February 27, 1958 - Shirley Winters
What brought Winters to lasting notoriety was not a single act of violence but a pattern that investigators came to view as far exceeding it — the death of her infant son in 1980 was the charge that secured a conviction, but the suspicion of additional victims placed her among a distinct and troubling category of domestic killers whose crimes unfold invisibly within the home. The combination of murder, arson, and suspected serial conduct across a contained private sphere made her case a sobering example of harm that evades detection for years.
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Shirley Winters (born February 27, 1958) is a convicted murderer, arsonist, and suspected serial killer from upstate New York. In 1980, she smothered her five-month-old son, Ronald Winters III. In 2007, she drowned 23-month-old Ryan Rivers. She is also suspected of killing three siblings in childhood, setting a fire which killed two of her older children in 1979, and on the day prior to that killed a friend's three children. Per a plea bargain, she cannot be prosecuted for those.
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