Faye Copeland -- Missouri

Author: Miller, Tom
Title: The Copeland Killings
Summary: Ray Copeland offered destitute men a chance to escape rural 
homeless shelters and reclaim their dignity. If they agreed to stay 
sober, he would give them each a warm bed, three square meals, and 
training in how to buy and sell livestock at auctions near his 
Mooresville, Missouri farm. These drifters entrusted the gruff old farmer
with their future and instead became the victims of his murderous greed. 
The Copeland Killings recounts the chilling true crime story of five 
murders that shocked America's heartland. From 1986 to 1989, Copeland, 
with the help of Faye, his wife of nearly fifty years, hired these 
impoverished men as a part of a scheme to defraud his fellow farmers 
of their livestock with bad checks. Then, to avoid discovery, Copeland 
systematically shot each farmhand in the head and buried the body. Faye 
kept a careful list, marking a crude "X" next to each victim's name;
she also made a quilt out of their clothing.

Oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the US.  Faye was sixty-nine 
and Ray was seventy-five at the time of their killings.  Faye was the 
oldest woman currently on death row, until her sentence was commuted
to life in 1999.


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