A former beauty queen, a nurse
and mother of three
she shot her husband to death in Texas
I see marital homicides like this
all the time on true crime shows
one spouse killing the other
sometimes it’s for the insurance
sometimes so a spouse can have the kids
without having to go through a divorce court
sometimes there’s a lover involved
who is convinced to do the killing
conned into thinking
a husband is beating up the wife
or sexually abusing the children
sometimes it’s a mental health condition
where one spouse goes crazy
sometimes it’s close to justified
when the husband has been physically abusive
and will kill the wife if she leaves him
I see the wife killing this monster
as a case of self defense
before he kills her accidentally
or on purpose, even despite a restraining order
none of it makes sense to me
why fuck up your life because of another
unless it is in self defense to protect your life
like a battered and bruised wife
against a monster husband
and screw the life insurance
I wouldn’t want the blood money
I’d rather be poor and above being a murderer
I’d rather have my freedom than be imprisoned
I’d rather walk away from a miserable marriage
so toxic that one spouse hates the other
homicidally or close to homicidally
and one thing I have learned from watching
those homicidal marriages on true crime shows –
never be worth more dead than alive.
Bob Boyd