Stacey Castor Killed Two Husbands and Tried to Frame Her Daughter
The black widow murderer used antifreeze to kill her victims.
It was a Sunday afternoon on August 22, 2005, when a 9–1–1 dispatcher in Syracuse, New York, received a call from a distressed wife. She said that she and her husband had an argument, and he had been drinking heavily and had locked himself in their bedroom the night before. She said she had gone to a friend’s house for the night and went to work that morning but became concerned when he didn’t come into work. Her name was Stacey Castor, and she was the office manager for her husband, David Castor’s air conditioning company.
She said that her husband was no longer communicating with her from the bedroom and asked an officer to do a wellness check. An officer came by, and when he also couldn’t get a response from David, he broke down the door. There they found David lying face down in the bed, deceased. At first glance, it looked to be that David had killed himself.
The officer said that Stacey was shocked and hysterical, but this wasn’t the first time Stacey had lost a husband. In 2000, her first husband, Michael Wallace, had died of a heart attack. At the time of Michael’s death, there was little that stood out to doctors of anything suspicious, but officers thought there might be more to Stacey Castor than a run of bad luck. They decided to take a deeper look into the young twice widow.
