Betty Lou Beets

Betty Lou Dunevant was born on the 12th March 1937. She was partially deaf and claimed to have been sexually abused by her father as a child.

She was sentenced to death for shooting her 5th husband, Jimmy Don Beets, at their home in eastern Texas. Beets had a criminal history prior to her arrest for his murder, which included public lewdness, shooting her second husband twice in the back of the head and attempting to run over her third husband with a car. Both men survived and testified at her trial where the prosecution claimed she killed Jimmy Beets in order to collect $100,000 Life Insurance. His body had been discovered in a Wishing Well on their property where Police also discovered the remains of her fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Baker.

Beets was executed by Lethal Injection on the 24th February 2000, at Huntsville, Texas.