Narrator: 25 June 1983, pensacola, Florida.
35-year-old John gentry was leaving a party
in the downtown area.
He had promised his fiance, Judy buenoano
that he would pick up some champagne and meet her at home.
He starts the engine, turns on the lights
and boom, his car is blown to smithereens.
Buenoano watched in horror
as John escaped the burning wreckage, alive.
She tried to kill my father, she didn't succeed,
while he was in the hospital recovering,
she tried to kill him again.
She was every man's worst nightmare.
And if you met Judy,
you should run for your life, literally.
Three men already lay dead and buried,
gentry should have been the fourth.
She was a great planner,
and you just don't plan on somebody surviving a car bomb.
She would take insurance policies out and kill and collect.
And that's why she was well off.
Her victims were those who loved her the most.
She doesn't want to have to rely on other people.
So, she sees family as a means to an end,
rather than an end in itself.
Many people will work to live, work to support their family.
But for her, it's the other way around.
Judy buenoano lived a life full of lies and deceit.
All her victims loved and trusted her,
but she only saw them as money in the bank.
Making Judy buenoano one of the world's most evil killers.
1961, roswell, new Mexico.
19-year-old Anna Schultz
had met and married 27-year-old James goodyear.
Anna was a nurse at eastern new Mexico medical centre.
After they married,
Anna changed her name to Judy goodyear
and James adopted her two-year-old son, Michael.
She developed a really good knowledge of medicine,
and of drugs.
She became an expert in her field,
and she was able to use this to manipulate those around her.
And I think she found medicine
quite an appealing field to go into
because it's about science, it's about things that are right,
things that are wrong, it's very black and white,
it's very predictable.
Ten years later, a fit and healthy James
became mysteriously ill and died at the age of 37.
You wouldn't immediately say, "oh, he's been poisoned."
You'd say it was natural causes.
Tragedy, unexpected, but these things happen.
But the thing about Judy goodyear,
as she was then calling herself,
is of course she had taken out a number of life insurance policies
on James goodyear, it was to become her modus operandi.
After the death of James, she reinvented herself once more.
Taking her new partner Bobby Joes surname
and becoming Judy Morris.
He too would soon be dead.
Bobby Joe was eventually buried.
Even though Judy had requested he be cremated,
Bobby Joe's mother insisted
that the body be brought back home to Alabama,
where he could be buried at home.
No man was safe, not even her own flesh and blood.
Could you imagine throwing your own son
over the side of a boat and watching him drown?
I mean, how twisted do you have to be
to do that and live with yourself?
It's just incredible.
She finally became Judy buenoano and thought she was invincible.
I think she began to believe in her superiority
that she can actually get away with this.
And that's why the plans always got a little more complex
and the insurance was always a little bit more
building for that $500,000 policy with John gentry.
She let her ego get the better of herself.
I think she had been a really smart,
brilliant cold-blooded killer with the other ones
because she never really went for the big prize.
This killer's story begins on 4 April 1943.
Judy buenoano was born judias Anna Lou welty
in the city of quanah, Texas.
Her father was a farm worker,
and this family had a lot of misfortune fall on it.
When she was two,
her mother passed away from tuberculosis.
There were two remaining siblings, Judy and her brother, Robert.
Now, her father sent them out to be adopted.
So, this is a real rejection, it's a real abandonment.
And they're living with another family for a while
until their grandmother looks after them.
Her father remarried
and moved to roswell, new Mexico
with his new wife and her two children.
And reclaimed Judy and Robert from their grandmother.
This certainly wasn't a return to a nice secure,
stable family environment.
This was out of the frying pan into the fire.
This was a household in which abuse and neglect
were very much entrenched.
And Judy and her brother suffered the most horrendous abuse
at the hands of her father and stepmother.
Judy was treated as a slave
and forced to carry out the household chores.
She was told that she had to do the cleaning,
and if she didn't do it, particularly,
in the way that her father wanted it done,
she'd be forced to sit and watch the rest of the family
eat their dinner while she went without.
