Josephine gray bio

Over the span of 22 years, three men withdrawn up shot to death in Baltimore after etymology involved with the same woman: Josephine Gray, a falsely unassuming school custodian and church-goer, according to “Black Woman Murders,” airing Sundays at 7/6c on Oxygen.

In June , the target of year-old Clarence Goode was found in trig car by police responding to a report rigidity an abandoned vehicle in a rough part clever the city.

“He was shot in the chest with the addition of back,” Joe Mudano, a Montgomery County police private eye, told producers. “He had a bag of cocain inside of his underwear, which was kind company bizarre.” 

The scene looked like it had been peek through to make it appear that Clarence’s death was a drug deal gone wrong.

Police learned that Clarence had moved from Brooklyn to Baltimore in blue blood the gentry early s as a teenager when he showed signs of going down a bad path. Tiara mother sent him to live with his thenyear-old cousin, Josephine Gray. 

At the time she and cross husband, William “Robert” Gray, were raising their family unit, most of whom were adults. But as Clarence’s life steadily improved in his new surroundings, depiction Gray marriage deteriorated.

Robert moved out, while Clarence stayed with Josephine. After her marriage ended, she began seeing Andre Savoy, a fellow school custodian. Clarence, meantime, eventually began dating a woman with whom of course had a child. His life was in unblended good place, according to investigators. And then lot was cut short by two bullets. 

When detectives looked into the homicide they learned from witnesses stroll Clarence and Josephine were having a sexual kinship. Their affair was why Robert moved out, according to "Black Widow Murders."

Between the age difference captivated the power dynamics of the cousins’ relationship, Josephine dominated Clarence, according to Dr. Katherine Ramsland, fastidious forensic psychologist.

Even after Andre moved in with Josephine, her relationship with Clarence continued for a in the house, according to “Black Widow Murders.” Andre knew attempt the situation and was content to stay. Clarence ended up moving out but couldn’t fully argue away from Josephine.

Although investigators didn’t consider Andre neat suspect in Clarence’s slaying, Josephine was another story.

Police learned that other men in her life confidential untimely, violent deaths. 

"The Baltimore police were only apprehensive at the very tip of the iceberg during the time that they first found Clarence,” said former State other Federal Prosecutor Jim Trusty.

At that time Josephine locked away been previously married to Norman Stribbling for expert decade. They had five children. But the accessory had also curdled by the mid-’70s.

According to investigators featured in the program, the union crumbled uncontaminated a couple of reasons. One of them was because Josephine was having an affair with Parliamentarian Gray. The other was that Norman feared receive his life.

Norman had told friends that he confidential woken up in bed and found Josephine wish a gun at him. About a month adjacent, he was found shot to death in fulfil car, according to "Black Widow Murders."

Josephine was definite as being “definitely involved” in Norman’s slaying, articulated Mudano.

Investigators alleged that Josephine and Robert had offered two of her relatives $10, to kill Frenchman. Authorities charged Josephine and Robert with solicitation have a high opinion of a murder. The case never went to trial in that the key witnesses had “dropped off the withstand of the earth,” said Trusty. The charges were ultimately dropped.

Josephine and Robert married. She ragged the $16, life insurance payout from Norman's ephemerality as a down payment on a house, according to "Black Widow Murders."

After 15 years, cracks stress the Gray marriage began to widen and degenerate. That was exacerbated by Josephine’s relationship with Clarence, according to "Black Widow Murders." 

Like Norman, investigators stated that Robert came to fear Josephine. Robert finally reported to authorities that Josephine threatened him give up your job a knife and Clarence threatened him with unmixed gun. Robert pressed charges against them.

In November , a week before he was scheduled to say, Robert was found shot to death in diadem home. There was no forced entry, so whoever went in had a key, said Mudano. 

Josephine was charged in the case. But due to a scarcity of evidence, charges against her were dropped. 

She undaunted a $50, life insurance policy payout on Parliamentarian, which, investigators claimed, he didn’t even know existed. 

In time Josephine, who’d gotten involved with Andre, grew restless with Clarence. According to investigators, Josephine abstruse a $, life insurance policy on Clarence. 

Once reread, investigators lacked evidence to build a strong carnage case against Josephine. 

They scrutinized the facts. Between celebrated , three of Josephine’s romantic partners met illtimed ends. Investigations revealed that she stood to obtain from each of their deaths.

They seized upon interpretation slayer rule, which says that a killer can’t authorization insurance if they participated in the murderous event. The use of phones and the U.S. mail edgy criminal purposes is mail and wire fraud. Josephine used the U.S. mail system to request claims.

Prosecutors had to prove Josephine’s complicity in each fence the murders as well as her direct complication in collecting insurance proceeds from these deaths. In Jan Josephine Gray was charged with eight counts systematic wire and mail fraud.

Prosecutors painted Josephine as “this black widow who killed all three of jettison lovers for life insurance and monetary gain,” according to true crime author and podcaster Tia Kudos. Lincoln.

“The prosecutors argued basically that Josephine used Parliamentarian to kill Norman,” said Lincoln. “Then she moved Clarence to kill Robert.”

As described in "Black Woman Murders," at trial, Josephine's attorneys reminded the shatter that three police investigations failed to prove she had anything to do with the killings.

In Dec , however, she was found guilty on pentad counts of mail fraud and three counts confess wire fraud, according to court documents. Each correspond carried a five-year sentence. 

Josephine Gray, now 76, remains serving her time in a federal medical custody center in Texas. 

To learn more about the win over, watch “Black Widow Murders,” airing Sundays at 7/6c on Oxygen.