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Preview — Silence by Tim Boyle. Silence is said to be golden. When it comes to comedy though, silence can be deadly. Tim Boyle began performing stand-up comedy when he was in high school. Open mics, free bar shows, and New York City comedy clubs, Tim has failed on stage Silence is said to be golden. Open mics, free bar shows, and New York City comedy clubs, Tim has failed on stage at them all.
My Worst Stand-Up Comedy Performances and Experiences chronicles his most cringe worthy stories about the times when things in his comedy career didn't go as planned. Honest, mean-spirited, and sometimes embarrassingly sad, this collection of stories is about one man's failed attempt at bringing joy to the world. Published January 18th first published January 17th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Silence , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Feb 09, Stephen Fraser rated it liked it.
Considering that this book was only 64 pages it took me longer than a week to read. Furious at this, her husband gets four-hour visitations every week upon divorcing her and when he tries to apply for full custody, she stabs all three children and makes an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. Sentenced to 16 years, Theresa died in custody in March of a suspected suicide.
Elise Ledvina is known in Milwaukee as a caring Catholic mother who values setting a good example, but secretly battles with intense delusions due to schizophrenia. Convinced she's a bad mother and that this world was a bad place for her two sons, the voices in her head drive her to bludgeon them with a baseball bat; her elder son is saved due to his father's intervention, but the younger son dies. She is acquitted by reason of insanity.
Young Philadelphia housewife Marie Noe never really wanted children, unlike her devoted husband Arthur, and is unable to emotionally cope with the stresses of motherhood. Over two decades, she gives birth to ten children and two of them are stillborn, but none of the surviving children live long as she smothers them when they're alone.
She isn't caught until 50 years after the first murder and is given five years house arrest and 20 years probation. Egyptian-born nanny and model Omaima Nelson has a track record of manipulating men; as a young woman, she begins seducing older men, then robbing them blind. In , year-old Omaima meets year-old Bill Nelson. Instead of simply robbing her new husband, she murders him, and doesn't stop there. She goes on to dismember and consume his corpse. Nelson was found guilty of second degree murder and was sentenced to 26 years to life.
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In , Nelson was denied parole. Lyda Trueblood is an early twentieth-century woman with a penchant for poison. She uses arsenic to kill several relatives, including her husbands and her own daughter. After getting caught for the crimes, Lyda escapes, and almost commits another poison murder before getting caught. Lyda was paroled in and died of a heart attack in at the age of Her sentence is 25 years with possibility of parole after 10 years. In , Jacksonville, Florida woman Andrea Hicks Jackson calls police to file a report about a vandalized car, but when officer Gary Bevel arrives on the scene, he learns that Andrea has committed the vandalism herself in a fit of rage.
While Bevel attempts to arrest Andrea for filing a false report, Andrea shoots the officer five times. She is sentenced to death, but her sentence is later commuted to life in prison. Alyssa Bustamante , who was constantly neglected by her drug-addict mother, grows into a gothic teen with dark fantasies. In , the 15 year-old lures 9 year-old Elizabeth Olten into the woods, where she uses a knife to slash the 9-year-old's throat, and uses her bare hands to strangle Elizabeth to death. Afterwards, Alyssa disposes of Elizabeth's body in a pre-dug grave.
She gets a life sentence with possibility of parole. Brenda fights back, so Felicia shoots her to death and then wears Brenda's bloody coat. Felicia's sentence is 13 years to life. In , while working as a babysitter, Australian teen Helen Moore suffocates two infants in her care. Thereafter, she strangles her seven-year-old brother to death, and is turned in by her devastated mother. She receives a life sentence, but is paroled after thirteen years. Scottish restaurant chef Pamela Gourlay takes a dangerous mix of pills and pot with her boyfriend, but soon finds herself low on cash as a result.
High as a kite, she fixes her problem by brutally stabbing her neighbor Melanie Sturton to death and stealing a few dollars and a gift card. Sentenced to 14 years to life, Pamela is paroled in October Brittany Norwood is a career thief, who lost her college scholarship by stealing from her teammates. Her thefts continue as she works for a Maryland clothing store. When Brittany's supervisor catches her shoplifting from the store, Brittany devises a brutal plan and commits a torturous murder.
