"Sometimes, electrocution lends itself to a little more frivolity than I think the state should be involved in.". A former nurse, manicurist and cocktail waitress, she was first convicted of attempted murder in 1983 after her fiance, John Gentry, survived a car bomb in the Florida city of Pensacola. Ive been here 3 years and before this I never even knew a soul who had been arrested. She said she also saw Michael put something into Morris' beer. Asked whether she had a last statement, Buenoano said in a barely audible voice, "No, sir." ``I love her letters. And unlike the Tucker case, there have been no demonstrations against Mrs Buenoano's execution, and little or no sign of outcry in Florida or elsewhere. In 1984, Buenoano was found guilty of attempting to murder Gentry. Judy Goodyear might have been happy until May 1971. Her father remarried and moved to Roswell, New Mexico. She might have gotten away with her crimes, they said, if she hadn't botched the bombing and left a trail back to her. When asked if she had any last words, Buenoano murmured, No, sir. She died as she had lived quietly, with a twisted story hidden underneath the surface. Judy Buenoano, born Judias Welty, spent the early years of her life in Texas where she was raised by her father and mother alongside her two older siblings and baby brother, Robert. Despite the convictions, Buenoano's daughter, Kimberly Hawkins, 30, steadfastly believes in her mother's innocence. And it was there where she began a relationship with a new man named Bobby Morris in 1972. It was the only murder there that year. After the police responded to anonymous tip, they found a corpse with a gunshot wound and a slashed throat in a hotel room. Gentry parked in a garage, and left his sun roof open. Prosecutors called Buenoano the "Black Widow," saying she attracted men to kill them for insurance money. And yet her case still stands out because of the disturbing greed behind the murders. Ms. Buenoano collected $85,000 in life insurance and veteran benefits after Goodyear died. Keep up the excellent writing. But you'll need the stomach for it, the friend quoted Buenoano as telling her. When asked if she had any last words, Buenoano said "No, sir." However, his car exploded before the celebration began. Reporters outnumbered protesters. Additionally, I could not find any references to an Australian Commanche tribe. The guy was paralyzed. She also bounced several checks during 1979 and 1980. It had nothing to do with me. Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. But she was in a restaurant, hosting a party for an employee. James Goodyear and quickly began a relationship with him. Chamberlain plans to witness the execution. Buenoano convinced Gentry her future fianc that they should take out life insurance policies on each other. At age 10, she lived in Roswell, N.M., with her father and new wife whom she said beat her. She was also convicted for the 1980 murder of her son Michael Buenoano and of the 1983 attempted murder of her boyfriend John Gentry. Authorities also believe she was responsible for more than Michaels drowning. In the event of Gentrys death, Buenoano would receive $500,000. Following her conviction, Judy Buenoano lived on Death Row in the Broward Correctional Institution for 13 years. A person this cruel really needs to get what she deserves. He later described seeing her for the first time, recalling darkly: [Judy] was standing at the bar, all dressed in black. While authorities also believed that she was responsible for the death of Morris, Colorado prosecutors decided not to formally file murder charges since she was already given the death sentence in Florida in 1985. Her formerly dear husband James returned to Florida in May 1971, after one year in Vietnam. Unfortunately (for Judy), her car bomb did not kill John Gentry. Buenoano has not alleged that any evidence she has received to date as a result of her requests qualifies as newly discovered or that she anticipates documents yet to be produced will contain evidence that she previously could not have obtained. Personally, Im glad Morris died a horrible death and I can only hope that Buenoano was absolutely terrified before she rode the lightning. Mom died of tuberculosis when Judy was a child. Judy used her earnings to mail prayer tracts. . Did Drew Peterson Murder Kathleen and Stacy? The Army subsequently diagnosed Michael with arsenic poisoning. Motivation Type. She showed no mercy. It was an accident. On September 15, 1971 James Goodyear, Senior seemed to die of natural causes. Buenoano, 54, was the first woman to be put to death in an electric chair and only the third woman to be executed in the United States since a Supreme Court ruling reinstated the death penalty in. Two of Buenoanos acquaintances, Constance Lang and Mary Beverly Owens, testified that Buenoano discussed with each of them on separate occasions the subject of killing a person by adding arsenic to his food. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. "He didn't want me to live with it.". But it was unclear what effect her testimony would have in the increasingly complex case against Buenoano, 42, who may testify today. Michaels father is presumed to be Air Force Sergeant Arthur Leroy Schultz. Owens testified that after hearing an upsetting phone call between Owens and her husband, Buenoano suggested that Owens take out more life insurance and then poison him with arsenic. "You be a girl for a little while and you see how it feels . "Vitamin pills" which Buenoano had been giving Gentry contained arsenic and paraformaldehyde. Serial Killer Database Wiki. I saw her cry during the trial. . And the next year, she was convicted of killing her husband and condemned to death. A 29 year old admirer in Rocky Ford, Colorado wrote to 46 year old Judy in 1989. Judias V. "Judy" Buenoano (born Judias Welty, also known as Judias Goodyear and Judias Morris; April 4, 1943 March 30, 1998) was an American serial killer who was executed for the 1971 murder of her husband James Goodyear. The two got married in 1962 and had two more children, James and Kimberly. James Goodyear. In the front row sat Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry, who prosecuted Buenoano in 1984. James Goodyear. Judy eventually collected over $240,000 from the deaths of James Goodyear, Michael Buenoano and Bobby Joe Morris. After her mother died when she was four years old, she was sent to live with other family members. "It brings finality and a final chapter in this saga.". Judias Welty, named for her mother, was born in Quanah, Texas on April 4, 1943. She bought dynamite from a man who also reported it stolen. The couple made plans to meet later, at home after Judys event. Death-penalty supporters included Larin Cone, whose brother, Floyd Jr., was killed in 1981 when Edward Kennedy escaped from prison and shot him and a state trooper to death. There has been no similar outcry for Buenoano, described as one of the most infamous women in Florida's prison system. Both bodies contained arsenic. Therefore, (according to Judy) she had no poison, and Martz switched samples or added the poison to John Gentrys Vicon C pills. [1], Judy Welty was married to James Goodyear (born December 7, 1933), a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Hawkins "was very emotional and very touching, but she was inaccurate in her information," Crist said. Shes like a black widow. They cheer me up.. A former nurse, manicurist and cocktail waitress, she was first convicted of attempted murder in 1983 after her fiance, John Gentry, survived a car bomb in the Florida city of Pensacola. She was sentenced to 12 years for the bombing, and Gentrys tale started investigators on the path that led to discovery of her other crimes. At the time, I thought she was very sweet and very kind. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds. Sadly, the hospital could not diagnose his illness. She also beat her parents. Call the National Domestic Abuse Hotline 1-800-799-7233 for help. She collected about $240,000 in insurance money from the deaths of her husband, son and a boyfriend in Colorado. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ She poisoned her husband with arsenic, drowned her paralyzed son and tried to blow up her fiance with a car bomb. I was not in Vietnam. They had watched the exhumation of Goodyear's body to check for poison. ", He said he and Michael came home once to find Morris "chasing Kimberly around the house.". Tuesday, Rep. Tracy Stafford, a Democrat from Broward County, argued that the electric chair "tends to be sensationalized and trivialized. I dont want to see her burned alive in it. Then, a year ago this month, flames a foot long burst from the hood of Pedro Medina after the chair short-circuited during his execution. And the guy aint home from the hospital for 24 hours before she drowns him. Bobby Joe Morris said, Judi, we should never have done that terrible thing, before he died. "People have burned alive in it. Then, read about the crimes of 11 famous American serial killers. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Buenoano received substantial life insurance payouts after each death. Female guards were brought in to be with Buenoano in her final days. They had Communion and a final contact visit. But Thompson ruled evidence about the bombing was not admissible in the current trial because it was not similar to James Edgar Goodyear's poisoning death. It wasnt an accident. James Goodyear testified that Morris was "a drunkard" who frequently became threatening when he was drunk. Over the next three years, the relationship grew. Juror Battle did not disclose his conviction for involuntary mansluaghter in another state. Copyright 2023, The Spokesman-Review | Community Guidelines | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy, House narrowly approves rules amid concerns about McCarthys concessions, Biden declares emergency as latest in parade of cyclones takes aim at California , NYC millionaire who killed young son in 2010 takes her own life, fulfilling murder-suicide plan . The new family moved to Orlando, Florida in the late 1960s to . Gentry, who met Ms. Buenoano at a mud-wrestling match in the early 1980s, told police she had also given him pills that made him sick. She did things with us, she has told The Associated Press. Investigators first became suspicious of Ms. Buenoano in 1983, after her fiance, John Gentry, survived a car bombing in downtown Pensacola. Edgar said she gave four different versions of how Michael died: a snake fell into their canoe and it overturned; the canoe hit a log; he was decapitated by a boat propeller; he died as a result of Army chemical warfare. she's like a black widow - she feeds off her mates and her young,' " prosecutor Russell Edgar said. In prison, Judy passed a course from International Bible Institute to teach the Bible. If you like dark action, burning passions, and peeks into insanity, then youll love Mitchell D. Millers slice into stranger heads. Buenoano never admitted to her crimes and once bragged that Florida would never execute her. "When I was asking the judge in the drowning case to admit the other killings (as evidence), I said `Judge . Perry accused her of lying to help her mother. FacebookBuenoano never admitted to her crimes and once bragged that Florida would never execute her. P-a 50mm25m 410150, TANOSEE . Fastest Corvette ever is all-wheel-drive gas-electric hybrid, Good, bad: Critical range theory, recycling to incinerator, saving seabirds, manatees | Editorial, Tampa Bay has a stake in Haitis unrest. Members of Pax Christi, a state group organized with the Roman Catholic Church, held signs that read Buenoano is "a woman not a spider.". After the Gentry case, an autopsy on Sgt Goodyear's exhumed body revealed that he had been poisoned with arsenic. I used Judy in this article, because I found it more often while searching for information. They called her a devoted Roman Catholic, a beloved mother and grandmother, a woman who had had a tough childhood but went on to raise a family of her own. However, her given name was Judias, and she signed her letter Judi Buenoano. Judy was the defendant in three trials: the murders of Goodyear and Morris, and attempting to murder Gentry. Shes like a black widow, he said. [7] In 1985 she was convicted of the murder of James Goodyear. Assistant State Attorney Belvin Perry disagreed with Judy. Investigators had plenty to find _ including the crime that sent her to death row, the murder of Air Force Sgt. The fire was blamed on human error. Barfield and Tucker died by injection. During one of her hearings, Mrs Buenoano, who was born in Texas and whose mother died when she was four, said she had been physically and sexually abused during her youth by relatives she stayed with. John Gentry also left his sun roof open. Conviction(s) Murder (First-degree) (x2 . I ask the court to spare my life. Even when she moved in with her father and his new wife at age 10, she said that she was often beaten while living there as well. Judy Buenoano walked shakily to Florida's electric chair Monday, her head freshly shaved. A year before being sent to death row in 1985, Buenoano was convicted of the 1980 drowning of Michael Goodyear, the son she had as a teenager before she met the Air Force sergeant. Buenoano had collected about $240,000 in life insurance money after the murders. She had insurance policies on both men. "Vaya con Dios" - Go with God. Just a few months after he returned in May, the healthy man began to suffer from mysterious symptoms. It was only when her last fiancs car mysteriously exploded in 1983 that the police began to get suspicious. ``Even now she is the same, said Kimberly Hawkins. She was incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections Broward Correctional Institution death row for women. They cheer me up.". Pensacola prosecutor Russell Edgar said Judy had four stories about Michaels death. Sergeant James Goodyear (shown) married Judy