And they'd also started beating up Robert, her brother,
at this point in time.
And she steps in to defend him.
She really attacks her stepmother and her father.
And she ends up serving 60 days in a jail facility
for this attack on her parents.
At the end of the 60 days,
she doesn't ask to return to her father and stepmother.
On the contrary, she says,
"no, I don't want to go home, not at all.
"I also don't want to see my younger brother Robert."
She said memorably at one point,
"I wouldn't spit down his throat if his guts were on fire."
In 1959, at the age of 16,
Judy graduated from foothills high school
in Albuquerque, new Mexico.
She decides that she will manipulate the system
in every way she possibly can to her advantage.
She feels she's been badly let down by her father,
by her mother dying,
by the fact or her childhood, by her stepmother.
All the recipes Wells up inside her
in which she becomes convinced
that she's going to get her own back.
Judy moved to roswell
to study at eastern new Mexico medical centre
and met a man called Schultz.
She assumed his surname and became known as Anna Schultz.
Judy goes to nursing school and she is a high achiever there.
She achieves a phd in biology, in psychology.
Many people will take years and years to achieve a phd,
to achieve this kind of position in a hospital.
But she seemed to do it relatively quickly
because she didn't really have any distractions.
This was all about her.
At the age of 17, Judy now known as Anna Schultz
became pregnant and on 30 march 1961,
gave birth to a boy, Michael Arthur Schultz.
Judy had a child out of wedlock.
At the time, it would have been a difficult situation
to find herself in, a single mother, trying to raise a child on her own.
Judy seemed like a very normal person.
She wanted to raise her son well and provide for him.
She just seemed like everybody else.
Shortly after the birth of her son,
Anna Schultz met James goodyear, a United States air force mechanic.
Ten years older than she is.
In every sense, an upright, sound individual.
And, before too long, she becomes Judy goodyear.
They marry.
James goodyear adopted Judy's son Michael
and on 16 January 1966,
Judy gave birth to their son, also called James.
Judy and James had a very nice marriage for a while.
They got along well, they travelled,
they went out to dinner, they did normal family things.
In 1967, the goodyear family moved to Orlando, Florida
and soon after their daughter kimberley was born,
Judy wanted to protect her family
and made sure they were fully insured to cover any unforeseen events.
They got along well for a time, but then they started fighting.
And it wasn't long after that,
that James had to go to Vietnam.
During this time, it was very stressful for Judy
because now she's raising three children on her own.
After about a year, James came back from Vietnam,
and Judy and he really tried to make a go of things.
They tried to put all the fighting behind them,
and rekindle their marriage and provide for the three children.
And when she later talks about her relationship with James,
she describes it as, "we were best friends."
She doesn't talk about love, she doesn't talk about attachment,
or affection.
She talks about him as a friend,
and that is really interesting for me.
It's almost incredible.
She decides that she's going to poison her husband
very carefully, over a longish period of time.
So that no one will notice that, in fact, he's been poisoned.
So, over a period of months,
she feeds James goodyear a concoction of pills,
including paraformaldehyde,
to effectively obstruct his system.
After a few months, he started to become violently ill.
He was having hallucinations, and convulsions,
he felt really terrible.
He was just in really, really bad shape.
Judy said that she knew how to take care of him,
but things just kept getting worse.
On 16 September 1971,
at the age of 37,
James goodyear died at the us naval hospital
in Orlando Florida.
James's death was just a mystery.
Here he was, young and fit, having just got out of the military.
It really just mystified everyone.
Judy puts a spin on it, she says,
"I'm sure it's because of a chemical element
"that they were using on the military in Vietnam.
"Surely, it's something to do with that."
So, she's got this narrative that she's prepared
in order to actually explain his death.
But when we zoom out and we look at the bigger picture,
Judy and James have been together
for around about a decade at this point.
So, you'd think, "well, why would she kill him now? Why now?"
For Judy goodyear, her husband James
was worth more to her dead than alive.
