by Amy Condra<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anjette Lyles\u2019 influence still lingers in this lush Southern town. Beneath the pink blossoms of cherry trees and in the shadows of stately homes that escaped the wrath of Sherman, lurks a seamy tale of superstition and murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 1950’s, Anjette presided over a caf\u00e9 she named \u201cAnjette\u2019s Restaurant.” Amidst the clattering of silverware and the soft murmur of conversation, she served prominent businessmen, politicians and attorneys \u2014 a crowd she dubbed the \u201cbrass hats of Macon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When her own charms weren\u2019t enough to win this modern entrepreneur what \u2014 or whom \u2014 she coveted, Anjette turned to an old tradition of roots, candles and spells. Yet, as her ambitions grew, these methods were slow to deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, she resorted to arsenic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her horrifying schemes began to unravel on October 8, 1958, first in a courtroom in Macon, then across the front pages of The Telegraph and through the gossip told by people who still, almost 30 years later, can\u2019t help but listen when they hear the name,\u201cAnjette Lyles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFoul Play Suspected\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/amycondra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Marcia-Lyles.jpg\")
Marcia Lyles (The Telegraph archives)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nOn April 4, 1958, Anjette\u2019s nine-year-old daughter, Marcia Elaine Lyles, died. The cause of her death was initially unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten days prior to her passing, Marcia\u2019s physician had voiced concerns about her symptoms. He asked Dr. L.H. Campbell, Bibb County medical examiner, to examine his young patient. Campbell thought that a rare organism in Marcia\u2019s lungs was to blame, and, shortly after the child was declared dead, an autopsy was performed to confirm this diagnosis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then the coroner showed Dr. Campbell three anonymous letters that had been sent to Marcia\u2019s great-aunts in Cochran, and subsequently, secretly, shared with him. One chilling message stood out: \u201cPlease come at once. She\u2019s getting the same dose as the others.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This revelation prompted a second, more thorough, autopsy. Samples of Marcia\u2019s liver, kidneys and hair were preserved in fruit jars. These, along with two bottles of Terro ant poison, were sent to the state crime lab in Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnjette Donovan Lyles, the 32-Year-Old Murder Suspect\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"A](\"http:\/\/amycondra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AL-restaurant.jpg\")
Anjette Lyle’s restaurant in Macon, Georgia. (The Telegraph archives)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nInvestigators began to wonder if the child\u2019s mother, Anjette Donovan Lyles, might be responsible. Harry L. Harris, an assistant chief investigator for the Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Department, led the inquiry into Marcia’s mysterious death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo one wanted to believe she did it,\u201d Harris told The Telegraph, 25 years after Marcia\u2019s death. \u201cNo one suspected her. Macon was then a sleepy town. Everybody knew everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And everybody especially knew Anjette Lyles. She owned and operated Anjette\u2019s Restaurant on Mulberry Street, a popular gathering place for those who enjoyed both the food and the outgoing friendliness of the woman who served it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one imagined that, behind the cheerful smile and warm hugs, was a woman who had methodically planned and carried out the murders of four members of her family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/amycondra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Ben-Lyles.gif\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/amycondra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Julia-Lyles.webp\")
<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nOn April 25, the bodies of Anjette\u2019s first husband, Ben Lyles, Jr., and mother-in-law, Julia Young Lyles, were disinterred. Traces of arsenic were found in both of them. Arsenic was also found in the body of Lyle\u2019s second husband, Joe Neal Gabbert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, arsenic was found in Marcia\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On May 6, Anjette Lyles was arrested for murdering her daughter. The other indictments against her were left pending. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2019Voodoo\u2019 Material is Found in Lyles Home\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nBill Tribble’s reporting brought Anjette’s secret spells into public view: \u201cA weird assortment of bottles and vials, which Sheriff James I. Wood termed \u2018voodoo equipment\u2019 has been discovered in the home of Mrs. Anjette Donovan Lyles,\u201d reported Bill Tribble. Among these items were several small containers labeled Egyptian Love Powder incense, Sweet Spirit of Nitre and Adam and Eve root in oil, along with a tall glass vial containing wax from a burned black candle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Witnesses claimed that they had also seen green and red candles burning in Anjette\u2019s restaurant and kitchen. Such candles were believed to signify good luck in money and love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
