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1985. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before investigators unearthed the terrible truth. As Betty Lou's sordid past emerged, so did her chilling trail of marital violence. She shot her second husband, Billy York Lane, in the back. She tried to run over her third husband, Ronnie Threlkeld, with a car. Both survived to tell their horrific stories. But Barker and Beets, spouses four and five, weren't so lucky. After a sensational trial, Betty Lou Beets was sentenced to die by lethal injection. Fifteen years later, on February 24, 2000, she again drew national attention by becoming the second woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War.

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"One of the most infamous murderers in modern Texas history.-- ""Dallas Morning News"" ""One of the most infamous murderers in modern Texas history."" -- ""Dallas Morning News"""

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Irene Pence was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She graduated from the University of Nebraska with a BS in business administration and Arizona State University with an MA in education. She has also taken many creative writing courses from Southern Methodist University. Irene has won the Dallas Morning News' Golden Pen Award and is published in business education journals. She is the author of A Clue from the Grave, Triangle, and No Daddy, Don't. Irene lives in Dallas, Texas. George Newbern is an Earphones Award-winning narrator and a television and film actor best known for his roles in Father of the Bride and Father of the Bride Part II, as well as Danny in Friends. As a voice actor, he is notable for his role as Superman on the Cartoon Newtork series Static Shock, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited. He holds a BA in theater arts from Northwestern University.

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