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Brenda Andrew Women On Death Row

Brenda Andrew was the picture perfect next door neighbour who a stay at home mom and a Sunday school teacher but she also had a secret. Brenda Andrew had a new lover and they decided that getting a divorce from her recently separated husband was not good enough so they planned to murder him, The victim would walk into his garage and would be shot multiple times. Brenda Andrew would call 911 saying a strange man had murdered her husband. Needless to say the story would fall apart and Brenda Andrew would find herself sentenced to death.

Brenda Andrew 2021 Information

Current Facility: MABEL BASSETT CORRECTIONAL CENTER, MCLOU

Gender: Female

Race: White

Height: 5 ft 3 in

Weight: 110 lbs

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Brown

Alias: Brenda R. Andrew

OK DOC#: 483397Birth Date: 12/16/1963

Current Facility: MABEL BASSETT CORRECTIONAL CENTER, MCLOU

Reception Date: 9/27/2004

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An appeals court reversed itself Thursday and reinstated the death sentence of an Oklahoma City man convicted of murdering his lover’s husband.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decided 10-3 against James Dwight Pavatt, 65. He is on death row for the 2001 murder of advertising executive Rob Andrew.

The victim’s wife, Brenda Andrew, and Pavatt were lovers who met when they were Sunday school teachers. She also is on death row.

In a 2-1 decision in 2017, a panel of the appeals court ruled the circumstances of the shotgun-slaying did not qualify for the death penalty.

At issue is whether the murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel. The majority Thursday concluded that issue “is not properly before us,” reversing the earlier decision.

The decision Thursday paves the way for Pavatt to raise the issue again at the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

As police became suspicious of Pavatt and Brenda Andrew, they fled to Mexico with her children. The couple were arrested at the border when they re-entered the United States in 2002.

Jurors concluded that $800,000 of life insurance benefits was a motivation for the murder. Brenda Andrew began divorce proceedings a few months before Rob Andrew was murdered Nov. 20, 2001, at the Andrews’ home.

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A federal appeals court has reinstated the death sentence of an Oklahoma man convicted in the fatal shooting of his lover’s estranged husband.

The full 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday voted 10-3 to overturn a three-judge panel’s 2-1 ruling in 2017 that overturned the death sentence of 66-year-old James Pavatt on the grounds that the state failed to prove the November 2001 shooting death of Rob Andrew was “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel.”

Pavatt’s attorneys declined comment.

Pavatt and Brenda Andrews were both convicted and sentenced to death after being arrested in February 2002 while crossing back into the United States from Mexico, where they had fled with the Andrew’s two children following the shooting.

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For 17 years, Rob and Brenda Andrew led a seemingly ordinary suburban life.

They raised their two children, Tricity and Parker, in a house at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in Oklahoma City. Then, one night last November, shotgun blasts shattered everything.

“I’ve been shot,” Brenda told the 911 operator. “My husband and I, we’ve been shot.”

Police rushed to the scene to find Rob on the floor, lying on his back with gunshot wounds in his torso and near his neck. Brenda had been shot in the arm. She told authorities the couple had been attacked by intruders wearing black masks.

Nothing was missing from the house, there were no clues about any masked gunmen, and police could determine no motive for the shootings.

Rob, an ad executive whose life revolved around his children, died immediately.

New Life Insurance Policy

From the start, Rob’s parents say, they knew something was wrong with their son’s storybook romance.

“Right after the honeymoon,” said Lou Andrew, Rob’s father, “he said she told him she wished they hadn’t gotten married. That it wasn’t the right thing to do.”

Rob’s best friend, Ronnie Stump, described the marriage as “unbalanced,” saying that Rob was more affectionate toward Brenda than she was toward him. “It was one of those relationships that … they would stay together because of the kids, and work their way through it.”

Over the years, the family became very involved in their small Baptist church on the outskirts of the town. That is where Rob and Brenda met Jim Pavatt, a twice-married life insurance agent in his mid-40s.

Rob and Pavatt became friendly, and at the same time, Pavatt and Brenda started teaching Sunday school together.

