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 Beetss wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lous fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasnt long before investigators unearthed the terrible truth. As Betty Lous 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, werent so lucky. After a sensational trial, Betty Lou Beets was sentenced to die by lethal injection.
