AMERICAN MOTHER: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Murders That Shook the World

June 5, 1986, Stella called 911 saying her husband was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the mobile home to find her standing frozen at the door, Bruce on the floor. As she became the beneficiary of over $175,000 in a life insurance payout, forensics discovered that Bruce had consumed painkillers laced with cyanide.