20 September 1971, Orlando, Florida.
Five days after her husband's death,
Judy goodyear surrendered three life insurance policies on James goodyear.
And then, just to add to our little piquancy,
she sets fire to the house in Orlando
and claims the insurance policy on that.
You have a woman whose greed knows few bounds.
But of course, she always plans an escape route.
In 1972, Judy moved with her three children
from Orlando to pensacola Florida,
to live with the new man in her life, Bobby Joe Morris.
She meets him in the same year that James goodyear is murdered.
And this perhaps suggests to me
there may have been a little bit of an overlap here.
She may have had her sights set on this guy
before she killed her first husband.
So, there is no such thing as coincidence
when it comes to serial killers.
So perhaps there was a plan rolling out in the background here.
Bobby Joe and Judy had a really fun time together.
They travelled, they had nice dinners out.
They were a couple that seemed to really hit it off.
But then things started to deteriorate,
and Bobby Joe decided he didn't want to be with Judy anymore.
And he moved out to Colorado, leaving her behind in Florida.
After Bobby Joe went to Colorado, Judy followed.
And Bobby Joe couldn't say no to Judy.
They reconciled
and they began trying to repair their relationship
and live happily together.
In July 1977,
before Judy and her children joined Bobby Joe in Colorado,
another mysterious fire engulfed their pensacola home.
Judy claimed the insurance money.
So, they're up there
and she's going by the name of Morris.
They figured they'd live together for long enough
that they, you know, she gave the last name Morris.
Nobody knew any different.
Of course, she was getting insurance policies all the time
on Bobby Joe up there which he never saw.
It wasn't long before Bobby Joe started to fall ill.
He was a heavy drinker.
So, no one's going to suspect that his health is going bad.
And that was very critical to her plan
because obviously if very healthy people
are just suddenly dying, that's going to cause more problems
than if someone who has a history
of seeming to be sickly,
not in good health, a drinking problem.
You're not going to look as hard into that
as to a possible, was their foul play involved.
He ended up in the hospital
where Judy was working as a nurse's aide,
so she took care of him
and looked after him the entire time he was in the hospital.
Bobby Joe was incredibly ill.
He was hallucinating,
he had all kinds of pain
and he just was mysteriously ill.
Doctors were having a hard time
figuring out what was wrong with Bobby Joe.
She puts it off, tells everybody that Bobby Joe is an alcoholic.
And he drinks to excess.
He drinks two bottle of vodka a day.
He drinks a case of beer a day.
He does all these things.
And the physicians at the hospital will be of the view,
"well, why would she lie about this?
"Here's somebody who knows what she's on about,
"who knows the patient.
"So she's filling in the details for us."
And that is a position that she really abused,
that position of power, that position of influence.
She was basically saying,
"this guy's just a bit of a washed-up old alcoholic,
"and these things happen."
Bobby Joe got a little bit better for a short period of time.
But then he got a lot worse.
And he deteriorated in an agonising way,
and eventually he died.
Bobby Joe's mother,
wanted Bobby Joe to come home and Judy says,
"no. No. No. We're going to cremate him."
And lodell, his mother said,
"no, you're not. You're going to send him home."
So Bobby Joe did get sent home.
Judy didn't attend the funeral.
But, she had, of course, insured his life
and once again collected a number of life insurance policies.
On 3 may 1978,
the widow Judy Morris changed her family name to buenoano,
the Spanish equivalent of goodyear.
This is her way of having a bit of a laugh.
She's taking the name of the first person that she kills
and she's using that in one of her new identities.
So I think this does show that real dark side
of her sense of humour here.
She's literally dangling a victim in front of everybody.
In June 1978,
the newly named buenoano family left Colorado.
Judy bought a house in Gulf breeze, pensacola, Florida
and set up home with her three children.
Michael buenoano goodyear was Judy's son,
and he was her first child
and he was a child that was born out of wedlock.
So, he would have created an awful lot of stigma for Judy.
Michael loved his mother Judy, but she didn't care for him at all.
She didn't like him.
