but the route he took turned out to be a dead end.

Georgia Weaver was sentenced to life in prison without parole and currently serves in the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The act of poisoning begins with a simple premise. The poisoner believes she can hide her guilt behind a mask of worry, but time and again forensics have proven this premise false.