FULL TEXT: Richmond, Va. – A woman who told a judge that her
husband was a “pitiful” man who cheated
on her and neglected his son has been sentenced to life in prison for killing
him, the second time she’s gone to prison for murdering a spouse.
Carrie E. Allen, 53, was sentenced Tuesday for first-degree
murder in the death of Richard A. Allen at their suburban Richmond home last
October. She pleaded guilty.
“I am sorry that he’s dead,” she told the court. “I know I
was the one that fired the gun, but I was not the one that caused it.”
Allen was convicted in April 1988 of second-degree murder in
Hanover County for killing her first husband, Percy M. Adams, Sr. Adams was
shot once in the chest and four times in the back. She served less than a year
for that slaying.
In the first killing, Allen claimed she was a victim of
domestic abuse and shot Adams in self-defence.
[“Woman who’s killed two husbands get life term,” The Free
Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Va.), Apr. 8, 1999, p. C2]
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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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