If people came over to the house
when he was younger where she was living,
she would hide him in another room or have a babysitter take him out.
She was ashamed of him.
And he was always doing things to try and get her attention,
to try and make her proud.
And it was a really sad situation.
In 1979, 18-year-old Michael buenoano enlisted in the us army.
I think this is very much a way
of trying to get his mother's approval,
because of course, his stepfather, James goodyear, was a military man.
So, he knows that these are the kind of qualities in a man
that his mother admires, or so he thinks.
And when Michael got into the army,
he went to this purification school, water purification,
in water purification, they use arsenic.
He came home for Thanksgiving to be with the family
and took ill, very ill.
Because he was in the military.
He was sent up to Walter Reed hospital
in Washington, DC, which is our, you know, army hospital,
very renowned place.
And they were treating him, and they saved his life
but he lost basically muscular control
of his arms and legs.
So, he became essentially a paraplegic.
She was blaming the army that where he was working,
water purification school,
that he was, had got into the arsenic
and he probably ate some of it.
So that's the way it went.
Because of his loss of mobility,
he was not able to return to his career in the military.
And for Michael, this was just very depressing.
Here he is now, unable to pursue his career,
unable to move, and he's a young man
with the rest of his life in front of him.
It was very, very sad.
Judy contacted the military
and said, "your going to have to honourably discharge him.
"And so, if you discharged him to me,
"we will retrofit our house
"to take care of him in his disabled condition."
Michael ended up wearing braces on his legs.
He had Robin wings, all the weights that Michael had on him,
so he could try and walk a little bit
with, you know, with canes and all this.
It was a little over 50 pounds.
The military agreed to discharge Michael
into his mother's care.
She drove down to tampa,
picked him up at the airport, drove back to pensacola.
And by that afternoon, they were out on a canoe trip.
Buenoano left her daughter kimberley fishing on the riverbank
and prepared the canoe for herself, James and Michael.
And she puts him in the middle of a canoe
with the weights on his legs, the weights on his arm
and he's sitting in a lawn chair, small lawn chair, beach lawn chair.
And she puts the lawn chair in the canoe
and puts him on the lawn chair.
It was a beautiful day
and Judy wanted to treat her family to a nice time.
So, they canoed out onto this lake,
and all of a sudden, something happened
and the canoe tipped over.
And now both Michael and James are in the water,
and Judy tried to hurry
to get over to grab young James to save him.
But she said she didn't have time to get to Michael,
who drowned because of his heavy braces.
He went right down to the bottom of the water.
Simply a natural tragedy.
Who is going to suspect, for a second
that Judy might have organised the drowning?
The army came in and investigated it
because Michael had been a, you know, in the military
and they investigated.
I believe she told them a snake
had fallen into the canoe from an overhanging tree
and in the excitement, it capsized.
I mean, imagine that.
You have deliberately tipped up a canoe in the middle of a river
knowing that your son,
your son, cannot swim to the shore
whereas you can and your other son can.
It is the most callous, dramatic, ugly way of killing anybody.
Judy buenoano had got away with her third murder,
for now.
13 may 1980, pensacola, Florida.
18-year-old Michael buenoano
had drowned in what appeared to be a tragic accident.
But it wasn't long before his mother Judy cashed in.
The relentless nature of the killings.
One on top of the other.
Of people to whom she should have been grateful.
That makes it exceptional.
There was no reason
for these three people to lose their lives.
And, of course, Michael was insured by the military as well as by Judy.
There had been about six insurance policies
that she had taken out.
These were small policies, 15,000, $20,000 policies.
There was one that was taken out when he was a child.
Well, she had contacted the insurance company
and because it had lapsed.
And so, she reactivated the policy by paying some premiums.
And so, there was, I believe about $120,000
in life insurance benefits that she received from that one.
She had to believe that in her mind,
no one is ever going to figure this out.
"I have totally fooled all these idiots."
I mean, she must have had contempt for the investigators
because, "I am telling you this stuff
"and you're believing everything I say."
