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Betty Lou Beets
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Executed
Personal Information
Full Name	Betty Lou Beets
Birth Name	Betty Lou Dunevant
Born	March 12, 1937 Roxboro, North Carolina, United States
Died	February 24, 2000 (aged 62) Huntsville, Texas, United States
Cause of Death	Executed by lethal injection
Height	5'2" (157 cm)
Gender	Female
Race/Ethnicity	White
Spouses	Robert Franklin Branson (m. 1952; div. 1969) Billy York Lane (m. 1970; div. 1970) Billy York Lane (m. 1972; div. 1972, remarried) Ronnie C. Threlkold (m. 1978; div. 1979) Doyle Wayne Barker (m. 1979; div. 1980) Jimmy Don Beets (m. 1982; died 1983, murdered)
Children	6
Criminal Information
AKA	"Texas Black Widow"
Offender Type	Suspected Serial Killer Black Widow
Motivation Type	Hedonistic
Motive	To collect insurance money
Method of Killing	Shooting
Weapon	.38 caliber pistol
Convictions	Murder for remuneration
Criminal penalty	Death
Victims	Suspected of 2+, confessed to 0, convicted of 1
Country	United States
State	Texas
Imprisonment	Texas State Penitentiary (Huntsville Unit) — Huntsville, Texas

Victims

Confirmed victims

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
Jimmy Don Beets

Suspected victims

Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
Doyle Wayne Barker

Documentaries

Television

• Evil Lives Here: Momma Made Me Help (September 2020) on IMDb

Links

• Betty Lou Beets at Wikipedia
• Betty Lou Dunevant Beets at Find a Grave
• Betty Lou Beets. Radford University.