Publisher's Synopsis
Two senior citizen killers are profiled here as both Margaret Rudin and Betty Lou Beets killed their fifth husbands. Margaret was convicted of the murder of her fifth husband, Ronald Rudin. Rudin disappeared on after walking to Margaret's antique shop which was in the same strip mall as his real estate office. Weeks later, his burnt charred remains were discovered near Lake Mohave along with the burnt remains of an antique steamer trunk. He had been shot in the head at least five times with a .22 caliber gun. Police later searched the Rudin home and found blood spatter in the bedroom as well as furniture that had been removed from the home. Betty Lou Beets also killed her fifth husband, Jimmy Don Beets. On August 6, 1983, Betty reported her husband missing from their home near Cedar Creek Lake in Henderson County, Texas. Her son, Robert Branson, would later testify that Beets had said that she intended to kill her husband and told her son to leave the house. On returning to the house two hours later, he found Jimmy Don Beets dead with two gunshot wounds. He helped his mother conceal the body in the front yard of the house, after which Beets telephoned the police.
