Deadly Golden Girls

Wilma Plaster was born in Ozark County, Missouri, in 1923. At fifteen she met Layton, a seventeen-year-old, and six months later they married, when she was sixteen and he was eighteen. Layton joined the Navy during the Second World War and flew single-engine aircraft in the South Pacific. He survived, came home and became the pastor of their church. The couple raised four children and stayed close after the children left. In 1984 Layton was diagnosed with ALS and died five months and fifteen days later, leaving Wilma alone at sixty-one. She did not withdraw. She kept going to church and began going out with a new friend, Janice Cook, to shows, restaurants and country line dancing. A few years later she met Carl, a man from Arkansas, in Branson, but she ended the relationship when she learned that he was married.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Her parents divorced, and in December 1952 a court gave custody to her father, Edmund Jackson, who was half Choctaw and living in a boarding house. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In 1982 she moved to Springfield, Missouri, where she did temporary secretarial work and was repeatedly fired. She lived in an apartment and drove a burgundy 1978 Cadillac covered in Cody brothers fan club stickers. She was vice-president of the fan club.

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The episode suggests Wilma discovered the theft when her statement arrived and confronted her friend.

Wilma's daughter Linda spoke to her three days before 3 October 1989. Wilma said she was busy and told her to call back in a couple of days. On 3 October Linda could not reach her. this part of the story is covered for now Wilma had been shot once in the head with a .38. Her body was dismembered in her garage, where police later found swirls of blood with luminol, and the house was left unnaturally clean. A knife was missing from her kitchen block and a pair of gardening shears from her garage set. Her Chevrolet Beretta was gone.

On 6 October a teacher, Jean Walker, stopped on Farm Road 105 after seeing a black duffel bag at the roadside. Inside were bloody paper towels, bloody trimming shears and severed legs. Her neighbour, the chief of police, happened to drive past, stopped, and found two more rubbish bags by some shrubs. One held a torso cut in half lengthways, like a side of beef. The arms were never found. details of the account remain covered until revealed Linda went to the police station, convinced the woman could not be her mother, and pushed the drawing back across the table. Dental records proved otherwise.

Wilma's car was found at the Ramada Inn in Springfield after a hotel employee heard the radio description while driving into work. Police towed it and searched the hotel dumpsters for the missing arms. A neighbour reported a silver car, medium sized, parked at Wilma's house over several days and once pulling into the garage. Wilma's friends and family could think of no enemies. Janice Cook explained that they had drifted apart because she had a new boyfriend. Carl came in from Arkansas voluntarily, proved he had been there throughout, and said his wife could not have been involved because she never knew about the affair.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now She cut a bloody seat belt out of her Cadillac, washed and vacuumed the car, and asked Nora if she could hide black plastic bags under the mobile home. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed In May 1989 about ten pounds of a dismembered woman's body, including portions of one hand, had been found in a field in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. In October a fingerprint from the remains matched a mixing bowl in Lela's house, and the body was identified as Lela's. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed She said Wilma had let her down by dying and being dismembered, that she could not answer questions about the killing, and that she believed Wilma had been tortured. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now The station wagon was full of stolen frozen food, clothing and musical instruments.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Wilma's son, Dr. Mark Plaster, a doctor and attorney, said the family was satisfied and that justice demanded her life; her daughter Linda said they could finally bury their mother with dignity.

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