More ominously, three empty bottles of arsenic-based ant poison were found in Lyles\u2019 kitchen cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWidow Unmoved by Staring Crowd\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/amycondra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/anjette_leaving_court.jpg\")
Anjette Lyles on the steps of the Bibb County courthouse in 1958. (The Telegraph archive)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe trial, which began on October 8, attracted huge crowds to the Bibb County courthouse, as spectators jostled for a glimpse of Anjette. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blythe McKay captured the scene for The Telegraph: \u201cDuring a morning recess an official told those behind the ropes that there were a few more places in the courtroom, and unfastened the rope. Women dashed toward the door and so did one man, an elderly crippled man had been limping around the hall on a cane. He tilted the cane over his shoulder and scooted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Macon\u2019s fascination with the case extended to Anjette’s fashion during the proceedings. Many paragraphs of news coverage were dedicated to detailed accounts of Anjette\u2019s clothes and hairstyles: \u201cHair style changed\u2014her white hair, which she wore at that time in a ponytail and shoulder-length page boy, had also been cut into a shorter feather-type hair style. She wore shell-pink nail polish and a small wrist watch.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One newspaper story analyzed both the accused\u2019s black dress, with rhinestone buckle and matching earrings, and her \u201calmost statue-like\u201d stoicism as the prosecuting attorney, Charles F. Adams, called her \u201cone of the most scheming women that anyone could imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTestimony About Marcia: Tears Fall at Anjette Trial\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nSpectators paid close attention to the parade of witnesses who testified against Anjette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A nurse recalled that, although fruit juice was available at the hospital, Anjette insisted on bringing her own juice, saying, \u201cshe meant for (Marcia) to drink it.\u201d The nurse said the girl would then become violently ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tribble, reporting for The Telegraph, noted that Anjette\u2019s maid, Carmen Howard, testified she had found a bottle of Terro ant poison in a black bag belonging to her employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carmen recounted, \u201cMrs. Lyles squeezed a lemon into a glass, added water to it and carried it into the restroom along with the black bag\u2026 she then drove Mrs. Lyles to Parkview Hospital and left her. About three days after Marcia was admitted to the hospital she began to telephone her everyday\u2026 she said the child sounded cheerful. After Mrs. Lyles took the glass of lemonade to the hospital, the Howard woman said, she never again received a telephone call from Marcia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although Marcia was initially admitted for an acute respiratory infection, she soon developed severe symptoms, including a high fever and a bluish rash, and her kidneys temporarily stopped functioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charged With \u201cHate and Greed\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nInvestigators believed that Anjette methodically poisoned four members of her family by stirring Terro, which contained arsenic, into drinks \u2014 including lemonade, buttermilk and coffee \u2014 she would then offer to her victims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prosecutors sought a motive for the murders. After her arrest, Anjette told criminal investigators she hadn\u2019t benefited from any of her relatives\u2019 deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, she later admitted she had received a total of $48, 750 from insurance policies, benefits and inheritances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had used some of this money to purchase a car, according to a Macon used car dealer. He testified that he took Anjette and her new boyfriend, Bob Franks \u2014 who had been her second husband\u2019s boss \u2014 to a dealership where she traded in a 1955 Oldsmobile for a new Cadillac. She wrote a check for $2,538 to make up the difference between the two vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an unsworn statement to the court, Anjette maintained her innocence. She claimed that she loved her child and hadn\u2019t killed her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSentenced to Die for Murder of Nine-Year-Old Daughter\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/amycondra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/anjette_1958-1.jpg\")
