Buried Memories: The Bloody Crimes and Execution of the Texas Black Widow

1985. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before investigators unearthed the terrible truth.




As Betty Lou's sordid past emerged, so did her chilling trail of marital violence. She shot her second husba...