Characteristics: Parricide - Poisoner - To collect insurance money
Number of victims: 1 +
Date of murder: November 1, 1982
Date of arrest: 5 days after
Date of birth: 1941
Victim profile: Lloyd Allen (her husband)
Method of murder: Poisoning (antifreeze)
Location: Phelps County, Missouri, USA
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole for 50 years on July 6, 1984. Died in prison.
She died in prison (Women's Eastern Reception & Diagnostic Correctional Center in Vandalia, Missouri) on April 2, 1998, while serving out her sentence.
Following Shirley's arrest for the murder of Lloyd Allen, the family of her previous husband, Daniel Null, thought it possible that Shirley had poisoned him as well. His body was ordered exhumed, but no poison was found in his system.
Characteristics: Parricide - Poisoner - To collect insurance money
Number of victims: 1 +
Date of murder: November 1, 1982
Date of arrest: 5 days after
Date of birth: 1941
Victim profile: Lloyd Allen (her husband)
Method of murder: Poisoning (antifreeze)
Location: Phelps County, Missouri, USA
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole for 50 years on July 6, 1984. Died in prison.
She died in prison (Women's Eastern Reception & Diagnostic Correctional Center in Vandalia, Missouri) on April 2, 1998, while serving out her sentence.
Following Shirley's arrest for the murder of Lloyd Allen, the family of her previous husband, Daniel Null, thought it possible that Shirley had poisoned him as well. His body was ordered exhumed, but no poison was found in his system.
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