10 Wicked Details Surrounding Stacey Castor, The “Black Widow”

6 /10 Investigation

When she failed to visit or mourn over the graves at all, police grew suspicious.

They set up wiretaps and cameras over the graves of her husbands, which were conveniently next to one another, to wait and see how she reacted to the second-time widowing.

They also found a turkey baster with the same antifreeze concoction David was poisoned with and evidence that it was used to force-feed the man until his death.

Everything seemed to look like a string of bad luck for Mrs. Castor, but the police weren’t convinced that two husbands dying in a row were a coincidence.

5 /10 Loose End

Investigations continued into 2007, leading up to the exhumation and autopsy of Michael Wallace, which found evidence of antifreeze in his system.

As a result, Stacey panicked and called her daughter for support. She wanted to share a drink with her college daughter once to help her relax from all the death and sadness.

She mixed up a glass which Ashley accepted despite being nasty and bitter because her mom was her best friend, who she trusted completely. Ashley fainted after taking the drink and was left unconscious.

4 /10 Set-Up

Ashley was discovered nearly a full day later by Bree, who knew her sister was sick and suffering and demanded that the police be called.

Stacey relented and agreed, but while Bree was out of the room, her back turned, Stacey slipped a suicide note written as if it belonged to Ashley, pinning her for both murders from as young as 11.

When the police arrived, Ashley was taken to the hospital and saved. They claimed if she were just minutes late, she would have died from the potent mix of alcohol and painkillers.

3 /10 Breaking It Down

Stacey was arrested for the second-degree murder of David Castor and the attempted murder of her daughter later in 2007.

The evidence the prosecution managed to collect was substantial, and the suicide note that magically appeared by the comatose Ashley’s side seemingly placed a pin in the whole thing.

District Attorney William Fitzpatrick noted that “if there is a ceiling in terms of evil, she is at the ceiling.”

2 /10 Testimony

Ashley came to testify, first on her defense over never writing the note or participating in the deaths – which she believed were just illness and suicide all along – and the reason for Stacey attempted to argue that the daughter was involved to a reasonable degree.

They ultimately failed in all of their defenses, and after two years of trials, Castor was found guilty of both counts, but the prolonged wait between the death of Michael Wallace meant his death went unveiled.

1 /10 Poisoned Love

Stacey maintained her innocence despite the overwhelming evidence and testimony against her and was more or less abandoned by her core family.

Though some still believed she was an unexpected victim, it didn’t satisfy the sentencing, which saw her committed for over 51 years – well past her expected lifespan.

In 2016 she was found dead in her cell by unknown means, ruled as a heart attack. Her story became a hot topic, especially as it was adapted into a Lifetime network film.