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Narrator: 25 June
1983, pensacola, Florida.

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35-year-old John gentry
was leaving a party

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in the downtown area.

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He had promised his
fiance, Judy buenoano

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that he would pick up some
champagne and meet her at home.

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He starts the engine,
turns on the lights

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and boom, his car is
blown to smithereens.

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Buenoano watched in horror

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as John escaped the
burning wreckage, alive.

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She tried to kill my
father, she didn't succeed,

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while he was in the
hospital recovering,

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she tried to kill him again.

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She was every
man's worst nightmare.

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And if you met Judy,

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you should run for
your life, literally.

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Three men already
lay dead and buried,

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gentry should have
been the fourth.

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She was a great planner,

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and you just don't plan on
somebody surviving a car bomb.

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She would take insurance
policies out and kill and collect.

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And that's why she was well off.

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Her victims were those
who loved her the most.

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She doesn't want to have
to rely on other people.

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So, she sees family
as a means to an end,

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rather than an end in itself.

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Many people will work to live,
work to support their family.

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But for her, it's the
other way around.

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Judy buenoano lived a
life full of lies and deceit.

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All her victims loved
and trusted her,

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but she only saw them
as money in the bank.

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Making Judy buenoano one
of the world's most evil killers.

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1961, roswell, new Mexico.

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19-year-old Anna Schultz

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had met and married
27-year-old James goodyear.

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Anna was a nurse at eastern
new Mexico medical centre.

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After they married,

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Anna changed her
name to Judy goodyear

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and James adopted her
two-year-old son, Michael.

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She developed a really
good knowledge of medicine,

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and of drugs.

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She became an
expert in her field,

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and she was able to use this
to manipulate those around her.

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And I think she found medicine

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quite an appealing
field to go into

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because it's about science,
it's about things that are right,

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things that are wrong,
it's very black and white,

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it's very predictable.

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Ten years later, a
fit and healthy James

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became mysteriously ill
and died at the age of 37.

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You wouldn't immediately
say, "oh, he's been poisoned."

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You'd say it was natural causes.

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Tragedy, unexpected,
but these things happen.

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But the thing about
Judy goodyear,

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as she was then calling herself,

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is of course she had taken out a
number of life insurance policies

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on James goodyear, it was to
become her modus operandi.

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After the death of James, she
reinvented herself once more.

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Taking her new partner
Bobby Joes surname

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and becoming Judy Morris.

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He too would soon be dead.

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Bobby Joe was eventually buried.

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Even though Judy had
requested he be cremated,

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Bobby Joe's mother insisted

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that the body be brought
back home to Alabama,

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where he could
be buried at home.

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No man was safe, not even
her own flesh and blood.

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Could you imagine
throwing your own son

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over the side of a boat
and watching him drown?

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I mean, how twisted
do you have to be

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to do that and
live with yourself?

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It's just incredible.

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She finally became Judy buenoano
and thought she was invincible.

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I think she began to
believe in her superiority

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that she can actually
get away with this.

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And that's why the plans
always got a little more complex

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and the insurance was
always a little bit more

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building for that $500,000
policy with John gentry.

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She let her ego get
the better of herself.

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I think she had
been a really smart,

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brilliant cold-blooded
killer with the other ones

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because she never really
went for the big prize.

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This killer's story
begins on 4 April 1943.

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Judy buenoano was
born judias Anna Lou welty

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in the city of quanah, Texas.

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Her father was a farm worker,

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and this family had a
lot of misfortune fall on it.

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When she was two,

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her mother passed
away from tuberculosis.

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There were two remaining siblings,
Judy and her brother, Robert.

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Now, her father sent
them out to be adopted.

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So, this is a real rejection,
it's a real abandonment.

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And they're living with
another family for a while

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until their grandmother
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Her father remarried

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and moved to roswell, new Mexico

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with his new wife
and her two children.

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And reclaimed Judy and
Robert from their grandmother.

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This certainly wasn't a
return to a nice secure,

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stable family environment.

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This was out of the
frying pan into the fire.

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This was a household in
which abuse and neglect

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were very much entrenched.

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And Judy and her brother
suffered the most horrendous abuse

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at the hands of her
father and stepmother.

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Judy was treated as a slave

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and forced to carry out
the household chores.

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She was told that she
had to do the cleaning,

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and if she didn't
do it, particularly,

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in the way that her
father wanted it done,

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she'd be forced to sit and
watch the rest of the family

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eat their dinner while
she went without.

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And they'd also started
beating up Robert, her brother,

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at this point in time.

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And she steps in to defend him.

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She really attacks her
stepmother and her father.

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And she ends up serving
60 days in a jail facility

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for this attack on her parents.

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At the end of the 60 days,

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she doesn't ask to return
to her father and stepmother.

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On the contrary, she says,

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"no, I don't want to
go home, not at all.

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"I also don't want to see
my younger brother Robert."

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She said memorably at one point,

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"I wouldn't spit down his
throat if his guts were on fire."

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In 1959, at the age of 16,

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Judy graduated from
foothills high school

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in Albuquerque, new Mexico.

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She decides that she
will manipulate the system

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in every way she possibly
can to her advantage.

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She feels she's been
badly let down by her father,

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by her mother dying,

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by the fact or her
childhood, by her stepmother.

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All the recipes
Wells up inside her

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in which she becomes convinced

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that she's going to
get her own back.

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Judy moved to roswell

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to study at eastern new
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and met a man called Schultz.

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She assumed his surname and
became known as Anna Schultz.

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Judy goes to nursing school
and she is a high achiever there.

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She achieves a phd in
biology, in psychology.

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Many people will take years
and years to achieve a phd,

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to achieve this kind
of position in a hospital.

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But she seemed to
do it relatively quickly

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because she didn't really
have any distractions.

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This was all about her.

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At the age of 17, Judy
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became pregnant
and on 30 march 1961,

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gave birth to a boy,
Michael Arthur Schultz.

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Judy had a child out of wedlock.

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At the time, it would have
been a difficult situation

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to find herself in, a single mother,
trying to raise a child on her own.

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Judy seemed like a
very normal person.

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She wanted to raise her
son well and provide for him.

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She just seemed
like everybody else.

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Shortly after the
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Anna Schultz met James goodyear,
a United States air force mechanic.

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Ten years older than she is.

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In every sense, an
upright, sound individual.

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And, before too long, she
becomes Judy goodyear.

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They marry.

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James goodyear adopted
Judy's son Michael

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and on 16 January 1966,

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Judy gave birth to their
son, also called James.

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Judy and James had a
very nice marriage for a while.

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They got along
well, they travelled,

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they went out to dinner,
they did normal family things.

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In 1967, the goodyear family
moved to Orlando, Florida

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and soon after their
daughter kimberley was born,

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Judy wanted to
protect her family

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and made sure they were fully
insured to cover any unforeseen events.

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They got along well for a time,
but then they started fighting.

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And it wasn't long after that,

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that James had to go to Vietnam.