Norwood will spend the rest of her life in prison, no chance of parole. At age 4, Nicole Diar survived being severely burned over most of her body. At 28, she has a 4-year-old of her own, Jacob; however, she leaves Jacob in the care of irresponsible teenage babysitters and drugging him with codeine to get him to sleep. In August , Nicole murders her son and sets their Ohio home on fire to cover the evidence. Michelle Michaud , begins a relationship with James Daveggio, with whom she abducts and rapes several young women, including her own daughter.
In December , they kidnap, rape, torture, and strangle year-old Vanessa Lei Samson.
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Both are sentenced to death. Despondent after her extramarital affair ends, she turns to murder, smothering her two young sons with a pillow and slashing her husband, Neal, 97 times with his prized Japanese sword. In midth century Alabama, Rhonda Belle Martin takes the lives of two husbands, three children, and her mother, and leaves a surviving husband paralyzed, via arsenic poisoning.
Her motive is that she is addicted to killing and enjoys the thrill. Before her execution in , she leaves her brain to science.
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Feeling lonely while her husband, Jim, works nights, Marilyn Plantz seeks solace in the arms of a lover more than half her age. At her urging, her boyfriend and his friend murder her husband by beating him to death and then burning his body to make it look like an accident, so that Marilyn can collect on his life insurance. All of these Deadly Women were sentenced to death; while Williams still sits on death row, Martin had been executed by Alabama's Yellow Mama in and Plantz had been executed in by lethal injection.
When Hilma Marie Witte' s relationships go bad, she turns to her sons, Eric and John, to help — Eric shoots his father, Paul, and John murders his grandmother, Elaine, with a crossbow so his mother can keep stealing Elaine's money. John exposes his mother as the mastermind of both murders, and both sons serve 11 years in prison while Hilma is sentenced to 90 years.
After drug dealer Greg Smith breaks up with his girlfriend Cindy Baillee, Greg's mother, Lois "Mean Nadean" Smith , a hot-tempered bully who is fiercely protective of her son, responds to rumors that Cindy plans to turn Greg in by luring Cindy away to be sadistically tortured and killed, then has Greg and his new girlfriend, Teresa Baker, clean up the crime scene.
Teresa confesses, and Lois is sent to death row. She is executed in after 19 years in prison. In Glasgow, Scotland, Edith McAlinden is a vagrant, thief, prostitute and alcoholic, and is jailed for assault. On her first night of freedom, a drinking binge turns deadly when Edith stabs her boyfriend, David Gillespie, causing him to bleed to death, and then enlists her year-old son, John, and his friend, Jamie Gray, to murder the two surviving witnesses.
In s Los Angeles, wealthy womanizer Chico Forster courts virtuous teenager Lastania Abarta and convinces her to leave her fiance and elope with him with the promise of marriage, but he forces sex on her and then abandons her. A disgraced Lastania shoots Chico to death for stealing her virtue, and is saved from prison by a novel insanity defense. Diane Borchardt is a well-liked teachers' aide at school, but at home, she is physically and verbally abusive to her husband, Ruben, and his children.
When Ruben divorces Diane and leaves her with nothing, she manipulates three students into murdering him, but her students give her up when she is unable to pay them as she promised. Diane is sentenced to 40 years to life. Marcela Whaley is abusive to her girlfriend, Tzatzi Sanchez. When Tzatzi leaves Marcela for Marcela's ex-girlfriend, Marcela hires two people to rape and murder Tzatzi, then flees Las Vegas for Mexico, where she is prosecuted under Mexican law for the murder as she and Tzatzi are both Mexican nationals - an unprecedented legal arrangement.
