Amy Herrera, New Mexico Double Black Widow – 2012

Albuquerque, New Mexico – Amy Herrera’s first husband, Tejay Collins, a University Of New Mexico student whom she married in 2005, died from hanging in June 2009. His blood alcohol level at the time of his death was determined to have been 21. Amy Herrera was separated from Collins and on the path to a divorce when his body was found. His death was ruled as a suicide, but the young man’s father was skeptical.

Amy’s second husband, Air Force Major Marc Herrera, died from a gunshot wound on July 1, 2012. his blood alcohol level was .23. There was a party in the couples home and the wife claims that her drunken husband forced her to shoot him, putting his hand around hers on the gun and pulling the trigger. Yet the police have ruled the death a homicide.

Investigators are still determining if they will charge Amy Herrera for her the Major’s death.

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Source: Alex Tomlin, “Woman tied to 2 husbands, 2 suicides; Investigators still looking into recent death,” krque.com, Sep. 18, 2012

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For links to other cases of woman who murdered 2 or more husbands (or paramours), see Black Widow Serial Killers.

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