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During this time, it was
very stressful for Judy

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because now she's raising
three children on her own.

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After about a year, James
came back from Vietnam,

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and Judy and he really
tried to make a go of things.

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They tried to put all
the fighting behind them,

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and rekindle their marriage
and provide for the three children.

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And when she later talks about
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she describes it as,
"we were best friends."

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She doesn't talk about love,
she doesn't talk about attachment,

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or affection.

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She talks about him as a friend,

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and that is really
interesting for me.

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It's almost incredible.

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She decides that she's
going to poison her husband

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very carefully, over a
longish period of time.

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So that no one will notice
that, in fact, he's been poisoned.

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So, over a period of months,

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she feeds James goodyear
a concoction of pills,

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including paraformaldehyde,

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to effectively
obstruct his system.

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After a few months, he
started to become violently ill.

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He was having
hallucinations, and convulsions,

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he felt really terrible.

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He was just in really,
really bad shape.

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Judy said that she knew
how to take care of him,

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but things just
kept getting worse.

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On 16 September 1971,

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at the age of 37,

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James goodyear died
at the us naval hospital

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in Orlando Florida.

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James's death
was just a mystery.

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Here he was, young and fit,
having just got out of the military.

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It really just
mystified everyone.

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Judy puts a spin
on it, she says,

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"I'm sure it's because
of a chemical element

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"that they were using
on the military in Vietnam.

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"Surely, it's something
to do with that."

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So, she's got this
narrative that she's prepared

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in order to actually
explain his death.

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But when we zoom out and
we look at the bigger picture,

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Judy and James
have been together

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for around about a
decade at this point.

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So, you'd think, "well, why would
she kill him now? Why now?"

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For Judy goodyear,
her husband James

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was worth more to
her dead than alive.

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20 September 1971,
Orlando, Florida.

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Five days after her
husband's death,

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Judy goodyear surrendered three life
insurance policies on James goodyear.

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And then, just to add
to our little piquancy,

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she sets fire to the
house in Orlando

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and claims the
insurance policy on that.

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You have a woman whose
greed knows few bounds.

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But of course, she always
plans an escape route.

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In 1972, Judy moved
with her three children

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from Orlando to
pensacola Florida,

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to live with the new man in
her life, Bobby Joe Morris.

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She meets him in the same year
that James goodyear is murdered.

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And this perhaps suggests to me

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there may have been a
little bit of an overlap here.

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She may have had her
sights set on this guy

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before she killed
her first husband.

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So, there is no such
thing as coincidence

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when it comes to serial killers.

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So perhaps there was a plan
rolling out in the background here.

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Bobby Joe and Judy had
a really fun time together.

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They travelled, they
had nice dinners out.

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They were a couple that
seemed to really hit it off.

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But then things
started to deteriorate,

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and Bobby Joe decided he didn't
want to be with Judy anymore.

244
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And he moved out to Colorado,
leaving her behind in Florida.

245
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After Bobby Joe went to
Colorado, Judy followed.

246
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And Bobby Joe
couldn't say no to Judy.

247
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They reconciled

248
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and they began trying
to repair their relationship

249
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and live happily together.

250
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In July 1977,

251
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before Judy and her children
joined Bobby Joe in Colorado,

252
00:14:29,243 --> 00:14:33,443
another mysterious fire
engulfed their pensacola home.

253
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Judy claimed the
insurance money.

254
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So, they're up there

255
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and she's going by
the name of Morris.

256
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They figured they'd live
together for long enough

257
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that they, you know, she
gave the last name Morris.

258
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Nobody knew any different.

259
00:14:49,403 --> 00:14:51,539
Of course, she was getting
insurance policies all the time

260
00:14:51,563 --> 00:14:54,043
on Bobby Joe up there
which he never saw.

261
00:14:55,683 --> 00:15:00,523
It wasn't long before
Bobby Joe started to fall ill.

262
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He was a heavy drinker.

263
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So, no one's going to suspect
that his health is going bad.

264
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And that was very
critical to her plan

265
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because obviously
if very healthy people

266
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are just suddenly dying, that's
going to cause more problems

267
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than if someone
who has a history

268
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of seeming to be sickly,

269
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not in good health,
a drinking problem.

270
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You're not going to
look as hard into that

271
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as to a possible, was
their foul play involved.

272
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He ended up in the hospital

273
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where Judy was
working as a nurse's aide,

274
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so she took care of him

275
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and looked after him the entire
time he was in the hospital.

276
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Bobby Joe was incredibly ill.

277
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He was hallucinating,

278
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he had all kinds of pain

279
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and he just was
mysteriously ill.

280
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Doctors were having a hard time

281
00:16:06,163 --> 00:16:08,923
figuring out what was
wrong with Bobby Joe.

282
00:16:08,963 --> 00:16:13,723
She puts it off, tells everybody
that Bobby Joe is an alcoholic.

283
00:16:14,283 --> 00:16:16,363
And he drinks to excess.

284
00:16:16,403 --> 00:16:19,203
He drinks two
bottle of vodka a day.

285
00:16:19,243 --> 00:16:21,003
He drinks a case of beer a day.

286
00:16:21,043 --> 00:16:22,723
He does all these things.

287
00:16:23,923 --> 00:16:27,203
And the physicians at the
hospital will be of the view,

288
00:16:27,243 --> 00:16:29,483
"well, why would
she lie about this?

289
00:16:29,523 --> 00:16:31,299
"Here's somebody who
knows what she's on about,

290
00:16:31,323 --> 00:16:33,083
"who knows the patient.

291
00:16:33,123 --> 00:16:35,603
"So she's filling in
the details for us."

292
00:16:35,643 --> 00:16:38,883
And that is a position
that she really abused,

293
00:16:38,923 --> 00:16:41,283
that position of power,
that position of influence.

294
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She was basically saying,

295
00:16:43,323 --> 00:16:45,443
"this guy's just a bit of a
washed-up old alcoholic,

296
00:16:45,483 --> 00:16:47,043
"and these things happen."

297
00:16:47,763 --> 00:16:51,283
Bobby Joe got a little bit
better for a short period of time.

298
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But then he got a lot worse.

299
00:16:53,883 --> 00:16:58,163
And he deteriorated
in an agonising way,

300
00:16:58,203 --> 00:17:00,243
and eventually he died.

301
00:17:04,403 --> 00:17:05,803
Bobby Joe's mother,

302
00:17:05,843 --> 00:17:08,243
wanted Bobby Joe to
come home and Judy says,

303
00:17:08,283 --> 00:17:12,563
"no. No. No. We're
going to cremate him."

304
00:17:12,603 --> 00:17:15,283
And lodell, his mother said,

305
00:17:15,323 --> 00:17:17,099
"no, you're not. You're
going to send him home."

306
00:17:17,123 --> 00:17:19,523
So Bobby Joe did get sent home.

307
00:17:19,563 --> 00:17:21,923
Judy didn't attend the funeral.

