Author Archives: Eleanor Thompson

Richard Overton dies of diabetes and dementia at the age of eighty one. This is a man, who some say was a beast, for murdering his wife, Janet. He was serving out a life sentence in a California state prison for her murder. Although never charged, he also tried killing Dorothy, his first wife, the same way he murdered Janet. He slowly poisoned these women with cyanide and he even admitted to altering Dorothy’s food would not admit to murdering Janet. Continue reading →