Due to the nature of this case, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of extreme dieting, domestic violence, physical assault, and murder.

Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen. To get

help on domestic violence visit Spotify.com slash resources. sources. around a lot. It's dangerous. Sexy. The media gloms onto it and prosecutors use it to

elicit fear. These women are portrayed like sirens who lure innocent men to their doom.

And if you're not careful, you could be next.

Betty Lou Beets married five men in her lifetime. She shot three and killed two, which is how she earned

the name, the Black Widow of Texas. But like most of the events we cover on this show, the stories behind these black

widows aren't so cut and dry. The truth is murky. Did Betty lure these men

to violent ends or were these murders the result of desperation?

I'm Vanessa Richardson and this is Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast. You can find us here every Monday.

Be sure to check us out on Instagram at Serial Killers Podcast. We'd love to hear from you. If you're listening on the Spotify

App, swipe up and give us your thoughts. This week we'll meet Betty Lou Beets when she was a girl

desperate to escape a troubled home.

Then we'll examine the circumstances that led to her first murder.

Next week we'll learn how Betty covered up her killings and dive into her arrest and the controversy surrounding

her fate.

Stay with us. There are two versions of Calvin Bawari, version one, cold-blooded killer.

And he just opened fire and he just killed those mother-sch.

Version two, wrongfully convicted.

Violence was never the key to nothing to me.

It took me seven years, but I found the truth.

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