Cynthia coffman execution date

Cynthia Coffman and James Marlow. Coffman was the first woman to receive a death sentence in the state since capital punishment was reinstated in Coffman first met Marlow in May , just after he was released from prison. Marlow, a career criminal, had been locked up for stealing his sixth wife's car. An earlier stint in Folsom prison had earned him the nickname of "The Folsom Wolf.

Cynthia Lynn Coffman (born January 19, ) is an American serial killer convicted in the deaths of two women in California.

In late July, Marlow and Coffman were married in Tennessee and then moved back West, sponging off relatives until they made it to California in October. On November 7, , in Redlands, California, Corinna Novis disappeared and five days later, Lynel Murray was kidnapped outside of the dry cleaners where she worked in Orange County. On November 11th, Novis' checkbook was found in a dumpster along with some papers that had Marlow's and Coffman's names on them.

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Over men joined a search party that eventually caught the couple while hiking through the mountains in clothes that had been stolen from Murray's dry cleaners. Marlow and Coffman were convicted of Novis' murder and sentenced to death; they were later also convicted of Murray's murder and today remain on death row. The book can be purchased from Amazon through the following link:.

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