308
00:17:21,963 --> 00:17:25,443
But, she had, of
course, insured his life

309
00:17:25,483 --> 00:17:30,043
and once again collected a
number of life insurance policies.

310
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On 3 may 1978,

311
00:17:32,643 --> 00:17:37,483
the widow Judy Morris changed
her family name to buenoano,

312
00:17:37,523 --> 00:17:40,483
the Spanish
equivalent of goodyear.

313
00:17:40,523 --> 00:17:42,963
This is her way of
having a bit of a laugh.

314
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She's taking the name of
the first person that she kills

315
00:17:46,723 --> 00:17:49,523
and she's using that in
one of her new identities.

316
00:17:49,563 --> 00:17:52,643
So I think this does
show that real dark side

317
00:17:52,683 --> 00:17:54,643
of her sense of humour here.

318
00:17:54,683 --> 00:17:58,083
She's literally dangling a
victim in front of everybody.

319
00:17:58,843 --> 00:18:00,923
In June 1978,

320
00:18:00,963 --> 00:18:05,163
the newly named buenoano
family left Colorado.

321
00:18:05,203 --> 00:18:09,283
Judy bought a house in Gulf
breeze, pensacola, Florida

322
00:18:09,323 --> 00:18:11,563
and set up home
with her three children.

323
00:18:12,923 --> 00:18:15,963
Michael buenoano
goodyear was Judy's son,

324
00:18:16,003 --> 00:18:17,563
and he was her first child

325
00:18:17,603 --> 00:18:20,403
and he was a child that
was born out of wedlock.

326
00:18:20,443 --> 00:18:24,243
So, he would have created
an awful lot of stigma for Judy.

327
00:18:25,323 --> 00:18:28,963
Michael loved his mother Judy,
but she didn't care for him at all.

328
00:18:29,003 --> 00:18:30,523
She didn't like him.

329
00:18:30,563 --> 00:18:31,923
If people came over to the house

330
00:18:31,963 --> 00:18:34,803
when he was younger
where she was living,

331
00:18:34,843 --> 00:18:38,363
she would hide him in another
room or have a babysitter take him out.

332
00:18:38,403 --> 00:18:40,163
She was ashamed of him.

333
00:18:40,203 --> 00:18:43,163
And he was always doing
things to try and get her attention,

334
00:18:43,203 --> 00:18:45,003
to try and make her proud.

335
00:18:45,043 --> 00:18:47,323
And it was a
really sad situation.

336
00:18:48,403 --> 00:18:54,363
In 1979, 18-year-old Michael
buenoano enlisted in the us army.

337
00:18:54,403 --> 00:18:56,963
I think this is very much a way

338
00:18:57,003 --> 00:18:59,363
of trying to get his
mother's approval,

339
00:18:59,403 --> 00:19:04,363
because of course, his stepfather,
James goodyear, was a military man.

340
00:19:04,403 --> 00:19:07,683
So, he knows that these are
the kind of qualities in a man

341
00:19:07,723 --> 00:19:11,483
that his mother
admires, or so he thinks.

342
00:19:11,523 --> 00:19:13,683
And when Michael
got into the army,

343
00:19:13,723 --> 00:19:17,043
he went to this purification
school, water purification,

344
00:19:17,083 --> 00:19:20,883
in water purification,
they use arsenic.

345
00:19:21,843 --> 00:19:27,203
He came home for
Thanksgiving to be with the family

346
00:19:27,243 --> 00:19:30,563
and took ill, very ill.

347
00:19:30,603 --> 00:19:32,083
Because he was in the military.

348
00:19:32,123 --> 00:19:34,123
He was sent up to
Walter Reed hospital

349
00:19:34,163 --> 00:19:38,003
in Washington, DC, which is
our, you know, army hospital,

350
00:19:38,043 --> 00:19:39,443
very renowned place.

351
00:19:39,483 --> 00:19:44,323
And they were treating
him, and they saved his life

352
00:19:44,363 --> 00:19:48,323
but he lost basically
muscular control

353
00:19:48,363 --> 00:19:49,963
of his arms and legs.

354
00:19:50,003 --> 00:19:53,243
So, he became
essentially a paraplegic.

355
00:19:53,283 --> 00:19:56,883
She was blaming the army
that where he was working,

356
00:19:56,923 --> 00:19:58,683
water purification school,

357
00:19:58,723 --> 00:20:01,883
that he was, had
got into the arsenic

358
00:20:01,923 --> 00:20:03,203
and he probably ate some of it.

359
00:20:04,283 --> 00:20:06,723
So that's the way it went.

360
00:20:06,763 --> 00:20:08,923
Because of his loss of mobility,

361
00:20:08,963 --> 00:20:12,363
he was not able to return
to his career in the military.

362
00:20:12,403 --> 00:20:15,683
And for Michael, this
was just very depressing.

363
00:20:15,723 --> 00:20:19,123
Here he is now, unable
to pursue his career,

364
00:20:19,163 --> 00:20:21,963
unable to move,
and he's a young man

365
00:20:22,003 --> 00:20:24,043
with the rest of his
life in front of him.

366
00:20:24,083 --> 00:20:25,723
It was very, very sad.

367
00:20:28,163 --> 00:20:30,243
Judy contacted the military

368
00:20:30,283 --> 00:20:34,323
and said, "your going to have
to honourably discharge him.

369
00:20:34,363 --> 00:20:36,603
"And so, if you
discharged him to me,

370
00:20:36,643 --> 00:20:39,523
"we will retrofit our house

371
00:20:39,563 --> 00:20:44,323
"to take care of him in
his disabled condition."

372
00:20:44,363 --> 00:20:47,483
Michael ended up
wearing braces on his legs.

373
00:20:47,523 --> 00:20:52,043
He had Robin wings, all the
weights that Michael had on him,

374
00:20:52,083 --> 00:20:54,283
so he could try
and walk a little bit

375
00:20:54,323 --> 00:20:56,323
with, you know, with
canes and all this.

376
00:20:56,363 --> 00:20:58,483
It was a little over 50 pounds.

377
00:20:59,603 --> 00:21:02,443
The military agreed
to discharge Michael

378
00:21:02,483 --> 00:21:04,163
into his mother's care.

379
00:21:05,203 --> 00:21:08,483
She drove down to tampa,

380
00:21:08,523 --> 00:21:12,363
picked him up at the airport,
drove back to pensacola.

381
00:21:12,403 --> 00:21:16,883
And by that afternoon,
they were out on a canoe trip.

382
00:21:16,923 --> 00:21:21,043
Buenoano left her daughter
kimberley fishing on the riverbank

383
00:21:21,083 --> 00:21:24,923
and prepared the canoe for
herself, James and Michael.

384
00:21:24,963 --> 00:21:27,763
And she puts him in
the middle of a canoe

385
00:21:27,803 --> 00:21:32,883
with the weights on his
legs, the weights on his arm

386
00:21:32,923 --> 00:21:37,123
and he's sitting in a lawn chair,
small lawn chair, beach lawn chair.

