Under questioning by District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, she said she had not seen the note moments earlier. I can't imagine my own flesh and blood is 50 feet away from me, saying that You tried to kill me, and not having -- a reaction to that, Fitzpatrick said. By clicking Sign Up, you agree to our Terms and Conditions and that you have read our Privacy Policy. Ashley testified against her mother Ashley Wallace Castor Age However, Ashley denied taking pills, insisting she only had the drink her mother gave her. "[9], If there is a ceiling in terms of evil, she (Castor) is at the ceiling. As police investigated the crimes, they also suspected that she murdered her first husband, Michael Wallace. She faces 25 years to life in prison. David had a grown son, David Jr., and she had daughters, Ashley and Bree. She repeated that she only drank the "nasty-tasting" beverage because she trusted Castor. - Official ABC 20/20 YouTube clip, Daughter testifies in Stacey Castor murder trial (Video), Update: Jurors talk on video about Stacey Castor guilty verdict, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stacey_Castor&oldid=1142148661, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 19:46. Tonight, ABC News' 20/20 will speak to Stacey Castor's daughter, Ashley Wallace. Ashley Wallace's testimony, Part 1 and Part 2 Would love your thoughts, please comment. It had forensic linguistic analysis, which is you know, who wrote the note? Each had children from a previous marriage. [3] Castor said that they had been through enough emotional stress and needed to relax. Castor told David Muir in 2009 that, in the moment, she couldnt believe was happening. To Stacey Castor, human beings are disposable. She had murdered her husbands partly to collect on their life insurance and estates,[16] and had changed David's will to exclude his son by a previous marriage from the money left to him by David. Castor died in prison of natural causes in 2016. Stacey Castor was indicted on one count each of second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, and a plot to present a forged will. It would seem like a perfectly obvious thing to autopsy a grown man who's healthy, who lays down on his couch and dies, Michael Benson, who authored Mommy Deadliest about Castors case. She said, Im like, What are they talking about? I didnt do any of these things that youre saying that I did. [15] She had said that her husband got the idea to kill himself with antifreeze while both were watching a news report about Lynn Turner, who murdered two past lovers by using the poison. 'Octomom' Nadya Suleman Is a Proud Mom of 14: See Her Kids Today! Investigators decided to exhume the body of Michael Wallace and examine him to see if his organs contained those telltale crystals associated with antifreeze. In 2000, Michael succumbed to a heart attack and died. In an earlier interview, Stacey said that her life changed with Ashleys birth, adding, I knew from that minute on, my whole reason for being here was to take care of her. About three years later, Bree was born, and the family was complete. Detective Dominick Spinelli remained skeptical and began an investigation that would last two years. (Ashley was just 12 at the time of her fathers death. She claimed he was depressed. While utilizing antifreeze, Stacey poisoned and killed her late second husband David and proceeded to plot an attempt on her daughter Ashley's life. Dominick Spinelli of the Onondaga County Sheriffs department spoke with ABC News in 2018 about investigating Stacey Castor's case. Castor was convicted of killing her husband, David Castor, by poisoning him with antifreeze and framing her daughter for the murder. She never saw her daughters again. The following day, Stacey made her another drink. Dubbed the "Black Widow," Castor was convicted of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, and forging her husband's will in 2009. She credits her counselor, doctor, and loved ones with her progress. On August 5, 2022, the broadcast is expected to premiere on ABC at 8pm EST. The next day, the episode will be available to stream on Hulu. In a fiery cross examination, Fitzpatrick confronted Castor with phone calls investigators had from wiretapping her phone, as well as computer evidence that showed she had not only written Ashleys suicide letter, but had two drafts. [19], ABC interviewed forensic psychiatrist Dr. James Knoll for psychological perspective on the case and he answered viewers' questions via video on April 23, 2009, and via site comments on April 27, 2009. She testified David Castor had apparently locked himself in his bedroom at some point over the weekend, a fact corroborating Stacey Castor's story to police. Sept. 25, 2008: Judge rules death of Michael Wallace can be submitted as evidence. Upon waking up, Wallace denied writing the confession letter. Her first victim was her first husband Michael Wallace, who she married in 1998. Michael Wallaces body is exhumed on Sept. 5, 2007 so investigators could examine it for signs of anti-freeze poisoning. "It had DNA evidence. A Stressful Trial Comes to an End. A former friend of Castors told ABC News that she was contemplating divorce when Wallace got sick in the winter of 1999. Sgt. As Poisoned Love shows, Ashley and Bree Wallace were once very close to their mom. The victim's DNA was found on the rim of that glass and on the tip of a turkey baster containing remnants of antifreeze that was found in the kitchen trash, jurors were told. See the 'Counting On' Kids' Houses, Look How Much the Little Couple's Kids Will and Zoey Have Grown Up, Every Look From the Kardashian-Jenner Family at the 2021 Met Gala, Gabby Petito's Texts Show 'More and More Tension' With Brian Laundrie, 'Welcome to Plathville' Kim Plath's DUI Case Closed: Fine, More Details, Sister Wives Kody, Robyn Were With a Mystery Blonde: Identity Revealed, Megan Fox and MGK's Relationship Is 'Toxic': 'There Is Concern for Her', Farrah Abraham Slams Mom-Shamers Over Daughter Sophias Piercings, Jon Gosselin Is 'Open' With Kids Collin, Hannah About Their Dating Lives. Ashley then called her mother to talk about it. Ashley had harsh words for her mother after her sentencing. They also had opposite shifts since she worked during the day as an ambulance dispatcher, and he worked during the evening as a mechanic. Castor then suggested they have a drink together because they've "had a hard day.". 