Rhonda Bell Martin

Born Rhonda Belle Thomley in 1907, Martin confessed to murdering six people, including three of her daughters, her mother and two husbands.

Before her arrest she had worked as a waitress in Birmingham, Alabama. Her crimes only surfaced when police began to investigate the illness of her husband, Ronald, in the March of 1953. Under questioning Rhonda admitted to poisoning her fourth husband, Claude, in 1951. Eight months after Claude’s death she married his son Ronald, who was subsequently left paralyzed from the effects of poison. On the 19th May 1956, Rhonda Martin was charged with murdering her second husband George Garrett in 1939, 3-year-old Emogene Garrett who died in 1937, six year old Carolyn Garrett in 1940, 11 year old Ellyn Garrett in 1943, her mother Mary Francis Gibbon in 1944 and Claude Martin, who died in 1951.

Rhonda Martin was electrocuted in Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama on the 11th October 1957.