Dela Sutorius_ The Most Dangerous Woman In Ohio _ The New Detectives

A prominent heart surgeon with a Porsche, a Jaguar, and a vacation condo in Mexico. A woman who had already buried four husbands. A single gunshot to the head on a basement couch. The defense called it suicide. The prosecution called it the final act of a serial spouse.Darryl Sutorius married Della Dante Sutorius in 1995, believing he had found love through a dating service [citation:1]. By February 1996, he was dead. Prosecutors argued that when Darryl discovered Della's violent history and planned to file for divorce, she saw $900,000 slipping away [citation:3]. She went to a gun range, bought a .38 revolver, and shot him in the head as he slept [citation:5]. She then staged the scene to look like suicide.The evidence was damning. Gunshot residue on her hands. A revolver purchased two days before the murder. Testimony from four ex-husbands who said they were lucky to escape with their lives [citation:6]. One of them had hidden the bullets to his gun to prevent her from using them. Another found knives hidden around the house. At trial, the judge compared her not to a black widow, but to a lionfish: beautiful on the outside, vicious on the inside [citation:3]. Della Sutorius died in prison in 2010, never having seen freedom [citation:9].Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the most dangerous woman in Ohio had a smile that hid a killer's heart.