Ray and Faye Copeland in 1980
New York Times article about the Copeland Killings
The Copeland's victims: Paul Jason Cowart, John Wayne Freeman, Jimmy Dale Harvey, Dennis K. Murphy, Wayne Robert Warner.

In the early 1990s, husband and wife Ray and Faye Copeland became the oldest people ever sentenced to death in the USA, at the ages of 76 and 69, respectively, after five bodies were found on farm land in rural Missouri. 

This week Taylor and Kat try to piece together this cattle rustling and auction fraud case, which turned into so much more. 

FURTHER READING:

Ray and Faye Copeland – Wikipedia

Senior Citizen Serial Killers: Ray & Faye Copeland-Medium

Battered Woman Syndrome – FindLaw

Serial Killers & Psychopaths: True Life Cases that Shocked the World – Amazon

The Copeland Killings/the Bizarre True Account of Ray and Faye Copeland – Amazon

True Crime Missouri – Amazon

Family Bones Volume 1: Based on a True Story – Amazon

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