On May 3rd 1978, Judi legally changed her surname and that of her children to Buenoano, the Spanish equivalent of Goodyear, in an apparent tribute to her late husband. FLORIDA: An attorney for death row inmate Judi Buenoano, who may be the next woman executed in the United States, told the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday sealed FBI documents might weaken the case against her client. Or it could be that Ms. Tucker, a young, white, articulate woman who was also a born-again Christian, was an aberration. Reunited with her father in Roswell, New Mexico, after his next marriage, she found herself the target of abuse from both parents--beaten, starved, burned with cigarettes, forced to work slave hours around the house. #inline-recirc-item--id-91a64b38-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { Florida is one of six states that uses electrocution to carry out death sentences. James Goodyear, her poisoned husband. "He was helping me out. On rebuttal, the state presented Kimberly's boyfriend, David Lackey, who testified that Kimberly had told him that appellant had drowned Michael in order to collect insurance. Barfield, a serial killer who confessed to murdering six individuals, simply ate Cheeze Doodles and a Coke before her execution in 1984. (Source: Reuters) She also persuaded him to take vitamin capsules which made him feel nauseous and dizzy. Sometimes, electrocution lends itself to a little more Daniel Remeta, convicted of killing a convenience store clerk in Ocala during a multistate crime spree in 1985, was scheduled to be executed this morning, the last of four inmates executed in nine days. There has been no public outcry over her impending electrocution as there had been prior to the Feb. 4 execution in Texas of another woman, Karla Faye Tucker, James Goodyear and Bobby Joe Morris were exhumed following Judys arrest. Judy denied everything, but every jury convicted her. It was all nonsense, but Gentry swallowed the bait, indulging Judis taste for expensive gifts, Caribbean cruises, and imported champagne. I don't want to see her burned alive in it. Death row inmates are served meals three times a day: at 5:00 a.m., from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Food is prepared by prison personnel and is transported in insulated carts to the cells.
Upon learning this, Gentry provided police with the "vitamin pills" which Buenoano had been giving him; these were found to contain arsenic and formaldehyde. Buenoano collected $85,000 in life insurance and veteran benefits after Goodyear died. 1985) (Direct Appeal-Michael). "She was very solemn. On June 25th 1983 Judi announced she was pregnant and John went out to get some champagne to celebrate. She was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the first twenty-five years on June 6th 1984 for Michael's murder. Joe Morris in Trinidad, Colo., in 1978. who admitted murdering two people with a pickax. Unraveling her web of crimes Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? She received a life sentence for his murder. Buenoano has not alleged that any evidence she has received to date as a result of her requests qualifies as newly discovered or that she anticipates documents yet to be produced will contain evidence that she previously could not have obtained. Sentence: 15Y 0M 0D, 06/25/1983 Buenoano, 54, a former nail salon owner, was executed for the arsenic poisoning of her husband in 1971. "Maybe he won't get into a situation like this, himself, if he is exposed to it now. Commanche white 5 11 inches tall 150 pounds. Any controversy in Florida revolves more around method than sentence itself -- the status of the state's 75-year-old electric chair and whether to allow executions by lethal injection. Two days later, he collap Birth Date: 04/04/1943 Ms. Buenoano's best hope to avoid becoming the next woman scheduled to It did not attract the media attention that Karla Faye Tucker's execution had. She was born Judias Welty, in Quanah, Texas, on April 4, 1943, the daughter of a farm laborer. The state OR ATT. 54 year old Judy Buenoano was finally executed on March 30, 1998.
