Betty Lou Beets

Bleached blonde barmaid Betty Lou Beets seemed to be very unlucky in her choice of husbands. Out of the five, four disappeared without trace and the other (number 3) left her after she planted a bullet in his back after a nasty fight. When husband number 5 appeared to have drowned in a fishing accident poor Betty was distraught, as were his colleagues at the local fire department especially when his body could not be found in the relatively small lake where the accident was assumed to have occurred. Betty Lou at least had the wishing well he had dug for her in the yard of her trailer in rural Texas to remember him by. The insurance payout which she claimed almost as soon as he disappeared also helped her to come to terms with her loss. Unfortunately, suspicions were raised within the local police and investigations centering on the bottom of the lovingly constructed well revealed husband number 5 wrapped in a sleeping bag and with a bullet lodged in his brain. Husband number 4 then turned up in a matching bag underneath the patio. On 27 February 2000 she achieved the dubious distinction of becoming the 21st century's first female execution in America when she was injected with a cocktail of lethal drugs at Huntsville Prison, Texas. It is not believed that she was wrapped in a sleeping bag for burial.