#89 - Anna Marie Jeitani

There’s overkill, and then there’s overkill.

Anna Marie Jeitani stabbed her husband, Toni, 17 times. She also did it in front of their toddler (there were 6 kids total). Finally, she did it 3 times in view of the first responders 

All of this went down in San Antonio, TX. Really couldn’t find out too much on these two other than that he was Lebanese and she was a Latina (maiden name Salinas).

Anna Marie claimed years of abuse, multiple affairs, and that she attacked Toni in self-defense. That said, she did plead guilty, and was given a sentence of 25 years (with a possibility of parole after 12). She later claimed that she was railroaded into the plea, but her request for an appeal was denied.

The victim

I’m surprised this one didn’t get any more press. She’s beautiful, he’s movie-star handsome, and the overkill makes for great press. That said, there is tons of discussion on Facebook, a lot of it between friends & family:

• “Nut head” 
• “Satan child” 
•  “The police LIES [sic].”
• “He probably deserved it.”

•  “U DON'T and CAN'T even begin to understand what she was feeling and going through!!!!!” 

#90 - Dana Sue Gray *

Unlike male serial killers, female serial killers typically don’t kill random people just for the thrill of it.

Typically, money’s involved. Instead of the typical insurance money, though, what we’ve got here is stolen credit cards and checkbooks used in shopping sprees. Yup, Dana is officially known as the “Shopping Spree Killer.”

Her victims were 4 elderly women in Riverside County, just east of LA. What was unusual, though, was how brutal each killing was, including stabbing, strangling, and bludgeoning with heavy objects like a wine bottle and an iron. 

Sure enough, a profiler called in to help out the investigation was certain the killer was a male. A shoe print, some long blonde hairs, and a couple of artist’s sketches, though, all pointed to a woman.

The case turned when the daughter-in-law of one of the victims thought that one of those sketches looked a lot like her stepdaughter. Sure enough, the stepdaughter’s house was jam packed wih fancy clothes, jewelry, and shoes. Turns out she had lost her nursing job (for stealing drugs), was $10K in debt, but still couldn’t stop shopping.

What really stood out in this case, though, was the exceptional callousness the killer showed. In one instance, she hauled her boyfriend’s 8-year-old son along on one murder, making him wait in the car while she did her dirty deed. In another, she went for a stolen-credit-card-fueled spa treatment only 45 minutes after offing her victim.

Overall, Dana Sue Gray showed she could keep up with the boys when it came to brutal violence and psychopathic behavior. Except, of course, for the shopping part.

#91 - Melissa Zitterman

You do some dumb stuff when you’re 16 years old. For me, it involved things like drinking Boone’s Farm, throwing apples at cars, shooting bottle rockets at neighbors’ houses, streaking … You know, pretty normal dumb teenager stuff.

For Melissa Zitterman, it involved killing a friend’s dad. For all of $180. Yup, count ‘em – 180 big ones.

On the other end of that $180 was her friend’s mom, Connie Tomich. Seems Connie was having an affair, confiding to her lover (Roger Zurcher) that her marriage was troubled and that she would be happier without her much older husband, Ron (he was 51, she was 35). 

Connie's mug shot

Instead of going the divorce route, though (custody might have played a role here), Connie had an idea. Why not get somebody else to help out? 

She first went to Roger, who declined. She then tried Alyssa’s boyfriend (Aaron Bixler), who Ron, an overly strict stepparent, disapproved of. After he turned her down, she then asked one of her daughter’s friends, Melissa Zitterman. 

Melissa said yes, ending up putting two .38 slugs into Ron's head in the kitchen of the family’s Indiana home - on Valentine’s Day, no less. To cover things up, Melissa, Alyssa & Connie said they found the bloody mess when they got back from shopping, calling the cops right away. 

Not too surprisingly, there was no forced entry, nothing taken, and no signs of a struggle. So, the cops put two and two together and decided that it must have been a hit. Aaron was the first to crack, leading the cops to Melissa, and then to Connie.

Alyssa was granted complete immunity, Aaron got 6 months probation (for failing to report the conspiracy), Connie got 85 years (for being the mastermind), and Melissa got 20 (for pulling the trigger).

Melissa got out after 10, and is now happily married with her own family (hubby above).

You can catch Melissa’s story on Snapped, Killer Kids & Blood Relatives. You can also connect with her on Facebook.

#92 - Sheila LaBarre *

Geez, this one is practically in my own backyard. My wife and I have a summer home in New Hampshire, about 20 miles away from where this all went down.

The story starts, however, about 1,300 miles away, in small-town Alabama. The victim of childhood abuse (verbal, physical & sexual), Sheila Bailey couldn’t wait to leave home. Two short marriages later (and a serious suicide attempt to boot), she decided to try her luck elsewhere.

Answering a personal ad, she hooked up with a doctor, Will LaBarre, who lived on a horse farm in Epping, NH. He was in his 60s and recently widowed; she was still in her 20s. Sheila would eventually take control of the farm and the doctor’s practice, isolating and controlling him, and getting him to change his will to make her the beneficiary.

The two did not marry, however, though she would take his name. At the same time, she did marry their hired hand. The victim of Sheila’s abuse, he fled quickly after, helped along by the good doctor. 

 Dr. Bill died soon after, with Sheila inheriting his estate. No one thought, at the time, to look into what seems like a death from old age (the two had actually been together 13 years), and Sheila had him quickly cremated.

Sheila next took up with a Michael Deloge, basically picking him up from a homeless shelter. DeLoge would disappear, though police would later find his drivers license in Sheila’s septic tank.

She then met Kenny Countie on a sex chat line. The low-IQ 24-year-old had just flunked out of the Army and survived a subsequent suicide attempt. Sensing his vulnerability, she would control, abuse, torture & eventually kill him.

Finally, the police investigated, finding Kenny’s shoes, blood marks in the house, and a burn barrel with human bones in it. A more thorough investigation of the huge property turned up several human toes, matching neither Deloge nor Countie’s DNA.

In the interim, Sheila fled the state, hitchhiking into Boston. She spent the night with the guy who picked her up, who would later see her on TV. She then picked up another guy, who would subsequently call the police, who would in turn nab our Sheila.

At her trial, she claimed insanity, citing the extensive abuse in her childhood. She would eventually plead guilty, though, earning 2 life sentences without parole.

Needless to say, her story has appeared on multiple TV shows.

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