She is serving a year sentence in a Mexican prison. Gunn-Britt Ashfield despises her six-year-old son, John, because he reminds her of her ex-husband, Brian. She and her live-in boyfriend, Austin Hughes, falsely accuse John of molesting his sister and brutally beat him to death, then claim John was attacked in a park, but the police are not fooled. Upon her release from prison, Gunn-Britt changes her name to "Angelic". In s Cincinnati, Edythe Klumpp convinces her married lover, Bill Bergen, to pose as her husband so she can get a bank loan, but fears that Bill's wife, Louise, will expose her ruse.
Edythe shoots Louise, keeps Louise's corpse in her car while she teaches a sewing class, then tries to burn the body. Sentenced initially to death, Edythe is paroled in and lives out the rest of her days peacefully. Drug-addicted stripper Kelly O'Donnell has had a life of tragedy, but she can always count on her old flame, Terry Eleftheriou, to give her money when she needs it. He is repaid with death: Kelly lures him to her apartment with the promise of sex and then bludgeons him repeatedly, and then her lover, Bill Gribble, finishes the job by dismembering Terry's body — while Terry is still alive.
O'Donnell and Gribble were sentenced to death and later, their death sentences were commuted to life behind bars. Regina and Margaret DeFrancisco had a bright future, until they embraced the gang lifestyle. The sisters spend two years on the run before they are caught. Regina gets 35 years in prison and Margaret, 46 years. Crittenden , until she learns he's married with kids. Alexander promises to leave his wife and marry Laura, but after seven years of empty promises and lies from Alexander, Laura is tired of being the other woman, and shoots him in front of his wife.
Laura is acquitted of murder by reason of insanity but is lonely and ostracized for the rest of her life. Money-hungry Australian Vicky Efandis manipulates her way into the life of wealthy house painter George Marcetta and eventually takes control of all his assets. When he is no longer of use to her, Vicky poisons his dinner with a sedative and then burns down his house while he is unconscious. Her sentence is 20 to 24 years.
In Tucson, Arizona, Shawna Forde starts a group of "minutemen" vigilantes to track down illegal Mexican immigrants, and recruits Jason Bush and Albert Gaxiola to join her. In need of fast cash, Forde and her posse murder Raul Flores and his daughter Brisenia and seriously wound his wife Gina, but get away with only a few pieces of jewelry. Shirley Jo Phillips and Wilma Plaster are best friends who enjoy drinking and dancing at country-western bars, but Wilma is nothing more than easy money to Shirley.
In late s Chicago, Dorothy Williams is so desperate for cash to support her drug habit that she resorts to preying on the elderly. She is currently serving three life sentences at an Illinois prison. These deadly women had one thing on their mind: Andrea Claire was a year-old former aspiring actress and a call girl. But Claire does not like her fifth husband's penchant for rough sex. In , she attempts to kill her sixth husband. She is serving 26 years to life in prison for her crimes. After an angry marital argument, Silver uses a hatchet to hack her husband to death.
She dismembers his corpse, then burns and disposes of his remains. After her husband's body is discovered, Silver is hanged in the gallows July 12, To this day, her father's role in the crime is still contested. In Sydney, Australia, Danielle Stewart is an attractive and flirtatious woman, who captures the attention of year-old bachelor Chaim Kimel. The duo marry, but Stewart has a drinking problem, borderline personality disorder, and tragic past, none of which she can overcome. During an argument with her husband in , Stewart stabs him to death in a drunken rage. Angela McAnulty runs her household with an iron hand, but reserves her worst for her eldest daughter, Jeanette, whom she brutally tortures, starves, and beats.
After Angela is investigated by social services, she pulls Jeanette out of school and the abuse escalates, culminating in the 15 year-old's death, for which both she and her husband Richard, who failed to report the abuse, are prosecuted. Richard gets a year to life sentence and Angela sits on death row. In early 20th century Catawissa, Missouri , Bertha Gifford is a nurse who murders 17 of her patients with arsenic — including several of her husband's family. Acquitted of murder on reason of insanity, she is institutionalized for 23 years until her death in British teen Nicole Hollinshead is dating Steven Wood.
