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Stacey Castor

Stacey Castor is, or was, in a league of her own, even the judge in her case said so. Sure we have seen cases where a defense attorney will claim that one of their client's children may have been responsible for a murder, or at least had more motive. You have even from time to time seen a parent say the same thing in their own words. It is on the most rare occasions in which you have a parent “set” a child up to take the fall or be accused. But, what you do not see is a parent who is willing to kill their own child AND set them up for murders you have committed. It is this behavior that made Stacey Castor stand out on her own. On January 11, 2000 thirty-eight year old Michael Wallace, Stacey's first husband and the father of her two daughters, Ashley and Bree, died in their Weedsport New York home. He had not been feeling well for a few months. Eleven year old Ashley was home alone with her dad that day and knew he looked sick but she did not think much ...