Velma Barfield: Beneath the Bible and the Bottle — The Comprehensive Biography of a Woman Who Killed with Arsenic and a Smile

She Smiled, She Prayed, She Killed, The True Story of Velma Barfield

Velma Barfield, a grandmother cloaked in faith and devotion, hid a deadly secret beneath her gentle exterior. Known as the first woman executed in the United States after the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, her life is a haunting tapestry of love, loss, addiction, and murder. From her humble beginnings in North Carolina to the kitchens and hospital beds where arsenic silently claimed her victims, Velma's story reveals the chilling duality of human nature, a woman of prayer and poison, remorse and calculation. *Velma Barfield: Beneath the Bible and the Bottle* explores her crimes, her confessions, and the redemption she sought in the final years of her life, exposing a tale both terrifying and mesmerizing.