In March 2001, Pavatt and Brenda suggested to Rob that he change his life insurance policy, and that their new friend, Pavatt, could write it. Rob listened, and his new $800,000 policy named Brenda as the sole beneficiary.

A Bitter Separation

By summer, people were talking: Pavatt and Brenda seemed to be spending a great deal of time together.

“Several couples had spotted Brenda and Jim out eating lunch together,” said Stump. Another couple, he said, had seen them “getting way too close after church.”

By early fall, friends say, Rob accused Brenda and Pavatt of having an affair. She denied it, and from there, the marriage very quickly began to fall apart.

Within days, according to Rob’s father, “she took the keys away from him and told him to leave.” Stump said Brenda changed the alarm code and the locks on the Andrews’ house doors.

In early October, Brenda filed for divorce. It was a bitter separation full of confrontations, mostly over the children, 7-year-old Parker and Tricity, 11.

“She had taken some rather extreme positions in dealing with the children,” said Craig Box, Rob’s divorce attorney. “Not letting him see the children, not letting him have the children even overnight or alone.”

It was heartbreaking for Rob, according to his father. “He wanted to be with his family. He wanted to be with his children. He wanted to be with his wife. He didn’t want to lose any of that,” Lou said.

Brake Lines Cut?

On the morning of Oct. 26, Rob got into his black Nissan — only to discover his car had no brakes. He made it to the dealership, where he called 911.

“He said that he believed that his wife and her boyfriend … Jim Pavatt, were responsible for cutting the brake lines,” said Sgt. Mike Klika, who was dispatched to the dealership.

Rob rented a car, and at his office, he picked up an urgent voice mail message telling him to go to Noman Regional Hospital, where his family ostensibly was.

He raced to the hospital in the rental car, only to find out that it was a hoax. It seemed someone wanted Rob to get in his car and drive it at high speed.

“They were just trying to get him on the highway so that he’d crash,” said Stump, “with his cut brake lines. They didn’t know that he’d already changed cars.”

That same day, Rob decided to remove his wife from his $800,000 life insurance policy and name his brother as beneficiary in trust for the children. But Pavatt told him he couldn’t change the plan. So Rob went over Pavatt’s head to complain, and began making the changes.

A week later, Rob filed a police report claiming that his wife and Pavatt were conspiring to kill him for the insurance money, because they still believed Brenda was the beneficiary. Police apparently did nothing.

Murder Charges and Manhunt

On the afternoon of Nov. 20, Rob was driving to the house he had shared with Brenda for a decade, when he left Stump a message, saying he was on his way to pick up his kids for the long Thanksgiving weekend. He waited in the driveway for his children, and called Stump again. Stump answered, but their call was interrupted.

“I heard what I believe was the garage door coming up,” said Stump. “He said, ‘I’m going to have to let you go. They’re coming out.’ … And that was the last I heard from him.”

Rob then apparently stepped out of his car and into the garage. Moments later, someone with a shotgun opened fire with 16-gauge pellets that ripped into Rob’s neck and torso. Brenda, shot once in the arm, went back into the house and called the police.

Police interviewed Brenda following Rob’s slaying but did not make an arrest.

“We looked at her with suspicion,” said Roland Garrett, one of the lead detectives on the case, referring to Brenda. “But we did not have enough probable cause to place her under arrest.”

“To me, it was blatant. It was obvious that these are the people that took this man’s life,” Stump said of Brenda and Pavatt. “And nobody was doing anything about it.”

Investigators met briefly again with Brenda the next day, and she said she would call to set up a formal interview. But then she disappeared.

Authorities say that on the day of Rob’s funeral, Brenda, Pavatt and the two Andrew children crossed the border into Mexico on a tourist visa. Police issued warrants charging Brenda and Pavatt with Rob’s murder, and the FBI joined the manhunt.

Pair Arrested on Re-entry to U.S.

Three months later, on Feb. 28, the pair were arrested while trying to re-enter the United States. On July 18, a judge ordered them to stand trial on first-degree murder charges for the killing of Rob Andrew. Oklahoma City District Attorney Wes Lane has said he will seek the death penalty for both Brenda Andrew and Pavatt. The pair have pleaded not guilty. The two children are now living with their father’s parents.

