Barbara Ford Stager is known as the Black Widow of North Carolina. She shot two husbands, ten years apart, as they lay sleeping in their marital beds. Her trial was an international sensation, with the media capitalizing on her femme fatale, man eating image. But is that all there is to Barbara’s story?

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Suggested Reading: Before He Wakes: A True Story of Marriage, Sex & Murder by Jerry Bledsoe:
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