April 4, 1943 - Judy Buenoano
Her victims included a husband, a son, and a boyfriend — a pattern of harm that unfolded across more than a decade before investigators began connecting the deaths. Arsenic poisoning, collected insurance payouts, and a car bombing tied together a case that made her the first woman executed in Florida in over a century.
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Judias Anna Lou "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 in Florida for the 1971 murder of her first husband James Goodyear. She was also convicted of the 1980 murder of her son, Michael Buenoano, and the 1983 attempted murder of her boyfriend, John Gentry. Buenoano is also acknowledged to be responsible for the 1978 death of another boyfriend, Bobby Joe Morris, in Colorado. But by the time authorities tied Buenoano to Morris, she had been sentenced to death in the state of Florida.
Buenoano is also believed to have been involved in a 1974 murder in Alabama, and in the 1980 death of yet another boyfriend, Gerald Dossett. After her arrest, Dossett's body was exhumed and analyzed for signs of arsenic poisoning. No charges were laid in that case. Buenoano was the first woman to be executed in Florida since 1848, or electrocuted in the United States since 1976.
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