January 19, 1962 - Cynthia Coffman
Coffman's case drew sustained attention partly because of its collaborative nature — she and her boyfriend James Gregory Marlow carried out the killings together, raising questions about coercion, culpability, and the dynamics of violence within intimate partnerships that courts and criminologists continued to examine long after the convictions. Her prosecution in California in connection with the 1986 deaths of two women resulted in one of the earlier instances of a woman being sentenced to death in that state.
From Wikipedia
Cynthia Lynn Coffman (born January 19, 1962) is an American serial killer convicted in the 1986 deaths of two women in California. She was convicted along with her boyfriend, James Gregory Marlow. Coffman admits to being present at the murders but insists she suffered from battered woman syndrome. She was sentenced to death and is sitting on death row in Central California Women's Facility.
Further reading
- Team Killers
A prison-reform activist examines couples who kill together, blending true-crime accounts with sociological analysis and correspondence with death-row inmates including cases like Coffman's.
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James Marlow, Coffman's convicted co-killer, recounts his own story in raw, unedited words, touching on his background and alleged mind-control experiments on inmates.
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