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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Velma Barfield: Beneath the Bible and the Bottle - The Comprehensive Biography of a Woman Who Killed with Arsenic and a Smile

Velma Barfield: Beneath the Bible and the Bottle - The Comprehensive Biography of a Woman Who Killed with Arsenic and a Smile

Woodward, John M.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

ISBN13: 9798233022982
Publisher: John M. Woodward
Published: Feb 25 2026
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

She Smiled, She Prayed, She Killed, The True Story of Velma Barfield

Velma Barfield, a grandmother cloaked in faith and devotion, hid a deadly secret beneath her gentle exterior. Known as the first woman executed in the United States after the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, her life is a haunting tapestry of love, loss, addiction, and murder. From her humble beginnings in North Carolina to the kitchens and hospital beds where arsenic silently claimed her victims, Velma's story reveals the chilling duality of human nature, a woman of prayer and poison, remorse and calculation.

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