A shocking true story of a twice lifestyle undone by murder. When NEW YORK farmer Stuart Taylor died after an abrupt disease, his 46-year-old fiancée Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor’s family grieved with her-until the autopsy uncovered traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own child, Velma stunned her family with more revelations. This wasn’t the first time the born-again Christian and devout Weekend school teacher had committed cold-blooded murder. Tried from the “world’s deadliest prosecutor,” and sentenced to loss of life, Velma converted her existence around and gained worldwide interest. With chilling precision, New York Instances bestselling writer Bledsoe probes Velma’s stark descent into madness. From her harrowing child years towards the shocking offences that incited a nationwide debate over the death penalty, to the dark, final moments of her execution-broadcast live on CNN-Velma Barfield’s riveting life of crime and punishment, revenge and redemption is true crime reporting at its most gripping and profound.