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Margie Velma Barfield (née Bullard; October 29, 1932 – November 2, 1984) was an American serial killer who was convicted of one murder but eventually confessed to six murders in total. Barfield was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment [1] and the first since 1962. [2]
Dec 18, 2021 · Velma Barfield was a “murderer,” she told them, and she had killed her own mother the same way she killed Stuart Taylor. The police didn’t think too much of it until Stuart’s autopsy came back.
Jun 30, 2022 · Velma Barfield was a notorious poisoner who killed four people, including her two husbands, with arsenic. She had a troubled childhood, a history of abuse, and a drug addiction that drove her to commit the murders.
Learn about Velma Barfield, the first woman executed in the US since 1962, who poisoned several people with rat poison. Find out her motives, methods, and how she was caught and sentenced.
Learn about the life and crimes of Velma Barfield, the first woman executed by lethal injection in the U.S. in 1984. She was convicted of poisoning four people, but denied killing her two husbands and a third victim.
Nov 19, 2023 · 52-year-old Velma Barfield, from North Carolina, was sentenced to death after being convicted of one murder, however, she went on to confess to six in total.
Nov 3, 1984 · A moment after she uttered a a final apology for ''all the hurt I have caused,'' Margie Velma Barfield was executed here this morning for murder, the first woman to be put to death in the United...
