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EPISODE · Feb 22, 2026 · 5 MIN

Monroe Betterton: The Black Widower

from History's Biggest Villains · host Jay Peezy

Monroe Betterton by all accounts seemed to be a normal guy living a normal life with his wife Elizabeth and their several children. But it seemed that once he got angry, a switch flipped inside his head and he became an entirely different person. During one of the many arguments between him and his wife, he beat her until she was unconscious, as she later died from her injuries. Somehow, Monroe wasn’t charged for this fatal assault and he quickly married another woman. However, things didn’t go so smoothly again, as two years later, he and his second wife got into an argument, and in his drunken state, he stabbed her three times, even pouring whiskey on her face as she was dying on the ground. He was sentenced to 99 years, but he was somehow paroled after 11. And of course, he got married again.

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