Velma Whitehead
It is cases such as this one, and the one that will come after, that boggle my mind. I will never understand the women (I am unsure I know of a case with a man) that conspire with their own children, most of the time who are only teenagers, and often times recruit their friends to commit murder. Most often it is in attempts to get money from insurance policies. Of course there are the rarer cases such as Gertrude Baniszewski who recruited her children, as well as neighborhood children, to torture and murder Sylvia Likens, a teenage border in her home. In that case the only motive that could be found was jealously of youth. But, regardless of motive, most of these women start throwing the blame solely on their children when they get caught. I suppose Velma Whitehead should be given some credit that she pleaded guilty for her role in the murder of her husband, although most do not believe her expressed motive. On March 18, 2005 in Des Moines Washington...