Faye Copeland
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Faye Copeland (1921 - 28 December 2004) and her husband Ray were the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States at the age of 69 and 75, respectively. Faye was the oldest woman on death row, until her sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1999.
Their modus operandi was to hire unskilled drifters as farm hands, involve them in a scheme to obtain loans for non-existent cows, and then kill them.
Their story has been fictionalized in a comic book, Family Bones, written by Faye Copeland's nephew, Shawn Granger.
She died on December 28, 2004, of natural causes.
[edit] References
- Book, The Copeland Killings, by Tom Miller
