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Velma Barfield: History's First Female Lethal Injection
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Velma Barfield: The “Grandmother” Serial Killer, Arsenic Poisonings, and America’s First Female Lethal Injection
Rae profiles Velma Barfield, a little-known serial killer who killed at least four people and became the first woman executed in the U.S. in 22 years and the first ever by lethal injection.
The episode examines competing explanations: sociopathy, addiction-driven fraud, and dissociative identity disorder. Before detailing her death row conversion, and attempted clemency by Governor Jim Hunt, and execution on November 2, 1984.
00:00 Serial Killer You Never Suspected
00:59 Velma Barfield Overview
01:58 Content Warning And Support
02:58 Abuse And Invisibility
04:24 Marriage And Medical Spiral
07:07 Bodies Begin To Pile Up
10:32 Caretaker Deaths And Fraud
11:37 Arsenic Autopsy Breakthrough
12:42 Why Did She Kill
18:51 Death Row And Execution
21:42 Monster Or System Failure
23:10 Wrap Up And Next Steps
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Velma Barfield: The “Grandmother” Serial Killer, Arsenic Poisonings, and America’s First Female Lethal Injection
Rae profiles Velma Barfield, a little-known serial killer who killed at least four people and became the first woman executed in the U.S. in 22 years and the first ever by lethal injection.
The episode examines competing explanations: sociopathy, addiction-driven fraud, and dissociative identity disorder. Before detailing her death row conversion, and attempted clemency by Governor Jim Hunt, and execution on November 2, 1984.
00:00 Serial Killer You Never Suspected
00:59 Velma Barfield Overview
01:58 Content Warning And Support
02:58 Abuse And Invisibility
04:24 Marriage And Medical Spiral
07:07 Bodies Begin To Pile Up
10:32 Caretaker Deaths And Fraud
11:37 Arsenic Autopsy Breakthrough
12:42 Why Did She Kill
18:51 Death Row And Execution
21:42 Monster Or System Failure
23:10 Wrap Up And Next Steps
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