Death Sentence

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

By: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

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

Critic reviews

"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)

Killer story

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 .

it was ok

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

Surprisingly Thought Provoking

I thought I was a staunch proponent of the death penalty. Surprised to find myself somewhat questioning the validity of that belief.

Kevin Stillwell is a masterful narrator. Mr. Bledsoe is an easy writer to follow and have read and listened to a number of his books. These two together are a winning combination.

Gripping

Couldn't wait to hear what was going to happen next in this tell all book.

Death penalty

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.