on November 21, 1962. She told Gentry where to meet her, and where to park his car. His death was initially believed to be due to natural causes. On top of those convictions, she was. At age 10, she lived in Roswell, N.M., with her father and new wife whom she said beat her. Judy Buenoano walked shakily to Florida's electric chair Monday, her head freshly shaved. She had claimed he fell out of a canoe on a fishing trip but the court ruled that she had pushed him overboard to collect insurance money. Judy finally ended her abuse by scalding two stepbrothers with hot grease. Judy began giving him tiny amounts of arsenic, just enough for the poisoning to go unnoticed. After Michaels death, Buenoano began dating a new man named John Gentry. A report by the Office of the Inspector General concluded, Martz poorly represented the Laboratory and the FBI in this case.. Wardens at Broward Correctional Institution in Pembroke Pines, just north of Miami, say she has spent the last few days crocheting or knitting baby clothes which her daughter, Kimberly Hawkins, sells. Johnston said he expects to call Buenoano to testify today. In both cases, "Old Sparky", after an overhaul by electricians, functioned smoothly. She was convicted of multiple counts of grand theft (for insurance fraud), and is thought to have committed multiple acts of arson (again, for purposes of insurance fraud). Nevertheless, his injuries healed. It was Floridas first execution with female guards, escorting an inmate to their execution. And by 7:13 a.m., Buenoano, 54, had become the first woman executed in the state in 150 years and the first woman to die in the chair. And then there is the nature of her crimes. Smoke rose from the electrode attached to her right leg. John Gentry gave police two of Judys fake Vicon C vitamins for testing. Leo Jones, a Death Row inmate, challenged the use of the chair, saying it represented "cruel and unusual punishment" under the US Constitution, but the Florida Supreme Court ruled against him, and the state legislature voted last week to retain the chair. Buenoanos crimes had spanned 12 years. Buenoano was the first woman to be executed in Florida since 1848 or electrocuted in USA since 1976. Two witnesses testified that Buenoano admitted she killed James Goodyear. Shes like a black widow - she feeds off her mates and her young, Edgar said last week, repeating comments he made at her trial for her sons 1980 drowning. Judy rejoined her father, ten years later. Morris became ill and went into the hospital a short time later, she said. This is her twisted story. Finally, Judy did not help herself in court. He and Kimberly are Buenoano's children by Goodyear. John Gentry and Judi Buenoano took out $50,000 life insurance policies on each other, after their engagement. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Perry and Rhodes called Buenoano a cold, calculating killer. The fire led many to say injection is a more humane method of execution. Judy Buenoano at Wikipedia Judias Buenoano. Also this week, a lawyer for Buenoano went to the state Supreme Court, alleging that the state has refused to disclose information that would show an FBI crime lab manager provided unreliable evidence against her client. Judy Buenoano's daughter said Monday she watched her older brother poison their stepfather seven years ago. Her payment was increased, because she claimed Kennedy was executed in 1992. On May 3, 1978 Judy changed her last name to Buenoano, Goodyear in Spanish. . "Executions are just an excuse for vengeance toward people," said Martina Linnenahm, a member of the group. Her mother died when she was four, and she was sent along with her baby brother Robert, to live with her grandparents. It was an accident, she told NBC. "She worked a lot . Special Agent Roger Martz tested the capsules, and found the poison paraformaldehyde. She poisoned him to make him paraplegic. Ms. Hawkins objected to Floridas electric chair. And so she ate her last meal on March 30, 1998. He came home from Vietnam ill, and he never got well. Judy Buenoano met with her two children, a cousin and her spiritual adviser through the night. Cone said Buenoano did not deserve mercy because of her gender. However, Buenoano is not being tried for Morris' death, but for the poisoning death of her husband, James Edgar Goodyear, in Orlando in 1971. Judias "Judy" Buenoano (1943-1998) was a serial killer who targeted her family for insurance family. Before she became Judy Buenoano, she was born Judias Welty on April 4, 1943, in Quanah, Texas. Buenoano met with her two children, a cousin and her spiritual adviser through the night. Ms. Buenoano, a 54-year-old former nail salon