Mrs. Hawkins said her mother would rather die than live her life in the But a lawsuit by seven death row inmates that challenges the constitutionality of the chair as cruel and unusual punishment comes to trial in Federal court on Feb. 23 and could halt the electrocutions. Jones was executed last week, as was serial killer Gerald Stano, who admitted killing 41 women. Until the car bombing, Buenoano had not been investigated or under suspicion for the earlier deaths of her husband and son. She could buy poison in a hardware store. Her death would come weeks after Karla Faye Tucker County: ESCAMBIA
Evidence at trial revealed that, shortly after Sergeant Goodyear returned to Orlando from a tour of duty in South Vietnam, he began suffering from nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. A former neighbor and, later, housemate, Constance Lang, testified that appellant was ashamed of Michael. That case led authorities to re-examine the deaths of Ms. Buenoano's husband, Sgt. Buenoano, a 54-year-old former nail-salon owner, is scheduled to die in Florida's electric chair March 30. Dubbed the "black widow," Buenoano, 54, also was convicted in 1980 of killing her 19-year-old paralyzed son by pushing him from a canoe. mysteriously died. Race: WHITE Aileen Wuornos would follow her on October 9, 2002. "Michael was happy. Also this week, a lawyer for Buenoano went to the state Supreme Court, alleging that the state has refused to disclose information that would WebKimberly Hawkins. Four days later he was well enough to answer questions from the police which led them to examine Judi's background in minute detail. Bobby Joe Morris said, Judi, we should never have done that terrible thing, before he died. (It was rebuilt in 1999 for the execution of Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis who was considered to be too heavy for the old chair) Rep. Victor Crist, R.-Temple Terrace, who once suggested the guillotine as a humane means of execution, said electrocution is quick and painless. Looking into Judy Goodyear's past led him to the 1980 drowning of her 19-year-old paraplegic son, Michael Goodyear, when their canoe supposedly capsized Pensacola prosecutor Russell Edgar said Judy had four stories about Michaels death. She is not as photogenic as Tucker, she has rarely spoken to the media, she is far from a cause celebre. Michael, seated in the lawn chair, wore both his leg braces with leather shoes, his Robbins hook and, by James' account, a ski belt. Former neighbor Ken Barnes visited often in appellant's home and observed that James and Michael did not have a good relationship. It has not been used since an incident in March, undergoing inspections and court review for the last year. Buenoano, 54, who has been nicknamed the "Black Widow," is scheduled to be electrocuted March 30 for the death of her 1st husband. As at July 2000, four other women remain on death row there. Judy Buenoano claimed Roger Martz also messed up his examination of John Gentrys vitamins, and framed her. Now, as she waits for her execution, she spends her time reading and She said that bodies are scarred by electrocution, and ``He came home from Vietnam ill and he never got well,'' she said. Colorado prosecutors decided not to continue with case against her over the murder of Bobby Joe Morris as she was already under sentence of death in Florida. Judys two older brothers were sent for adoption. Appellant's former sister-in-law, Peggy Goeller, testified that she had spoken by telephone with appellant twice in November, 1980. Judy told friends that Gentry had a terminal disease, to prepare them for his death by arsenic poisoning. On January 11, 1984, she was indicted for first-degree murder in the death of her son, with an additional count of grand theft for the insurance scam. When Dr. Auchenbach could find no explanation for these symptoms, he attempted to *196 stabilize Goodyear's condition but these attempts failed. Police also exhumed another boyfriend, Gerald Dossett, but no charges were filed for his death. She asked Hicks for a beer and drank it. Of brother Robert, she once said, I wouldnt spit down his throat if his guts were on fire. The name derives from the fact that the female, like those of many other spider species, may eat the male after mating. She was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the first twenty-five years on June 6th 1984 for Michael's murder. Judias (Judi) Buenoano - Florida's "Black Widow". After her mother died when she The defense's version was that Michael's death was a result of accidental drowning. She told She had 2 children Michael Buenoano, Kimberly Hawkins. An anonymous call, traced to a local pay phone, led police to the room where the victim was found, shot in the chest with a .22-caliber weapon, his throat slashed for good measure. Mom died of tuberculosis when Judy was a child. Log In. In the unlikely event of Judis release from Florida, Colorado authorities stand ready to prosecute capital charges in the death of Bobby Joe Morris. It is claimed that Bobby Joe's mother overheard Judi telling "The son of a bitch shouldn't have come up here in the first place. The elder Goodyear, Michael's father, died of arsenic poisoning in 1971, just three months after returning from a year's tour of duty in Vietnam. But when she entered the death chamber shortly after 7 a.m., Buenoano held tightly to the hands of two male guards who helped her walk. I ask the court to spare my life. 1976. Buenoano owned life insurance on Gentry's life totalling $510,000 in benefits, and she was a 50% beneficiary under his will.
