Richard Overton dies in a California state prison at the age of eighty one, for the murder of Janet, his wife. He was serving out a life sentence. He was known also for trying to murder Dorothy, his first wife, but was never charged for it. He slowly poisoned them and successfully killed one. He died of complications from diabetes and from dementia it is reported.
These women had the same exact symptoms, of nausea, discolored feet that were peeling and very painful lesions. At first the medical examiner couldn’t find the cause of death, but when Dorothy went to them and told her story that was like Janet’s, then they redid the exam and found that there was cyanide in her body and that is the cause of death. He used cyanide and selenium both it is reported.
Because of the journals this man kept, which he used codes in Spanish and in Russian, is what ultimately convicted him. It is said he kept explicit details about the murder. The jurors felt that his journals were convincing and that this was evidence of him murdering her.
It is said that Janet would not give him a divorce and that he knew she was having multiple affairs, it made him mad and he wanted her dead. But in Dorothy’s case, he got secretly married to another woman that had his baby, while still married to Dorothy, he wanted her dead so that he could be with this new family of his. Dorothy ended up divorcing him before he had his way, murdering her.
To commit such a cruel crime is a outrageous and pointless. He could have just left, with or without a divorce. There is no reason for such a crime as this to have taken place, unless the person is really a psychopath.
The saddest thing about all of this is he took their son’s mom from him. His son, Eric, said his dad, killed the person he loved more than anyone else in the world, his mother. And that is heartbreaking. Richard Overton, a well educated man, a murderer, according to those that found him guilty. Read more about: richard overton
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