There were two more murders, 15 miles away in Silver Lake section of...

We have a weird...

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion...

...calf a murder...

...poison is known as a woman's weapon of choice.

But on June 1, 1990, a man was found guilty after a number of people in his immediate circle kept getting sick and kept dying.

So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

Stephen David Catlin, born in 1944, was adopted when he was just an infant by a family living in Kern County, California.

When he was still in high school, he dropped out and showed very little interest in making an honest living.

Something proven by his forgery charge at just 19 years old that landed him in the California Youth Authority camp.

After a stormy first marriage in 1966, Stephen married for a second time. After a stormy first

marriage, in 1966, Stephen married for a second time. The problem was he wasn't divorced from his

first wife. Shortly after the wedding, he was't divorced from his first wife.

Shortly after the wedding, he was arrested for stealing credit cards and sent to Chino for three years.

Once he was released, his first wife left him, and he was able to legally marry the other woman.

But this relationship was just as doomed as the first one, and ended after just ten months. He married for a third time for just eight months and then acquired a fourth wife, Joyce. Around the time he married Joyce,

he began working on the pit crew for racer Glendon Emery. This was where he met Glendon's stepdaughter

and began a relationship with her, while, you guessed it, still married to Joyce.

Then in April of 1976, Joyce grew ill.

What was first presumed to be the flu soon found her admitted into Bakerfield's Mercy Hospital, where she took a sudden turn for the worse and died from what one could assume was pneumonia.

Her grief-stricken husband immediately cremated her remains.

Hospital officials suspected something was amiss with Joyce's death, but their suspicions

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