Orlando from a year's tour in Vietnam and 9 years after he married the The convicted murderer, known as "The Black Widow," will be the first woman executed in Florida for 150 years, since a black slave called Celia was hanged for stabbing her owner to death in 1848, and only the third woman executed in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Buenoano, known as the "Black Widow," was executed in Florida's electric chair following her 1985 conviction for poisoning her husband, Air Force sergeant James Goodyear, in 1971. Colorado never prosecuted her. was seen to curl up from her right leg throughout the 38 second cycle, but there were no flames. Hawkins was 3 when her father died. Again the cause was a mystery to his doctors and he was soon discharged. Like so many of the other criminals discussed in these pages she had had a difficult childhood. they are not. Custody: MAXIMUM 1976. The opinion of Dr. Bednarczyk and Dr. Thomas Hegert, the Orange County medical examiner who autopsied Goodyear's remains in 1984, was that Goodyear's death was the result of chronic arsenic poisoning occurring over a period of time. She was convicted of drowning Michael Goodyear, her 19-year-old son, by giving him arsenic -- which might have caused his paralysis -- and pushing him out of a canoe. Judy finally ended her abuse by scalding two stepbrothers with hot grease. On May 13th, 1980 Judi took Michael and his younger brother James canoeing on the East River. On April 5, 1980 there was a *390 request signed by appellant and Michael for duplicates of these policies. Even so, he was not suspicious enough to break off his relationship with Judi in the interest of survival. Judi was miserable there and claimed that both her father and step mother abused her. It was all nonsense, but Gentry swallowed the bait, indulging Judis taste for expensive gifts, Caribbean cruises, and imported champagne. More information on Judy Buenoano can be found here. Conviction: GRAND THEFT,$300 LESS &20,000 Judy reportedly told Bobby, The son of a bitch shouldnt have come up here in the first place. In 1983, Buenoano was engaged to John Gentry. Poisoned with arsenic ''To the Governor these cases aren't about gender, they are about justice,'' said Ryan Banfill, a spokesman. sissel.norway I was not in Vietnam.'' Dr. Barry informed appellant that Michael had a severe impairment and might never regain complete function of his arms and legs. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the car bombing, and Gentry's story about the vitamins led investigators to unravel a web of crimes against her family members. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ She poisoned her husband with arsenic, drowned her paralyzed son and tried to blow up her fiance with a car bomb. But Thompson ruled evidence about the bombing was not admissible in the current trial because it was not similar to James Edgar Goodyear's poisoning death. Gentry, who met Ms. Buenoano at a mud-wrestling match in the early 1980s, "She made no final statement.". The fourth policy purchased by appellant on October 8, 1978 insured Michael for $20,000.00 with a double indemnity accidental death provision. Michael was discharged to his mother, appellant, so that he could receive long-term rehabilitative care in Pensacola. fiance, John Gentry, survived a car bombing in downtown Pensacola. She adamantly maintained her son's drowning was an accident. On January 21, 1962, she married another air force officer, James Goodyear, and their first child--James, Jr.--was born four years later, on January 16, 1966. Last month, Texas put Karla Faye Tucker to death for a double-pickax murder. Like so many of the other cases examined on these pages Judi had a hard and difficult upbringing. Until she tried to kill her fiance, John Gentry, in 1983 by bombing his car in Pensacola, Buenoano had not been suspected of the other killings. allow execution by lethal injection instead of electrocution. They cheer me up.". Ms. Buenoano was questioned by WEAR anchorwoman Sue Straughn, who had patronized Ms. Buenoano's Pensacola nail salon before the condemned woman's Colorado prosecutors decided not to file murder charges after she got the death sentence in Florida. The witnesses watched silently. Excellent article. In 1971, she was married to James Goodyear (1934-1971), a sergeant in the USAF. It would seem that the motive for the arsons and the murders was principally for financial gain as Russell Edgar said and that she had a shallow relationship with her husband and boyfriends. Buenoano v. State, 527 So.2d 194 (Fla. 1988) (Direct Appeal-Goodyear). arrest in 1983. Gentry owned a wallpaper business. she received or stood to collect insurance benefits, Edgar said. ''She may not have been as photogenic, as young or as pretty as Karla, but she was just as good a Christian,'' Eaton said. On May 12, 1980, appellant traveled to