387
00:21:37,163 --> 00:21:39,843
And she puts the
lawn chair in the canoe

388
00:21:39,883 --> 00:21:42,203
and puts him on the lawn chair.

389
00:21:42,843 --> 00:21:44,683
It was a beautiful day

390
00:21:44,723 --> 00:21:47,883
and Judy wanted to treat
her family to a nice time.

391
00:21:47,923 --> 00:21:50,203
So, they canoed
out onto this lake,

392
00:21:50,243 --> 00:21:53,043
and all of a sudden,
something happened

393
00:21:53,083 --> 00:21:54,563
and the canoe tipped over.

394
00:21:54,603 --> 00:21:58,083
And now both Michael
and James are in the water,

395
00:21:58,123 --> 00:22:01,003
and Judy tried to hurry

396
00:22:01,043 --> 00:22:05,683
to get over to grab
young James to save him.

397
00:22:05,723 --> 00:22:09,283
But she said she didn't
have time to get to Michael,

398
00:22:09,323 --> 00:22:12,443
who drowned because
of his heavy braces.

399
00:22:12,483 --> 00:22:15,243
He went right down to
the bottom of the water.

400
00:22:17,843 --> 00:22:20,603
Simply a natural tragedy.

401
00:22:20,643 --> 00:22:23,243
Who is going to
suspect, for a second

402
00:22:23,283 --> 00:22:27,123
that Judy might have
organised the drowning?

403
00:22:27,963 --> 00:22:30,443
The army came in
and investigated it

404
00:22:30,483 --> 00:22:34,003
because Michael had been
a, you know, in the military

405
00:22:34,043 --> 00:22:35,803
and they investigated.

406
00:22:35,843 --> 00:22:37,883
I believe she told them a snake

407
00:22:37,923 --> 00:22:42,523
had fallen into the canoe
from an overhanging tree

408
00:22:42,563 --> 00:22:44,923
and in the
excitement, it capsized.

409
00:22:45,763 --> 00:22:47,323
I mean, imagine that.

410
00:22:47,363 --> 00:22:51,563
You have deliberately tipped
up a canoe in the middle of a river

411
00:22:51,603 --> 00:22:53,643
knowing that your son,

412
00:22:53,683 --> 00:22:57,083
your son, cannot
swim to the shore

413
00:22:57,123 --> 00:22:59,923
whereas you can and
your other son can.

414
00:22:59,963 --> 00:23:05,203
It is the most callous, dramatic,
ugly way of killing anybody.

415
00:23:06,803 --> 00:23:11,403
Judy buenoano had got
away with her third murder,

416
00:23:11,443 --> 00:23:13,083
for now.

417
00:23:15,843 --> 00:23:20,123
13 may 1980, pensacola, Florida.

418
00:23:20,163 --> 00:23:22,763
18-year-old Michael buenoano

419
00:23:22,803 --> 00:23:26,723
had drowned in what
appeared to be a tragic accident.

420
00:23:26,763 --> 00:23:30,723
But it wasn't long before
his mother Judy cashed in.

421
00:23:32,003 --> 00:23:34,883
The relentless
nature of the killings.

422
00:23:34,923 --> 00:23:36,683
One on top of the other.

423
00:23:36,723 --> 00:23:40,403
Of people to whom she
should have been grateful.

424
00:23:40,443 --> 00:23:42,723
That makes it exceptional.

425
00:23:42,763 --> 00:23:44,043
There was no reason

426
00:23:44,083 --> 00:23:46,043
for these three people
to lose their lives.

427
00:23:46,083 --> 00:23:51,203
And, of course, Michael was insured
by the military as well as by Judy.

428
00:23:52,083 --> 00:23:54,843
There had been about
six insurance policies

429
00:23:54,883 --> 00:23:56,363
that she had taken out.

430
00:23:56,403 --> 00:24:00,603
These were small policies,
15,000, $20,000 policies.

431
00:24:00,643 --> 00:24:03,243
There was one that was
taken out when he was a child.

432
00:24:03,283 --> 00:24:07,043
Well, she had contacted
the insurance company

433
00:24:07,083 --> 00:24:09,243
and because it had lapsed.

434
00:24:09,283 --> 00:24:13,683
And so, she reactivated the
policy by paying some premiums.

435
00:24:13,723 --> 00:24:17,603
And so, there was, I
believe about $120,000

436
00:24:17,643 --> 00:24:22,163
in life insurance benefits that
she received from that one.

437
00:24:22,203 --> 00:24:26,003
She had to believe
that in her mind,

438
00:24:26,043 --> 00:24:29,603
no one is ever going
to figure this out.

439
00:24:29,643 --> 00:24:33,563
"I have totally fooled
all these idiots."

440
00:24:33,603 --> 00:24:38,203
I mean, she must have had
contempt for the investigators

441
00:24:38,243 --> 00:24:41,363
because, "I am
telling you this stuff

442
00:24:41,403 --> 00:24:43,803
"and you're believing
everything I say."

443
00:24:45,083 --> 00:24:50,843
Judy spent the money on vacations,
cars, opening a beauty salon,

444
00:24:50,883 --> 00:24:53,403
called fingers and faces

445
00:24:53,443 --> 00:24:56,083
and basically just
lived a really nice life.

446
00:24:58,123 --> 00:25:03,043
In February 1981, nine months
after the death of her son,

447
00:25:03,083 --> 00:25:06,763
Judy buenoano met
35-year-old army veteran

448
00:25:06,803 --> 00:25:10,163
and local business
owner John gentry.

449
00:25:10,203 --> 00:25:13,683
John had two sons
from a former marriage.

450
00:25:13,723 --> 00:25:19,123
He was very tall, I think
he was like 6'2 " or 6'3".

451
00:25:19,163 --> 00:25:22,323
Handsome, broad
shoulders, easy going.

452
00:25:24,043 --> 00:25:27,043
The kind of person
that when you met him,

453
00:25:27,083 --> 00:25:29,403
you know, you
knew to respect him.

454
00:25:29,443 --> 00:25:35,043
I've never seen him get out of
line or get angry or raise his voice.

455
00:25:35,083 --> 00:25:38,323
He was just that kind of
person when you looked at him,

456
00:25:38,363 --> 00:25:40,043
he commanded respect.

457
00:25:40,083 --> 00:25:41,803
I guess that's the
best way to put it.

458
00:25:45,363 --> 00:25:49,883
John's business specialised
in carpet and flooring tiles.

459
00:25:49,923 --> 00:25:54,403
He had a huge store in pensacola
and it was really successful.

460
00:25:54,443 --> 00:25:56,603
He had several people
working under him.

461
00:25:57,843 --> 00:25:59,643
He looked really
good in a uniform

462
00:25:59,683 --> 00:26:03,643
and one time he told us that,

463
00:26:03,683 --> 00:26:05,963
he was in Vietnam so
he would joke about it,

464
00:26:06,003 --> 00:26:08,819
and he was in Vietnam for three days
because he stepped on a landmine,

465
00:26:08,843 --> 00:26:12,603
and he was actually
blown up in Vietnam

466
00:26:12,643 --> 00:26:15,883
and of course, he
recovered from that.