Judy spent the money on vacations, cars, opening a beauty salon,
called fingers and faces
and basically just lived a really nice life.
In February 1981, nine months after the death of her son,
Judy buenoano met 35-year-old army veteran
and local business owner John gentry.
John had two sons from a former marriage.
He was very tall, I think he was like 6'2 " or 6'3".
Handsome, broad shoulders, easy going.
The kind of person that when you met him,
you know, you knew to respect him.
I've never seen him get out of line or get angry or raise his voice.
He was just that kind of person when you looked at him,
he commanded respect.
I guess that's the best way to put it.
John's business specialised in carpet and flooring tiles.
He had a huge store in pensacola and it was really successful.
He had several people working under him.
He looked really good in a uniform
and one time he told us that,
he was in Vietnam so he would joke about it,
and he was in Vietnam for three days because he stepped on a landmine,
and he was actually blown up in Vietnam
and of course, he recovered from that.
The only injuries he sustained were he lost hearing in one ear
and a bunch of scars.
And they seemed to have quite a good relationship.
Judy really did like living the high life
at this particular point in time.
So, they went on some cruises,
they ate out at expensive restaurants.
She really liked it when he bought her expensive clothes.
So, this appears to be quite a successful relationship.
In August 1981,
John moved into the house in Gulf breeze
to live with buenoano and her two children.
The first time we met Judy, we were excited to meet her.
Obviously, you know, he spoke a lot about her
being beautiful, intelligent, well off.
I liked her. I liked her. She was nice.
She took us to Disney.
She was attractive, she had a great personality.
She seemed like she was rich.
She had a nice house, she had a boat, car...
..Exclusive community.
She was generous.
Also, the house was very clean, nicely decorated.
They were affectionate, but they weren't into kissy-feely,
public show of affection kind of thing.
I don't know what they were like when we were not around,
but, you know, as far as a couple,
they would sit together, hold hands, hug, kiss.
But not constantly all over each other,
you know, but we were children, so maybe they were behaving.
Meanwhile, Judy had been spreading various rumours
about mr gentry to her friends that, well, you know,
he seems to be involved with some shady characters,
maybe some organised crime connections,
or on the other hand, he has bad health.
And he did appear to have bad health
because Judy had been slipping him some capsules
containing paraformaldehyde and arsenic.
This wasn't enough to kill him,
but it was causing him to always feel sick all the time.
As far as I know,
he knew there was an insurance policy on him,
but he was under the impression that she had,
for some reason or another, cancelled the policy.
But it turns out that she didn't cancel the policy,
it was still active,
but my father was unaware that she still had the policy on him.
After less than two years together,
40-year-old buenoano had some news for John.
Judy announced to him that she was pregnant.
And so, oh, there now, they are going to get married.
Well, unbeknownst to mr gentry,
Judy had previously had a tubal ligation
and was not capable of getting pregnant
but he did not know that.
So, he thought, "wow, great, I'm going to be a father."
On 25 June 1983, Judy had arranged a party
because one of her members of staff was leaving.
She had a whole range of beauty salons in the local area
and she'd arranged for this meal as a leaving do
for one of her staff members at the restaurant.
Now she wanted John to go along
to the restaurant to help set up the party.
She told him where to put his vehicle in a parking lot.
She said, "this is where you need to park your vehicle right here."
He said, "ok."
So, he parked it right there in that lot where she said.
Buenoano arrived at the restaurant sometime after John.
She's driving a brand-new corvette.
She parks it two blocks away in front of this motel.
As the party wrapped up,
buenoano encouraged John to leave without her.
She walked him to the door, and she told gentry, she said,
"look. I'm going to stay here for a little while longer.
"What I want you to do is get a bottle of champagne
"and go on home and wait for me there
"and we'll celebrate,"
you know, her having the baby and all this other stuff she said.
John walks out to his car, gets in, starts the automobile,
and kaboom, the whole thing explodes.
Here is this car bomb in sleepy pensacola, Florida.
This is not an ordinary event.
