Marie Robards
Marie Robards was an American teenager and murderer who is known for the poisoning murder of her father in 1993, at age 16, in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Robards was convicted of murder in a 1995 trial and sentenced to 27 years in prison. She was released on parole in 2003. She is believed to now be living under a new private identity.
Marie Robards's case was covered by American TV series Forensic Files in its episode "Death Play".
The murder edit
In 1993 in Fort Worth, Texas, 16-year-old Marie Robards suffered the devastating loss of her father Steve Robards. The death was ruled the result of cardiac arrest. One year later, she won a part in her high school production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
The lines that she was required to recite onstage were more than the thoughts and feelings of her character; they struck a chord, and hinted at her own inner turmoil from the secret that she had been hiding: barium acetate obtained in her high school chemistry class.
External Links edit
- Marie Robards on Wikipedia.
- Marie Robards's Deadly women case on YouTube.
- Marie Robards on Forensic Files on YouTube.