'Widow of Her Own Making' Sentenced in 5th Husband's Insulin Overdose Murder | Crime Alert 6AM 10.10.25
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
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A Texas woman was convicted and sentenced this week for the murder of her diabetic husband in 2023 by neglect as he suffered from an insulin overdose.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Crime Alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Sidney Sumner. A Texas woman was convicted this week of killing her diabetic husband in |
| 0:13.4 | 2023 through neglect as he suffered from an insulin overdose. A jury found Sarah Jean |
| 0:18.9 | Hartsfield 50 guilty of murder on Wednesday. Hartsfield was |
| 0:23.0 | arrested after staff at Houston Methodist Hospital noted suspicious circumstances surrounding |
| 0:27.9 | Joseph's death in January 2023. Prosecutors presented evidence showing that Joseph's blood sugar |
| 0:34.2 | dropped to dangerously low levels over several hours on January 7th. |
| 0:38.9 | Sarah Hartsfield claimed she was sleeping while this happened, but her cell phone activity |
| 0:43.0 | showed her on several apps during that time, and step-tracking software showed her up and moving |
| 0:48.3 | around. Additionally, Joseph's glucose monitor went off more than a hundred times, each time |
| 0:53.7 | alerting |
| 0:54.2 | Hartsfield's cell phone. Prosecutors acknowledged that they could not prove Sarah Jean |
| 0:58.9 | Hartfield had given her husband an overdose of insulin herself, but witnesses testified they |
| 1:03.8 | believed that's what happened. The jury took less than an hour to convict. Joseph |
| 1:08.8 | Hartsfield was Sarah Jean Hartfield's fifth husband. She previously |
| 1:12.5 | shot a fiancé to death in Minnesota. She claimed self-defense and was never charged for David |
| 1:17.8 | Bragg's death. Hartsfield was also accused of pressuring an earlier husband to kill the new wife |
| 1:23.5 | of an ex-husband in 2021 in Arizona amid a custody dispute over their children. |
| 1:29.3 | Hartsfield has a history of allegations that she abused and threatened former lovers. |
| 1:33.6 | In 1996, police in Houston arrested Hartsfield after she and her then second husband |
| 1:38.7 | got into a physical argument in their apartment. |
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