Killer Wife - The True Story of Bonnie Connelly and the Men Who Died to Love Her

Beautiful Bonnie Connelly of Hot Springs, Arkansas, admits killing her first husband—but not the second or third.

Joe Connelly’s life ends with a bullet on a visit to his estranged wife Bonnie Connelly in April of 1959. Handsome Tommy Hunter weds Bonnie in 1964 and is fatally killed 11 months later by a shotgun blast. Don Rowland, 21-year-old dance-floor king of Dugan’s Oasis Lounge in Hot Springs, Arkansas marries 45-year-old Bonnie in September 1968. Then, after his violent death from a pistol and clawhammer on a November 1969 night, she declares him the victim of masked intruders.

In Killer Wife, Bitty Martin (author of the award-winning true crime book Snake Eyes) untangles the mysteries of Bonnie’s many fatal loves for the first time. Featuring gripping storytelling, in-depth research, and interviews with victims’ family members, this page-turning true tale of murder is the only account of the attractive Southern woman who preferred a bullet to a divorce.