the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Tampa to pick up Michael, her son, and return to their home in Pensacola. has changed about her mother since she went to prison more than a decade ago. Ms. Buenoano, a 54-year-old former nail salon owner, is scheduled to die in Floridas electric chair March 30. On May 3rd 1978, Judi legally changed her surname and that of her children to Buenoano, the Spanish equivalent of Goodyear, in an apparent tribute to her late husband. (Reprint Edition Mass Market Paperback, Published by St Martins, July 1993) she had to work her butt off, and every time her back was turned he was in bed with a 13-year-old, and he was no help to her, so she killed the son of a bitch, that he didnt deserve to live. Conviction: GRAND THEFT,$300 LESS &20,000 After she was released she chose to go a reform school rather than back to her abusive family and went to the Foothills High School in Albuquerque from where she graduated in 1959, at sixteen. Sylvia Smith, Buenoano's state-appointed attorney, said she has been unable to see sealed documents that might cast doubt on the accuracy of FBI analysis of arsenic-laced pills that were used to convict Buenoano. Judias (Judi) Buenoano - Florida's "Black Widow". The elder Goodyear, Michael's father, died of arsenic poisoning in 1971, just three months after returning from a year's tour of duty in Vietnam. Then Chamberlain learned that Goodyear's husband, an Air Force sergeant, died after returning from Vietnam and a boyfriend, Bobby Joe Morris, died in 1978, Did her own low self worth lead her to the view that the lives of others were also of little value while her hatred of childhood poverty make her resolve never to be poor herself? Like Velma Barfield and Karla Faye Tucker, the two other women executed in the United States since 1976, Buenoano professed to be a born-again Christian. Hair Color: BROWN She also earned money selling knitted items. In Jamess room, they also found marijuana and a sawed-off shotgun, jailing him for possession of drugs and an illegal weapon.
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Her mother died when she was 4, and Ms. Buenoano Keep up the excellent writing. He added that he is concerned that nay change in death penalty methods could spur appeals, slowing executions for the 380 people now on Florida's death row. Hicks testified that appellant told him that she had "lost the other boy" after a snake had gotten into the canoe which overturned as she tried to hold the snake down with a paddle. Born at Quanah, Texas, on April 4, 1943, Judias Welty was the daughter of an itinerant farm worker, named after her mother. Buenoano is serving a life sentence for the 1980 drowning of her 19-year-old partially paralyzed son, Michael, and she was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the 1983 attempted car-bombing murder of John Gentry in Pensacola. It wasnt an accident. Sentence Date: 11/26/1985 Experts concluded that Medina had died instantly without feeling pain. I am not providing a link, although you can deduce it from the images watermark. (Tuesday, March 31, 1998) STARKE - Judy Buenoano told her family her only fear about going to the electric chair yesterday was leaving her children behind. in 1971, then collecting $85,000 in life insurance proceeds. John Gentry went out to buy champagne, to celebrate. In each of the 3 cases -- that of her husband, her son and her fiance -- "This is something I have to live with the rest of my life," Kimberly shot back. John Gentry gave police two of Judys fake Vicon C vitamins for testing. HC: Lyle Stuart. Buenoano, who spent 13 years on death row, died maintaining her innocence. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. sell. They also are challenging The growing family moved to Orlando, Florida. Stafford could not persuade his colleagues to unplug Old Sparky just yet, and the House committee voted down a proposal to institute lethal injection. Florida hasn't executed a woman in 150 years, and only two women have been executed in the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976 after a three year moratorium. Following Kimberlys birth, Judy opened Conway Acres Child Care Center, with James listed as Her final meal consisted of broccoli, asparagus, strawberries and hot tea. Web Judy Buenoano est une tueuse en srie surnomme la veuve noire. display: none; Lodell Morris is the mother of Bobby Joe Morris: a later victim. "I have eternal security and I know that when I die I will go straight to heaven and I will see Jesus," she recently said. 1985) (Direct Appeal-Michael). Her payment was increased, because she claimed Gentry testified that Judy became angry when he refused to take her vitamins. However, all of her claims were rejected. The wheels of justice were sluggish, but there was no stopping them once they started to roll. ``Even now she is the same, said