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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="044015b3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Women of Death Row</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Women of Death Row"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alabama">Alabama</A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Arizona">Arizona</A>   |   <B>California</B>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Florida">Florida</A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Georgia">Georgia</A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Idaho">Idaho</A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Illinois">Illinois</A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kentucky">Kentucky</A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Louisianna">Louisianna</A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mississippi">Mississippi</A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="North Carolina">North Carolina</A>   |   <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ohio">Ohio</A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</A>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tennessee">Tennessee</A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Texas">Texas</A>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Virginia">Virginia</A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>California</I></div> <div> Rosie Alfaro <IMG SRC="05f6a870.jpg" border=0 width="106" height="135" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Sentenced to death on July 14, 1992 for the murder of a<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Hispanic girl aged 9 during a burglary and robbery in Anaheim on<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Jun 15, 1990.Alfaro, who was 18 and pregnant with twins at the time<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> of the murder, stabbed the 9-year-old 57 times. </div> <bR> <div> Dora Buenrostro<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Sentenced to death on Oct 2, 1998 for the murder of Latina females </div> <div> ages 4 and 9 and Latino male age 8 (her children) in San Jacinto on </div> <div> Oct 25 and 27, 1994. Stabbed. Then tried to frame her husband for </div> <div> the killings. First killing was two days before the other two.</div> <bR> <div> Additional information:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsarchive/1998/07/29/901696084.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsarch">Press Enterprise</A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsarchive/1998/07/30/901779849.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsarch">Press Enterprise</A></div> <bR> <div> Celeste Simone Carrington<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Sentenced to death on Nov 23, 1994 for the murders of a Hispanic man </div> <div> aged 34 on Jan 26, 1992 in San Carlos and a Hispanic woman aged </div> <div> 36 on Mar 11, 1192 in Palo Alto during burglaries. A third robbery </div> <div> victim, shot by Carrington three times, survived and testified against </div> <div> her. Carrington claimed that her lover forced her to commit the crimes </div> <div> so that she could give him money.</div> <bR> <div> Cynthia Coffman <IMG SRC="06064910.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="145" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Team killer, with her boyfriend, robbed and killed at least 4 women </div> <div> (raped at least 2). Sentenced to death, and additionally to life </div> <div> imprisonment at a 2nd trial.</div> <bR> <div> Soccorro Caro<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Murder of males ages 5.8 and 11, her childen on 11-22-1999</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Kerry Lynn Dalton<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <IMG SRC="0616f8d0.jpg" border=0 width="111" height="141" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> In 1988, Dalton murdered a woman in Live Oak Springs, Calif., because she<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> thought the woman had stolen her jewelry. Dalton confessed to torturing </div> <div> the woman with electrical wires, a cast-iron skillet and injections of </div> <div> battery acid. The victim's body was never found.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Susan Eubanks<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <IMG SRC="0628bb40.jpg" border=0 width="139" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> Shot her four sons to death,then shot herself in the stomach.</div> <bR> <div> Please see our <A HREF="articles.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Articles">Articles</A> section for more information</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Veronica Gonzalez<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Tortured and killed her three year old neice with her husband.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Maureen McDermott <IMG SRC="06384ae0.jpg" border=0 width="132" height="174" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> June 8, 1990; McDermott, a former nurse, hired an orderly at the hospital where </div> <div> she worked to kill her male roommate so she could collect mortgage insurance </div> <div> on a house they co-owned. </div> <bR> <div> Additional information on Maureen can be found here:</div> <div> http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2002/08/13/mn_mcdermott.jpg</div> <bR> <div> Michelle Lyn Michaud<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> kidnapping,sexual assault and murder of white female age 22</div> <bR> <div> Sandi Dawn Nieves<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Killed her four daughters and then set the house on fire. Wrote letters to the fathers siting it was punishment.</div> <bR> <div> Mary Ellen Samuels<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> sentenced to death Sep 16, 1994 for the hired murder of her husband aged<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> 40 on Dec 8, 1988 in Northridge (Los Angeles County) and the hired murder </div> <div> of her husband's killer (white man aged 27) in Jun 1989 in Ventury County.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> The original hit man (who was killed by the later hit man) was the fiancee<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> of Mary's daughter.</div> <bR> <div> Further information:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.metnews.com/articles/2005/samu062805.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.metnews.com/articles/2005/sam">Metnews</A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Catherine Thompson<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Four people conspired to murder Melvin Thompson, who was shot between the </div> <div> eyes, in the mouth, and in the chest in June 1990. Investigation revealed </div> <div> that Melvin's wife, defendant Catherine Thompson, masterminded his murder </div> <div> in order to receive his life insurance.</div> <bR> <div> Caroline Young<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#800080" FACE="Blueprint" > </FONT></div> <div> In 1993, Young murdered her 4-year-old granddaughter Dail and 6-year-old grandson Darrin in Hayward, Calif. Young, who was caring for both children while their mother served a sentence for drug dealing, stabbed them to death the day their father was to take custody of them. She then stabbed herself in the stomach, but survived. She had no previous criminal record. Sentenced to death.</div> <bR> <div> Janeen Marie Snyder <IMG SRC="09e6f8c0.jpg" border=0 width="111" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Convicted of rape and murder of teen girls with an accomplise</div> <bR> <div> More info:</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_089205912.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_089205">News</A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_snyder16.12cc7e9d.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stori">California courier</A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/riverside/20060316-1641-teenmurder.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/river">Signon SanDiego</A></div> <bR> <div> Angelina Rodriguez </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>