After Steven spends the night in the home of Nicole's friend, Debra Carne, Nicole, enlists Steven and two other friends, Kerry Bauer and Emma Last , in a plot to lure Debra away to be beaten, doused with gasoline, and burned alive. Steven is given an eight-year sentence, Kerry and Emma are serving 17 years to life, and Nicole is now a free woman after serving a five-year sentence for conspiracy.
Scam artist Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore befriends lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare in order to steal his money, then shoots Abraham to death after he begins to suspect her and tries to convince his family he is still alive. She inadvertently confesses to an undercover cop and is imprisoned for life without parole. Anne Gates marries — and murders — two husbands for their money, shooting the first execution-style and beating the second with a fireplace poker, all while continuing to carry on an affair with her high school sweetheart.
Gates serves only four years in prison for her second husband's murder; her first husband's murder remains an open case. After money-hungry Australian Patricia Byers is sent to jail for the attempted murder of her boyfriend for which she blames pirates , police investigate the disappearance of her de facto husband, Carl Gottgens, whom she claims left her for another woman.
Patricia receives a life sentence for Carl's murder, although his body has never been found. Korena Roberts fakes a pregnancy with twins to keep her boyfriend, and befriends Heather Snively, who is pregnant for real, but when the two women meet one day for shopping, Korena beats Heather to death and cuts the stillborn baby out of her stomach. Korena's lack of planning and inattention to detail in the murder plot is her undoing. Korena is now serving life in prison without parole.
In Toronto, Elva Bottineau and her husband Norman Kidman are serial child abusers who neglect and abuse their five-year-old grandson, Jeffrey, and his older sister, forcing them to live in squalor while continuing to collect their government support checks. Jeffrey dies of sepsis , and after his grandparents are brought to justice, Ontario law regarding background checks of caregivers is revised.
Both are serving a life sentence. After Rekha Kumari-Baker ' s divorce, her already turbulent relationship with her teenage daughters, Davina and Jasmine, goes from bad to worse. When Rekha's lover dumps her, Rekha stabs both of her daughters multiple times to punish her ex-husband, whom she blames for all of her problems.
Rekha is sentenced to 33 years in prison. Wendy Gardner and her sister Kathy are being raised by their strict grandmother, Betty. When Wendy begins dating bad boy James Evans and becomes rebellious and sexually active, Betty decides to give her up to the custody of the state. Not about to be separated from James, Wendy has him strangle Betty, and the two killers hold Kathy hostage for several days. Both couple are now free from prison. Teased at school because of her weight, Nakisha Waddell befriends fellow pariah Annie Belcher, who introduces her to drink and drugs, and Nakisha's close relationship with her mother, Vaughne, disintegrates.
When Vaughne forbids her daughter to see her boyfriend, Nakisha stabs her mother 43 times. Showing no remorse, Nakisha is sentenced to 70 years in prison. Gina Grant is a straight-A student and a popular cheerleader, but her mother, Dot, is an alcoholic and disapproves of Gina's bad-boy boyfriend.
In , Gina beats her mother to death, but serves less than a year in prison. However, her deeds later cost her her acceptance to Harvard due to the lies on her application. Tracy Lee Poirier and her lover Tamara Marie Upton are child abuse survivors who turned to crime and violence to cope with their pasts. After meeting a photographer in a bar, the women decided to rob him and lure him outside. The women beat him, then disposed of his unconscious body in a nearby river.
Both served life without parole. After Deana died in a fall at Big Sur , the authorities discovered Virginia and her husband, Billy Joe McGinnis, took out a life insurance policy on her. An investigation exposed the couple as serial insurance claimants, and suggested that Virginia killed her own daughter for insurance money 15 years earlier. Billy Joe died before trial and Virginia received a life sentence, dying in prison in June Tracie Andrews was a stay-at-home mom with narcissistic personality disorder and a violent temper.
She argued with her boyfriend, Lee Harvey, and stabbed him 42 times. She tried to disguise the murder as an incident of road rage. She was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was freed after serving 14 years. Ellen Boehm was a single mother of three with financial problems.
