This was a shocking murder case, one that took place 50 years ago. It leaves you shaking your head that people can be so evil. When I checked the Internet afterward and read more details, I was sorry I did. The murderer was even worse than portrayed on this City Confidential TV program!
The murderer is a woman from Macon, Ga., named "Anjette Lyles." She ran a very successful restaurant in her town in the 1950s. She was one of those people everyone knew and liked, from big-shot to average citizen. Perhaps this is why the locals were so late in discovering the woman was a cold-blooded killer. Actually, only a worker at the restaurant had finally deduced something was wrong - nobody had figured it out despite the fact Anjette poisoned two husbands, a mother-in-law and was about to kill one of her two young daughters (which she did)! Duh! Wake up, Macon!
Boy, these poisoned victims are arsenic really suffered, too, and Anjette seemed to enjoy watching them suffer even though they were good people, even the mother-in-law who helped take care of the two little girls while Mrs. Lyles was running her business!
One answerable question: what kind of mother murders her little daughter?
Well, the only answer given here on this program is "greed." Anjette liked a nice lifestyle, with the latest sports car, a nice home, clothes, etc. Since all the victims had good life insurance polices, the diabolical woman simply decided to cash in, so she could collect more money to spend on herself. Nice, huh? I guess it was no surprise that when police checked her house, they found a lot of voodoo, occult-type things. Yeah, the devil had his claws in this woman.
Finally, a kitchen employee wrote an anonymous note asking why Anjette hadn't been checked out for these family murders.
The note-writer was a black woman and back then, she thought police would be against her, not believe her, and would probably be fired for making the allegation. Well, she was right on and it's too bad they didn't catch the woman before she killed her fourth person: one of her daughters, whom Anjette taunted and laughed at in the hospital while the girl was screaming with horrible hallucinations of snakes and bugs coming out of her fingernails. (That's the part I wish I hadn't read on an Internet story about the crime.)
This was one, evil woman.
After she was finally arrested, autopsies done, poison discovered, etc., the jury took less than an hour to pronounce her guilty and give her the death sentence. Two years later, a sexist governor who didn't want to execute a woman in his state, gave her a reprieve. Anjette spent the rest of her days in prison.....helping prepare food in the kitchen!
The murderer is a woman from Macon, Ga., named "Anjette Lyles." She ran a very successful restaurant in her town in the 1950s. She was one of those people everyone knew and liked, from big-shot to average citizen. Perhaps this is why the locals were so late in discovering the woman was a cold-blooded killer. Actually, only a worker at the restaurant had finally deduced something was wrong - nobody had figured it out despite the fact Anjette poisoned two husbands, a mother-in-law and was about to kill one of her two young daughters (which she did)! Duh! Wake up, Macon!
Boy, these poisoned victims are arsenic really suffered, too, and Anjette seemed to enjoy watching them suffer even though they were good people, even the mother-in-law who helped take care of the two little girls while Mrs. Lyles was running her business!
One answerable question: what kind of mother murders her little daughter?
Well, the only answer given here on this program is "greed." Anjette liked a nice lifestyle, with the latest sports car, a nice home, clothes, etc. Since all the victims had good life insurance polices, the diabolical woman simply decided to cash in, so she could collect more money to spend on herself. Nice, huh? I guess it was no surprise that when police checked her house, they found a lot of voodoo, occult-type things. Yeah, the devil had his claws in this woman.
Finally, a kitchen employee wrote an anonymous note asking why Anjette hadn't been checked out for these family murders.
The note-writer was a black woman and back then, she thought police would be against her, not believe her, and would probably be fired for making the allegation. Well, she was right on and it's too bad they didn't catch the woman before she killed her fourth person: one of her daughters, whom Anjette taunted and laughed at in the hospital while the girl was screaming with horrible hallucinations of snakes and bugs coming out of her fingernails. (That's the part I wish I hadn't read on an Internet story about the crime.)
This was one, evil woman.
After she was finally arrested, autopsies done, poison discovered, etc., the jury took less than an hour to pronounce her guilty and give her the death sentence. Two years later, a sexist governor who didn't want to execute a woman in his state, gave her a reprieve. Anjette spent the rest of her days in prison.....helping prepare food in the kitchen!