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Betty Lou Beets (March 12, 1937 – February 24, 2000) was a murderer executed in the U.S. state of Texas. She was convicted of shooting her fifth husband, Jimmy Don Beets, on August 6, 1983.
Sep 12, 2020 · Betty Lou Beets is what one might call a black widow murderer – or someone who’s killed her husband. But, there is more to the woman’s life than that. Born in North Carolina, Betty had a rough upbringing. She lost her hearing at the age of three, due to measles.
Jun 12, 2018 · Married six times, Betty Lou is referring to the abuse she suffered at the hands of her five husbands (she married one man twice). In 1985, she was convicted of murdering the fifth and final man she married, Jimmy Don Beets. She was also suspected of killing her ex-husband, Doyle Wayne Barker.
Betty Lou Beets, convicted of murdering her husband in 1983, was put to death by lethal injection at 6:18 p.m. CST at a state prison in Huntsville, Texas. Beets' attorneys exhausted their last legal recourse about an hour before the execution, when Gov. George W. Bush declined to stop it.
Feb 25, 2000 · HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Feb. 24 -- Betty Lou Beets, a 62-year-old woman who said she was a battered wife, was executed Thursday night for the 1983 murder of her fifth husband, after losing last-ditch...
Feb 25, 2000 · Betty Lou Beets on death row in Texas. A 62-year-old great-grandmother in the United States has been executed at a prison in Texas. Betty Lou Beets was killed by lethal injection after...
Betty Lou Beets (March 12, 1937 – February 24, 2000) was a murderer executed in the U.S. state of Texas. She was convicted of shooting her fifth husband, Jimmy Don Beets, on August 6, 1983.