She smothered her two sons and tried to electrocute her daughter. She is serving two life sentences with no chance of parole. After Dena Schlosser and her husband lost their business and their home, they joined a charismatic church, and Dena devoted herself to church to the exclusion of everything else — including her children. She had postpartum psychosis , Dena killed her infant daughter to "send her to heaven", but was acquitted of murder by reason of insanity and was institutionalized for six years.
Gemma Killeen and boyfriend Eddie Wetere had a young son. After Eddie walks out on her, Gemma left her son to drown at the beach and tells investigators the child was abducted — unaware that her actions were caught on security cameras. She was sentenced to life with 13 years minimum.
In , Shirley Allen' s husband, Lloyd dies from a mysterious illness. Shirley's daughter Norma exposes her mother as a murderer who poisoned Lloyd with antifreeze for Lloyd's life insurance money; Shirley is also suspected of murdering her previous husband in under similar circumstances. She served a life sentence with possibility of parole after serving 50 years but died in prison in July In early 20th century Memphis, Tennessee , Alma Theede is a prostitute who charms men with her sexuality, but becomes a serial wife who discards her husbands like garbage when she tires of them.
This results in the deaths of three of her husbands, with Alma as either the murderer or the mastermind each time. Donna Horwitz has a long and turbulent on-again, off-again relationship with her ex-husband Lanny, but is deeply hurt by his cold, cruel demeanor and lack of attentiveness to her. After Lanny ends the relationship for good, Donna punishes him by shooting him ten times, then tries to disguise the murder as a suicide. She serves a life sentence. Realizing that her father had also wanted her dead, Cinnamon helps send her father to prison for life without parole, and is herself paroled in Danielle Black goes from good girl to Goth teen and begins having sex and cutting herself, much to the horror of her father, Billy, and spreads lies that her father is abusing her.
Friend Alec Eger, himself a child abuse survivor, believes Danielle's stories and, at Danielle's urging, stabs Billy to death on Halloween Both receive life sentences, but all but six years of Danielle's sentence are suspended and she is eligible for parole as of Jennifer Tombs is a preacher's daughter on the fast track to a life of crime. When her mother goes away on a trip and enlists family friend Latanya Lavallais to watch Jennifer, Jennifer sneaks several friends into the house for a party, then shoots Latanya five times in the head and tries to disguise the murder as a home invasion gone wrong.
She is sentenced to life without parole. When Stephanie Ilene Lazarus ' s former "friend-with-benefits" John Ruetten marries nurse Sherri Rasmussen, a jealous Stephanie abuses her power as a police detective to stalk, harass and finally murder Sherri. The case stays cold for over 20 years until DNA and a bite mark on the victim's neck help bring Stephanie to justice. Her sentence was 27 years to life. In the s, Georgia Tann , hailed as "the mother of modern adoption," is acclaimed for her work in adopting babies out to well-to-do childless couples, but she is really a cold-hearted monster who kidnaps babies from poor families and neglects the ones she finds unworthy of adoption.
Georgia's neglect may have resulted in the deaths of as many as babies, making her perhaps the most prolific female serial killer of all time. She never faces justice and dies of cancer in Brilliant scientist Ann Brier Miller falls out of love with her husband Eric, but divorce isn't an option for the devout Catholic. Instead, she has her boyfriend, Derril Willard, poison Eric with arsenic. Derril later commits suicide after confessing his role in the murder to his attorney, and Ann gets a minimum of 25 years in prison.
Vickie Frost is violently abusive and controlling to her visually-impaired boyfriend, Rick Whitcomb, but when Rick decides to leave her after a year of torment, she goes into a blind rage. One evening in January , she ends a violent argument by stabbing Rick once in the chest, killing him.
Pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter, Vickie serves a nine-year sentence and is released in , but prison has not tamed her wild temper. Englishwoman Clare Nicholls regularly insults, abuses, and starves the father of her youngest child, kind but timid Andrew Gardner, and gets her brother and boyfriend to join her in the abuse. His body weakened by the constant torture, Andrew dies after Clare stomps on his chest, and the murderers try to claim he was attacked by a mugger.
