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I only wanted to help – the grandma who poisoned everyone around her
Behind the gentle grandmotherly smile lurked a chilling killer. Discover how Velma Barfield—America’s ‘Death-Row Granny’—used poison, manipulation, and faith to hide a deadly trail of victims.
A series of “mysterious deaths” surrounded a woman executed 40 years ago in North Carolina, historians said. Margie “Velma” Barfield — nicknamed “Death Row Granny” — wore pink pajamas as she was put ...
On November 2, 1984, Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962, and the first to be executed in the State of North Carolina after the nationwide moratorium on the ...
On this day, Nov. 2, in 1984, 53-year-old grandmother and a serial poisoner Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection. Known as the “Deathrow Grandma,” Barfield was ...
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