Asked why Brenda would kill her husband — rather than just divorce him — Stump hypothesized: “She did not want to lose control of the kids, and she knew there would be a custody battle. And I believe Brenda thought that if he was just out of the picture, that would be the end of it.”

Police have a different theory. “Greed,” said Gary Dameron, a lead investigator in the case, adding that he believes Pavatt and Brenda thought she was still the beneficiary on her husband’s insurance policy.

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Brenda Andrew is currently incarcerated at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center the home of Oklahoma Death Row for women

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Angela McAnulty Women On Death Row

Angela McAnulty is on death row in Oregon for the murder of her teenage daughter. According to court documents Angela McAnulty and her husband Richard McAnulty singled out on of their daughters who was was abused for years including starvation. When authorities came across the victims body they thought she was much younger due to her size. Angela McAnulty would be convicted of a slew of charges and eventually be sentenced to death. Angela McAnulty would later be resentenced to life in prison without parole

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Offender Name:

Mcanulty, Angela Darlene

Age:	51	DOB:	10/1968	Location:	Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
Gender:	Female	Race:	White Or European Origin	Status:	Inmate
Height:	5′ 03”	Hair:	Brown	Institution Admission Date:	02/25/2011
Weight:	140 lbs	Eyes:	Brown	Earliest Release Date:	No Parole

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The Eugene mother sentenced to death row after pleading guilty to murdering her 15-year-old daughter may get a new trial, The Oregonian/OregonLive reports.

A jury of 8 men and 4 women returned a death sentence in 6 hours after hearing two weeks of testimony in 2011 on the death of Jeanette Maples at the hands of her mother, Angela McAnulty.

In a draft ruling obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive, a judge makes the case that “McAnulty should get a new trial because her attorneys failed to adequately represent or advise her during her trial.”

McAnulty changed her plea to guilty on the first day of her criminal trial in February 2011 on charges of murder in the wake of Maples’ death on December 9, 2009.

That put in motion the death penalty phase of the trial.

Firefighters found Maples on her back in the dimly lit living room without her shirt on.

“Help my baby,” McAnulty told the first responders to a 911 call reporting Maples had stopped breathing.

The girl’s body looked small for a 15 year old – so small, the fire captain at the scene, Sven Wahlroos, asked Angela McAnulty several times about the girl’s age.

Maples had no pulse. Paramedics tried CPR and put a tube into her lungs in an effort to make her breathe.

McAnulty appeared agitated, then quiet, then hysterical. Then she laughed a couple of times.

“I just remember it was an odd response,” Wahlroos told the jury in 2011.

“Very odd,” Wahlroos told the court, recalling the feeling in the “hair on the back of my neck. I have never had that feeling in 18 years. All I wanted to do was run.”

He called his supervisor. And he called police.

“In 18 years, I have never cried about a call,” he said. “I cried about this call.”

Ryan Sheridan was the lead paramedic on scene in December 2009. He met Angela McAnulty in the driveway and told the jury he remembers her talking very fast, saying Maples fell down and last seemed well about an hour before the 911 call.

Inside the house off River Road, Sheridan knew something wasn’t right when he found Maples, he told the court in 2011.

No shirt. Wet hair. Bruises on her face, and cuts above her eye.

The girl’s body was skinny, small and frail, so emaciated, you could see her bones.

“It was a hard call,” he said.

Sheridan was there when Maples died in the emergency room.

*****

Dr. Elizabeth Hilton treated Maples when she arrived at the ER.

She could find no signs of life in the girls petite, emaciated body. Doctors pronounced Maples dead at 8:42 p.m.

Dr. Hilton was told Maples had no previous medical problems, but said cuts and wounds on the girl’s lips were old – and appeared never to have received any medical care.

The girl’s front teeth were broken, and there were severe wounds on her legs and back.

Hilton met with the family, and Angela told the doctor Maples had been eating but had gotten very skinny lately.

The charge nurse asked Angela where Maples went to school.

She told the hospital staff Maples was homeschooled.

