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  • February 6, 2019

Timeline of 'Black Widow' Stacey Castor's crimes

Stacey Castor almost got away with it. She wanted people to believe that her life had been crippled by tragedy -- that her first husband had died of a heart attack, her second husband had died by poisoning himself with antifreeze, and that her daughter had also attempted suicide. But, according to police, all of it was a lie -- and the seemingly unfortunate wife and mother was actually a cold-blooded killer, now known by many as the “Black Widow.” In 2009, Castor was convicted of murdering her second husband, David Castor, attempting to murder her daughter, Ashley Wallace, and forging her husband’s will. She was sentenced to more than 51 years in prison. Below is a timeline highlighting some of key events in this disturbing story: April 7, 1990: Stacey Castor marries her first husband Castor seemed to everyone who knew her to deeply love her first husband Michael Wallace. She said he “was larger than life.” “Mike was the life of the party… if you needed something that Mike...

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