Clare is sentenced to 32 years to life in prison. Drug dealer and adulteress Christene Kemmerlin is married for the third time, and her union with husband Wayne is in trouble due to her spendthrift ways and infidelity. By claiming Wayne is abusing her, she convinces a neighbor to murder her husband and disguise it as a car theft.
Sentenced initially to death, her sentence is commuted to life without parole. At the tail end of the episode that the female announcer says "They were 'Sadistic Killers'" instead of "'Sadistic Souls'". Despite a loving mother and a private school education, London teen Ruby Thomas idolizes her alcoholic father, who was jailed for murdering a cab driver, and by age 15 is herself deep in the throes of alcoholism and a violent temper. She is serving a seven-year prison sentence, the murder officially labeled a hate crime.
In Santa Barbara, California, in , violent-tempered Julia Diaz struggles to make money to send to her family in Mexico but is unable to keep a job. When the family fails to pay up, she goes after 7-year-old Javier Angel, bludgeoning, strangling and finally suffocating him. Julia is sentenced to life in prison. Caroline Reed Robertson loathes herself, and in her babysitting charge, aspiring ballerina Rachel Barber, sees everything she wishes she could be.
Obsessively fixated on Rachel, Caroline strangles the year-old with a phone cord, planning to assume Rachel's identity. Caroline was given a year sentence and was released on parole in January Ellie Nesler sends her son Willie away to a Christian summer camp, where he and several other boys are molested by Daniel Driver.
On the day of Driver's trial, an outraged Nesler shoots and kills him in court. She serves three years for manslaughter but later returns to jail for selling drugs, while her now-adult son is himself incarcerated for murder and she dies of breast cancer in Herman Tarnower , but he womanizes constantly and gets her hooked on speed. In March , after the doctor finally dumps Jean for a younger woman, a combination of amphetamine withdrawal and jealousy sends her into a rage, and she shoots him to death in his own home. Harris was released from prison to undergo triple bypass surgery and died in at the age of Amina Chaudary carries on an extramarital affair with lover Vijay Gupta, despite the objections of her conservative Canadian Sikh family.
But when she learns that Vijay married another woman while visiting India, a heartbroken Amina decides to make him pay by murdering his beloved eight-year-old nephew Rajesh in February She serves 28 years in prison. In , when ballroom dance teacher Miriam Francis Helmick' s business prospects fail, she begins forging checks to steal money from her husband, Alan.
When Alan begins to suspect her, Miriam shoots him in the head, and receives a life sentence for the murder plus years for fraud. She is also suspected of murdering her first husband five years earlier. In the early s, Clara Green Carl is a farmer's daughter with dreams of wealth and prestige, and her greed leads her to poison two husbands and her father-in-law with arsenic for their inheritance money. Sentenced to life, she cons her way into parole after only 15 years behind bars.
Carol Kemp , who has borderline personality disorder , falls in love with online crush Martin Rusling, but he doesn't reciprocate. After Martin rejects Carol's offer to make their relationship more permanent, Carol flies into a rage and stabs him once in the heart. A remorseful Carol is sentenced to life with a minimum of 13 years. In Greenville, Mississippi , Terrie Robinson is having difficulty coping with the stresses of being a single mother on welfare.
Convinced that she is not worthy of motherhood and that she is possessed by Satan, she places her three-year-old son, Tristan, in an oven in March and cooks him alive. She is serving a life sentence. After losing her high-paying job, Fiona Donnison' s life spirals out of control, and she blames her former common-law husband, Paul. Obsessed with revenge, narcissistic Fiona smothers her two children. Her insanity pleas fail and she is sentenced to 32 years in prison. Jewell Hendricks is a mentally vulnerable young woman and a child sexual abuse survivor, and is emotionally incapable of caring for her infant twins, Robert and Daniel.
Fed up with Robert's crying and believing that life would be easier with one child instead of two, Jewell smothers and crushes Robert to death in January She receives 15 years to life in prison. Teenager Clarissa Sanchez is daddy's little girl until she meets Larry "Ray" Coronado and her father forbids the relationship, fearing Ray is too possessive. At Clarissa's urging, Ray beats Clarissa's father to death with a baseball bat. Ray is sentenced to life, Clarissa to 21 years. In s France, Christine and Lea Papin are subjected to constant verbal abuse working as maids for the Lancelin family, their only comfort being their unusually close relationship, which turns sexual.
