Woman killed husband by shooting him?

Answer 1

Although we hear a lot about men killing their wives and girlfriends, there are also far too many wives who kill husbands. They are a very long list, but wives less frequently kill them by shooting them themselves, women tend to use more subtle means or get someone else to do the dirty work. That being said, some of the more notorious cases that come to mind are:

Betty Broderick in 1989 shoots her ex-husband and his new wife while they slept in their bed in their own home near San Diego, CA. She claimed that she "jumped and the gun went off" (Betty just happened to be in their bedroom in the middle of the night with a loaded gun). After two notorious trials, the first ended with a hung jury, she was finally convicted.

Dante Sutorius in 1996 shot her her husband in Cincinnati, OH trying to make it look like suicide. She was a charmer who went from man to man, marrying "up", spending his money and moving on.

Terri Gilbert in 1996 shot her husband in Albuquerque, NM claiming she thought her was a burglar. The same woman had been cleared of killing her ex-husband in 1974, claiming self defence.

Piper Rountree in 2004 shot her ex-husband in Richmond, VA. She claimed she was at home in Texas, but her cell phone records gave her away. She had traveled by air from Texas wearing a wig in order to confuse authorities into thinking it could have been her twin sister.

Anne Marie Stout in 2004 shot her husband several times as he sat on the sofa in her living room. When she was unable to load his body into their truck, she called her sister for help, who in turn called the authorities.

Barbara Ford, a recent widow with two sons, marries Russell Stager, a popular HS coach. Nine years later she is once again a widow. She claims to have accidently shot her husband with a pistol he kept under his pillow after hearing a noise in the night. She may well have gotten away with the "accident" story if Russell's ex-wife, who had remained friends with Russell, had not advised police that Barbara's first husband had also died in bed of a gunshot wound which Barbara had explained as an accident. Her pattern, it turned out, was to marry, spend all the money, run up the debts, kill the husband, collect the insurance, and move on happily ever after.

For a list of more infamous women who kill, see the link below.