467
00:26:15,923 --> 00:26:20,323
The only injuries he sustained
were he lost hearing in one ear

468
00:26:20,363 --> 00:26:23,203
and a bunch of scars.

469
00:26:24,043 --> 00:26:26,723
And they seemed to have
quite a good relationship.

470
00:26:26,763 --> 00:26:28,883
Judy really did like
living the high life

471
00:26:28,923 --> 00:26:30,563
at this particular
point in time.

472
00:26:30,603 --> 00:26:32,283
So, they went on some cruises,

473
00:26:32,323 --> 00:26:34,923
they ate out at
expensive restaurants.

474
00:26:34,963 --> 00:26:38,483
She really liked it when he
bought her expensive clothes.

475
00:26:38,523 --> 00:26:42,563
So, this appears to be quite
a successful relationship.

476
00:26:47,363 --> 00:26:49,683
In August 1981,

477
00:26:49,723 --> 00:26:52,603
John moved into the
house in Gulf breeze

478
00:26:52,643 --> 00:26:55,963
to live with buenoano
and her two children.

479
00:26:56,003 --> 00:26:59,523
The first time we met Judy,
we were excited to meet her.

480
00:26:59,563 --> 00:27:02,483
Obviously, you know,
he spoke a lot about her

481
00:27:02,523 --> 00:27:05,523
being beautiful,
intelligent, well off.

482
00:27:05,563 --> 00:27:08,963
I liked her. I liked
her. She was nice.

483
00:27:09,003 --> 00:27:10,283
She took us to Disney.

484
00:27:12,283 --> 00:27:15,483
She was attractive, she
had a great personality.

485
00:27:15,523 --> 00:27:16,843
She seemed like she was rich.

486
00:27:16,883 --> 00:27:20,523
She had a nice house,
she had a boat, car...

487
00:27:22,723 --> 00:27:24,163
..Exclusive community.

488
00:27:24,203 --> 00:27:25,883
She was generous.

489
00:27:25,923 --> 00:27:29,163
Also, the house was very
clean, nicely decorated.

490
00:27:29,203 --> 00:27:33,723
They were affectionate, but
they weren't into kissy-feely,

491
00:27:33,763 --> 00:27:37,523
public show of
affection kind of thing.

492
00:27:37,563 --> 00:27:40,963
I don't know what they were
like when we were not around,

493
00:27:41,003 --> 00:27:43,403
but, you know,
as far as a couple,

494
00:27:43,443 --> 00:27:46,683
they would sit together,
hold hands, hug, kiss.

495
00:27:46,723 --> 00:27:50,683
But not constantly
all over each other,

496
00:27:50,723 --> 00:27:55,283
you know, but we were children,
so maybe they were behaving.

497
00:27:55,323 --> 00:27:58,723
Meanwhile, Judy had been
spreading various rumours

498
00:27:58,763 --> 00:28:02,603
about mr gentry to her
friends that, well, you know,

499
00:28:02,643 --> 00:28:05,083
he seems to be involved
with some shady characters,

500
00:28:05,123 --> 00:28:08,123
maybe some organised
crime connections,

501
00:28:08,163 --> 00:28:11,603
or on the other hand,
he has bad health.

502
00:28:11,643 --> 00:28:14,283
And he did appear
to have bad health

503
00:28:14,323 --> 00:28:20,283
because Judy had been
slipping him some capsules

504
00:28:20,323 --> 00:28:23,563
containing
paraformaldehyde and arsenic.

505
00:28:25,643 --> 00:28:27,883
This wasn't enough to kill him,

506
00:28:27,923 --> 00:28:32,923
but it was causing him to
always feel sick all the time.

507
00:28:33,923 --> 00:28:35,683
As far as I know,

508
00:28:35,723 --> 00:28:38,803
he knew there was an
insurance policy on him,

509
00:28:38,843 --> 00:28:42,043
but he was under the
impression that she had,

510
00:28:42,083 --> 00:28:45,243
for some reason or
another, cancelled the policy.

511
00:28:45,283 --> 00:28:48,923
But it turns out that she
didn't cancel the policy,

512
00:28:48,963 --> 00:28:50,963
it was still active,

513
00:28:51,003 --> 00:28:55,123
but my father was unaware
that she still had the policy on him.

514
00:28:55,163 --> 00:28:57,963
After less than
two years together,

515
00:28:58,003 --> 00:29:02,083
40-year-old buenoano
had some news for John.

516
00:29:02,123 --> 00:29:05,843
Judy announced to him
that she was pregnant.

517
00:29:05,883 --> 00:29:08,963
And so, oh, there now,
they are going to get married.

518
00:29:09,003 --> 00:29:12,843
Well, unbeknownst to mr gentry,

519
00:29:12,883 --> 00:29:15,803
Judy had previously
had a tubal ligation

520
00:29:15,843 --> 00:29:18,363
and was not capable
of getting pregnant

521
00:29:18,403 --> 00:29:20,923
but he did not know that.

522
00:29:20,963 --> 00:29:24,363
So, he thought, "wow,
great, I'm going to be a father."

523
00:29:25,763 --> 00:29:30,643
On 25 June 1983, Judy
had arranged a party

524
00:29:30,683 --> 00:29:33,403
because one of her
members of staff was leaving.

525
00:29:33,443 --> 00:29:37,923
She had a whole range of
beauty salons in the local area

526
00:29:37,963 --> 00:29:40,683
and she'd arranged for
this meal as a leaving do

527
00:29:40,723 --> 00:29:44,323
for one of her staff
members at the restaurant.

528
00:29:44,363 --> 00:29:46,923
Now she wanted John to go along

529
00:29:46,963 --> 00:29:50,163
to the restaurant to
help set up the party.

530
00:29:50,203 --> 00:29:53,803
She told him where to put
his vehicle in a parking lot.

531
00:29:53,843 --> 00:29:57,723
She said, "this is where you need
to park your vehicle right here."

532
00:29:57,763 --> 00:29:59,243
He said, "ok."

533
00:29:59,283 --> 00:30:02,523
So, he parked it right there
in that lot where she said.

534
00:30:02,563 --> 00:30:07,083
Buenoano arrived at the
restaurant sometime after John.

535
00:30:07,123 --> 00:30:09,803
She's driving a
brand-new corvette.

536
00:30:09,843 --> 00:30:13,843
She parks it two blocks
away in front of this motel.

537
00:30:13,883 --> 00:30:15,563
As the party wrapped up,

538
00:30:15,603 --> 00:30:19,483
buenoano encouraged
John to leave without her.

539
00:30:19,523 --> 00:30:24,243
She walked him to the door,
and she told gentry, she said,

540
00:30:24,283 --> 00:30:27,003
"look. I'm going to stay
here for a little while longer.