When Madame Lancelin discovers their secret, the sisters beat and stab her and her daughter to death and gouge out their eyes. Both are sentenced to hard labor. Connie Leung , the daughter of Hong Kong immigrants, is a diligent student until she meets ne'er-do-well boyfriend Eric Louissant and her grades drop, much to her parents' dismay.
Dreaming of eloping together, Connie and Eric strangle Connie's parents and dump their bodies in the East River. Both are serving 30 years to life for second-degree murder. Cafe owner Denise Leone Frei decides her live-in boyfriend, Curtis Bailey, who has a generous life insurance policy, is worth more dead than alive, and enlists her son, Jacob, and his girlfriend, Jessica Dayton, to help. They entrap Curtis with the promise of a menage a trois and beat him to death.
All serve life sentences without parole. Stephanie Hudnall turns her teenage daughters against their father, Bill, claiming he is to blame for the hardships they have suffered. At Stephanie's urging, her year-old daughter, Gwen, hacks her father to death with a pickax, so her mother can collect on Bill's Social Security. Both mother and daughter serve year sentences for second-degree murder. Australian Helen Ryan is abusive to her husband, Jeffrey, but when he finds a new girlfriend and files for divorce, she decides to hire a hit man to kill Jeffrey and lures her sister, Ganene Coulter, and mother, Coralie Coulter, into the plot.
All four parties are sentenced to prison for their roles in the murder, mastermind Helen to a maximum of 36 years. Christie Scott lacks the patience and love to deal with her autistic son, Mason. In August , she gives Mason an overdose of cough syrup, then sets her house on fire and lets her son die of smoke inhalation, planning to collect on his life insurance. She receives a death sentence. Australian Sneza Suteski has a habit of stealing money from her employers and blowing it at casinos. She is sentenced to 24 years in prison. Katrina Sarkissian is a spoiled rich girl, drug addict and high school dropout, while Deanna Maran is the antithesis of Katrina, friendly, smart and popular.
The two confront each other at a party one night after Deanna has a run-in with Katrina's sister, and Katrina stabs Deanna once in the chest. Katrina never faces justice for the murder, as she commits suicide with an overdose of antidepressants. In , Donna Kay Trapani is a home health care nurse who falls in love with a married man named George Fulton. After a brief fling, George breaks off with Donna and returns to his wife, but his scorned ex-mistress decides to have his wife, Martha "Gail" Fulton, gunned down.
Donna is now serving a life sentence without parole. Clara Jane Schwartz is a Virginia teenager embraced in the goth lifestyle, who prefers fantasy and the occult to the real world. Using a role playing game she created, she manipulates her friends into killing her father, a renowned biologist. She is serving 48 years in prison. In the early s, Iva Kroeger is a California housewife with dreams of owning her own business, and takes over her friend Mildred Arneson's motel in Santa Rosa.
Iva murders Mildred and buries the body in her basement, then claims Mildred moved to Brazil and left her the motel; shortly afterward, she also murders Mildred's husband, "J". Iva and her husband Ralph, whose role in the murders is unknown, are both convicted of first degree murder; Ralph dies in prison, and Iva is released after serving 13 years. In California, Katie Cook' s husband, Tom, is a shameless womanizer with a taste for teenage girls, which reflects poorly on Katie's virtue.
When Tom begins an affair with a servant girl, Katie has had enough and shoots Tom in the head while he sleeps. She is acquitted of the murder because of Tom's reputation, but questions about her motives still persist. When Pauline Rogers' s husband, Luther, falls mysteriously ill in , she plays the role of the devoted wife, but Luther learns that Pauline has poisoned his favorite strawberry ice cream with pesticide containing arsenic.
