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From the Washington Free Beacon: A Maryland woman dubbed the “Black Widow” for murdering two husbands and a boyfriend for insurance money is now free after President Joe Biden commuted her 40-year prison sentence, undercutting the White House’s claim that Biden released only “non-violent” offenders in a clemency bonanza last week.
Among the 1,500 federal convicts granted clemency was Josephine Virginia Gray, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2002 for insurance fraud schemes connected to the murders of three men between 1974 and 1996. Gray was resentenced to the same amount of time again in 2006 following a series of appeals.
Gray, who collected $165,000 from the three insurance settlements, was charged with murder by Maryland state authorities but ultimately convicted in federal court in 2002 for insurance fraud for violating what’s known as the “slayers rule,” which prohibits killers from receiving inheritance and insurance proceeds from their victims’ death. Witnesses at Gray’s various trials accused her of using intimidation tactics—including threats of voodoo—to coerce them into remaining silent. “It was the witchcraft, mostly,” Lenron Goode, the brother of Gray’s third victim, told the Washington Post in 2002.
Gray did not face a murder trial in state court after Maryland’s state attorney said her hefty federal sentence “ensures she will die in prison.”
But Gray did not “die in prison.” During the Covid-19 pandemic, Gray, now 78, was allowed to serve her sentence in “home confinement.” Now Joe Biden has set her free altogether.
Below are the gory details of the case, as reported by the Free Beacon. This is who Joe Biden has now set free:
According to prosecutors, Gray admitted to a friend in 2000 that she “had killed both her husbands and another gentleman.” Gray told her friend that she shot her first husband, Norman Stribbling, and left his body on the side of a road to make it look like a robbery. Gray confessed that she killed her second husband, Robert Gray, with “help” from her boyfriend. That man, Clarence Goode, would be the Black Widow’s third victim. Gray told her friend “she had to get rid of” Goode because he threatened to blackmail her over Robert Gray’s murder.
Police found Goode’s blood stains at Gray’s house and a 9mm bullet casing that matched the one used in the murder.
According to prosecutors, Gray schemed to have all three of her victims designate her as the beneficiary of their life insurance policies and then murdered them to receive benefits after their deaths. Gray tried to take out an insurance policy on a fourth man, Andre Savoy, whom she promised to buy a Mustang GT with proceeds from the Goode insurance settlement. Savoy testified at Gray’s trial that she admitted to murdering Robert Gray, her second husband, after sneaking into his house dressed as a man.
James Trusty, who prosecuted Gray as assistant U.S. attorney in Greenbelt, Maryland, is outraged.
“It pisses me off, as you can imagine,” Trusty said in an interview with the Free Beacon. “This doesn’t feel like a ‘rule of law’ moment for the Biden administration.”
Josephine Gray admitted to killing her exes for $165k in insurance payouts. She took out a policy on another boyfriend, who later testified against her.
James Trusty, who prosecuted the case as assistant US attorney in Maryland, talked to us about it. https://t.co/mjF8D1ocMJ
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 19, 2024
Hr just pardoned this woman who murdered 3 men in cold blood for insurance money. Josephine Gray pic.twitter.com/hAjcFbhZsY
— Dean Bryan (@DeanBNowhere) December 19, 2024
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