owner, is scheduled to die in Floridas electric chair March 30. In the late 1960s, the family moved to Orlando, Florida. [5] On May 13, 1980, Buenoano took Michael out in a canoe; the canoe rolled, and Michael, weighed down by his arm and leg braces, drowned. Michael, 19, partly paralyzed and wearing leg and arm braces, was pushed out of a canoe into a river by his mother. Robert A. Butterworth, Florida Attorney General. He died on September 16, 1971 in Orlando, Florida. "Michael was happy. And once authorities dug a little deeper, they would soon uncover even more shocking crimes. On March 30, 1998, Buenoano was executed in the electric chair at the Florida State Prison. When Morris moved to Colorado, Buenoano and her children followed. First of all, I do not understand why people send romantic letters to murderers. [7] She received a twelve-year sentence for the Gentry case, a life sentence for the Michael Buenoano case, and a death sentence for the James Goodyear case. Buenoano claimed that she was sexually and physically abused at many of these homes. Excellent article. But a few years later, Morris began to exhibit strange symptoms eerily similar to the symptoms Goodyear had experienced. However, Judy secretly increased his policy to $500,000. [1], In 1983, Buenoano was in a relationship with John Gentry. Ms. Buenoanos best hope to avoid becoming the next woman scheduled to be executed may rely on Floridas means of death. Judy also received payments from three life insurance policies on Bobby Joe Morris. However, the payments from Michael Goodyears life insurance ended Judys poverty. Shortly after that, she met a young airman Air Force Sgt. People have burned alive in it. I didnt bomb Mr. Gentrys car. In both cases, she had collected insurance money. Agent Martz is best known for messing up his investigation of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Florida executed two killers on successive days last week. That was the key to uncovering the other crimes in Buenoano's past, Edgar said. A later autopsy also revealed he had swallowed arsenic. She could buy poison in a hardware store. The last known execution of a woman in Florida occurred in 1848, when a freed slave was hanged in Jacksonville for the murder of her master. But we can choose a better way for her to die.". Finally, we reject Buenoanos assertion that the arsenic poisoning of James Goodyear was not heinous, atrocious or cruel. His case was never officially solved but I know she was guilty. A jury says Spokane County owes a former sheriff's deputy nearly $20 million. Simpson murder trial. report by the Office of the Inspector General, How did Judy earn Morriss loyalty? John Wesley Gentry II was Judys next victim. He was eventually diagnosed with arsenic poisoning which affected his arms and legs. "You're trying to blame this on Michael, aren't you?" Her death would come weeks after Karla Faye Tucker of Texas became the second woman executed in the United States since the Supreme Court allowed executions to resume in 1976. Judy reportedly told Bobby, The son of a bitch shouldnt have come up here in the first place. Her callous indifference in court led Pensacola prosecutor Russell Edgar to give her an ominous nickname. She placed her son Michael Goodyear in foster care, because his academic and disciplinary problems annoyed her. Hello Mr. Sherrod: Get breaking news delivered to your inbox as it happens. Next to him was Dusty Rhodes, who as a state attorney investigator had gathered evidence against Buenoano in the Goodyear case. "Michael was going to do something about it," she said. James Goodyear and Bobby Joe Morris were exhumed following Judys arrest. Edgar said evidence also suggests Buenoano poisoned boyfriend Bobby Joe Morris in Trinidad, Colo., in 1978. Another boyfriend mysteriously died. Her mother died when she was 4-years-old; Judy and Robert were sent to live with their grandparents. Then in 1980, Buenoano took Michael canoeing in Floridas East River. Through most of the preparations, she kept her eyes shut, not looking at the people who gathered to watch, including her spiritual adviser and the brother-in-law of Air Force Sgt. "He needs to learn what is going on in this world," Manning said. she had to work her butt off, and every time her back was turned he was in bed with a 13-year-old, and he was no help to her, so she killed the son of a bitch, that he didnt deserve to live. Im a police detective and am surprised at your research and detail. She has said she would prefer to die than spend her life behind the drab grey walls of the Broward jail, where her only companions - during exercise hours - are two other women Death Row