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Angela McAnulty entered the courtroom sobbing when the death penalty phase of her trial began in 2011, saying she knew what she did was wrong.

A member of her defense team consoled her.

She continued to cry, wiping away tears with a tissue – and putting her head on the table sobbing during opening arguments about whether she should spend her life in prison or die for the murder of her daughter.

In front of a courtroom packed with deputies and detectives who investigated the case looking on, McAnulty entered the penalty phase of her murder trial, having already admitted causing her daughter’s death.

At the time in 2011, prosecutor Erik Hasselman said the state would show that, by the time she died on Dec. 9, 2009, Jeanette Maples had suffered for months.

The prosecutor said paramedics thought Maples was already dead when they arrived, even as McAnulty insisted the teen had been fine until just an hour earlier.

The prosecutor said Maples was starved and dehydrated. Her lips and mouther were pulverized from being hit with belts and sticks over a period of months. Her face was disfigured, her head in bandages. On her hip, investigators found a wound where the flesh had been so torn away as to expose the bone.

She had the “appearance of a concentration camp victim,” Hasselman said.

The defense team, led by Steve Krasik, chose to wait until the prosecution rests before making an opening statement.

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Prosecutors said the evidence will show how Maples died – and that McAnulty was to blame.

Here is how prosecutors described the girl’s treatment and history:

Maples was forced to sleep on cardboard in a room with blood spattered on the walls, floor and ceiling.

In the house, investigators found leather belts and torture devices, as well as chunks of Maples’ flesh.

“Jeanette was constantly in trouble with her mother,” Hasselman said.

McAnulty would take Maples into the “torture room” and turn on the vacuum cleaner to mask the sound so the two younger children wouldn’t hear it.

Sometimes, McAnulty would tie Maples up, the prosecutor said.

Sometimes, she would make the girl collect dog feces – then run them in the girl’s face and mouth.

The State of California once took Jeanette from her mother but returned her after the birth of a younger child.

In 2002, Angela married Richard McAnulty, and the family moved to Oregon.

At first, Maples attended public school. Teachers were concerned about the girl’s treatment at her mother’s hands. The school confronted Maples, who told school officials that she was being abused.

Oregon’s Department of Human Services visited the home, where Angela McAnulty told child welfare workers that Maples was a compulsive liar.

Maples was left with McAnulty, who took the girl out of school to homeschooled – and to cut off her lifelines to the public, so no friends would see her condition.

Prosecutors said Lynn McAnulty, Richard’s mother, was concerned. Angela denied her access to the grandchildren, and Lynn called state child welfare workers repeatedly – the last time just days before Maples died.

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McAnulty was stoic and the packed courtroom was silent at the conclusion of the penalty phase as Judge Kip Leonard read off the jury’s answers to three key questions:

First, did Angela McAnulty deliberately kill her 15-year-old daughter, Jeanette Maples by torturing her?

Yes.

Second, is it likely McAnulty will re-offend?

Yes.

Third, did McAnulty kill her daughter without provocation?

Yes.

Those three affirmatives triggered a fourth and final question:

“Should the defendant receive the death sentence?” Judge Leonard read from the jury’s verdict.

“The answer to that question,” he told the court, “is yes.”

McAnulty silently stared as she learned the jury sentenced her to death, very different from just days before when she wailed openly in the courtroom, begging attorneys to remove pictures of her daughter, Jeanette, from her view.

The 8 men and 4 women on the jury deliberated officially for six hours, but then-District Attorney Alex Gardner said that’s just a fraction of the amount of time the jurors mulled over the testimony.

“These jurors have been thinking about this 24/7 for weeks and weeks,” he said.

The judge and the attorneys thanked the jurors for their service.

“I recognize that those of us who are in law enforcement sign up for this,” Gardner said. “They didn’t sign up for this, they were drafted and compelled to participate in jury service, and the fact that they stood up and did what was required of them is extraordinary, I think.”

McAnulty’s case heads to the Oregon Supreme Court on automatic appeal.

“It is a hugely significant verdict,” Gardner said, “but we should understand that nothing is going to happen soon.”