On October 15, 1958, Anjette Lyles was convicted of murdering her nine-year-old daughter. (The Telegraph archive.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe week-long trial concluded on October 15. Anjette Lyles was convicted of murdering Marcia and was sentenced to die by electrocution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, in the 1950s, Macon was still segregated and not yet in step with the Civil Rights era to come. A white woman being executed in the electric chair was, at that time, an unpopular political proposition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A sanity commission was appointed to examine Anjette, and subsequently, declared here to be a chronic paranoid schizophrenic. Governor Ernest Vandiver had her committed to a state hospital for the criminally insane. She would live out the rest of her days in Central State Hospital in Milledgeville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anjette Lyles died of natural causes in 1977. She is buried near her first husband, and her daughter Marcia, in a family plot in Wadley, Georgia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story of Anjette Lyles continues to fascinate audiences. She has been immortalized in Jaclyn Weldon White’s book \u201cWhisper to the Black Candle,\u201d and in Denver Pickard’s play, \u201cThe Shadow Behind the Flame” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“One of the most scheming women that anyone could imagine.” This article was originally published in The (Macon) Telegraph. by Amy Condra Anjette Lyles\u2019 influence still lingers in this lush Southern town. Beneath the pink blossoms of cherry trees and in the shadows of stately homes that escaped the wrath of Sherman, lurks a seamy… Continue reading The strange case of Anjette Lyles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,106,108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amjette-lyles","category-georgia","category-southern-gothic","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
On April 4, 1958, Anjette\u2019s nine-year-old daughter, Marcia Elaine Lyles, died. The cause of her death was initially unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten days prior to her passing, Marcia\u2019s physician had voiced concerns about her symptoms. He asked Dr. L.H. Campbell, Bibb County medical examiner, to examine his young patient. Campbell thought that a rare organism in Marcia\u2019s lungs was to blame, and, shortly after the child was declared dead, an autopsy was performed to confirm this diagnosis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then the coroner showed Dr. Campbell three anonymous letters that had been sent to Marcia\u2019s great-aunts in Cochran, and subsequently, secretly, shared with him. One chilling message stood out: \u201cPlease come at once. She\u2019s getting the same dose as the others.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This revelation prompted a second, more thorough, autopsy. Samples of Marcia\u2019s liver, kidneys and hair were preserved in fruit jars. These, along with two bottles of Terro ant poison, were sent to the state crime lab in Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnjette Donovan Lyles, the 32-Year-Old Murder Suspect\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Investigators began to wonder if the child\u2019s mother, Anjette Donovan Lyles, might be responsible. Harry L. Harris, an assistant chief investigator for the Bibb County Sheriff\u2019s Department, led the inquiry into Marcia’s mysterious death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo one wanted to believe she did it,\u201d Harris told The Telegraph, 25 years after Marcia\u2019s death. \u201cNo one suspected her. Macon was then a sleepy town. Everybody knew everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And everybody especially knew Anjette Lyles. She owned and operated Anjette\u2019s Restaurant on Mulberry Street, a popular gathering place for those who enjoyed both the food and the outgoing friendliness of the woman who served it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No one imagined that, behind the cheerful smile and warm hugs, was a woman who had methodically planned and carried out the murders of four members of her family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On April 25, the bodies of Anjette\u2019s first husband, Ben Lyles, Jr., and mother-in-law, Julia Young Lyles, were disinterred. Traces of arsenic were found in both of them. Arsenic was also found in the body of Lyle\u2019s second husband, Joe Neal Gabbert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And, arsenic was found in Marcia\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On May 6, Anjette Lyles was arrested for murdering her daughter. The other indictments against her were left pending. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bill Tribble’s reporting brought Anjette’s secret spells into public view: \u201cA weird assortment of bottles and vials, which Sheriff James I. Wood termed \u2018voodoo equipment\u2019 has been discovered in the home of Mrs. Anjette Donovan Lyles,\u201d reported Bill Tribble. Among these items were several small containers labeled Egyptian Love Powder incense, Sweet Spirit of Nitre and Adam and Eve root in oil, along with a tall glass vial containing wax from a burned black candle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Witnesses claimed that they had also seen green and red candles burning in Anjette\u2019s restaurant and kitchen. Such candles were believed to signify good luck in money and love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More ominously, three empty bottles of arsenic-based ant poison were found in Lyles\u2019 kitchen cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The trial, which began on October 8, attracted huge crowds to the Bibb County courthouse, as spectators jostled for a glimpse of Anjette. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Blythe McKay captured the scene for The Telegraph: \u201cDuring a morning recess an official told those behind the ropes that there were a few more places in the courtroom, and unfastened the rope. Women dashed toward the door and so did one man, an elderly crippled man had been limping around the hall on a cane. He tilted the cane over his shoulder and scooted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Macon\u2019s fascination with the case extended to Anjette’s fashion during the proceedings. Many paragraphs of news coverage were dedicated to detailed accounts of Anjette\u2019s clothes and hairstyles: \u201cHair style changed\u2014her white hair, which she wore at that time in a ponytail and shoulder-length page boy, had also been cut into a shorter feather-type hair style. She wore shell-pink nail polish and a small wrist watch.