inmates. She preyed upon people that loved her.. A year before being sent to death row in 1985, Ms. Buenoano was convicted of the 1980 drowning of Michael Goodyear, the son she had as a teen-ager before she met the Air Force sergeant. ", "There are few things we do that are more solemn than carrying out a death penalty," Stafford said. Goodyear died in 1971 of arsenic poisoning three months after he returned to Orlando from a year's tour in Vietnam and nine years after he married the former cocktail waitress. Still another witness testified that Buenoano advised her not to divorce her husband but to take out a life insurance policy on him and then poison him with arsenic. The recipient wants to sell this letter and envelope. In 1967, Judy gave birth to daughter Kimberly in Orlando. Buenoano also decided to move to Pensacola, Florida. Buenoano is also acknowledged to have been responsible for the 1978 death of her boyfriend Bobby Joe Morris in Colorado; however, by the time authorities made the connection between Buenoano and Morris, she had already been sentenced to death in the state of Florida. A jury acquitted James Goodyear of John Gentrys attempted murder. As authorities strapped her in, she grimaced, especially as they tightened the belt around her chest. Investigators found she had taken out a $500,000 (pounds 300,000) life insurance policy on Mr Gentry. But Judy was guilty. Buenoano's daughter believes she is innocent, but concedes little has changed about her mother since she went to prison more than a decade ago. The issue may be revived this spring, as another bill moving through the Senate also promotes lethal injection as an alternative to the electric chair. But yet again, distressing symptoms began to emerge as Michael became very ill. My father was tied to a chair before he was stabbed numerous times and shot in the head. I don't want to see her burned alive in it. Heres why. Hawkins, a waitress in Navarre, near Pensacola, was 16 when her mother was arrested. Twelve civilian and 12 media witnesses, plus corrections officials, were stuffed into a tiny room separated by glass from the death chamber. Jones was executed last week, as was serial killer Gerald Stano, who admitted killing 41 women. Buenoanos execution was to be followed by the electrocution Tuesday of Daniel Remeta, who killed a convenience store clerk in Ocala and was linked to four other killings in a 1985 rampage that reached into Texas, Arkansas and Kansas. A staff writer for All Thats Interesting, Marco Margaritoff has also published work at outlets including People, VICE, and Complex, covering everything from film to finance to technology. Gentry said at one time she had a $500,000 life insurance policy on him. After they met, Judy asked Gentry to buy champagne for a celebration. Judy Buenoano, 54, said in a prison interview broadcast Monday on CNN's legal show, Burden of Proof, that she wanted to be remembered "as a good mother" after she is electrocuted on March 30 . Now, as she waits for her execution, she spends her time reading and knitting blankets and baby clothes that she gives to her daughter to sell. Moments later, as the current flowed, her fists clenched. Buenoano's daughter believes she is innocent, but concedes little has changed about her mother since she went to prison more than a decade ago. Prosecutors said she had used some of the money for a new car, for a diamond ring, to start her nail salon, to live the high life. North Carolina executed Velma Barfield in 1984 for poisoning her boyfriend; Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker on Feb. 3 for hacking a man and woman to death with a pickax. In 1961, Buenoano gave birth to a son named Michael. She feeds off her mates and her young.. Guards had covered it with gel - highlighting every bump, every vein - to conduct the electricity better. Gentry testified that Judy became angry when he refused to take her vitamins. Buenoano attracted far less sympathy than other female inmates on death row. John Gentry complained about a cold, so Judy gave him fake Vicon C vitamins, to relieve his symptoms. That was just three months after he returned from a years tour in Vietnam. She is one of six women on death row. Buenoano also made history: She was the first woman executed in Florida in 150 years and the first woman ever in the state to die in the electric chair. the nine most gruesome serial killer couples, the crimes of 11 famous American serial killers. "Even now she is the same," said Kimberly Hawkins. According to an archived record from the Florida Department of Corrections, Judy was 5 7 tall and weighed 170 pounds. 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