Alan Helmick
Find-A-Grave: Alan Clarke Helmick
One dead after robbery call near Whitewater
Homicide victim a well-known businessman
Coroner: Whitewater man was shot in homicide
Arson probe looks at murdered man’s car
Helmick Murder Mystery
Murdered Whitewater man had several businesses
Victim’s Wife Sheds Light on Husband’s Murder
Widow Left With Questions As Anniversary Approaches
Twice widowed, woman waits for break in husband’s murder probe
Wife arrested in Grand Junction man’s slaying
Colo. Wife Arrested In Jax, Charged With Murder
Two-time widow held in Colorado killing
Colorado woman accused of killing 2 husbands
Trial begins for wife accused of killing husband in Whitewater
Helmick Murder Trial : Day 6
Helmick Murder Trial : Day 7
Helmick Murder Trial : Day 11
Day 12 of the Helmick murder trial
Jury To Deliberate Fate Of Accused Black Widow
Whitewater Widow Claims Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Murderpedia: Miriam Frances Helmick
Woman Inspired By ‘No Country For Old Men’ Kills Husband And Tries To Blame His Son
Books
And Then She Killed Him
Movies/Documentaries
Charmed to Death: A Ruthless Repertoire
Dateline: The Last Dance
Deadly Women: Dark Hearts
Forensic Files: Gone Ballistic
Deadly Sins: The Seductress
INMATE INFORMATION
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From Patricia Brown’s appeal: At trial, the evidence tended to show that in March or April of 1990, defendant contacted her sister and brother-in-law, Sheila and Leroy Wentzel, in New Hope, Alabama, and asked if they knew anyone who would shoot and kill her husband, Fred Brown, in High Point, North Carolina. Leroy Wentzel volunteered. Defendant met with the Wentzels in Alabama to discuss how her High Point house was arranged and to plan the murder. Defendant paid the Wentzels $1,000 up front to kill her husband and offered to pay them an additional $30,000 upon completion of the killing. After this initial meeting, Leroy Wentzel started driving to North Carolina. On his way, Wentzel decided that he could not continue with the murder plans, and he called defendant and told her that he “couldn’t do it at that time.”
The victim begged Wentzel not to kill him and started to run. Nonetheless, Wentzel shot the victim once in the back, and he fell to the ground; Wentzel then shot the victim twice more in the head from close range to make certain he was dead. Wentzel returned to his car and proceeded to drive down the road. However, upon remembering that defendant had told him to make the murder look like a robbery, Wentzel returned to the crime scene, removed the victim’s wallet from his back pocket, turned the hazard lights of the victim’s vehicle off and then started home to Alabama. As he drove home, Wentzel threw the victim’s wallet away. Several months later, he threw the gun into the Coosa River. A passerby discovered the victim’s body lying facedown in a ditch beside Highway 68, with a sweatshirt wrapped around his right arm. A pool of blood surrounded the victim’s head. An autopsy indicated that the victim had sustained three gunshot wounds, one to the back and two to the left side of the head. Over the course of the next few months, defendant paid Wentzel approximately $3,500.