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Angela McAnulty Resentencing

The woman originally sentenced to death row for abusing her 15-year-old daughter Jeanette Maples to death in 2009 will spend the rest of her life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A judge in July 2019 vacated Angela McAnulty‘s guilty plea in the murder of her daughter, finding among other flaws that her attorneys failed her by allowing her to plead guilty at the outset of her trial n 2011.

McAnulty, now 51, appeared by video conference this week at a hearing to approve a new settlement:

She no longer faces death.

Instead, McAnulty will spend the rest of her life behind bars without the possibility of parole.

Sr. Judge J. Burdette Pratt ruled July 10, 2019, that Angela McAnulty’s guilty plea should be vacated and the matter returned to Lane County Circuit Court to be prosecuted again from the beginning.

Judge Pratt found that McAnulty’s attorneys had failed to exercise reasonable professional skill and judgment:

in advising her to plead guilty to the charge of Aggravated Murder without any concessions in return from the state

in failing to adequately prepare for and present evidence on the question of future dangerousness during the penalty phase, and

in failing to conduct an adequate investigation and present evidence regarding Petitioner’s mental health and psychological trauma during the penalty phase.

In August 2019, the State of Oregon appealed the rule, as did McAnulty’s attorneys.

The legislature was also busy revising some of the state’s criminal codes, the Lane County District Attorney’s Office said.

In 2009, McAnulty changed her plea from not guilty to guilty on the first day of her criminal trial in February 2011 on charges of murder in the wake of Maples’ death on December 9, 2009.

That put in motion the death penalty phase of the trial, which essentially meant the trial went on – not with guilt or innocent on the line, but whether McAnulty should be put to death.

Firefighters found Maples on her back in the dimly lit living room without her shirt on.

“Help my baby,” McAnulty told the first responders to a 911 call reporting Maples had stopped breathing.

The girl’s body looked small for a 15 year old – so small, the fire captain at the scene, Sven Wahlroos, asked Angela McAnulty several times about the girl’s age.

Maples had no pulse. Paramedics tried CPR and put a tube into her lungs in an effort to make her breathe.

McAnulty appeared agitated, then quiet, then hysterical. Then she laughed a couple of times.

“I just remember it was an odd response,” Wahlroos told the jury in 2011.

“Very odd,” Wahlroos told the court, recalling the feeling in the “hair on the back of my neck. I have never had that feeling in 18 years. All I wanted to do was run.”

He called his supervisor. And he called police.

“In 18 years, I have never cried about a call,” he said. “I cried about this call.”

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Inside the house off River Road, Sheridan knew something wasn’t right when he found Maples, he told the court in 2011.

No shirt. Wet hair. Bruises on her face, and cuts above her eye.

The girl’s body was skinny, small and frail, so emaciated, you could see her bones.

“It was a hard call,” he said.

Sheridan was there when Maples died in the emergency room.

*****

Dr. Elizabeth Hilton treated Maples when she arrived at the ER.

She could find no signs of life in the girls petite, emaciated body. Doctors pronounced Maples dead at 8:42 p.m.

Dr. Hilton was told Maples had no previous medical problems, but said cuts and wounds on the girl’s lips were old – and appeared never to have received any medical care.

The girl’s front teeth were broken, and there were severe wounds on her legs and back.

Hilton met with the family, and Angela told the doctor Maples had been eating but had gotten very skinny lately.

The charge nurse asked Angela where Maples went to school.

She told the hospital staff Maples was homeschooled.

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Angela McAnulty entered the courtroom sobbing when the death penalty phase of her trial began in 2011, saying she knew what she did was wrong.

A member of her defense team consoled her.

At the time in 2011, prosecutor Erik Hasselman said the state would show that, by the time she died on Dec. 9, 2009, Jeanette Maples had suffered for months.

The prosecutor said paramedics thought Maples was already dead when they arrived, even as McAnulty insisted the teen had been fine until just an hour earlier.

She had the “appearance of a concentration camp victim,” Hasselman said.

The defense team, led by Steve Krasik, chose to wait until the prosecution rests before making an opening statement.

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Prosecutors said the evidence would show how Maples died – and that McAnulty was to blame.