Well, when the thing explodes, Judy comes out of the restaurant
and people follow her and she sees the car blown up,
so she goes into having a fit, and falls on the ground
and pretends she's having a seizure.
Judy buenoano had just made a fatal mistake.
25 June 1983, pensacola, Florida.
John gentry had been catapulted out of his vehicle
by a homemade bomb
primed to explode as he turned on his headlights.
He's blown out of the car.
I always thought one of the great things in this explosion
was his shoes remained on the floorboard of the car.
He was literally blown out of his shoes,
but he survives.
Of course, all the agencies was called.
Atf was there.
Pensacola pd was there and everything
and it was a real mess at the time.
They did what they could because at that time of night,
we really couldn't get too much.
Mr gentry, he was sent to the hospital.
The vehicle was eventually moved to the pensacola pd.
It was put in the lot
and actually, the next morning
is when everything really got started.
The fact that John survived
must have really come as quite a shock to Judy
and probably shook her deeply.
Judy has failed to kill her victim in this case.
And I think she feels incredibly frustrated about this
because the person that she has tried to murder has survived.
And not only has he survived, he is now a piece of evidence.
He has lots of information
that he's able to share with the police.
I'm sure her world must have just been in a panic
to find out that all the stories that she'd been telling about him,
the lies about her being able to have children,
that she was pregnant with his child,
all that was going to come to roost,
like, well, what happened, you know, to her child?
That's going to be born in, you know,
six or seven months or whatever,
because she was a great planner,
and you just don't plan on somebody surviving a car bomb.
My uncle called us and explained what happened
and we were in shock, and, you know,
he was in his recovery in the hospital.
I mean, it's like something you'd hear out of a movie.
I mean, put a bomb in his car, who does that?
He had a lot of damage done to him.
So, we knew it would be another couple of days or a day or so
before we could get to him.
At the very beginning she was telling us that
mr gentry was getting these notes, that were threatening notes
that were left on the windshield of his car.
He was getting these phone calls and hang ups
and threatening him.
And so, we checked in all to that and it turned out to be nothing.
And then talking to her friends.
Before the car blew up,
she told everybody that gentry had cancer.
And he was dying of cancer.
I think that Judy thought she was really smart.
I don't think she believed
that anybody would ever join up the dots.
And she did quite a good job of wiping the slate clean
as she moved from one life into the next one.
So, I think she honestly did feel like she was being reborn
time and time again
when she was building these new lives.
It's fair to say
that if she had been able to contain herself,
she might never, ever have faced justice.
But greed overcame her.
If she had not decided to blow up gentry,
it's entirely possible that the authorities
would never have looked back at the killings of Bobby Joe Morris,
at the killing of Michael or of the killing of James goodyear.
They were, to some extent, in the past.
Defined as accidents, tragic nevertheless
but still accidents.
It was only her decision to blow up gentry
who was eventually to bring her to the attention of the authorities.
Because gentry recovering from his injuries
starts to tell them about the pills,
about the other things that have happened.
He said, "I don't know."
He said, "Judy was giving me these pills
"and it was a vitamin pill
"and she said for me to take them every day
"and it would help me out and I'd feel a lot better.
"So, I was taking these pills."
He said, "then I quit taking them and after I quit taking them,
"I didn't get sick anymore. I was fine."
And he said, "then I took them again,"
and he said, "I got sick again." I said, "where are they?"
And he said it was at his office.
So, we went down and picked up those capsules that we got from him.
And we sent them off to the lab.
And sure enough, what was happening,
the vicon-c capsules, somebody had taken them apart
and put paraformaldehyde inside them and put them back together again.
There's no question that Judy chose her poison very carefully.
Paraformaldehyde causes deterioration of the organs
but doesn't do it quickly.
So, when it came back, yes, paraformaldehyde, well boom.
That was class three poison. That hit us right off the bat.
That was enough to go ahead and get our warrant.
Because we could place Judy with the pills at her house
with a search warrant.
We got gentry saying she physically gave him the pills.
