Publisher's Synopsis
WOMEN WHO KILL: Misty Witherspoon - The Shocking True Story of Misty Witherspoon
Murder is often thought of as a male crime. While women do kill it is often depicted as a crime committed in the heat of the moment, or is described as a crime of passion. It is accepted that women may kill if their own life or the life of another, particularly their child, is in danger. It is also not unheard of for a woman, fearing for her life and trapped in an abusive situation, to see the murder of her abuser as her only means of escape.
But for a woman to kill in cold blood is rare. It is rarer still for that murder to have been coldly planned and plotted before hand. Even when a woman does commit murder in these situations the gun is not often her weapon of choice. The gun seems to belong in the arsenal of the cold blooded, male murderer. A female killer is far more likely to use some form of poison or other subtlety to end the life of their victim.
As a result of their rarity women who do commit cold blooded, premeditated murder, women such as the Countess Elizabeth Bathroy or Aileen Wuornos, are often held in a particular notoriety. It seems that Misty Witherspoon, a bubbly, out going, caring mother and regular churchgoer from the town of Mooresville in Irdell County, North Carolina is destined to belong in this category.
This is the story of Misty Witherspoon and a murder that shocked a nation.
