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Death Sentence

The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment

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Death Sentence

By: Jerry Bledsoe
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
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Everybody knew Velma Barfield as the perfect wife and a loving grandmother. But there was something about her that nobody knew.... Velma Barfield had a secret life and a sick urge to kill.

©1998 Jerry Bledsoe (P)2015 ListenUp Production, LLC Serial Killers Biographies & Memoirs True Crime Murder
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"Fast-paced...breathes new life into the true crime genre." ( Raleigh News & Observer)
"Bledsoe has written a detailed account of Barfield's troubled life and motives...holds the reader's interest with a true story that reads like a novel." ( Library Journal)
"Undertakes to answer the questions about the justice system and the motives that drive women to kill." ( Washington Post Book World)
Detailed Research • Compelling Storytelling • Masterful Narrator • Engaging Story • Perfect Reader • Complex Protagonist

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Very well written…and great narration but too heavy on details…and seemingly a million names, jobs and locations. It also ended fairly abruptly. But as an older woman with 30 yrs sober… I applaud the message of hope I took away from this family’s story. God Bless them all

Very well……

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This is the well-written true story of a southern woman who became a serial killer. While giving the impression that she lived a normal, if financially challenged life, she managed to poison five people. These were people who depended on her to take care of them. Instead she fed rat poison to each causing their death. Her own mother was one of the victims.
Interesting and well narrated .





Killer story

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it drugged on, hard getting through the last 5 ir si chapters.

it was ok

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Good story! Unbelievable how her children stood by her through all the years, but they should have allowed her to face her own consequences...had they left her in jail on her 1st check fraud, she would have had to get off drugs. It's called tough love!

She deserved the death penalty after her sentence...without all the expense of delays. I don't believe she should have had her choice of last meal or all the helpful instructions on how she would die...she did not permit those choices to her many many victims.

She was like a spoiled child when she was on drugs, needed a spank not a cover-up. What a sad life...all because of drugs & alcohol! Hard to believe her children would ever consider either after she was gone.

Death penalty

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Velma showed a real Christain on death row. She touched some many in prison bring them to Christ.

great book

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