Kimberly Hawkins. ''You had a unique convergence of factors in Karla Faye Tucker,'' said David Dow, a University of Houston law professor who has represented more than 20 death row inmates. The calf and head piece electrodes were fitted, each containing moistened sponge to reduce burning of the flesh. Florida Court Denies Appeal to Killer Known as "Black Widow" (March 27, 1998). Outside, death-penalty opponents and supporters waited for word on the execution - the third in Florida in eight days. Investigators had plenty to find _ including the crime that sent her to death row, the murder of Air Force Sgt. Judy Buenoano My father was tied to a chair before he was stabbed numerous times and shot in the head. It was all nonsense, but Gentry swallowed the bait, indulging Judis taste for expensive gifts, Caribbean cruises, and imported champagne. Judy appealed her death sentence on June 23, 1988. She said the current was too strong to swim anywhere but downstream. Daniel Remeta, convicted of killing a convenience store clerk in Ocala during a multistate crime spree in 1985, was scheduled to be executed this morning, the last of four inmates executed in nine days. Eaton wondered why her cousin didn't receive the same support as Karla Faye Tucker, whose death sentence in Texas was opposed by the pope and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. Following high school, Judy worked as a nurses aide in Roswell, using the name Anna Schultz. On March 30, 1961 she gave birth to an illegitimate son, Michael Schultz. Judi's was the third of a series of four executions carried out in Florida over the period 23/03/98 to 31/03/98. Ms. Buenoano said if her husband died of arsenic, he had been poisoned in Vietnam. Florida utility bills could rise to pay for new natural gas technology, Florida Democratic Party head Nikki Fried among those arrested during abortion protest. Edgar said evidence also suggests Ms. Buenoano poisoned boyfriend Bobby But the Florida Legislature has so far refused to change the method of execution. I didnt kill my husband. Date ofSentence Goodyear had died barely three months after returning from Vietnam suffering from symptoms staff physicians never quite identified. The last known execution of a woman in Florida occurred in 1848, when a freed slave was hanged in Jacksonville for the murder of her master. Judys daughter Kimberly Hawkins was 3 when her father was killed, and 16 when her mother was arrested. Colorado never prosecuted her. He was given heavy metal leg braces in the military hospital and on discharge into the care of his mother unable to walk or use his hands. She thought she was on a roll getting away with so many murders. "You're trying to blame this on Michael, aren't you?" If pending appeals fail, she would be the first woman Hicks *389 drove appellant's car to a nearby phone where he called the county rescue squad. In both cases, "Old Sparky", after an overhaul by electricians, functioned smoothly. Buenoano's son Michael Goodyear (1961-1980) became severely ill in 1979, his symptoms including paraplegia; post-mortem examination indicated that he had been the victim of severe arsenic poisoning, which caused his disability. However, her given name was Judias, and she signed her letter Judi Buenoano. Michael Buenoano, as he had now become, had done badly a school and joined the army in June 1979. He described her as " the coldest killer I ever knew" We affirm both the conviction and sentence. By mid-August, authorities had traced the source of the dynamite used in the bomb, linking the Alabama buyer to Judi via phone records showing a dozen long-distance calls from her home. According to prosecutors, she was motivated by insurance money when she poisoned him with lethal doses of arsenic. At this stage however, there wasn't sufficient evidence to charge Judi with attempted murder. Judi received $20,000 from Michael's military life insurance but the sheriffs officers began taking interest in the case when it was discovered that there were also two other, civilian, policies on Michael's life. This is the first time Ive seen that expression on her," he said. Unfortunately, Judy Buenoano had no tangible evidence against Roger Martz. It is a fairly harsh regime for long term incarceration. Execution was set for 7.00 a.m. on the Monday 30th March 1998. She seemed almost dwarfed in the 75-year-old oak chair. James Goodyear, they exhumed his body and found he had lethal amounts of arsenic in his body when he died in 1971. Judias (Judi) Buenoano - Florida's "Black Widow". On Sunday, the 11th U.S. 09/01/1971 Reunited with her father in Roswell, New Mexico, after his next marriage, she found herself the target of abuse from both parents--beaten, starved, burned with cigarettes, forced to work slave hours around the house. Judy Buenoano walked shakily to Florida's electric chair Monday, her head freshly shaved.