541
00:30:27,043 --> 00:30:30,083
"What I want you to do is
get a bottle of champagne

542
00:30:30,123 --> 00:30:32,363
"and go on home
and wait for me there

543
00:30:32,403 --> 00:30:33,803
"and we'll celebrate,"

544
00:30:33,843 --> 00:30:37,043
you know, her having the baby
and all this other stuff she said.

545
00:30:37,083 --> 00:30:41,763
John walks out to his car,
gets in, starts the automobile,

546
00:30:41,803 --> 00:30:45,963
and kaboom, the
whole thing explodes.

547
00:30:47,123 --> 00:30:51,803
Here is this car bomb in
sleepy pensacola, Florida.

548
00:30:51,843 --> 00:30:54,523
This is not an ordinary event.

549
00:30:54,563 --> 00:30:59,323
Well, when the thing explodes,
Judy comes out of the restaurant

550
00:30:59,363 --> 00:31:02,363
and people follow her and
she sees the car blown up,

551
00:31:02,403 --> 00:31:06,043
so she goes into having a
fit, and falls on the ground

552
00:31:06,083 --> 00:31:09,643
and pretends she's
having a seizure.

553
00:31:09,683 --> 00:31:14,323
Judy buenoano had
just made a fatal mistake.

554
00:31:18,883 --> 00:31:24,083
25 June 1983,
pensacola, Florida.

555
00:31:25,163 --> 00:31:28,923
John gentry had been
catapulted out of his vehicle

556
00:31:28,963 --> 00:31:30,763
by a homemade bomb

557
00:31:30,803 --> 00:31:34,323
primed to explode as he
turned on his headlights.

558
00:31:35,083 --> 00:31:36,443
He's blown out of the car.

559
00:31:36,483 --> 00:31:38,819
I always thought one of the
great things in this explosion

560
00:31:38,843 --> 00:31:42,683
was his shoes remained
on the floorboard of the car.

561
00:31:42,723 --> 00:31:45,363
He was literally
blown out of his shoes,

562
00:31:45,403 --> 00:31:48,203
but he survives.

563
00:31:49,803 --> 00:31:52,123
Of course, all the
agencies was called.

564
00:31:52,163 --> 00:31:53,803
Atf was there.

565
00:31:53,843 --> 00:31:56,083
Pensacola pd was
there and everything

566
00:31:56,123 --> 00:31:59,443
and it was a real
mess at the time.

567
00:31:59,483 --> 00:32:02,283
They did what they could
because at that time of night,

568
00:32:02,323 --> 00:32:03,883
we really couldn't get too much.

569
00:32:03,923 --> 00:32:06,643
Mr gentry, he was
sent to the hospital.

570
00:32:06,683 --> 00:32:10,243
The vehicle was eventually
moved to the pensacola pd.

571
00:32:10,283 --> 00:32:11,803
It was put in the lot

572
00:32:11,843 --> 00:32:14,083
and actually, the next morning

573
00:32:14,123 --> 00:32:16,443
is when everything
really got started.

574
00:32:16,483 --> 00:32:18,643
The fact that John survived

575
00:32:18,683 --> 00:32:21,763
must have really come
as quite a shock to Judy

576
00:32:21,803 --> 00:32:24,803
and probably shook her deeply.

577
00:32:24,843 --> 00:32:28,483
Judy has failed to kill
her victim in this case.

578
00:32:28,523 --> 00:32:32,163
And I think she feels
incredibly frustrated about this

579
00:32:32,203 --> 00:32:35,763
because the person that she
has tried to murder has survived.

580
00:32:35,803 --> 00:32:39,603
And not only has he survived,
he is now a piece of evidence.

581
00:32:39,643 --> 00:32:41,283
He has lots of information

582
00:32:41,323 --> 00:32:44,403
that he's able to
share with the police.

583
00:32:44,443 --> 00:32:48,683
I'm sure her world must
have just been in a panic

584
00:32:48,723 --> 00:32:54,203
to find out that all the stories
that she'd been telling about him,

585
00:32:54,243 --> 00:32:59,843
the lies about her being
able to have children,

586
00:32:59,883 --> 00:33:03,603
that she was
pregnant with his child,

587
00:33:03,643 --> 00:33:06,643
all that was going
to come to roost,

588
00:33:06,683 --> 00:33:09,563
like, well, what happened,
you know, to her child?

589
00:33:09,603 --> 00:33:12,083
That's going to be
born in, you know,

590
00:33:12,123 --> 00:33:13,803
six or seven months or whatever,

591
00:33:13,843 --> 00:33:15,963
because she was a great planner,

592
00:33:16,003 --> 00:33:20,443
and you just don't plan on
somebody surviving a car bomb.

593
00:33:21,883 --> 00:33:24,883
My uncle called us and
explained what happened

594
00:33:24,923 --> 00:33:28,603
and we were in
shock, and, you know,

595
00:33:28,643 --> 00:33:31,323
he was in his
recovery in the hospital.

596
00:33:31,363 --> 00:33:34,163
I mean, it's like something
you'd hear out of a movie.

597
00:33:34,203 --> 00:33:37,003
I mean, put a bomb in
his car, who does that?

598
00:33:39,483 --> 00:33:41,443
He had a lot of
damage done to him.

599
00:33:41,483 --> 00:33:44,603
So, we knew it would be another
couple of days or a day or so

600
00:33:44,643 --> 00:33:46,723
before we could get to him.

601
00:33:46,763 --> 00:33:49,563
At the very beginning
she was telling us that

602
00:33:49,603 --> 00:33:53,843
mr gentry was getting these
notes, that were threatening notes

603
00:33:53,883 --> 00:33:56,243
that were left on the
windshield of his car.

604
00:33:56,283 --> 00:33:59,643
He was getting these
phone calls and hang ups

605
00:33:59,683 --> 00:34:01,323
and threatening him.

606
00:34:01,363 --> 00:34:04,443
And so, we checked in all to
that and it turned out to be nothing.

607
00:34:06,043 --> 00:34:08,443
And then talking to her friends.

608
00:34:08,483 --> 00:34:11,163
Before the car blew up,

609
00:34:11,203 --> 00:34:16,043
she told everybody
that gentry had cancer.

610
00:34:16,723 --> 00:34:18,963
And he was dying of cancer.

611
00:34:19,523 --> 00:34:22,003
I think that Judy thought
she was really smart.

612
00:34:22,043 --> 00:34:23,443
I don't think she believed

613
00:34:23,483 --> 00:34:26,043
that anybody would
ever join up the dots.

614
00:34:26,083 --> 00:34:29,043
And she did quite a good
job of wiping the slate clean

615
00:34:29,083 --> 00:34:31,723
as she moved from
one life into the next one.

616
00:34:31,763 --> 00:34:35,403
So, I think she honestly did
feel like she was being reborn

617
00:34:35,443 --> 00:34:36,963
time and time again

618
00:34:37,003 --> 00:34:38,883
when she was
building these new lives.