He knows that. That was a big plus.
I think in the beginning,
when John is finding out all of the details
about what Judy has been doing, there's incredulity there.
He can't believe this.
You know, this is the woman
that he's in an intimate relationship with.
But I think as the evidence becomes more and more compelling,
it does dawn on him that this woman meant him serious harm.
John was then informed that a life insurance policy
he thought buenoano had cancelled was still active.
And that's where this whole thing came unravelled
because she had her $500,000 insurance policy
that she was going to cash in on.
She had already booked a 180-day around the world cruise
for her and her two kids,
but not for John gentry, her husband to be.
That completely blows open all of Judy's life,
all of her previous offending,
all of the times when she's killed other people before.
And I think, had that murder not failed,
she could have gone on for quite some time afterwards.
But I think she was getting quite close to being caught
at this stage,
because she was becoming quite careless.
She was trying to mix things up, she was trying to be too clever.
And that's what led to her downfall.
They began exhuming bodies.
They exhumed James goodyear's body.
Lethal dose of arsenic in the system.
She wanted to make sure
that she did the job right with her husband, James goodyear.
And so, the amount of arsenic in his system when he was examined
after they exhumed the body, was enough to kill 15 people.
We had investigators from Colorado come down to here.
Bobby Joe was buried in a cemetery in Alabama.
And we had that body exhumed.
We did tests on him
and he had enough in him for about ten people,
to kill ten people with arsenic.
They exhumed the body of Michael goodyear.
Find out that there's lethal doses of arsenic in his system.
It was the arsenic poisoning
that crippled him but did not kill him.
And with that, they began mounting the cases.
On 27 July 1983, Judy buenoano was arrested
and charged with the attempted murder of her third partner, John gentry.
After being released on bail,
she was arrested once more in January 1984,
this time for grand theft and the murder of her son, Michael.
Buenoano claimed to be innocent of all charges.
The trial on her son, the drowning, she was very vocal.
She even took the stand.
She really thought that she could get away with it.
She really did.
She really thought that she would be able to talk
her way out of these things.
The jury didn't believe buenoano's lies
and she was found guilty on all counts.
She was sentenced to life without parole.
It was a standout case
because it was almost unbelievable that a person could do this
to their loved ones,
particularly a child that she gave birth to.
It's just unfathomable.
Later that same year,
buenoano found herself back on trial,
charged with the attempted murder of John gentry.
On 18 October 1984,
she was found guilty and sentenced to a further 12 years behind bars.
Maybe my father would have died,
and maybe she would've married again and killed again.
I mean, with the number of people that she killed,
she was obviously, didn't have a conscience
and would probably have done it again.
Despite the sentences already handed out to her,
buenoano would have to face a third trial,
this time for the first-degree murder
of her original partner, James goodyear.
Once again, she was found guilty
and her punishment was even more severe.
On 26 November 1985,
Judy buenoano was sentenced to death.
Judy's crimes were cold, calculated and premeditated.
Those are the kinds of murders in the state of Florida
that cry out for the death penalty.
The death penalty is designed for people like Judy.
On 30 march 1998,
Judy buenoano was executed via the electric chair
in Florida state prison.
She was 54 years old.
At the time of Judy's execution,
it was quite a big event in the state of Florida
because it had been decades
since a woman was sentenced to death.
She died without
ever saying anything at all,
apologising or admitting anything.
She took it all with her.
And I can't imagine
what she was even thinking at the end.
"Why are they doing this to me?
"I didn't do anything wrong."
She really got what she deserved.
I knew they were trying to say that when she was in jail
that she found this religion and that religion,
and she was helping, and she had gone to school
and got a degree in this and a degree in that.
You know, that's all fine and good.
But, you know, you got to look back at what she did,
especially to her own son.
Judy buenoano was a cold, calculating killer
who planned her murders meticulously for years.
She ruthlessly destroyed the lives of those who loved and trusted her
for her own selfish financial gain.
Making Judy buenoano one of the world's most evil killers.
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