20/20: Fatal Flaw - On The Rocks chronicles David Castor's death and the chain of events that resulted in Stacey's incarceration. See Photos of Her Baby, Jane Fonda Regrets the Type of Mother She Was, Al's Facial Expressions on 'Today' Are Everything, Journal Prompts That Help You Move Forward. "She was my best friend and she took that all away, just because she got scared. Stacey met her second husband, David Castor, through her boss in 2001. ABC Ashley Wallace was attending her first day at college when two investigators arrived to deliver the news that her father had died of antifreeze poisoning. Forensic investigators found that based on the timestamps, it had been written while Ashley was in school, proving she couldn't have been its author. But Bree said her mother had a key to the bedroom door that she used at least twice that weekend. That same day, Castor was arrested at the hospital and charged with the murder of David Castor and attempted murder of Ashley. Police also believe Castor to be behind Michael Wallace's death in 2000, though she was not tried on that charge. David was very conscientious, very work driven, very into outdoors, Castor said. The gruesome tale earned her the nickname The Black Widow in the news. Michael Norton of the Onondaga County Sheriffs Office remembered the medical examiner telling him Wallace was loaded with crystals.. Police found that in David Castor's will, he left everything to his wife and her two daughters - and nothing to his son. [3] On the stand, Ashley retold how her mother had convinced her to drink the two nights before she almost died. Tonight, ABC News' 20/20 will investigate the Black Widow murderer, whose real name is Stacey Castor. [3] She maintained her innocence of the two murders and the writing of the note. By then, Stacey had married David Castor, who passed away in August 2005 after ingesting antifreeze. But she was the one who did this," Wallace said. [3] Ashley had already testified to having witnessed her mother working on the computer on something she had hidden to prevent Ashley's seeing it. When Wallace passed in 2000, doctors initially believed he suffered a heart attack after months of sickness. The outlet also notes that Ashleys overdose occurred just days after police exhumed Wallaces body. In September 2007, Stacey attempted to frame her daughter Ashley for killing both of her deceased husbands. It's difficult to fathom everything Ashley Wallace of Clay, NY experienced by the time she was 19, but let's try. Three months after Castors death, Spinelli reached out to nearby Cayuga County investigators about the death of Michael Wallace to learn more. 'Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story' by Lifetime is set to retell the haunting story of Stacey's machinations. She was given the maximum sentence of twenty-five years for both charges, with the addition of one year for the forging of David's will. Ashley was born in 1987 to Michael Wallace and Stacey. Castor's first husband's family believes Castor may have killed her father having brought an open can of soda in for her father to drink in the hospital. One of those times was to let Bree look in because the teenager had been asking if her mother was sure he was okay. Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) plays Castor, whose likable demeanor hides her dark side. Castor told authorities that her daughter had taken pills and left behind a suicide note confessing to both murders. 's office that Castor died of a heart attack, with no evidence of suicide or foul play. I dont know what it is yet, but Im sure Ill find out. ABC reports her as saying, Im like, What are they talking about? I didnt do any of these things that youre saying that I did.'. Courtesy of the Onondaga Sheriff's Office. Like, I shouldve known, but I didnt. All rights reserved (About Us). And then she was tired, after she drank it, and went and laid down., Sept. 14, 2007: Wallace is 15 minutes from death, Castor is arrested and arraigned. Stacey and David married in 2003, they met while working together at the latter's air conditioning installation and repair company. Your parents just gave you permission to drink. But Ashley added that the support of her counselor and loved ones helped tremendously. They were married in August 2003 and she took his surname. [25][26][27] In 2002, a man had been convicted of murdering his wife by antifreeze in 1998. As his inexplicable sickness persisted over the holiday season, his family encouraged him to seek medical care, but he died in early 2000 before he could do so. [2], In late 1999, Wallace began feeling intermittently ill. Family members variously remember him as acting unsteady, coughing and seeming swollen. My teeth have been left as tiny stumps and I'm in constant pain after dental treatment in Turkey ruined my smile, Ten people killed in Luzerne County after horror Nescopeck house fire as criminal investigation launched, Inside Andrew Tate's rise to infamy from Big Brother eviction & controversial comments to flaunting lavish lifestyle, Shock as 13ft beluga WHALE swims up the Seine near Paris sparking frantic rescue effort, Bar sparks fury after sleazy advert for new staff - but not everyone is saying the same thing, Mystery surrounds Bigfoot 'howling' clip after experts speak out about recording of 'hairy 7ft beast'. Ashley Wallace, daughter of Stacey Castor and Michael Wallace, spoke with ABC News in 2009 after her mother's conviction. Because if I don't, than Stacey won.". Until her death of a heart attack in 2016 in prison, Castor continued to attest her innocence. [3][13], Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick and Chief Assistant District Attorney Christine Garvey[14] argued that David Castor's "suicide" had never made sense given the lack of his fingerprints on the glass or container tainted with ethylene glycol, a toxic substance found in antifreeze, and the turkey baster found in the kitchen garbage bearing both ethylene glycol and his DNA. We won't post to any of your accounts without asking first. They gave birth to their Ashley in 1988, and their second daughter, Bree, in 1991. Ashley agreed because Castor was not only her mother but her "best friend". "I never knew what hate was until now. And then she took that all away, Wallace said. Speaking to 20/20 in 2009, Ashley explained, He was having a hard time walking, and he was having a hard time talking And one time, he sat up, and he just vomited across the coffee table and laid back down went back to sleep like nothing ever happed.. 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