619
00:34:42,683 --> 00:34:44,323
It's fair to say

620
00:34:44,363 --> 00:34:47,883
that if she had been
able to contain herself,

621
00:34:47,923 --> 00:34:51,763
she might never,
ever have faced justice.

622
00:34:52,443 --> 00:34:55,123
But greed overcame her.

623
00:34:55,163 --> 00:34:59,683
If she had not decided
to blow up gentry,

624
00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:02,323
it's entirely possible
that the authorities

625
00:35:02,363 --> 00:35:06,643
would never have looked back
at the killings of Bobby Joe Morris,

626
00:35:06,683 --> 00:35:10,603
at the killing of Michael or of
the killing of James goodyear.

627
00:35:10,643 --> 00:35:14,443
They were, to some
extent, in the past.

628
00:35:14,483 --> 00:35:17,643
Defined as accidents,
tragic nevertheless

629
00:35:17,683 --> 00:35:19,523
but still accidents.

630
00:35:19,563 --> 00:35:24,923
It was only her decision
to blow up gentry

631
00:35:24,963 --> 00:35:28,603
who was eventually to bring her
to the attention of the authorities.

632
00:35:28,643 --> 00:35:31,443
Because gentry
recovering from his injuries

633
00:35:31,483 --> 00:35:34,763
starts to tell them
about the pills,

634
00:35:34,803 --> 00:35:37,003
about the other things
that have happened.

635
00:35:39,083 --> 00:35:40,483
He said, "I don't know."

636
00:35:40,523 --> 00:35:43,603
He said, "Judy was
giving me these pills

637
00:35:43,643 --> 00:35:45,483
"and it was a vitamin pill

638
00:35:45,523 --> 00:35:47,603
"and she said for me
to take them every day

639
00:35:47,643 --> 00:35:51,123
"and it would help me
out and I'd feel a lot better.

640
00:35:51,163 --> 00:35:52,563
"So, I was taking these pills."

641
00:35:52,603 --> 00:35:56,443
He said, "then I quit taking
them and after I quit taking them,

642
00:35:56,483 --> 00:35:59,483
"I didn't get sick
anymore. I was fine."

643
00:35:59,523 --> 00:36:01,963
And he said, "then
I took them again,"

644
00:36:02,003 --> 00:36:04,963
and he said, "I got sick
again." I said, "where are they?"

645
00:36:05,003 --> 00:36:06,843
And he said it
was at his office.

646
00:36:06,883 --> 00:36:10,563
So, we went down and picked up
those capsules that we got from him.

647
00:36:10,603 --> 00:36:12,483
And we sent them off to the lab.

648
00:36:12,523 --> 00:36:15,283
And sure enough,
what was happening,

649
00:36:15,323 --> 00:36:19,403
the vicon-c capsules,
somebody had taken them apart

650
00:36:19,443 --> 00:36:23,283
and put paraformaldehyde inside
them and put them back together again.

651
00:36:25,603 --> 00:36:29,843
There's no question that Judy
chose her poison very carefully.

652
00:36:29,883 --> 00:36:34,523
Paraformaldehyde causes
deterioration of the organs

653
00:36:34,563 --> 00:36:36,123
but doesn't do it quickly.

654
00:36:37,043 --> 00:36:41,403
So, when it came back, yes,
paraformaldehyde, well boom.

655
00:36:41,443 --> 00:36:44,203
That was class three poison.
That hit us right off the bat.

656
00:36:44,243 --> 00:36:46,283
That was enough to go
ahead and get our warrant.

657
00:36:47,403 --> 00:36:50,163
Because we could place
Judy with the pills at her house

658
00:36:50,203 --> 00:36:51,843
with a search warrant.

659
00:36:51,883 --> 00:36:55,563
We got gentry saying she
physically gave him the pills.

660
00:36:55,603 --> 00:36:58,483
He knows that.
That was a big plus.

661
00:36:59,523 --> 00:37:00,843
I think in the beginning,

662
00:37:00,883 --> 00:37:03,043
when John is finding
out all of the details

663
00:37:03,083 --> 00:37:06,923
about what Judy has been
doing, there's incredulity there.

664
00:37:06,963 --> 00:37:08,923
He can't believe this.

665
00:37:08,963 --> 00:37:10,203
You know, this is the woman

666
00:37:10,243 --> 00:37:12,203
that he's in an intimate
relationship with.

667
00:37:12,243 --> 00:37:15,123
But I think as the evidence
becomes more and more compelling,

668
00:37:15,163 --> 00:37:18,763
it does dawn on him that this
woman meant him serious harm.

669
00:37:20,883 --> 00:37:24,483
John was then informed
that a life insurance policy

670
00:37:24,523 --> 00:37:28,923
he thought buenoano had
cancelled was still active.

671
00:37:28,963 --> 00:37:33,443
And that's where this
whole thing came unravelled

672
00:37:33,483 --> 00:37:37,723
because she had her
$500,000 insurance policy

673
00:37:37,763 --> 00:37:40,803
that she was
going to cash in on.

674
00:37:40,843 --> 00:37:46,203
She had already booked a
180-day around the world cruise

675
00:37:46,243 --> 00:37:49,363
for her and her two kids,

676
00:37:49,403 --> 00:37:53,163
but not for John gentry,
her husband to be.

677
00:37:54,123 --> 00:37:57,763
That completely blows
open all of Judy's life,

678
00:37:57,803 --> 00:37:59,803
all of her previous offending,

679
00:37:59,843 --> 00:38:03,603
all of the times when she's
killed other people before.

680
00:38:03,643 --> 00:38:06,603
And I think, had that
murder not failed,

681
00:38:06,643 --> 00:38:09,323
she could have gone on for
quite some time afterwards.

682
00:38:09,363 --> 00:38:11,683
But I think she was getting
quite close to being caught

683
00:38:11,723 --> 00:38:13,003
at this stage,

684
00:38:13,043 --> 00:38:15,483
because she was
becoming quite careless.

685
00:38:15,523 --> 00:38:18,643
She was trying to mix things
up, she was trying to be too clever.

686
00:38:18,683 --> 00:38:20,923
And that's what
led to her downfall.

687
00:38:21,683 --> 00:38:24,603
They began exhuming bodies.

688
00:38:24,643 --> 00:38:26,883
They exhumed James
goodyear's body.

689
00:38:28,963 --> 00:38:32,003
Lethal dose of
arsenic in the system.

690
00:38:32,043 --> 00:38:35,403
She wanted to make sure

691
00:38:35,443 --> 00:38:39,283
that she did the job right with
her husband, James goodyear.

692
00:38:39,323 --> 00:38:45,843
And so, the amount of arsenic in
his system when he was examined

693
00:38:45,883 --> 00:38:50,323
after they exhumed the body,
was enough to kill 15 people.

694
00:38:52,483 --> 00:38:56,523
We had investigators from
Colorado come down to here.

695
00:38:56,563 --> 00:39:00,483
Bobby Joe was buried
in a cemetery in Alabama.

696
00:39:00,523 --> 00:39:03,083
And we had that body exhumed.

