After a full recovery he returned home, and on that same day Buenoano gave him Vicon C capsules again. "I swore to Michael I would never tell," she said. ''This was a mean person. She feeds off her mates and her young. Eighteen-year-old Kimberly Goodyear's surprise testimony threw yet another strange twist into the first-degree murder trial of her mother, who is accused of poisoning her husband in Orlando 14 years ago. Sentence Date: 11/26/1985 In a television interview a few days before the execution Judi said "I would like to clear the record for my grandson, I would like for him to know that his grandmother was not a murderer.". On learning Chamberlain Buenoano is Spanish for ``good year,'' the detective managed to find out Ms. Buenoano had changed her last name from Goodyear. Judys two older brothers were sent for adoption. Following Goodyear's death in 1971, Buenoano collected the benefits from various life insurance policies on her husband's life totalling approximately $33,000. Sentence Date: 11/26/1985 Hospitalized for twelve days beginning December 16, Gentry noted that his symptoms disappeared when he stopped taking the vitamins. ABOLISH Archives (Associated Press & Rick Halperin) In an interview afterwards prison spokesman Gene Morris said. Another boyfriend mysteriously died. Judi received $20,000 from Michael's military life insurance but the sheriffs officers began taking interest in the case when it was discovered that there were also two other, civilian, policies on Michael's life. Buenoano was convicted of poisoning her husband with arsenic in 1971, then collecting $85,000 in life insurance proceeds. In 1983, she was found guilty of attempted murder in a car bombing that injured her boyfriend, John Gentry. feeds off her mates and her young,'" prosecutor Russell Edgar said. In the television interview, Ms. Buenoano contends the deaths and the bombing all were coincidental. Joe Morris in Trinidad, Colo., in 1978. According to Dr. Barry, Michael would be unable to walk without his braces, cast a fishing line, or swim. When Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker on Tuesday, 14 years had passed since a woman was put to death in the United States. She was convicted of drowning Michael Goodyear, her 19-year-old son, by giving him arsenic -- which might have caused his paralysis -- and pushing him out of a canoe. The appellant's version was that Michael was thrown into the water when the canoe capsized, which she said occurred approximately a mile upstream from where Hicks discovered her and James. She clenched her fists, shut her eyes and lowered her head as prison officials securely strapped her into the wooden chair. ''You never give up hope,'' she said. (Source: St. Petersburg Times) On July 27, count officers and federal agents searched Judis home in Gulf Breeze, retrieving wire and tape from her bedroom that seemed to match the Gentry car bomb. "This is something I have to live with the rest of my life," Kimberly shot back. When he started his car a bomb exploded and he was seriously injured as a result. freed slave was hanged in Jacksonville for the murder of her master. The pleas did not work. pushed out of a canoe into a river by his mother. In 1967 they had a daughter, Kimberley and were now living in Orlando, Florida. She also testified that Buenoano hesitated to take Goodyear to the hospital when he became ill. Two of Buenoano's acquaintances, Constance Lang and Mary Beverly Owens, both testified that Buenoano discussed with each of them on separate occasions the subject of killing a person by adding arsenic to his food. Judy also received payments from three life insurance policies on Bobby Joe Morris. Again the cause was a mystery to his doctors and he was soon discharged. Near death, he was rushed to the hospital where trauma surgeons managed to save his life. He asked Judy for a comment before sentencing. Sentence Date: 11/06/1984 The trial court based its finding of aggravation on the fact that Goodyears death was not swift and painless, but was the result of Buenoano slowly and methodically poisoning him. She was also suspected in the 1980 death of her boyfriend Gerald Dossett. Jones was executed last week, as was serial killer Gerald Stano, who admitted killing 41 women. Under questioning by defense lawyer James Johnston, Kimberly Goodyear said Morris had abused her for several years before they moved from Pensacola to Colorado in 1977. Buenoano's death sentence resulted from a 1985 conviction for killing her husband of nine years, Air Force Sgt. At 7:08 a.m., the power was turned on. It was also found in the body of James Goodyear who was exhumed in March of that year. The Army subsequently diagnosed Michael with arsenic poisoning. She also earned money selling knitted items. But three separate juries have agreed that Buenoano's motive was money -- to collect life insurance. At the time of his death, Michael was covered by several insurance policies. Appellant had stated that she was spending nearly $40,000.00 in home alterations for Michael's return. months after Karla Faye Tucker of Texas become the 2nd woman to die in Nevertheless, like the Scott Peterson trial, a jurors background was not discovered before the trial started. She spent her time confined to 6 x 9 x 9.5 feet high cell. En route to his new post, he stopped off to visit his mother in Florida, and that was the beginning of the end. place," said Mrs. Hawkins, 30. Relationshipto Murderer It has not been used since an incident in March, undergoing inspections and court review for the last year. was seen to curl up from her right leg throughout the 38 second cycle, but there were no flames. She told John Gentry that she had various bogus qualifications and had worked as a senior nurse in Florida. On rebuttal, the state presented Kimberly's boyfriend, David Lackey, who testified that Kimberly had told him that appellant had drowned Michael in order to collect insurance. 