Luther survives, but police discover that Pauline also used arsenic to murder her previous husband, and she receives two year sentences. One client, Maria Favato , uses the potion to kill three men. For their crimes, Paul Petrillo is sentenced to death and Maria Favato gets life, but Rose is acquitted. Linda Carty has a history of faking pregnancies, which has led her boyfriend to leave her.
In May , to get her boyfriend back, Linda hatches a plan to steal neighbor Joana Rodriguez's baby and murder Joana, enlisting three henchmen to help with the promise of drugs. She is quickly caught and sentenced to death. Carty maintains her innocence. Margie "Maggie" Hamilton grew up in a family of career criminals, even aiding Bonnie and Clyde in a shootout as a teenager.
Years later, Maggie herself is in trouble with the law for the murders of two husbands. Unbelievably, she only serves six months in jail for her second husband's death and lives the rest of her life as a free woman, despite committing another attempted murder soon after her release. Australian Rachel Pfitzer is a violent-tempered drug addict who hates her infant son, Dean, to the point of starving and torturing him, all to get revenge on the boy's father, Paul.
In October , Rachel shakes the two-year-old in a fit of rage, then stuffs him into a suitcase and dumps the body in a duck pond. Lizzie Borden was a Massachusetts woman who was born into a wealthy and well-respected family in their community. She was close to her father and her older sister Emma, but Lizzie's relationship with her stepmother Abby was more strained.
In , the Borden family was violently torn apart, when Lizzie's father and stepmother were found slaughtered in their home with an axe. Lizzie, a Sunday school teacher, became the prime suspect in the double murder. However, she was found not guilty at her sensational trial due to a lack of evidence definitively pointing to her guilt. Despite her acquittal, Lizzie remained guilty in the court of public opinion, and she lived a lonely life on her parents' estate until her death in Doris Ann Carlson is an Arizona woman living with her mother-in-law, Lynne Carlson, who has multiple sclerosis.
While Doris is supposed to be caring for Lynne, she and her husband David instead use Lynne for her money. When the money runs out, Doris hires two young men to stab her mother-in-law to death, but Lynne doesn't die from her injuries for six months. Doris is sentenced to death for plotting the murder, but it is reduced to life without parole. Amber Merrie Bray is an intelligent and ambitious high school senior who falls for an older, high school dropout named Jeff Ayers.
The unlikely couple begins planning out their future together, and it doesn't involve Amber's mother, Dixie, or younger sister, Amy. Amber persuades her boyfriend Jeff to stab Dixie to death. The pair also plotted to kill Amy, but a neighbor's call saves her life.
Amber and Jeff are serving life in prison without parole. Tashia Stuart is the niece and adopted daughter of Judy Hebert. As a teenager, Tashia frequently ran away from home, but as an adult, she returned to her mother during financial hardships. However, Judy realizes that Tashia is stealing her money, so Tashia plans to kill her mother. After one attempt to kill her mother fails, Tashia shoots her mother to death and claims self-defense.
She is convicted of murder and sentenced to 45 years in prison. However, Toni becomes jealous when Kody shows attention to his childhood friend, 16 year-old Micaela Costanzo. One day after track practice, Toni and Kody kidnap Micaela and bring her to the desert where they beat her to death. Toni Fratto receives life in prison with the possibility of parole after 18 years. Kody Patton gets life in prison without parole. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Tim Boyle Goodreads Author Illustrator. Tim Boyle wrote a new blog post.
Oct 31, Tim Boyle has read. May 09, My mind is very all over the place and sometimes I forget to stop of I just wanted to thank everyone who picked up a free copy of my book 3 weeks ago. My mind is very all over the place and sometimes I forget to stop off everywhere and thank everybody. Better late than never. I appreciate it more than you know. Feb 25, Tim Boyle rated a book it was ok. Still though Hello I have a favor to ask anyone who can help out it's simple I entered a writing contest and unfortunately it's a popularity contest.
Still though, I'd like to see if I can win. Above is the link for the Facebook page where the contest is taking place.
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All you have to do is Like the page then vote for "Tim" which is me! Thanks and feel free to send me a direct message if you ever need a vote. Feb 17, Tim Boyle rated a book really liked it. Feb 15,