Death Sentence

The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment

De: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell

Everybody knew Velma Barfield as the perfect wife and a loving grandmother. But there was something about her that nobody knew.... Velma Barfield had a secret life and a sick urge to kill.

©1998 Jerry Bledsoe (P)2015 ListenUp Production, LLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Fast-paced...breathes new life into the true crime genre." ( Raleigh News & Observer)

"Bledsoe has written a detailed account of Barfield's troubled life and motives...holds the reader's interest with a true story that reads like a novel." ( Library Journal)

"Undertakes to answer the questions about the justice system and the motives that drive women to kill." ( Washington Post Book World)

Killer story

This is the well-written true story of a southern woman who became a serial killer. While giving the impression that she lived a normal, if financially challenged life, she managed to poison five people. These were people who depended on her to take care of them. Instead she fed rat poison to each causing their death. Her own mother was one of the victims.
Interesting and well narrated .

it was ok

it drugged on, hard getting through the last 5 ir si chapters.

Surprisingly Thought Provoking

I thought I was a staunch proponent of the death penalty. Surprised to find myself somewhat questioning the validity of that belief.

Kevin Stillwell is a masterful narrator. Mr. Bledsoe is an easy writer to follow and have read and listened to a number of his books. These two together are a winning combination.

Gripping

Couldn't wait to hear what was going to happen next in this tell all book.

Death penalty

Good story! Unbelievable how her children stood by her through all the years, but they should have allowed her to face her own consequences...had they left her in jail on her 1st check fraud, she would have had to get off drugs. It's called tough love!

She deserved the death penalty after her sentence...without all the expense of delays. I don't believe she should have had her choice of last meal or all the helpful instructions on how she would die...she did not permit those choices to her many many victims.

She was like a spoiled child when she was on drugs, needed a spank not a cover-up. What a sad life...all because of drugs & alcohol! Hard to believe her children would ever consider either after she was gone.

great book

Velma showed a real Christain on death row. She touched some many in prison bring them to Christ.

Great narrator

However, “Fayetteville” is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable and not the second.

EXCELLENT

An excellent look into the heart and soul of how a killer's actions and resulting punishment affects not just them and their victim, but their family, the victims families, their communities, the lawyers and even their jailors. No one is freed a certain amount of grief when a sweet grandmother decides she needs special individuals out of her way.
I loved this book and will definitely relisten in the future. But quite frankly what this woman put her children through their entire lives makes listening a little difficult at times and I have to stop and take a break.
Truly a great listen.

Another stunning job by Bledsoe/Stillwell.

I became so drawn into these peoples lives that I found myself choked up in the end. I was a fly in the wall in all of their lives.
Thank you both. It takes a STUNNING Author as well as a PHENOMENAL Narrator to really become invested in their lives. There is so much to say but I DO NOT want to ruin the "Fly on the wall" affect for someone else.

Infuriating book

This is the second book by Jerry Bledsoe I’ve read and I’m thinking of returning the third. This book is infuriating. There is hardly any compassion or sympathy for the victims or their families but plenty of praise for a serial murderer because she “found Christ”.

Please. This book is a perfect example of why and how Christianity is a cancer to humanity.