Faye Copeland
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Faye Copeland (1921 - 28 December 2004) and her husband Ray were the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the US. Faye was 69 and Ray was 75 at the time of their killings. Faye was the oldest woman on death row, until her sentence was commuted to life in 1999.
Their modus operandi was to hire unskilled drifters as farm hands, involve them in an scheme to obtain loans for non-existent cows, and then kill them.
Their story has been fictionalized in a comic book, Family Bones, written by Shawn Granger, Copeland's nephew.
She died on 28 December 2004 of natural causes.
[edit] References
- Book, The Copeland Killings, by Tom Miller