1985) (Direct Appeal-Michael). Before years end, an accidental blaze at her Orlando home paid Judy another $90,000 in fire insurance. feeds off her mates and her young,'" prosecutor Russell Edgar said. It had nothing to do with me. It did not attract the media attention that Karla Faye Tucker's execution had. She said it was useless to go back for Michael. They also are challenging this month. Another boyfriend mysteriously died. She collected more than $240,000 in insurance money from the deaths of her husband, a son, and a boyfriend in Colorado, but was never prosecuted. (Tuesday, March 31, 1998) STARKE - Judy Buenoano told her family her only fear about going to the electric chair yesterday was leaving her children behind. No woman had been executed in Florida in her life time and only two others in the country as whole, so the potential of the death penalty was unlikely to have been much of a deterrent to her. 100-year-old Tampa man was a WWII Buffalo Soldier. She said that she surfaced after the canoe capsized, spotted James face down in the water, cleared his air passage, and resuscitated him. Buenoano's attorney said she was working on a federal appeal. James and Judi-- described in press reports of the incident as Dr. Judias Buenoano, a clinical physician in Ft. Walton--made it safely to shore, but Michael sank like a stone and drowned. She later claimed that her father and Lawton Chiles, a Democrat who has signed 31 death warrants since becoming Governor in 1990, including Ms. Buenoano's in December, has not publicly wavered. After Morris' death Buenoano and John Gentry began living together and later became engaged. I was a devout Catholic. Michael required braces, weighing approximately 3 1/2 pounds each, on both legs for ambulation and a Robbins hook on his right arm, weighing approximately two pounds, to enable him to hold objects. allow execution by lethal injection instead of electrocution. A 29 year old admirer in Rocky Ford, Colorado wrote to 46 year old Judy in 1989. If shed just let that last boyfriend alone, she probably could have walked away from the other murders." A report by the Office of the Inspector General concluded, Martz poorly represented the Laboratory and the FBI in this case.. ``He came home from Vietnam ill and he never got well,'' she said. But we can choose a better way for her to die. Hicks *389 drove appellant's car to a nearby phone where he called the county rescue squad. (Velma Barfield and Karla Faye Tucker) She was not an especially attractive 54 year old and her execution was the third in a series of four that Florida carried out in quick succession that Spring. They cheer me up.. The guy was paralyzed," Edgar said. Death row inmates are served meals three times a day: at 5:00 a.m., from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Food is prepared by prison personnel and is transported in insulated carts to the cells. Judy and Michael joined Bobby Joe Morris in Colorado, after Judy collected another insurance payment from a house fire. The county sheriff and Hicks returned to the capsized canoe to look for Michael. Inmates are allowed plates and spoons to eat their meals. Mom died of tuberculosis when Judy was a child. told police she had also given him pills that made him sick. Next to him was Dusty Rhodes, who as a state attorney investigator had gathered evidence against Buenoano in the Goodyear case. Sentence Date: 06/06/1984 She spent her time confined to 6 x 9 x 9.5 feet high cell. On August 10, James Buenoano was acquitted of trying to kill James Gentry, but his mother would be less fortunate. Upon learning this, Gentry provided police with the "vitamin pills" which Buenoano had been giving him; these were found to contain arsenic and formaldehyde. A jury acquitted James Goodyear of John Gentrys attempted murder. Gentry was severely injured when his car exploded. My father, Ben Sherrod, was the man Morris and Buenoano killed in Brewton, Alabama in 1974. Please enter valid email address to continue. She clenched her fists, shut her eyes and lowered her head as prison officials securely strapped her into the wooden chair. They do not have cable television or air-conditioning and they are not allowed to associate with each other. she received or stood to collect insurance benefits, Edgar said. Bank records showed that appellant had a history of returned checks from June, 1979 until July, 1980. Its no wonder that Judy Buenoano is called the ``Black Widow.. Edgar said. Prosecutors say she gave four different versions of what happened, but that she pushed him out of a canoe near Pensacola's East River in 1980. Dubbed the "black widow," Buenoano, 54, also was convicted in 1980 of killing her 19-year-old paralyzed son by pushing him from a canoe. In November of 1982, Gentry caught a cold, and Buenoano began giving him the vitamin C capsule Vicon C to treat it. On August 31, 1984, Buenoano was indicted for first degree murder for the September 16, 1971 death by suspected arsenic poisoning of her husband, Sergeant James E. Goodyear. The county sheriff and Hicks returned to the capsized canoe to look for Michael. Appellant had stated that she was spending nearly $40,000.00 in home alterations for Michael's return. Two days later, he collap Later that year, she legally changed her name to "Buenoano" (Spanish for "good year"). Buenoano v. State, 478 So.2d 387 (Fla.App. March 1961. She hung around Pensacola long enough to collect fire insurance on a second house, then reclaimed Michael from foster care and moved west with her tribe, settling in Trinidad as Judias Morris. It is claimed that Bobby Joe's mother overheard Judi telling "The son of a bitch shouldn't have come up here in the first place. A former neighbor and, later, housemate, Constance Lang, testified that appellant was ashamed of Michael. Ms. Hawkins said she stayed in close touch with her mother through weekly letters. No toxicological assay was performed at the time of Goodyear's death because there was no reason to suspect toxic poisoning. She had 2 children Michael Buenoano, Kimberly Hawkins. James passed a physical on June 20. They had tracked down a witness who said Buenoano told her not to divorce her husband but instead kill him with arsenic.
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