The man known for murdering his wife, by slowly poisoning her, and altering his first wife's food and trying to kill her, Richard Overton, has died at the age of eighty one. He died from dementia and diabetes complications, it was diagnosed, while serving out a life sentence in a California state prison for the murder of his wife Janet. He was not ever charged for trying to kill his first wife, Dorothy Boyer.
Both women had the same symptoms as each other, nausea, discolored peeling feet and excruciating lesions. Thanks to Dorothy, though, for coming out and telling what she went through, because of this man. The medical examiner reexamined Janet, to find she did die of cyanide poisoning. He used cyanide and selenium to poison both women.
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.
What makes someone want to murder someone, especially if you're married to them? It is said that he was jealous because of ongoing affairs that she had with several men and that she wouldn't give him a divorce. But with Dorothy, it is said, that he secretly married another woman who had his baby, while still married to Dorothy, with their four kids.
It seems on one hand he wanted one murdered because he didn't want to be married to this woman, to start another family. On the other hand he thought he needed the other woman murdered, and succeeded, because he wanted out of the marriage but she wouldn't let him. Senseless and selfish and self centered is what he was.
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
Both women had the same symptoms as each other, nausea, discolored peeling feet and excruciating lesions. Thanks to Dorothy, though, for coming out and telling what she went through, because of this man. The medical examiner reexamined Janet, to find she did die of cyanide poisoning. He used cyanide and selenium to poison both women.
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.
What makes someone want to murder someone, especially if you're married to them? It is said that he was jealous because of ongoing affairs that she had with several men and that she wouldn't give him a divorce. But with Dorothy, it is said, that he secretly married another woman who had his baby, while still married to Dorothy, with their four kids.
It seems on one hand he wanted one murdered because he didn't want to be married to this woman, to start another family. On the other hand he thought he needed the other woman murdered, and succeeded, because he wanted out of the marriage but she wouldn't let him. Senseless and selfish and self centered is what he was.
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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