697
00:39:03,123 --> 00:39:05,203
We did tests on him

698
00:39:05,243 --> 00:39:07,883
and he had enough in
him for about ten people,

699
00:39:07,923 --> 00:39:11,203
to kill ten people with arsenic.

700
00:39:12,203 --> 00:39:16,203
They exhumed the
body of Michael goodyear.

701
00:39:16,243 --> 00:39:21,323
Find out that there's lethal
doses of arsenic in his system.

702
00:39:21,363 --> 00:39:23,483
It was the arsenic poisoning

703
00:39:23,523 --> 00:39:26,283
that crippled him
but did not kill him.

704
00:39:26,323 --> 00:39:30,323
And with that, they
began mounting the cases.

705
00:39:33,563 --> 00:39:39,363
On 27 July 1983, Judy
buenoano was arrested

706
00:39:39,403 --> 00:39:44,243
and charged with the attempted
murder of her third partner, John gentry.

707
00:39:44,283 --> 00:39:46,203
After being released on bail,

708
00:39:46,243 --> 00:39:50,443
she was arrested once
more in January 1984,

709
00:39:50,483 --> 00:39:54,763
this time for grand theft and
the murder of her son, Michael.

710
00:39:54,803 --> 00:39:58,723
Buenoano claimed to
be innocent of all charges.

711
00:39:58,763 --> 00:40:03,803
The trial on her son, the
drowning, she was very vocal.

712
00:40:03,843 --> 00:40:05,523
She even took the stand.

713
00:40:05,563 --> 00:40:08,083
She really thought that
she could get away with it.

714
00:40:08,123 --> 00:40:09,323
She really did.

715
00:40:09,363 --> 00:40:11,059
She really thought that
she would be able to talk

716
00:40:11,083 --> 00:40:12,603
her way out of these things.

717
00:40:12,643 --> 00:40:16,483
The jury didn't
believe buenoano's lies

718
00:40:16,523 --> 00:40:19,323
and she was found
guilty on all counts.

719
00:40:19,363 --> 00:40:22,723
She was sentenced
to life without parole.

720
00:40:22,763 --> 00:40:24,323
It was a standout case

721
00:40:24,363 --> 00:40:29,803
because it was almost unbelievable
that a person could do this

722
00:40:29,843 --> 00:40:32,723
to their loved ones,

723
00:40:32,763 --> 00:40:38,083
particularly a child
that she gave birth to.

724
00:40:38,123 --> 00:40:40,763
It's just unfathomable.

725
00:40:40,803 --> 00:40:42,563
Later that same year,

726
00:40:42,603 --> 00:40:45,043
buenoano found
herself back on trial,

727
00:40:45,083 --> 00:40:48,163
charged with the attempted
murder of John gentry.

728
00:40:48,203 --> 00:40:50,883
On 18 October 1984,

729
00:40:50,923 --> 00:40:55,603
she was found guilty and sentenced
to a further 12 years behind bars.

730
00:40:56,403 --> 00:40:58,643
Maybe my father would have died,

731
00:40:58,683 --> 00:41:02,443
and maybe she would've
married again and killed again.

732
00:41:02,483 --> 00:41:06,723
I mean, with the number
of people that she killed,

733
00:41:06,763 --> 00:41:09,803
she was obviously,
didn't have a conscience

734
00:41:09,843 --> 00:41:12,643
and would probably
have done it again.

735
00:41:12,683 --> 00:41:16,603
Despite the sentences
already handed out to her,

736
00:41:16,643 --> 00:41:19,683
buenoano would
have to face a third trial,

737
00:41:19,723 --> 00:41:21,683
this time for the
first-degree murder

738
00:41:21,723 --> 00:41:24,763
of her original partner,
James goodyear.

739
00:41:24,803 --> 00:41:27,043
Once again, she was found guilty

740
00:41:27,083 --> 00:41:29,923
and her punishment
was even more severe.

741
00:41:29,963 --> 00:41:33,003
On 26 November 1985,

742
00:41:33,043 --> 00:41:36,443
Judy buenoano was
sentenced to death.

743
00:41:37,203 --> 00:41:41,403
Judy's crimes were cold,
calculated and premeditated.

744
00:41:41,443 --> 00:41:44,243
Those are the kinds of
murders in the state of Florida

745
00:41:44,283 --> 00:41:47,003
that cry out for
the death penalty.

746
00:41:47,043 --> 00:41:52,163
The death penalty is
designed for people like Judy.

747
00:41:53,163 --> 00:41:56,083
On 30 march 1998,

748
00:41:56,123 --> 00:42:00,003
Judy buenoano was
executed via the electric chair

749
00:42:00,043 --> 00:42:02,003
in Florida state prison.

750
00:42:02,043 --> 00:42:04,243
She was 54 years old.

751
00:42:05,323 --> 00:42:07,723
At the time of Judy's execution,

752
00:42:07,763 --> 00:42:10,083
it was quite a big event
in the state of Florida

753
00:42:10,123 --> 00:42:11,323
because it had been decades

754
00:42:11,363 --> 00:42:14,203
since a woman was
sentenced to death.

755
00:42:15,363 --> 00:42:18,083
She died without

756
00:42:18,123 --> 00:42:21,763
ever saying anything at all,

757
00:42:21,803 --> 00:42:25,363
apologising or
admitting anything.

758
00:42:25,403 --> 00:42:29,403
She took it all with her.

759
00:42:30,003 --> 00:42:33,283
And I can't imagine

760
00:42:33,323 --> 00:42:37,243
what she was even
thinking at the end.

761
00:42:38,203 --> 00:42:40,363
"Why are they doing this to me?

762
00:42:40,403 --> 00:42:42,643
"I didn't do anything wrong."

763
00:42:42,683 --> 00:42:45,203
She really got
what she deserved.

764
00:42:45,243 --> 00:42:50,403
I knew they were trying to
say that when she was in jail

765
00:42:50,443 --> 00:42:54,003
that she found this
religion and that religion,

766
00:42:54,043 --> 00:42:56,083
and she was helping,
and she had gone to school

767
00:42:56,123 --> 00:42:58,643
and got a degree in
this and a degree in that.

768
00:42:58,683 --> 00:43:01,123
You know, that's
all fine and good.

769
00:43:01,163 --> 00:43:03,723
But, you know, you got to
look back at what she did,

770
00:43:03,763 --> 00:43:05,883
especially to her own son.

771
00:43:05,923 --> 00:43:09,683
Judy buenoano was
a cold, calculating killer

772
00:43:09,723 --> 00:43:13,123
who planned her murders
meticulously for years.

773
00:43:13,163 --> 00:43:17,683
She ruthlessly destroyed the lives
of those who loved and trusted her

774
00:43:17,723 --> 00:43:20,603
for her own selfish
financial gain.

775
00:43:20,643 --> 00:43:25,523
Making Judy buenoano one
of the world's most evil killers.

776
00:43:25,563 --> 00:43:28,563
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