Conviction: SECOND DEG.MURDER,COMM.OF FELO(ATTEMPTED) Last week, Florida executed two men following a year's hiatus in the use of the state's 75-year-old electric chair, nicknamed "Old Sparky", after flames leaped from the head of inmate Pedro Medina during his March 1997 execution. James and Judi were able to get out from under the upturned canoe but Michael, weighed down by the heavy braces didn't stand a chance and drowned. She told a federal judge during a 1990 hearing that she was sexually By December, she was feeding Gentry vitamin capsules that produced dizziness and vomiting. Dr. Barry informed appellant that Michael had a severe impairment and might never regain complete function of his arms and legs. While he was recovering from his injuries, police began to find several discrepancies in Buenoano's background; further investigation revealed that, in November 1982, she had begun telling her friends that Gentry was suffering from a terminal illness. He said Morris never beat the children, but "sometimes we had to leave the house and just drive around when he was drinking. ``We all prayed that she would be granted a stay of execution and clemency because we felt that she was a different person and she deserved a chance. After the Gentry case, an autopsy on Sgt Goodyear's exhumed body revealed that he had been poisoned with arsenic. Sentence: DEATH SENTENCE, Date In-Custody: 11/27/1985 A month later, the family was back in Pensacola, settling into a home on Whisper Pine Drive, in suburban Gulf Breeze. In fact, James Goodyear, Sr., had been home from Southeast Asia for barely three months when he was admitted to the U.S. In April, 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a report detailing the results of an 18-month investigation of certain components of the FBI's laboratory. "When I was asking the judge in the drowning case to admit the other Inmates may receive mail every day except holidays and weekends. In Jamess room, they also found marijuana and a sawed-off shotgun, jailing him for possession of drugs and an illegal weapon. Buenoano said she has been the victim of "defamation, assassination of character to make me into a vile monster." It was rotten luck all around but at least it paid well. Appellant made no mention of Michaels' death during the first call. Supreme Court upheld use of the electric chair last fall, but a federal But prosecutor Belvin Perry pressed Kimberly on why she gave a different story in her sworn statements to investigators before the trial, and why she never told her mother about Morris' abuse. They called her a devoted Roman Catholic, a beloved mother and grandmother, a woman who had had a tough childhood but went on to raise a family of her own. Judi soon found a new boyfriend in the shape of Bobby Joe Morris who lived in Pensacola and with whom she moved in with in 1972. ``We all prayed that she would be granted a stay of execution and clemency because we felt that she was a different person and she deserved a chance.
Buenoano was the first woman executed in Florida since a slave named Celia was hanged in 1848 for killing her master. A year later, Judias opened the Conway Acres Child Care Center in Orlando, listing her husband as co-owner despite his continuing service with the Air Force, which would soon include a tour of duty in Vietnam. ''She may not have been as photogenic, as young or as pretty as Karla, but she was just as good a Christian,'' Eaton said. Investigators found she had taken out a $500,000 (pounds 300,000) life insurance policy on Mr Gentry. Much of the report was sealed. As a member of the Army, Michael was insured for $20,000.00 under a servicemen's group life policy on which he had designated the principal beneficiary to be determined "by law." On May 13, 1980, Michael was canoeing with his mother and younger brother on the East River, near Milton, Florida, when their boat overturned. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Bodies were exhumed and autopsies indicated evidence of poisoning in all three cases.
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