Cynthia Coffman

Cynthia Coffman (born 1962) was the partner in crime of James Gregory Marlow. She was born St. Louis, Missouri.^[1]

Coffman and Marlow were accused of killing four women in October–November 1986. They were arrested on November 14, 1986,^[2] following which Coffman confessed to the murders.^[3] They were put on trial in July 1989, and in 1990 sentenced to death, Coffman being the first woman to receive a death sentence in California since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977.^[4] A further trial in 1992 convicted her for another murder with a sentence of life imprisonment.^[2] She was still on death row in 2011.^[2]

References

1. ^ Lasseter, Don (1995). Property of the Folsom Wolf. Kensington Publishing Corporation. p. 9. ISBN 9780786000906. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Flowers, R. Barri (2004). Murders In The United States: Crimes, Killers And Victims Of The Twentieth Century. McFarland. p. 163. ISBN 9780786420759. 
3. ^ Kelleher, Michael D.; C. L. Kelleher (1998). Murder most rare: the female serial killer. Praeger. p. 117. ISBN 9780275960032. 
4. ^ Furio, Jennifer (2001). Team killers: a comparative study of collaborative criminals. Algora Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 9781892941626. 

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