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n One newspaper story analyzed both the accused\u2019s black dress, with rhinestone buckle and matching earrings, and her \u201calmost statue-like\u201d stoicism as the prosecuting attorney, Charles F. Adams, called her \u201cone of the most scheming women that anyone could imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spectators paid close attention to the parade of witnesses who testified against Anjette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A nurse recalled that, although fruit juice was available at the hospital, Anjette insisted on bringing her own juice, saying, \u201cshe meant for (Marcia) to drink it.\u201d The nurse said the girl would then become violently ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tribble, reporting for The Telegraph, noted that Anjette\u2019s maid, Carmen Howard, testified she had found a bottle of Terro ant poison in a black bag belonging to her employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carmen recounted, \u201cMrs. Lyles squeezed a lemon into a glass, added water to it and carried it into the restroom along with the black bag\u2026 she then drove Mrs. Lyles to Parkview Hospital and left her. About three days after Marcia was admitted to the hospital she began to telephone her everyday\u2026 she said the child sounded cheerful. After Mrs. Lyles took the glass of lemonade to the hospital, the Howard woman said, she never again received a telephone call from Marcia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although Marcia was initially admitted for an acute respiratory infection, she soon developed severe symptoms, including a high fever and a bluish rash, and her kidneys temporarily stopped functioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Investigators believed that Anjette methodically poisoned four members of her family by stirring Terro, which contained arsenic, into drinks \u2014 including lemonade, buttermilk and coffee \u2014 she would then offer to her victims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Prosecutors sought a motive for the murders. After her arrest, Anjette told criminal investigators she hadn\u2019t benefited from any of her relatives\u2019 deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, she later admitted she had received a total of $48, 750 from insurance policies, benefits and inheritances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She had used some of this money to purchase a car, according to a Macon used car dealer. He testified that he took Anjette and her new boyfriend, Bob Franks \u2014 who had been her second husband\u2019s boss \u2014 to a dealership where she traded in a 1955 Oldsmobile for a new Cadillac. She wrote a check for $2,538 to make up the difference between the two vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an unsworn statement to the court, Anjette maintained her innocence. She claimed that she loved her child and hadn\u2019t killed her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The week-long trial concluded on October 15. Anjette Lyles was convicted of murdering Marcia and was sentenced to die by electrocution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, in the 1950s, Macon was still segregated and not yet in step with the Civil Rights era to come. A white woman being executed in the electric chair was, at that time, an unpopular political proposition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A sanity commission was appointed to examine Anjette, and subsequently, declared here to be a chronic paranoid schizophrenic. Governor Ernest Vandiver had her committed to a state hospital for the criminally insane. She would live out the rest of her days in Central State Hospital in Milledgeville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anjette Lyles died of natural causes in 1977. She is buried near her first husband, and her daughter Marcia, in a family plot in Wadley, Georgia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The story of Anjette Lyles continues to fascinate audiences. She has been immortalized in Jaclyn Weldon White’s book \u201cWhisper to the Black Candle,\u201d and in Denver Pickard’s play, \u201cThe Shadow Behind the Flame” <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “One of the most scheming women that anyone could imagine.” This article was originally published in The (Macon) Telegraph. by Amy Condra Anjette Lyles\u2019 influence still lingers in this lush Southern town. Beneath the pink blossoms of cherry trees and in the shadows of stately homes that escaped the wrath of Sherman, lurks a seamy… Continue reading The strange case of Anjette Lyles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,106,108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amjette-lyles","category-georgia","category-southern-gothic","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amycondra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201c\u2019Voodoo\u2019 Material is Found in Lyles Home\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWidow Unmoved by Staring Crowd\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTestimony About Marcia: Tears Fall at Anjette Trial\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Charged With \u201cHate and Greed\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSentenced to Die for Murder of Nine-Year-Old Daughter\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n